leave me alone, I'm lonely [text - cw: talk of underage drinking.]

[awooligan]

I guess announcing this sort of thing is what you do on here, so
Héctor Rivera-Adlantis and Neko Adobephotoshop aren't here anymore
Yes I know it's Adomaitis and Nekane, I don't care

[But he'll still make it clear who they are, and stuff. Something something jerk was married to a forgotten guy, being remembered is basic decency or something.]

What I care about is that this means someone else has gotta step up and buy my booze for me
Preferably without the lecture

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[whenyouneedme]

Can't argue with that.

[Someday, Cliff, you'd have to introduce them to your American barbecue if you had the chance. He'd have said so too, if this conversation had not been in tandem with big reveals. Kai looked over at him.]

I'm not gonna take that choice away from you.

[awooligan]

[He would be so happy to introduce them to American barbecue, like fuck the importance of secrecy at that point, just bring on the meat -- no, okay, he's actually really grateful for that kind of response. There's already too many things that have been out of his control, so the promise of getting to keep some is -- good. Cliff lets out a slow exhale.]

Okay. Good. I know they're cool, and I don't hate it or anything, [Especially since he has memories of a life where he was born this way instead of only one where he was forced into a disease that made him violently out of his mind once a month--] it just sucks to be the one that's different. I don't want anyone making a big deal out of it when it's not anyone else's business. He thought it was important to have people, or just a person, that knows, though -- uh, Héctor.

[whenyouneedme]

[It sucks to be the one that's different. Wasn't that the fucking truth. Kai knew that well enough even without the stark black and white nature of things that being 'exclusively different' like a demi-human introduced.]

Mm... yeah. [They weren't alone if someone else knew.] I can get that.

[Kai stretched his arms out over his head a bit before he tucked his hands under his head.] You're still Cliff either way.

[awooligan]

Yeah.

[He's Cliff, whether people liked it or not.

Anyway!!]

So I don't know if you saw, Kyoko invited me over. Probably thinks I need a babysitter or something...but I'll get good food out of it, at least. We gotta stop by my place again for atole ingredients, by the way.

[whenyouneedme]

[He nodded. He did see part of that.]

Heh. She knows you're a big boy. Probably just tryin' to remind you that you've still got a place to go, not that you actually needed the reminder. [How to ask if someone is okay without actually asking if someone is okay and all that.]

[He grinned a bit.] But gotcha, we can stop wherever you want. Atole sounds real good.

[awooligan]

[As expected, probably, he rolls his eyes. The light catches on them briefly in the motion.]

I know. [And he does, really! He knows and appreciates it very much.] Everyone's making a bigger deal out of it than it is... But then as soon as I say that, they're all "feel your feelings". It's none of their business. How are they supposed to tell me what I'm feeling when they don't even know me? And they can't see me.