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What grows when you think of it and hurts when you truly know it?

[.....]

[Aris]

I don’t have anything to say. I’d just like to talk to you.

[Desmond]

Happy Birthday, Des.

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now i know that ain't true.

[Viola]

not even sure it is. technically.

you don't make a lady buy you ice cream.

See right through me.

[Desmond]

In that case, you can pick any day you like.

You know I’m no lady and, anyway, I offered.

you ain't that transparent. i'm just not that smart.

[Viola]

easier to go with the papers, i guess.

i'll buy yours then. only fair.

You're unbothered, that's all. It's possible that's the smartest thing to be.

[Desmond]

I'm sorry it fell on such a strange day this year.

Am I right to assume that's the only way you'll agree to this?

nah, just [...] not good at it. deep thinking.

[Viola]

i don't much mind. never bothered with my birthday, if i'm honest. there's more important things.

probably, yeah.

Oh, certainly. Imminent death or prom dates. Take your pick.

Alright then. I see there's no use protesting.

reckon it should be the first one. plenty of places people can go to dance if they really want.

just saying it was nice enough. anything else is ~~too~~ extra.

Has an underground sock hop opened up in Elflock?

The cherry on top?

dunno. usually ended up in a bar someplace when i was younger.

whipped cream too.

I've never even tried to sneak into Hap's. Doesn't seem worth the trouble.

[....]

Hey, Des. Can I just say thank you for not bringing it up?

it ain't. the dancing isn't bad. ~~my momma use~~ music too. but not enough to be worth no trouble.

[...]

you got nothing to thank me for. just like you didn't have nothing to be sorry about. still don't.

Not so many places to go dancing then, by my calculations.

Alright, then we'll leave it at that.

there's probably better bars out there than the ones i've been to.

alright. smart girl like you sparing three seconds on a dumbass is sparing three seconds too much.

You don't seem the bar type, anyway.

I wish you wouldn't think of it that way. I made a mistake but you weren't it.

i'm good at holding up a wall.

don't think you made a mistake. you're just [...] sharp, y'know? real smart. you say clever things and you [...] care enough to make sense out'a all the shit going on round here. you deserve somebody that's gonna keep up with you.

I won’t torture you on your birthday by singing your praises but just know that the more you disparage yourself the sillier I look for having had a crush on you.

that ain't ~~disp~~ talking bad about me, that's talking nice about you. those're two different things entirely.

You don’t think you deserve to be with someone clever?

I understand if you don’t want to be. It can get annoying. But you deserve to be with whoever’d you like.

it ain't about deserving. just don't [...] got much for somebody that thinks real deep, clever things.

you think that's annoying? being smart?

I disagree but I suspect this will go about as well as our ice cream negotiations.

I wouldn’t say it that way, exactly. Feels [...] misogynistic somehow. But I’m very aware that I’m tiring to be around.

i can be stubborn. probably ain't a good thing.

you ain't tiring to be around, though. sometimes it's [...] hard to talk to you. ~~shit that~~ not because of you. just [...] i have to think when i talk to you. i never know if i'm saying the right thing.

Another way to say that is 'certain.'

I know. That's what I meant. Sometimes I do it on purpose.

For what it's worth, you make me think, too. Harder than I should like, sometimes.

get the sense i shouldn't try and argue with you too hard neither.

that don't make it tiring. or a bad thing. it just ain't easy.

i don't mean to. you're good at dancing, i just don't know what the steps are.

Let's not argue at all, if we can help it.

As I recall, you're very nice to dance with. We're just hearing different music, that's all.

sounds a lot better, actually. far as options go.

reckon i just got lucky that time. but i think we do alright in the end.

Desmond/Viola

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