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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:05:10 GMT -5
"Really? Tell me about it. It must have had some impact on you, since you look like you are about to pass out or something."
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:12:59 GMT -5
"I just think I've been lying to myself all this time... I think I'm still in love with him." I say. I decide to elaborate. "We met about eight months ago. I was enrolled here as a application engineering student, him as a political major. We were rather close, I don't know... Maybe he's just scared of committment. Anyways I had to go back to Finland to complete a couple of classes, and I just got back yesterday."
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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:16:49 GMT -5
"I see. Well, I wish I could help you out, but I am not sure what to say. I guess you will just have to talk to him sometime and see what he really wants. Relationships are always so complex."
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:20:54 GMT -5
"Yeah, I know... He's just so... different. I actually turned down two perfectly good dates to be with him. And sometimes I think he ignores me." I go to drag my cigarette only to find that half of it has already smouldered away.
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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:23:46 GMT -5
"Maybe you should start ignoring him." Sie replies cooly and takes a sip of carbonated water accidentally. Sie takes two gulps of mineral water to force away the gagging feeling.
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:25:20 GMT -5
"Why would I want to do that?" I ask, as it seems rather contradictory to me.
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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:27:49 GMT -5
"If he's been ignoring you, maybe you should see what happens if you don't chase after him. Sometimes guys are more interested in a girl when they are harder to get. Don't ask me why."
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:30:55 GMT -5
"Well that's an idea... I'll think about it." I say as our food arrives (I don't think it did yet). "Man, you don't have much on your plate... How do you survive like that?"
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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:33:18 GMT -5
"I don't always eat like this. I just have to stay on a stricter diet now. I put on a few pounds again." Cambridge says as sie eats hir salad. "I am not nearly as thin as I would like to be."
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:40:40 GMT -5
I look at her. "You're already a toothpick. I wish I was as thin as you are right now." I am not overweight by any stretch, I just wish I could be thinner.
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Post by Cambridge Brackenfield on Mar 10, 2005 20:45:01 GMT -5
"Oh thanks. I appreciate it. You should have seen me a few years ago. But the doctor told me I had to gain weight since it was unhealthy. Right now I am a little too chubby around the waist. But I can lose it." Cambridge replies. "But I think you look just fine as you are."
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Post by Rei "Zero" Usagi on Mar 10, 2005 20:48:36 GMT -5
I get back to the States and look at my itenarary, and see that once again I am stuck dealing with a 'dissident' that is not marked for termination. He is a reporter named Austin MacGregory, who is getting into information that he shouldn't... I land at John F Kennedy airport and get a taxi to his apartment. When I arrive I walk up to his door and knock.
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Post by beholdthevoid on Mar 10, 2005 20:50:54 GMT -5
I open the door, my pen balanced haphazardly on my ear and my notebook still in hand.
"May I help you?"
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Post by Selja Hakalamaki on Mar 10, 2005 20:51:04 GMT -5
"Cambridge, there's such a thing as being too thin. You look fine the way you are." I say, really thinking she needs to put on more weight. I stub out what's left of the cigarette and take a bite of my burger.
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Post by Rei "Zero" Usagi on Mar 10, 2005 20:51:57 GMT -5
"Are you Austin MacGregory?" I ask him in a flat tone of voice as I step into the apartment.
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