Library [01/10]

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Jonothon was not feeling entirely too amused as he made his way into the library today for his shift, why?

Okay, perhaps a little...

Okay, he was practically radiating a psionic wave of amusement as he opened the library and set to work shelving books. Wrong numbers very nearly made his inability to use telephones forgivable.

[Open Library is Open.]

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Re: Morning [10/10]

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//I'm sure that yer going to learn soon enough that around here, sense is completely overrated.// Jono stood up once the book was away, grabbed the bottom corners of his jacket, and gave it a good tug to straighten it out again. //I had Merlin- Yes, that Merlin- callin' to let me know that he didn't fancy my breasts.//

Jono hadn't been terribly heartbroken at that revelation. You could tell.

Re: Morning [10/10]

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"Merlin-yes-that-Merlin," Henry repeated, nodding dutifully and filing that away as something to think about later. He clapped a hand on Jono's shoulder, trying not to smile. "It's all right, Starsmore. I'm sure you have many other worthwhile attributes to catch a fellow's eye."

Re: Morning [10/10]

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Jono allowed himself to look almost dutifully amused that that statement.

//Yes, that other bloke who called wanted to know if I was willing to go at it with him in public. I had to come up with a creative way to respectfully turn him down.//

By hitting buttons. It had been a very scientific approach, really.

Re: Morning [10/10]

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"Now I'm horribly curious what you did," Henry said.

Re: Morning [10/10]

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//I spelled out 'plonker' on the answerphone using the digits on my phone,// Jono shared. //Though I've got my doubts that he ever actually got it. Knowing my luck, it managed to completely miss th'mark.//

A pause. And a shrug.

//Not that anybody would be able to figure out what th'hell those beeps were meant to mean, anyhow. But it was vaguely satisfying at th'time.//

Re: Morning [10/10]

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"It was creative," Henry said approvingly. "And you never know. Maybe it went to someone who had a good enough ear to match the tones to the numbers and absolutely nothing else to do."

Re: Morning [10/10]

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//Just imagine, all that time spent picking out every possible combination of letters, only to realize that they wasted all of that time just so that they could know that some British git was calling to insult them in code.//

Well, Jono liked the notion, anyhow. He hesitated for a moment, before piping up again. Because he couldn't let this one sit forever.

//By th'way, mate, yer might want to consider givin' yer wife another call.//

[Sorry, crashing out uber early due to headache. SP?]

Re: Morning [10/10]

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Henry blinked several times and then went crimson even against his slight sunburn as he pieced it together. He hadn't quite been in a phone sex mood when he'd called, but it had been, ahem, enthusiastic.

Oops.

"You got that one, too?" he said sheepishly. "I'm going to assume you're shocked and appalled at the contents."

He would have been, at 16. Adults having sex? That was wrong.

"I figured she was just busy."

[OOC: NP, take care!]

Re: Morning [10/10]

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At 18, Jono was more amused, less shocked and appalled. And you could absolutely tell by the expression that wasn't quite a grin as he replied to Henry, yes.

//Shocked and utterly appalled, yes. It might take me months to overcome the trauma.//

He was over it.

Re: Morning [10/10]

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"I'll reimburse you for the extra therapy sessions," Henry averred, oh so seriously.

"The phones don't do that all the time, do they?"

Re: Morning [10/10]

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//This would be th'first time they've done it since I got here,// Jono replied. //Granted, I've only been here a semester, myself. And I've heard that this island likes to revisit the mischief that it finds th'most amusing, so I wouldn't go and assume that yer in th'clear quite yet, mate.//

Jono was helpful! Yay!

Re: Morning [10/10]

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"As if a place where the library has a room of attacking books could ever put me in the clear," Henry said, a smile crinkling the corners of his eyes. "Thank you for the heads up, though."