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lucas
you matter, too

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you really think that? after everything that's happened?

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[ it takes her a second to answer, to make sense of the squirming mess of emotion in her stomach, her chest, but ]

yeah

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why?

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i just do

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I hope one day we don't have regrets about what we should have said to each other before one of us is gone and it's too late

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[ will she regret asking? probably. would she regret not asking? also probably.

so: ]

like what?

[ what would you regret not saying, lucas? ]

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[ Lucas isn't falling into this trap of being honest first. It can't always be him putting his feelings out there. It only ever leaves him feeling like a fool when she pulls away from him. ]

I'll leave that answer to your imagination

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[ for a long while, dorothy doesn't know what to respond, whether to respond at all.

(it isn't fair to him. it isn't fair to her, either. none of this is fair; none of what happened was.)

eventually: ]

want to get a drink?

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[ That offer surprises him. ]

you're not put off by what happened last time?

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[ put off? — ] no

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then I'd like to go for a drink with you

[ He doesn't care about the drink. He cares about seeing her. ]

the same place?

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yeah, that works for me
when?

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[ He'd reply now please but they probably both need time to prepare to see each other again. ]

tonight?

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mind if i bring silvester?

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only if he doesn't steal my clothes again

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[ did you want her to think about you naked because that's exactly what she's doing now

so it takes a second before she responds ]

if you keep them on, he won't be able to

[ sending that without overthinking it, yep ]

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but that was my plan to get free drinks

[ kidding, of course ]

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nice try