Voicemail

[solarhippie]

Hi! You've reached Karolina! I can't get to my phone right now but leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! Byyye!

BEEP.

Comments

[solarhippie]

You couldn't distract Karolina with your mushiness, Beau! At least not much.

Okay, at least enough for her to okay the idea.

Suuuch a Look. You can't fly so there's nothing to help you if you fall!

Unlike some people.

Way too dangerous. Maybe you just have to wait for your snuggle fix. And everything else.

[notallbluemonks]

Beau just sent her a sad, puppy-eyed selfie back. Or that was the intent, but it had a touch of looking slightly like she was uncomfortable and a little cranky about it, which probably muted the impact somewhat.

Okay, fiiiiiiine. But only because I like you that much.

Really, any other time she might have gone ahead and tried to climb the building anyway. Go figure, dating Karolina might have more success at teaching Beau to be at least a little bit patient than the monks had in all those months of trying and failing.

[solarhippie]

Aww, and now Karolina felt vaguely bad about... not signing off on dangerous stunts. It was a perfectly reasonable thing to feel bad about with her background, okay!

But we can tooootally see each other later today! You know, once this bed stops feeling like a magnet.

[notallbluemonks]

For as short as the next text message was, there was a good minute or so of the little on-screen indicator that Beau was still typing.

Yes. Please. I missed you.

Being that up front about her feelings (and asking politely, to be honest) was hard, you know?

[solarhippie]

Karolina was starting to learn that about her, yes.

I'll order lunch to your place? We can have a lunch date.

That'd probably stretch into a dinner date and whatever.

[notallbluemonks]

It at least counted for something that she was trying, didn't it?

Sounds dope. Let's do it.

Today was probably not going to be the day that it occurred to them that they didn't have to be all over each other all the time.

[solarhippie]

Probably not. But the weekend counted as an extenuating circumstance, anyway!

See you then, babe. <3

No, today was probably for clinging.

[notallbluemonks]

So much clinging. More than Beau would admit to, really, but the memory of Six walking away while looking so much like Karolina had managed to poke her squarely in her insecurities.

Guess I'll get my workout in before then. Kinda can't wait.

And in the meantime, Karolina would have at least one mid-pushup selfie coming to her.