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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[brokeforgood]

[How smug she looks with herself probably doesn't help. But she settles into a more relaxed posture, grinning. This is nice-- teasing someone, it's familiar and comfortable.]

Wow. So he was the one with all the game, huh?

I was just checking. It's cool, that he was her dad, even if he wasn't your Coco's [she's relentless i'm so sorry] dad. You gonna tell me more about her? Is she cute?

[awooligan]

[Usually he's the one that gets to tease and this isn't fair. He reaches over to flick her head. Is "parent at 18" really having game? Whatever. Onto a better topic: the best girl.]

Super cute. Hang on.

[Cliff digs into his pocket for his phone to look through his pictures. He doesn't have nearly as many as Farrah does, and his collection of girlfriend pics is especially lacking. She wasn't the type to take selfies, and Cliff frequently forgot his phone existed. He skips the one where she looks distracted by relaxed, because even if it's a good, clear shot to show her off, it's...not actually her... Waking up in Coco's body sure was interesting and awkward. The picture he has of them in the attic, hiding away from everyone else, is pretty dark and his eyes are kind of blurry orbs. So...

What he shows Farrah is a picture of a girl their age with braids draped down her collar, ribbons at the end holding them together. Her blouse is wide at the neck and has colorful embroidery decorating it, and sat in her long skirt is an older tabby cat happy to be getting chin scritches. The shape of Coco's face is a lot like her father's, but softer at its points and with much more life. Héctor was tired and worn even when he was laughing -- Hell does that to a man -- but Coco's spirit is energetic at rest. Even in the stillness of a photograph, she looks like someone unable to keep herself from moving. Cliff is, as they say, #blessed.]

Here she is. This was when I went to Santa Cecilia last February. We met at magic school because she was there on a secret mission to bring her dad back, and we broke into the school records together. She made a room flip upside-down on a guy using this experimental spell thing her tíos made. Wish I could've seen his face.

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah leans in to view the photos, the corner of her lips twitching in approval. She’s tempted to tell him that she wins, that her very pink girlfriend with a sketchbook full of expressions is obviously cuter, but—- She has something way worse to blurt out.]

So. Tiny brunettes with braids, huh?

[awooligan]

[Wow. Wow wow wow. This time she succeeds in making him go red, and though he tries for a joke, it's obviously a struggle.]

A troublemaking one that dances. It gets worse. The girl I liked in Podunk was a cheerleader.

[OH LOOK, THE INGREDIENTS DESPERATELY NEED HIS ATTENTION, maybe if he's lucky, she's actually drunker than she seems and she won't remember to humiliate him. Why did he volunteer this, again?]

-- Hey, do you want to see a neon jaguar?

[brokeforgood]

I dance, too. I only switched to cheer because of Annleigh. [Unfortunately for him, she's... disappointingly sober. She perches an elbow against the table again, resting her chin on her hand as she watches him.]

What, like, the car?

[awooligan]

[Greeeat, no matter her sporty hobby, it matched one of the hot girls he liked. At least she's not pushing on it too much right now. She's going along with his topic change! Yay.]

No, like a big cat.

[Once he knows he can spare the time, stirring things up again, Cliff scrolls through his phone again to show a cartoonishly colorful cat with wings.]

She was my ride from the airport to Coco's place, though. She's the cat from that other one, too.