[handwritten] using the network for fun and academic profit

[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny's number is hastily scrawled across some paper--even just from seeing it you can tell how thin and crappy it is. More importantly, though, it has the following printed on it.]



[To the side, the handwriting is messy and frantic.]

quick, somebody tell me the answer to this question I only have 2 minutes left for it and I have no idea what any of these mean!

Comments

it's happening

[gogoghostpowers]

Whatever. It doesn't even matter any more anyway, Roxy.

private text

[wonk]

can we not do the cryptic emo thing rn im never in the mood for this bs

private text

[gogoghostpowers]

Well what do you want me to say? Here it is, as un-cryptic as possible:

I cheated, then I realized I screwed up and freaked out, ran out of the test room, and couldn't be let back in to take the rest of the test, so I failed it.

That's it.

[Well, you know. Also the parts about getting a horrifying echo that had him running to the bathroom until he stopped feeling sick.]

[wonk]

so what ur never gonna take it again ever

isnt there another one in november or smth

[SUSPICION.]

[gogoghostpowers]

No, I'm not. I don't care when it is or whatever, I am not taking the SATs again. Ever.

[wonk]

yes this

this is the bullshit i was talkin about

y the fuck not

[gogoghostpowers]

[...he's not sure what exactly 'this' is supposed to be.]

What?

[wonk]

u screwed up once

y arent you takin the SAT again ever

thats a lil extreme

[gogoghostpowers]

Because

I dunno

maybe the SATs are a little too extreme for me!

[wonk]

danny ilu but ur a shitty liar dude

[gogoghostpowers]

Fine, okay, I got a pulse in the middle of the test! There, that enough now?

[wonk]

oh shit

whatd u see

[gogoghostpowers]

That British bad guy Tavia remembers? The really powerful, really really evil one?

Yeah, I remember all about him now.

[wonk]

so what youve seen the emwmy and he is us

*enemy

[Roxy no.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[He doesn't really want to admit this to his friends, but he feels like at least Roxy deserves to know. He might lie to everyone else, but she's cool and he doesn't want to dupe her into being friends with a mass murderer.]

No, I'm saying I've seen the enemy and he's me.

[wonk]

[...god, she is not prepared for this.]

fuckin well then

tbh i dont remember this dude @ all but

idk wat to tell u man

thats some heavy shit im sorry

[gogoghostpowers]

No, I'm sorry. For when you do remember him--me. It's

It was pretty awful. I wish nobody had to remember stuff like this.

[wonk]

what exactly DO you remember

[gogoghostpowers]

[It takes him a few minutes to respond to this. First he needs to figure out how to tell Roxy, then he needs to calm down enough to put it into words without freaking out.]

...a lot. I remember a lot.

Killing or maiming lots of people and ghosts...totally wrecking entire cities...I'm pretty sure ghost-me killed human-me, too.

[wonk]

ghost u killed human u

i didnt even realize ghost u was separate from human u

[gogoghostpowers]

He's (I'm?) not.

I was separated.

[wonk]

thats actually kinda reassuring

@ least u kno this time if nobody pulls u apart ull be fine

[gogoghostpowers]

[...he hadn't thought of that.]

That's

actually, yeah. I didn't think of that. I was doing just fine until I got pulled apart into two people! So if I stay as one, nothing bad should happen, right?

[wonk]

not from this anyway

like think about it this way

do u actually want 2 murder anybody

like right now

[gogoghostpowers]

No! God, no.