orangetoughguy | log post II

[There's quiet and Eden sits, and finishes her cigarette]

She's a know-it-all nosy bitch.

So...she nose in on you?

[He's not trying to minimize her problem with Claire, just trying to get to the bottom of it.]

Yeah. Had to put her fuckin' opinion into everythin'. Even shite that wasn' any of her business.

What kind of business?

[He's hoping not Chase business cause that'll get sticky fast. Time for another cigarette.]

[She shrugs]

We've always had mutual friends. She's one of those people who has opinions and they're always bloody right and everyone sucks on the fuckin' words she says like they're made of gold. Pisses me right off.

Well just between you and me, she can say all she wants but she doesn't make me suck on what I don't want to.

[Puff.]

[Her voice is going from angry to hurt]

I always knew that Chase liked her. I always fuckin' knew and I never...

I don' like her. And yeh're one of the few with fuckin' brains in this shitehole. Just watch. Soon she'll be givin' yeh hell if she doesn' know every fuckin' thing about yehr life.

[Freddy just gives Eden a look. It's not so much knowing as he's trying to imply whether or not she does give him hell doesn't matter. He can take care of himself nor is it Eden's business to know what kind of hell Claire gives him. It's minor compared to all the other things he has to deal with.]

Do you dislike her more than you like him?

I didn' think so.

[She sits back against the bench]

This is fucked.

Hey. [He's looking at Eden seriously now.]

No one said shit's simple either. You stick with it if it's worth it, you know?

I don' want to see him. All I want to do is scream at him for hurtin' me.

The guy's laid up in a hospital cause he kissed his girlfriend. How'd that hurt you? Does he have some kinda super power where he does really fuckin' stupid shit that ripples through the time-space continuum to get you right here?

[Freddy gestures his cigarette over his chest.]

You're way tougher than that. You can scream at him for bein' stupid or whatever, you can scream at him for bein' some kinda sick fuck with a prom queen complex, but don't let'im think just bein' the way he is hurt you like this.

[This is all of course assuming Claire's never hurt Eden beyond a clearly being incapable of getting along. That she's scared he might devote full loyalty to the cheerleader on the other hand, well Freddy's got a reason to worry about that.]

[She flexes her hands like they're in pain]

It's not that fuckin' simple.

[It doesn't matter that what he says makes sense]

Give me another fag.

I'm making it less impossible to believe.

[Have a shrug, Eden. Er, his pause is extremely brief. Of course that's what they call smokes. Freddy hands her another plus his light.]

[She takes a drag]

Are yeh really that nice a guy?

[That catches Freddy off guard.]

Huh? What do you mean?

That yeh'll stand up for him?

I'm not standing up for him. [Let's get that out of the way first.] It's just the fair way to be.

[Puff of the cigarette.] Making his balls ache is one thing, but if he hasn't done anything really really wrong to you then you don't have a reason to break'em right?