[voice]

[stopinthenameofawe]

[Melissa is so, so done with all this, and she sounds like it.]

Just a heads up: Karl is going to be unavailable for a little while. I don’t know how long exactly, but he wanted me to let you all know he’s not going to be around. He also added that since he won’t be at school, if you’re in his class whatever you had assigned is now cancelled.

[There is a slightly irritated and exasperated sigh on her end.]

Don’t worry, he’s fine. He just being stupid. He’ll be back soon. [he better fucking be back soon.]

Comments

Voice

[greenisthenewblack]

[Hey, Sheila recognizes that voice.]

Oh, you know Karl? [She sort of does, from around school.]

Boys. When are they not doing something stupid?

Voice

[stopinthenameofawe]

Yeah. I forgot, you probably see him at school, huh?

Seriously. [ugh she's so pissed with him.]

Voice

[greenisthenewblack]

Yeah, we're not close, but I know the guy.

But I swear, this is why I'm single. If you need someone to bitch at...

Voice

[stopinthenameofawe]

[Melissa doesn't quite know how to take that, after Eugen's implication (and her following insistence that Karl wasn't her boyfriend), so... she'll just ignore it for now.]

Thanks, but I think I'll be alright. I'm just a little irritated. [no she's not she's mad at him and just doesn't want to admit it.]

[greenisthenewblack]

[Sheila didn't mean to imply that she thought they were dating, exactly. She doesn't know either of them well enough to say. Just... boys.]

Doesn't make you want to strangle him any less, I bet.

[stopinthenameofawe]

[It's not Sheila's fault that Melissa kind of took it that way, she's just a little... on edge in that particular area right now.]

Not at all.

[greenisthenewblack]

Well, at least you can tell him 'I told you so' if it blows up in his face!

[stopinthenameofawe]

It depends on what we mean by 'blowing up in his face.'

[greenisthenewblack]

Depends on what you mean by him 'being stupid,' doesn't it?

Not that I want anything bad or, well, literally explosive to happen to the guy.

[stopinthenameofawe]

I think he thinks it's going to end a lot worse for him than it's going to, is what I meant.

[greenisthenewblack]

Well... in that case, I'll hope he's wrong, and you don't have to tell him you told him so.

Sounds like he could still use a smack upside the head for being an idiot, though.

[stopinthenameofawe]

That he could definitely use. [and she plans to deliver.]

[greenisthenewblack]

Remember to record it! That way you can play the video for him next time he gets crazy ideas.

Because there will be a next time.

[stopinthenameofawe]

I'll see what I can do.

I'm sure there will be. Unfortunately.

[greenisthenewblack]

There always is, with guys with a martyr complex.

[stopinthenameofawe]

Is that a thing you can beat out of someone?