[log] The Cat Came Back [closed]

[0thingsonmymind]

Characters: Brian, Ginger, Jade, Leon
Location House 83
Date: Day/Night 77
Summary: There is a house that once had cats but now it has people. Stuff happens.
Warnings: General mental illness for Brian, I can't think of anything else but will add if needed.

Make topleves or something. That's how this works, right?

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[0thingsonmymind]

He shakes his head, perhaps a bit more enthusiastic than needed. "I do not friends."

Need? Have? Want? Its anyone's guess what word he's missing there. Maybe all of them.

[lacecase]

"What? Oh no! That's so sad!"

Yes, Ginger is definitely misunderstanding this to mean that Brian doesn't feel as if he has friends. Or maybe just that he doesn't have any at all. Either way, she feels so bad! Like, everybody should have friends!

"I'm sure you have way more friends than you realize. But you don't have to worry about that because I'll definitely be your friend! Sure!"

As if this was some sort of open invitation. Good going, Ginger.

[0thingsonmymind]

What, that's not--

"What."

--not what he was saying. How did she take that as he was asking for friends? No no no.

"No, I do not have--do not need--do not want--do friends."

[lacecase]

"It's okay! I totally get it! You're, like, one of those super loner goth types right? You don't need to explain anything, cause like, I won't judge at all."

He can be as big of a scene kid as he wants and pretend he doesn't need or want friends, and she'll just support him "quietly" behind the scenes.

"Hey! I have a good idea! I found these cute smiley face stickers. Want one? You can put it on your tablet or your mask or something. I bet it would make you happy to look at!" Think of it as a token of new friendship, Brian.

[0thingsonmymind]

"Goth?""

He doesn't know what that word means, but its beside the point. He scoots further away from her as she mentions the stickers.

"I do not want any thing. Go away."

[lacecase]

"Awww...come on, it'll be cute!" She pouts. Why is he being so deflective? Why doesn't he want to be her friend? She doesn't understand! Ginger's great at friendship! Maybe it's because he's a boy. Or maybe this is about the whole Clayton thing?

"If this is about earlier, I'm not upset or anything! We can just forget about it!"

[0thingsonmymind]

"No. No, I do not want cute."

He doesn't do cute, ugh. That is not a word that should apply to him.

"We cannot for get."

[lacecase]

Everyone does cute, Brian. You just don't know that you do cute! This is something Ginger is very much willing to change. All it takes is a bit of persistence, right?

"How come? It's easy you just go...poof!" She bops herself lightly in the head with the palm of her hand. "There! Now it's gone! Goodbye unhappy thought!"

[0thingsonmymind]

He shakes his head.

"No. You cannot just for get every thing that is unhappy."

[lacecase]

"Oh, no, I didn't mean that! Of course you can't, like, brush everything off. But some things aren't as bad, you know? Like our conversation! I just don't want you to be upset! I always feel sooooo bad when I upset people. You're not still upset, right?"

Is she talking too much? Probably. But she can't stop when she's earnest! Which is most of the time, but that's hardly the important thing. What's important is getting on Brian's good side, because everybody has one!

[0thingsonmymind]

"I am up set. I am upset at Clayton. I am up set that no one list ens. You do not."

[lacecase]

Ginger starts to look horribly distressed by this very simple and very hard to misinterpret statement. Oh no, oh no, is she a bad person? He's upset and it's all her fault!

"I am listening," she says with a tone of misery, for once her voice softening. "I'm sorry if I seemed like I wasn't. Pretty please give me another chance? I'll listen much better, I promise. Cross my heart!"

[0thingsonmymind]

Okay, he didn't expect that, and he clearly doesn't know how to deal with it.

"What Isaid be fore. Heis danger ous. He is a liar."

Liars are bad, okay.

[lacecase]

As Ginger watches him she tried to be at her most, most, most understanding! Because she doesn't want to believe Clayton's a liar. Can't just believe that he's a dangerous person when he's never done anything wrong to her. But even though this is her first face-to-face experience with Brian, she doesn't want to discredit him. He sounds so earnest! She still thinks there must be some sort of misunderstanding, but...Brian is convinced that Clayton's a liar. So she'll have to find a way that she can take both of them at their word.

"Okay."

Hey, it's Ginger. She'll find a way to make it work, if only in her own head.

"I believe you. Honest. I'll be more careful from now on."

She smiles at him, not really being capable of being so serious for such a long amount of time. Because, you know, a handful of minutes is a long time!

"And I'm not a liar! Cross my heart and pinky swear and everything!"

[0thingsonmymind]

He's not sure he believes her, but he's happy to let the subject drop for now. Maybe she'll go somewhere else once its done.

"Good."

He cants his head at the last bit.

"What?"

[lacecase]

At first, Ginger isn't totally sure what he's asking about. But then it hits her, and she gets this goofy look on her face. "You don't know what a pinky swear is?"

She holds up both of her hands and hugs her little fingers together to demonstrate.

"You do this with somebody else when you make them a promise, and it's the most sacred of all promises ever! So you can't ever break it. If you do, bad things happen. I don't know what bad things, but I've never broken a pinky swear so I couldn't tell you. But it would have to be bad! It's not good to break promises."

Ginger nods sagely.

[0thingsonmymind]

He shakes his head. "I donot need swear. I am not a liar."

[lacecase]

Ginger's eyes go wide. She's quick to try and explain better, her pinky-locked hands breaking apart to wave in a placating gesture.

"Oh, no, I didn't mean that! It's not about telling the truth or lying, it's about trusting your friends not to let you down. Trust is different, right? Like, it's kind of the same, because you can't trust somebody who's lying to you, but even somebody who never lies to you at all might not be somebody you want to trust."

She beams again, not at all to be deterred in her ultimate goal.

"We're friends now, so I won't rest until we know we can trust each other. That's what friendship's about!"

[0thingsonmymind]

Ugh, she was still on about that?

He shakes his head. "We are not friends. I donot trust you. I do not wantto be fri ends. Go a way."

[lacecase]

"But..."

Ginger is about to go on a bit of a spiel. Maybe she's not friends for him yet, but it can happen! He just needs to give her a chance since he doesn't know her yet, and she'll show him that she's trustworthy! And it'll be great and he'll be so much happier! Or...something like that. Probably. Friendship is always a good thing!

But then he says that he doesn't want to be friends and there's not very much she can do to argue that. She can't stop herself from looking crestfallen, her shoulders slumping.

"Oh." She looks down. "Well, if you don't want to...I guess that's just that."

Ginger pauses, then gathers her things up again and stands with a (albeit smaller) smile.

"I'll leave you alone. Good night!"

[0thingsonmymind]

FINALLY.

He nods as she gets up. "Good. I donot want--need comp any."

If he's noticed her change in mood he doesn't care. (But lets be honest here, he hasn't noticed that it means anything.)