July was a busy month for Cain, following June, which played a pretty pivotal role in his road to recovery. But. July.
In short: After being plagued by mirror images showing himself in less than appealing mirages, and reflective surfaces that kept reminding him of what he really wants/lacks in life, Cain was at his last straw at the end of the month. He bitched about it with a close friend, Paul, and one thing led to another led to him fessing up to the fact Smecker's one of a very select few Cain's felt attracted to since coming to Taxon eight months prior. Turns out Paul didn't mind - at all - and as a result, they started trying to figure things out. How to go from being friends to being friends who might one day develop deeper feelings for one another. This has mostly been happening in IM logs, since I for one am a lazy woman, and I normally can't brain when Dien's usually online late at night. But imho, they're just adorkable and keep surprising each other with various cultural tokens of asynchronicity.
Despite cautioning Paul to smack him upside the head if he ever started running ahead of things, Cain's started to realize he really likes Paul. Despite himself and his lingering guilt and issues and everything. It's nice having someone you click with. It's more than nice.
While the pause glitch screwed with his perceptions of things, now he's back on track and everything makes sense again. And aside from the wacky wintertime weather cropping up this month, he's been slowly picking himself up, piece by piece (with a bit of help). The past few weeks of people disappearing is already getting him worried, though, so maybe everything isn't right as rain.
Guess who will be completely heartbroken when Paul's gone? From one day to the next, no warning?
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July was a busy month for Cain, following June, which played a pretty pivotal role in his road to recovery. But. July.
In short: After being plagued by mirror images showing himself in less than appealing mirages, and reflective surfaces that kept reminding him of what he really wants/lacks in life, Cain was at his last straw at the end of the month. He bitched about it with a close friend, Paul, and one thing led to another led to him fessing up to the fact Smecker's one of a very select few Cain's felt attracted to since coming to Taxon eight months prior. Turns out Paul didn't mind - at all - and as a result, they started trying to figure things out. How to go from being friends to being friends who might one day develop deeper feelings for one another. This has mostly been happening in IM logs, since I for one am a lazy woman, and I normally can't brain when Dien's usually online late at night. But imho, they're just adorkable and keep surprising each other with various cultural tokens of asynchronicity.
Despite cautioning Paul to smack him upside the head if he ever started running ahead of things, Cain's started to realize he really likes Paul. Despite himself and his lingering guilt and issues and everything. It's nice having someone you click with. It's more than nice.
While the pause glitch screwed with his perceptions of things, now he's back on track and everything makes sense again. And aside from the wacky wintertime weather cropping up this month, he's been slowly picking himself up, piece by piece (with a bit of help). The past few weeks of people disappearing is already getting him worried, though, so maybe everything isn't right as rain.
Guess who will be completely heartbroken when Paul's gone? From one day to the next, no warning?