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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

I take it he wasn't much for facial expressions either, then.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, no. He was very expressive.

...And that was more or less the problem, it tended to be a little on the demented side.

[doitrockapella]

As opposed to you and your unsettling deadpan.

[explosivecombat]

...At risk of sounding like an idiot, what do you mean?

[doitrockapella]

You do a thing with your face — or maybe it'd be better cast as a lack of thing. It's eerie to experience if you're not expecting it.

[explosivecombat]

I suspect it won't help any if I say it's not something I'm aware of doing, will it?

[doitrockapella]

I didn't think you were doing it intentionally to give me the shivers.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, come now. Surely it's not that unsettling.

[doitrockapella]

Not now that I'm used to it, no.

On the other hand, I doubt a smile of yours will ever light up a room, either.

[explosivecombat]

The most I really know is that I couldn't smile genuinely to save my life, and apparently I tend to just look like I'm judging people in some way.

My best friend does like to tell me that much, at least.

[doitrockapella]

I'd take his word for it. He does seem to be quite the authority on looking as though one is judging people in some way.

[explosivecombat]

You know, if I were a better person than I am, I suspect now would be the time when I should throw some cliché line out there - about how no one is allowed to say such things about him but me.

[doitrockapella]

Are you trying to make me jealous?

[explosivecombat]

Am I making you jealous?

[doitrockapella]

That's not the same question.

[explosivecombat]

As though I don't realize.

[doitrockapella]

I know better than to try to compete with your best friend, anyway.

[explosivecombat]

Why does it have to be a competition?

[doitrockapella]

Don't jealousy and competitiveness tend to go hand in hand?

[explosivecombat]

Not necessarily.

[doitrockapella]

One, at least, tends to follow the other.

You don't like me better than him.

[explosivecombat]

It's more that I like you in different ways than I like him.

[doitrockapella]

You know I'm going to ask you to elaborate.

[explosivecombat]

You probably know more about me than he does, at this point.

[doitrockapella]

Is that because I'm privileged with the information, or just because he never thinks to ask?