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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-13 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a lot of typing, a lot of deleting, a lot of fear that if he doesn't get it out now he'll never get it out again.

The last one is I promise I won't mess it up this time. That doesn't make it to the final message either. ]


Yea I think I need another shower

See u soon
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-13 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's not as much investment on his part; some hair product after the shower, thinking he really needs to dye his roots again (Dom keeps forgetting he has to, for some reason), some nicer clothes from his limited wardrobe and his favorite golden earring, dangling from the middle of his earlobe. He's pushing a sleeve down to cover the half-moon half-sun tattoo out of habit on his way out, stopping to brush a thumb over the ink instead. There's no need to do that tonight. Teddie kept his, too.

Dom's about to feel pretty damn underdressed when six comes around, standing at Teddie's door. After the knock, he goes back to looking both ways, hoping Ren doesn't coincidentally come walking down the hallway. If he's going to get his ass kicked for going on this date, let it be after? ]
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
—oh. Whoa.

[ That's the reaction to Teddie's outfit before a hug, leaving him a little stunned. Comically so. Dom gives into it, though, hand lingering on Teddie's fingers as they pull away, then self-consciously brushing the back of his head and scratching behind the ear. ]

Uh, yeah. Kinda. [ Smiling. ] I found out there's like a sushi bar here. Do you like that? We could go somewhere else. I mean, you know this place better than me.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
No, yeah, I like that. [ It's his best attempt at a fancier date anyway, between the type of cuisine and how they've both dressed up. He wonders what the other couples are cooking up, older and with more expensive taste than Dom ever really remembers having. Maybe if he hadn't decided to divert all the money his mothers handed over into every substance that felt right at the time. ]

Okay, so... you got everything?
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ He can't even say anything to that. Who knows how long they'll last with their hands off each other after that exchange of sexts?

On their way, Dom keeps his hands to himself and his attention up and down every hallway, still worried someone's gonna show up who might rat him out to his cousin. The final boss really is just her dragging him off to rightfully berate him about This Very Bad Idea. ]


Fucked if I know. Even the organizers probably aren't sure. Maybe they picked it off the Yellow Pages.

[ And he. Did bid everything in one go, so who is he to talk. ]

Who'd you bid on?
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Well. That's a lot of people, and it stings when it has no right to. Dom shakes his head. ]

No, don't think so. I just remember Margot. Pretty sure I saw someone like here who could be her older sister or something. Full of tattoos and everything. [ Gesturing with an open hand over his collarbone and neck. ]

... Just you.

[ His own ugly little thoughts, reminded in this instance of one of their reasons for fighting; Teddie wanted more and Dom wanted all of his boyfriend to himself, and lied. Yeah, sure, an open relationship sounds great. Cue his fits of jealousy when his boyfriend gave them more attention than he felt he was getting, cue him finding his own justifications for why it was different when he got fucked up and fucked the first pretty face that wanted his attention at a party. ]
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ He tries to smile back, but it's weak. Dom really shouldn't have asked. Now he's just thinking about a world where he never bid or didn't bid enough, and imagines Teddie acting the exact same way regardless of who was lucky enough to have enough on them. Jealous of a hypothetical scenario instead of focusing on reality. Typical.

He didn't even ask if Theo won any of the dates. Better to pretend he didn't, rather than hate him for having someone else lined up.

Why can't Dom be more like him? Someone who's happy to draw people in, rather than someone who pushes them all away with anger? It's like being jealous of the sun for its light. ]


Uhm, yeah. Me too. We didn't really get to have a date-date like this back home.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
What, so we just make sushi our thing when we leave?

[ Provided they leave together. Provided Teddie's rehab isn't a lot speedier than whatever tangled mess Dom keeps getting himself into, and then he'll be the newest-old mistake Mr. Weston-Price talks about in the story of his life to the next romance he meets out there.

Stop it, Dom. ]


Are you going back to New Jersey?
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Manhattan, yeah. [ Pause. Frown. He's getting that sense of deja vu that ... isn't. (Dreaming of a place that he forgot already exists, only in reverse.) ] What did I say?

[ And then he just shakes his head. Never mind. ]

We might as well go big, if we're traveling for sushi. Straight to the source.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dom's skeptical smile says just that — he doesn't see Teddie settling for a backpack. Or wearing one at all, school or no school. Dom runs his hand through short hair, dark at the roots. ]

Maybe you can do that. I went and dyed my hair pink. I bet there's people who think I'm a punk or something.
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-14 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ And that's another doki. ]

You never know unless you try, right?
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[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-19 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dom wants to agree so, so much. He doesn't see any darkness ahead, doesn't feel the buzz of anger at something Teddie may or may not have done, so ... yeah, it's easier to believe him. A lot of good things have happened to them. He can make himself the promise he failed to send earlier: I won't mess it up this time. ]

Yeah, no. I feel the same way. [ A beat, ] Maybe just a drink before we get the food, or — I dunno. I kinda wanna show you off a bit.

[ Just look at how Teddie's dressed. And never mind the fact that they're supposed to be sneaking around, kind of. ]
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did i look at theo's app for this tag, maybe

[personal profile] wicka 2025-06-23 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you just liked everything.

[ Teasing, bumping his shoulder against Teddie's to show as much. They'll both drink just about anything, which is the problem. ]

Tequila, right? Or are you still in a 'spicy margarita phase'.

pls forgive

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