Dathan Fischer
January 03, 2022 8:25 PM
So - want to fuzzy-time travel together? (Sadie) by Dathan Fischer
Dathan had known stress fairly often in his years at Sonora, mostly because the teachers seemed to think that they should all be a lot smarter and innately-harder-working than Dathan happened to be. This year, though...this year had been a whole new ballgame. Heck, each individual semester had been a whole new ballgame.First there had been the Ball announcement, and the need for a date, and the stress of trying to decide what to do. Who to ask. Why to ask whoever he asked. What would happen if it went one way or the other. He had spent the first entire half of the year obsessing over that, thinking back and forth between: Sadie and Ellie, Ellie and Sadie. They were both beautiful and kind and his friends. He'd kind of had a thing for Ellie a couple years ago, but then he'd started spending a lot of time with Sadie, and on the other hand...and so on and so on and so on. Finally, though, during midterm, he'd more or less made up his mind to ask Sadie, thinking that while Ellie was super pretty and super great about not making him feel really stupid whenever they worked together, he was still super-aware that it was probably just pity and that he probably was an incredibly dull conversationalist to her, something that would be exaggerated without classwork to fill in gaps.
Then, though, they'd come back to school and hey, no more dates needed! Unless you just...wanted one. Which, he'd started to realize, he did. He'd stressed right up to the vote, back to going back and forth between the girls, and then after it, he'd been...disappointed? Something like that.
There was an obvious solution, of course - just asking anyway. But then it was obviously a date kinda thing, and that made it...way more serious. So, what happened then, either way? So on he'd gone for weeks more, stressing more...until now, when he'd just gone for a walk in the gardens and there was Sadie, walking her jackelope, and after the standard meeting-a-friend small talk, he was half-horrified and half-relieved to hear his own voice saying, "hey, I was thinking - the Ball, you know - do you want to, you know, hang out after the...fancy group thing?"
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Sadie-Lake Chalmers
January 05, 2022 1:39 AM
I really, really do by Sadie-Lake Chalmers
Sadie had voted for the group dance. It was tactical, if she was thinking kindly towards herself, and an act of cowardice if she wasn't. It wasn't what she wanted. She just hadn't had enough faith in a paired dance working out in her favour, however much she had an ideal picture of that in mind.It seemed like that had (maybe, possibly?) been the right choice. Now that the pressure was off, Dathan didn't seem to be asking anybody. She hadn't heard any suggestion that he'd asked Ellie either. So, now that he didn't have to, she guessed he didn't want to. And that should have been a good thing. Surely she wanted him to ask her because he wanted to, not just because he had to? Except the core part of that was 'wanting him to ask her.' Yes, an even more ideal version of this involved Dathan wanting to go with her so much that he asked her in spite of it no longer being a necessity. Except, if had felt that strongly about her, he presumably would have asked her when he had thought he definitely needed a date. Without the pressure of the opening dance, it seemed he was opting to ask no one at all. She knew it was a little mean, but - seeing as asking of his own free will was off the table - she would have rather he asked because he had to than not at all.
She had filled the void looking at little bunny bowties, idly wondering if she could take Jack-Jack. She knew that it was very possibly against the actual rules, and very definitely against the social ones, but it was very tempting. He would look cute, and her reputation as the weird bunny girl would be firmly cemented. Perhaps she should have gone for a bunny-themed ball gown... Except she had still been holding tight to the idea of being asked by a human being when she had picked it.
She was walking Jack-Jack, her attention alternately on him and away with the fairies, when he pulled at his leash, foot thumping the ground. That usually meant someone was approaching. Sadie looked up, and saw-
"DAFAN!" Jack-Jack beat her to it.
"Hi," Sadie smiled. They chatted a bit about Jack-Jack, because he always commanded some attention, and how it was a nice day for a walk.
And then... then he blurted something about the ball and hanging out. It was such an abrupt switch that Sadie wondered for a second whether she had drifted off into fantasy land in the middle of their conversation. Except she was pretty sure the phrasing was not 'hang out' in her daydreams.
"Yes!" she answered, a huge grin on her face. Did that sound creepily enthusiastic? He had only asked her to hang out, which was what friends did, and they were friends. "That sounds like fun," she tried for a slightly more normal reaction, because she didn’t want to seem like she was reacting like he had just asked her out when he had not really and might not have meant it that way. Still, it was an effort to tone down her smile, and the broader grin still threatened to leak out at the edges.
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