I'll be Home
GAME HOES
DaddyTough I thought I could escape molly’s fever dreams this weekend but here we are
SleevesRBS oh shit they live
DaddyTough we went to a different city not the after life
BlushingCayCay Speak for yourself.
DramaKween (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)
DaddyTough no.
DaddyTough I’ll explain later but really molly?
DramaKween look dreams are not logical so yes
DramaKween yes really. Imagine me with a super sexy evil alter ego
DarkAngel So, how you pictured yourself in high school.
SleevesRBS with the leggings
DramaKween CAN WE GO BACK TO WEIRD DREAMS NOW
BlushingCayCay I fear I have to share as well because I had a dream last night and Fjord has not stopped laughing.
DaddyTough yes
DaddyTough omg yes
SleevesRBS go on
BlushingCayCay I dreamed…
BlushingCayCay Last night that I was married to Darrow.
DramaKween !!!!!!!!!!
MissJester OMG WHAT
SleevesRBS OMFG
DaddyTough go on
BlushingCayCay I hate you.
Blushing CayCay Yes, we were married. I remember just laying there in bed with him. We had two kids and everything. And I just remember realizing… how did this happen?
HeySailor im flattered
HeySailor I did say u werre my type ;)
SleevesRBS who has 2 thumbs full on did a spit take all over her computer screen
DaddyTough didn’t they have names, cay? ;)
DaddyTough he is sighing right now
BlushingCayCay Annabelle and Theodora
HeySailor perfect names 4 the south
MrAllocke2 …
MrAllocke2 Naturally, you locked me out of changing my name.
DaddyTough welcome to the club
DramaKween continue, I need to know more
DramaKween Cad is politely pretending not to laugh at thus but his shoulders are shaking
MrAllocke2 But I was laying there and knew that it was not exactly what I had wanted in life. But…
MrAllocke2 I knew divorcing him would break his heart…
MissJester CALEB
HeySailor think of th kids, caleb ma raison d’être
ItsYaBoi What did I come back to?
MrAllocke2 And I realized that I would… just tough it out with him. And then I rolled over and woke up holding Fjord.
DaddyTough he shrieked
DaddyTough it was very manly
HeySailor what a noble husbnd
HeySailor were the kids cute
ItsYaBoi …
MissJester darrow and caleb were married and cay had a moment of should he leave the happy family to be a strong independent man
ItsYaboi Can I bold an ellipsis?
MrAllocke2 I never saw them, but considering I am sure we’d be smart and use your… genetics for them, I would say yes?
HeySailor mon chou thinks im pretty
MrAllocke2 Fjord, you did this.
DaddyTough I know
HeySailor he brught us 2gether
MrAllocke2 This is your fault.
DramaKween you’re the one dream marrying fjord’s other bff
MrAllocke2 Why did I tell you this dream, Fjord?
DaddyTough so I’d stop panicking after you fell out of bed
MrAllocke2 Darrow, no I will not accept the Facebook update that we’re married.
MissJester THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! Poor little Anna and Thea~ XD
SassyWitch I have no idea what happened here but I ship it
SassyWitch back to mojitos on the beach
SleevesRBS I mean this in the most loving and kindest way possible
SleevesRBS fuck you
DM: FjordTough and TeaLeaf
TeaLeaf seriously. Nothing?
FjordTough we got back late Saturday and I obviously still wasn’t feeling hot
FjordTough I slept on the couch
FjordTough in case
TeaLeaf fuck
TeaLeaf that’s fair. Sorry
FjordTough it’s fine. Then Sunday he had a migraine all day
FjordTough like the puking, dizziness and everything hurts level
FjordTough I laid down with him but he almost yacked all over me and the bed and I spent a half hour holding his hair in the bathroom
TeaLeaf this is both romantic and reminiscent to the first night we met beau
FjordTough I mean
FjordTough I want to argue but youre not wrong
TeaLeaf back to your dying ginger
FjordTough right I spent most of Sunday alone or with his cat
TeaLeaf that’s it?
FjordTough he told em I could head out and use his car but I figured I’d just stay in
TeaLeaf you cleaned for him didn’t you
FjordTough look.
TeaLeaf did you make sopa?
FjordTough no
FjordTough … he didn’t have the right noodles
TeaLeaf omg
TeaLeaf how is he today
FjordTough better I think. We’re going shopping today and mailing my gifts home
TeaLeaf he have Christmas shopping to do
FjordTough not exactly
FjordTough but we will do some shopping for him
TeaLeaf then what
FjordTough not sure we haven’t made a plan or anything
TeaLeaf well just remember to be safe
TeaLeaf look both ways before you cross the street
TeaLeaf I’d say don’t talk to strangers but we’re way beyond that
FjordTough molly
TeaLeaf use protection
FjordTough MOLLY
Astrid (1:09pm): Caleb
Caleb (1:12pm): Yes, mein schatz.
Astrid (1:15pm): you’ll be in Boston Friday right?
Caleb (1:22pm): Ja. You are a size medium, ja?
Astrid (1:23pm): for bottoms, correct. Did you find the leggings I couldn’t?
Caleb (1:27pm): Ja. I have them in my cart now.
Astrid (1:33pm): You’re the best. Do you think you could get em from Logan so I don’t have to take the shuttle?
Caleb (1:35pm): Of course. What time do you land?
Astrid (1:42pm): hopefully by 8.
Caleb (1:50pm): Sorry for the delay, I had to check something. But you land around when Yasha comes back. Would you mind staying later so I can also drive her home?
Astrid (1:51pm): Of course not. It’s a free ride.
Astrid (1:55pm): isn’t she with her family?
Caleb (1:56pm): Her grandfather is sick, so her parents are staying, but she has work.
Astrid (1:58pm) ah. Thank you. Is your house still the main place for the family?
Caleb (2:05pm): Indeed, which is why I am out now. We needed the last of the gifts and the parents are cooking and finish “decorating.”
Astrid (2:06pm): cleaning?
Caleb (2:08pm): Everything smells like bleach. At least Fjord used fabuloso in my place.
GAME HOES
DarkAngel I feel bad for leaving.
SleevesRBS its fucked that your boss wouldn’t give you emergency time
SleevesRBS its not like youre retail or something that is busier during the hols
DarkAngel I get it logically, but I feel terrible. My Ba-Chan tried to be sweet and understanding but…
NottListening that makes it worse
DarkAngel Yeah…
NottListening hopefully they’ll be home for New Year’s so you have one big holiday together
DramaKween and my whole family said you’re welcome to come with us
DaddyTough I’m going to be there too so its not awkward
SleevesRBS I wish I was back north to at least get a drink with you
DarkAngel I know. And Thank-you again for getting me Caleb.
MrAllocke2 Of course. It is nothing at all.
DramaKween fuck and I’m working when you come in
GreenTea If you are not in the mood to be alone while they are away, you can come over here. I was only planning on baking, so you can help.
DarkAngel Are you sure?
GreenTea Of course.
SleevesRBS Video chat later this week?
DM: FjordTough and TeaLeaf
TeaLeaf I heard Caleb is coming over for a bit before getting Yasha and Astrid
TeaLeaf gonna make a mess of my childhood bed?
FjordTough Molly.
FjordTough he is actually coming over to help your dad fix the light fixture in the hall.
FjordTough I’m on kitchen duty with your mother now that the twins moved out
TeaLeaf lucky you
TeaLeaf You disappointed me by not having sexy time when you went over
FjordTough I apologize that mid puking is not the best time to be told “yes, hello I’d like to inspect the state of your torso with my tongue
TeaLeaf hhahdhfhdjs
TeaLeaf omfg im dead
FjordTough we’ve been… talking
FjordTough There may have been more pictures. Not like
FjordTough 🍆
FjordTough but
TeaLeaf you’ve been sending pictures you haven’t had approved for hotness? You’re all grown up!
FjordTough uh
FjordTough I asked Darrow for advice first
TeaLeaf AND NOT ME
TeaLeaf WOUNDED, FJORD I AM WOUNDED
FjordTough oh my god
To: ajbeck, bcwidogast, flpalomares, bmloinett, mtclay, crclay, vmbrenatto, jilavorre… +3 others
From: ynydoorin
Subject: Google Calendar update: video chat Saturday at 9pm.
“I hate my computer webcam.”
“Why do I never have my headphones prepped?”
“Hold on, Frumpkin is trying to eat the cord.”
“Molly, use your own laptop!”
“Why, I can fit in the chair with you.”
“You have such a bony ass!”
“Molly, please get off of Fjord.”
“You’re not my real dad, Cad.”
“Molly,” a stern woman’s voice called from out of the room. “Get off of Fjord and at least pull up your own chair.”
There was a heavy pause before everyone in the voice call fell from the view of the camera laughing. The sound was not perfectly synced up to the movements of the people and a few were pixelated with the internet quality that was not the best. But it did not matter. They were together.
Yasha smiled from where she sat on the daybed in Cad’s spare room with her knees pulled under her chin. Cad was cooking and on the call in the kitchen, but Yasha could hear him bustling around peacefully even if the voice was not echoing. It was nice to see everyone, even if they had all (excluding a few) had been together a week before. But it was the day before Christmas eve, and she had thought it would be a holiday alone. Her whole family except her parents and one set of cousins lived in South Carolina. Her dad had moved when Yasha was young up north to work out of Boston and he retired there. With her parents down south, she had been left without anyone else until Cad opened his apartment to her.
”Are you sure you are going to be okay,” Beau had asked when they called a few nights before. “I can fly up and stay with you. I don’t care, you know I’m not down here because I miss them.”
Everyone, even Astrid who she barely knew, had offered to keep her company. In the end, it was just sensible to stay with Cad. Of course, neither were short enough to fit on the day bed, so they shared his, but it was nice. She would be spending the two holidays with the Clays and Beau would fly in early to stay up in Amherst with Caleb. They both would have their cars to hang out. It would be okay.
“Wait…” Jester paused then gasped. “Is that Astrid in your apartment, Caleb!”
“Ja, she is looking for her headphones so she can join in,” Caleb replied. “We just came back from her grandmother's. There was a lot of left overs that I apparently need to eat because I am too thin.”
“You are too thin,” Astrid’s voice called out, but was muffled.
“How is everyone’s breaks otherwise,” Bryce asked. They were sitting outside on a long porch with a wind-faded white house behind them. While in a sweatshirt, it was clearly warmer there than up north.
“Eh,” Beau replied first with an eye roll. “I remember why I want to stay in Mass when I graduate.”
“That bad,” Nott pressed and adjusted Luc on her lap.
“Oh my god.” Beau groaned then continued in a shrill caricature of a voice. “Beauregard, why is your hair cut like that? Beauregard, why do you have more piercings? When are you going to find a nice man to marry? Are you planning on changing your major yet? Business is a far more respectable field of study.”
The group groaned in tandem and Yasha felt a bit of annoyance and jealousy flare under her skin. She shook it off, knowing that it was a parent complaining not her debating any of that.
“How did you reply,” Jester asked with a pout.
“I took a drink from the whiskey bottle I had been using to pour out a normal drink and walked away with both.”
“Fucking savage,” Molly laughed. “When am I picking your gay ass up.”
“The twenty-seventh,” Beau replied. “I am doing an early flight because fuck this. I already have the Lyft ordered.”
“Why is he getting you,” Yasha asked quietly. “Aren’t you staying with Cay?”
“Ja, he is, but I am apparently working after all. We have some new books coming in for the semester that we need to have out.”
“Gross.”
“Quite, she is driving up after that.”
“Are we doing something for New Years?”
A few beeps indicated the arrival of another caller and after a moment, a new box showed up in the Zoom display.
“Darrow!” Jester crowed happily.
“And company, mon cherre. Which is why I cannot be on video. It is too much hot sailor action happening. Yasha, my sweet towering flower, how are you?”
“I’m okay. Really. Should you be calling if you’re at home?”
“Eh, no I am on base. I used part of my quick leave to drive down with Bryce so they didn’t get lost in Alabama…” he started.
“Again,” Fjord finished and the two men laughed. Bryce rolled their eyes and flipped off the camera. “Enjoying the 96 already?”
“Eh, what can I say. Come home, have a month off to enjoy my endangerment pay and a month later? Boom, mid-week holidays for the 96 to make it even less time to work. I’m living the dream.”
“Feel like sharing that dream,” Beau grumbled as a knock came to her door. She muted herself and stepped out of the camera view.
“Is that the majestic Astrid I have chatted with,” Darrow exclaimed as Astrid returned to Caleb’s camera with two mugs.
“Hello, sailor indeed. Caleb, why did I not meet him when he came up?”
“You were working.”
“Such a pity,” Astrid laughed and joined Caleb on his chair. Molly squawked.
“They can share a chair but my beloved won’t let me do the same?”
“They’re both thin,” Fjord replied. “I have an ass the size of Texas and you’re shockingly thick down there for how small you are.”
“Yeah you do,” Caleb replied quietly, getting a collective laugh from the group.
Yasha realized for the first time in the almost hour of the call that the pain and emptiness she had been feeling was gone. Replaced by a soft smile.
“Anyway,” Fjord stated with an awkwardly pitched voice. “Gunther said there are a few things the team have planned. We can crash one of their parties or go to one of the lame New Year’s events around town. At least hit up some of First Night.”
“I vote First Night,” Astrid replied swallowing her tea. “We haven’t gone since we were… seniors?” Caleb nodded. “Yeah, you drove because you were the first with a car.”
“Ja, that could be fun.”
Yasha looked up as Cad knocked lightly and stuck his head in. In his hand was a bowl of what she assumed was the potato soup he had started earlier. The woman took off her headphones and moved the laptop from her legs. She got up to take the bowl and give the taller man a hug, which he returned. She sat at the desk and moved the laptop and returned to the call.
“Is my brother feeding you over there,” Molly whined. “I’m jealous. Mom is making me cook my own food.”
“You don’t even boil your own water,” his mother’s voice replied from out of the room, getting another laugh. “This is why having a cool mom is not as fun as people think.”
“I did,” Cad replied. “We made potato soup this morning before she went to the gym.”
“I’m not saying he is a better roommate than Beau,” Yasha replied with a smirk. “But there are some benefits to staying with him.”
“The tea collection,” Cad asked with a smile. She nodded in reply.
But far more than that.
DM: DarkAngel and SleevesRBS
SleevesRBS miss you
SleevesRBS did you mean it about getting an apartment after this semester
DarkAngel I did.
SleevesRBS :)
SleevesRBS think one of the boys will lie and say we’re dating so my parents will actually give me money
DarkAngel Promise Molly a place with assigned parking, and he’ll probably make fake social accounts and everything.
SleevesRBS dope
DM: DarkAngel and Widogast
Widogast I apparently have to bring you up this week, so I apologize. The Jewish grandmother instincts are strong in this household.
DarkAngel I don’t mind. And my parents will be home for the New Year, so that will be nice. But it means I won’t be out partying with you all until after midnight.
Widogast I doubt anyone will care that you are with your family.
Widogast I believe by now they know it’s as important as Christmas.
DarkAngel Thank-you. And Astrid.
DarkAngel When should I expect to be kidnapped by your family?
Widogast Give me your schedule and I will let you know.
DM: FjordTough and Widogast
Widogast So. My mother saw my lock screen.
Widogast I have never been more relieved to have chosen not to use that first picture or the others.
FjordTough oh god
Widogast Ja.
FjordTough oh my god
Widogast Fjord, relax. They already knew I was not heterosexual. They are fine with it. Or, they are accepting because I am their only grandchild. Either way, she was simply curious.
FjordTough what did you tell her
Widogast The truth. That we are talking.
FjordTough what did she say?
Widogast That you were very handsome and she hopes it works out.
FjordTough I agree
Widogast To which part, I wonder.
FjordTough that I’m handsome obviously ;)
Widogast [Read: 10:55pm]
FjordTough Oh, come on darling
FjordTough I’ll make it up to you
FjordTough don’t make me beg
FjordTough …
FjordTough or do
Widogast >:)