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[astralera]

Hello,

I have a question I am hoping someone might be able to answer.

You know a person who makes you feel safe, comfortable, and relaxed. Whose presence makes you feel warm and content. A person you wish to see smile, and whenever they do it makes you so very happy. Who you are always excited to see and spend time with.

This person who also makes your insides flutter uncomfortably, like the feeling you have when you wish to punch someone in the face very badly, though you have no actual desire to punch them at that particular moment. Who can aggravate you like no other in the span of a single breath, yet also calm your fury just as effortlessly. A person you cannot fathom being absent from your life.

What would you call that kind of person?


My thanks for any insight you can offer.

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[scourgingstars]

[It took Ardyn a good while to figure out things like filtering; he'd learned a bit more about text correspondence by now, at least.]

If you're asking such a thing, I suspect you either already know or will not like the answer.

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[astralera]

I would prefer an answer to uncertainty. Though even if I can identify what I feel, I would still not know if what I feel is all my own.

[scourgingstars]

If I can answer somewhat bluntly: you, with astounding accuracy, just described being in love.

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[astralera]

[ Ah. Well. She can't say it was entirely unexpected, but...

...Nah, that answer was actually still pretty unexpected. Era loves, certainly, but being in love was a different beast altogether. Those feelings were meant for others to have, not her. ]

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[astralera]

If it truly is such a thing, how do I make it stop?

[scourgingstars]

[...oh, honey.]

That is not something you can merely switch off, surely you don't need me to tell you this.

[astralera]

I know nothing of this sort of love. It is not something I'm meant to have, and I need it to go away.

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[abracafcku]

A problem - that's what I'd call that person.

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[astralera]

They are many problems, not just one. This just happens to be one I cannot seem to put a name to.

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[abracafcku]

I guess you could name them a Problem with a capital P then.

Either you hate 'em or you love 'em, but either way, they're a Problem.

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[astralera]

I do not hate them, but I cannot love them.

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[abracafcku]

Soooo why not try to kill them? If you feel bad after, then you know you actually liked them. If you don't? Well, problem solved.

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[astralera]

Unlike some, I dislike killing others even when it is necessary.

[ besides, she kind of already killed him anyway...... ]

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[sweetlies]

Do share the answer when you find a satisfactory one. I'm sure you're not the only one wondering.

[NOT THAT HE'S ONE. OF COURSE.]

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[astralera]

And if there is an unsatisfactory one?

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[sweetlies]

It's still an answer and one they won't have to ask in turn.

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[astralera]

Some form of romantic love.

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[sweetlies]

[Five

Ten

Fifteen-

Fifteen minutes pass before he answers. That's not suspicious, right?]

I'm sure your experience and answer will be appreciated.

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[astralera]

I hope it will be of more use to others than is has been to myself.

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[clickertraining]

idk about the fluttery insides part

but i'd call them a best friend!

[Joe, you are not helping.]

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[astralera]

Would you? I am familiar with the feeling of having a best friend and it not quite like this, though admittedly it does differ between each friend.

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[clickertraining]

yup!!

but if it doesn't sound right to you i guess that's no good... sounds like you like them a whole lot tho!

[astralera]

An incomprehensibly long time ago our souls were the best of friends. Most recently we have been enemies.

[clickertraining]

oops. um... sorry about that [ A pause. ]

WAIT I GOT IT!!!!

YOU'RE FRENEMIES

[astralera]

'Frenemies'?