IC contact; phone

[flowerofmtsilver]

You have reached the voice mailbox of ...Vinnie. Please leave a message after the tone.

...

BEEP!

[Or drop him a text, if you'd like to brave his txtspeak]

Comments

[flowerofmtsilver]

we hang out alot, thats gonna make ppl asume things either way

blu alredy nos tho. sorry.

[rivalsolarbeam]

yea i guess so. i want to be upfront about it anyway tho

??? did you tell her?

[flowerofmtsilver]

NO

she mite hav

seen us

[Picture attachment: wow you two kissing.]

[rivalsolarbeam]

[wow look at that]

omf

[flowerofmtsilver]

yup...

[rivalsolarbeam]

ha ha OK...

ok. i think green might know too... which is fine he knew other stuff.

[flowerofmtsilver]

she thinks were cute @ lest

u didnt tel him officaly?

[rivalsolarbeam]

good????

he had a lot on his mind already... going to make sure he knows today.

[flowerofmtsilver]

shud i b there

...i think i shud b there

[rivalsolarbeam]

... i'd like that.

probably going to be way easier than when I told him I liked you.

[rivalsolarbeam]

... probably

[flowerofmtsilver]

[THIS FILLS HIM WITH GREAT HOPE]

uhhh

[flowerofmtsilver]

well u wont b alone

ok

[rivalsolarbeam]

I know. thank you.

it'll be ok. he likes you more than he says he does.

[flowerofmtsilver]

ill take ur word on it?

[rivalsolarbeam]

it's a good one!

[flowerofmtsilver]

ha

now a ok time 4 me 2 come over?

[rivalsolarbeam]

now should be ok, yeah

[AND THEN VINNIE CAME OVER AND THEY NERVOUSLY HAD TEA.]

[SOON AFTER THAT]

[rivalsolarbeam]

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[AND THEN AT A TIME]

[rivalsolarbeam]

After that was all said and done, they had discreetly slipped back to Bulba's room for a bit more time on their own. Bulba felt a bit more at ease now that it had been affirmed that yes Green knew, and yes they had as much blessing as Green was willing to give. Even if Bulba had prepped Green for the idea already, it had still been pretty nervewracking when it came down to it.

But whatever his feelings were, he realized they paled in comparison to what the other Venusaur was feeling. The words "that's not fair" stuck with him, because it wasn't. This was something he needed to check up on.

"That went well," he started softly once it was just the two of them, because it actually did go relatively well all things considered. "Are you holding up ok?"

Re: [AND THEN AT A TIME]

[flowerofmtsilver]

Vinnie closed the door behind them and situated himself to lean his back against the adjacent wall. The meeting hadn't gone poorly at all, but he could still feel his heart beating a touch faster than normal. The anxiousness was taking its sweet time wearing off. Bad enough that he psyched himself too hard for it in the first place and made things so much more tense than they needed to be - he just couldn't relax, not completely.

Scratching his face, the older Venusaur peered over at Bulba with an expression that was uncomfortable, but making an obvious effort to minimize how he felt. He responded with a, "Yeah," with the unspoken undertone of, why wouldn't I be?

[rivalsolarbeam]

Despite how good his efforts were, which were pretty good, it was still kind of obvious that Vinnie was not quite as good as he was trying to imply. Bulba came up in front of him, loosely looping his arms around the other saur's waist. The gold of his eyes were trained somewhere around Vinnie's collar as he bit his bottom lip in a slightly guilty fashion.

"...It feels like I'm rushing you," Bulba admitted. "Which I don't want to do. I know... I know how hard this can be."

[flowerofmtsilver]

Vinnie's eyes, meanwhile, drifted off to stare at nothing in particular. A patch of floor off the the side, perhaps. Not entirely sure what to do with his hands, he rested them lightly on the other Venusaur's shoulders.

"I don't wanna let it sit though." The longer this felt like a secret affair, the more guilty he felt about it all. "Besides," he added, "I already made you wait for me."

[rivalsolarbeam]

"I'm okay with waiting," he replied. "I mean, I want to be honest as soon as we can too but... I don't want to be selfish and unfair to you. It's nerve-wracking, isn't it?"

[flowerofmtsilver]

Vinnie didn't respond immediately, his silence more or less confirming the fact. Yeah, it was kind of terrifying. But it was terrifying to not say anything, either. Keeping quiet only made the bold natured Saur feel like his secrets were fighting to burst through his chest.

As hard as it was, he tried to smile, even if it carried the uncertainty and fear of all these worst case scenarios in his head.

"It's just ripping off the band-aid," he said, forcing himself to be positive about all this. "Honestly, wondering what people'll say's way worse than knowing for sure."