(22:44) Okay …
(22:46) Remember when I said that I ‘kissed some girls for some reason’?
(22:49) Well … it wasn’t because I was drunk. I mean it was, but that’s the reason it confused me.
(22:56) Cavan, you’re rambling.
(22:59) Right, okay. Sure.
(23:03) I’m gay.
(23:09) Lucas?
(23:13) Oh thank God! I thought you were about to tell me you were lying about who you were all this time!
(23:16) What? So .. you don’t care that I’m gay?
(23:20) Of course not.
(23:24) How can you be so ‘okay’ with this?! Everyone I know had at least a really big reaction, good and bad!
(23:29) Cavan, I’m older than you. I’ve had to deal with all this bullshit myself.
(23:34) Does that mean …? Are you gay?
(23:39) Yes, I am.
(23:43) Why didn’t you mention something earlier?
(23:49) You didn’t ask.
(23:53) Besides, I’ve enjoyed talking to someone without any prejudices and politics involved.
(23:57) I’ve liked talking to you too.
(23:59) I’m glad.
~
(00:38) G’night Lucas.
(00:40) Goodnight Cavan.
Chapter 4
Friday PM
(13:09) So are you still going over to Bonnie and Fletcher’s tonight?
(13:11) You remember that? I’m impressed.
(13:14) And yes I am.
(13:18) Are they going to ask you about me?
(13:22) Oh yes, definitely. Eleanor’s already harassed me about it.
(13:26) She’s even coming along tonight to pry information from me.
(13:29) They might be devious! They’ll get you juiced up with alcohol!
(13:36) You have no idea how accurate you are.
(13:40) Paint me a word-picture of your friends.
(13:45) Why?
(13:50) I want to be able to imagine it.
(13:53) You don’t even know how I look, let alone my moron friends.
(13:58) Okay don’t tell me how they look, just describe them as a person.
(14:05) Bonnie is about 5’3” and mean with it. She’s feisty and was sent from the devil to out-drink me.
(14:08) Fletcher is about 6’4” and is Bonnie’s calm counterpart. He’s a great cook and love’s singing along to old movies.
(14:13) As for Eleanor … I already compared her to a rash.
(14:18) She’s eccentric. A total geek. Pretty sure she forgets to breathe when she gets excited about something medically strange.
(14:22) Wow. So … you might really be the sane one out of the group?
(14:27) Now tell me about your friends.
(14:37) Okay well Sophie is my sister. She’s 5’5” and athletic. Calm and deadly.
(14:42) Arthur is shorter. He’s 5’3” and has bright blonde hair. He’s quiet and academic. A mini-genius.
(14:47) What about that Jean kid who took your phone?
(14:50) I guess he’s more like …a rash? :P
(14:53) I understand completely.
(14:56) I sort of love that you do.
(15:00) If it makes you feel any better most of my friend’s tower over me.
(15:03) Wait … Even Bonnie?
(15:06) No?
(15:09) OMFG RKGMFDLM
(15:15) What the fuck was that?
(15:19) Cavan?
(15:47) Sorry, sorry, sorry!
(15:56) Where did you go?
(16:04) Okay I’ll tell you but you have to promise not to laugh.
(16:05) No.
(16:08) … Fine. I may have gotten a little bit of a nosebleed and needed to deal with it.
(16:12) Over what?
(16:15) Wait
(16:20) Cavan, did you get a nosebleed because you have a thing for short guys?
(16:23) … No?
(16:32) I’m sorry haha I may have laughed. There’s something deeply wrong with you.
(16:36) Don’t make fun of me!
(16:40) Oh hush I’m sure my friends could tell you some embarrassing things about me.
(16:43) So … you’d want me to meet your friends?
(16:50) Well … maybe. Eventually.
(16:54) I think I’d like that.
(16:58) I think I’d like that too.
~
(19:03) So they started their interrogation as soon as I walked in the door.
(19:08) I feel like your friends would have your phone if they knew you were texting me. Where are you?
(19:11) In the bathroom.
(19:13) You went into the bathroom specifically to text me? Aw :3
(19:15) God, please, no emoticons.
(19:18) Shit they’re knocking on the door. Send help!
(19:21) God speed, Lucas ;)
~
(23:10) CAVAAAAAAAN!
(23:16) I was sleeping.
(23:19) Cavan! HI!
(23:22) Eleanor wants to know if ur seeing some1
(23:30) You’re drunk, Lucas.
(23:35) R u?
(23:37) I don’t care if u r, but frizz-face asked me to ask u
(23:39) Haha no I’m not seeing anyone.
(23:43) That’s good :D ure good
(23:49) Youre so nice 2 me lik a cupcake
(23:53) Lick a cupcake?
(23:57) THAS UR NEW NAME!
(00:01) gkgodkfmbks
(00:06) Hi is this Cavan?
(00:09) Um yes?
(00:15) Haha sorry, Lucas has only got you saved under CUPCAMPF. It’s Bonnie. Has he … mentioned me?
(00:18) The devil drinker? No, not at all.
(00:20) Ha!
(00:20) How drunk is he? Is he alright?
(00:23) He’s fine but I’ve confiscated his phone.
(00:27) Ah, good.
(00:29) Get some sleep, hun ;)
(00:31) Thanks Bonnie :)
Saturday AM
(6:01) GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING NORTHERN HEMISPHERE!
(6:04) IT’S THE AMAZING Cavan COMING TO YOU LIVE TO TELL YOU
(6:07) OF THIS AWESOME SATURDAY MORNING!
(6:09) IS IT TO LOUD TO BE THIS EARLY?!
(6:11) WHO CARES IT’S FRIGGIN’ SATURDAY!
(6:22) LUCAS!
(6:23) HI!
(6:24) YOU’RE AWAKE!
(6:28) Of course I’m awake you shit-eating little brat! You sent me so many messages my phone vibrated off the table and onto my face!
(6:32) That’s called REVENGE, cupcake.
(6:35) The fuck are you talking about?
(6:38) Scroll up.
(6:42) Oh no.
(6:46) OH YES!
(6:52) I’m dying.
(6:55) You saved me as some drunk variation of ‘cupcake’!
(6:58) Do you think of me as sweet and cute? :P
(7:03) Please leave flowers at my grave. I’m gonna hop out this window.
(7:07) Haha okay I think I’ve made you suffer enough for now.
(7:11) My head is pummelling me.
(7:14) Take water and some painkillers and then sleep for a few more hours.
(7:17) Okay. Gotta find my bathroom first. I think I drank it.
(7:21) You’re amusing when you’re in pain.
(7:24) Sadist.
(7:26) You love it.
(7:45) Okay. Found the bathroom. Downed a pint. Took tablets. Made some tea for bed.
(7:49) I wondered why it took you so long.
(7:55) Try and rest now.
(7:59) I’ll let you know if I’m still alive after this.
(8:03) And … if you’re not?
(8:06) Kill Eleanor.
(8:09) What did Eleanor do?!
(8:12) I don’t know. That’s my go-to tactic. It’s always –somehow –her fault.
(8:15) Sleep tight Lucas.
(8:18) We’ll
see.
Saturday PM
(14:02) I’m alive.
(14:09) Are you just waking up?
(14:15) I might be. Some little shit-stain woke me up this morning.
(14:17) That’s not very nice.
(14:19) Pot. Kettle. Black.
(14:21) My mouth feels like cotton wool.
(14:24) Oh poor little Lucas.
(14:31) Be kind? I’m pretty sure I’m just haunting my phone right now.
(14:39) Aw Okay I’ll be kind :)
(14:42) So what are you up to right now?
(14:50) Reading.
(14:53) Wotcha reading?
(14:57) Othello.
(15:00) FOR FUN?!
(15:03) It’s good.
(15:07) I’ll take your word for it.
(15:10) Have you ever read the Jack Reacher books?
(15:13) Nope.
(15:30) … I’m sorry I just had a brain haemorrhage.
(15:34) Brat.
(15:38) Lucas PUT OTHELLO DOWN!
(15:42) YOU NEED TO READ JACK REACHER IMMEDIATELY!
(15: 43) STARTING WITH KILLING FLOOR.
(15:46) I’d rather not, thanks.
(15:51) Lucas. If you don’t put that book down and go and get ‘Killing Floor’ RIGHT NOW I will silent-treatment your arse.
(15:53) Oh no. Whatever shall I do without a petulant baby badgering me all day?
(15:58) Okay I know you’re hungover, so I’ll let that one slide. For now.
(16:00) Anyway back to the topic at hand
(16:02) GO OUT AND GET JACK REACHER NOW!
(16:05) Even if I wanted to read ‘Killing Floor’ –which I don’t.
(16:09) WHERE am I supposed to go and get these books when the nearest bookstore is a 45minute walk away and shops shut at 5PM?
(16:16) Do you have a kindle?
(16:20) No.
(16:23) I guess you’re an alien.
(16:25) Urgh. Fine.
(16:28) I’ll ask Bonnie to borrow hers.
~
(17:15) Bonnie and Fletcher laughed at me for ten minutes before she handed me her kindle. I have just bought ‘Killing Floor’.
(17:16) Okay! I’ll leave you to read! I’ll see you in a week when you crawl out of your man-cave after binging the series!
(17:18) I can assure you that won’t happen.
(17:20) I bet it will!
(17:21) We’ll see.
~
(19:34) Why didn’t I read this?
(19:38) Ha! And you thought Othello was good.
(19:41) Shut up I’m reading. Go away.
Sunday AM
(00:05) Okay so I finished the first book.
(00:09) I’m not fully aware of how sordid and miserable my childhood was having been deprived of how AMAZING JACK REACHER IS!
(00:13) Heh even though you woke me up … you’re kindda cute.
(00:16) Should I start the second one or sleep?
(00:19) Fuck it. Who needs sleep?!
~
(4:01) I hope this wakes you up you little shit. You did this to me! I have literally seen day turn into night and night turn into day BECAUSE OF YOU!
(4:07) Wish I could spoil this for you … Git.
~
(11:50) Are you still mad at me?
(11:55) Yes. My eyeballs have papercuts right now because I fell asleep reading.
(11:59) What time did you nod off in the end?
(12:03) Last I checked … it was 5:23.
(12:06) Oh you poor man!
(12:07) I’d say I felt bad … but I don’t.
(12:10) This needed to be done.
(12:15) I may have started the third one just now.
(12:17) Oh that’s a good one! The Visitor?
(12:21) Yeah.
(12:24) Honestly, you’ll love it. You can’t doubt me at this point.
(12:32) No I supposed I can’t. You haven’t been wrong yet.
(12:33) Yet.
(12:38) Oh God I just realised! I should be pacing these out!
(12:40) Relax, there’s like twenty odd books at this point.
(12:41) Really?
(12:42) Something like that.
(12:43) Oh, okay. Good.
(12:45) Haha you’ll be taking them to school with you on Monday. Hiding it behind your textbook.