fandomhigh | Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

In order to give people a place to get away from the traffic jam of the buffet and information tables, most of the chairs and tables for guests were set up further out on the lawn, under a tall blue and gold tent. There was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves, but it might not have all been dry. Did we mention being grateful that it was just water falling from the sky?

[OCD is up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"'You know why Dinah and I broke up'," she utterly misquoted, but didn't want to think back to it again for the exact line. That was close enough.

"And you decided that meant I wanted to break up with you?" And just like that, Jaime's expression went from angry to flat-out betrayed.

"I ASKED!" She did not understand his expression or his anger. "I asked what you meant and you said you wanted to talk about breaking up because you didn't talk with Dinah."

Jaime's voice was soft. He tried to hide the hurt, but he rather doubted he was successful. "I said I wanted to talk about what we were going to do, and you thought..."

He choked off, not trusting himself to finish the sentence.

Momoko wanted so much to hold him and be held right now.

"Jaime, I don't know what..." She pressed her palms against her eyes, trying to stop the tears, trying to think. "I thought you wanted ideas. That we would figure out how to stay together even if we were apart. You're too important to me to ever think of not being with you. Even now, it hurts how much I miss you."

"But you just walked off!" Jaime accused, no heat in his voice, just... a sort of exhaustion.

"I didn't! Why do you keep saying that?! I totally stayed and tried to talk until the end!"

"What do you call flying away!?"

Ah. "That was after. I couldn't stay there and just pretend I was okay, Jaime." And he hadn't come after her. "Being in love with you and not being allowed to show it... I've done that; it hurts too much. I had to leave."

"And how are we going to figure out the tough stuff if you're just going to run away?" he demanded.

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Jaime knew they weren't fair, but they were said, and he couldn't take them back. And some part of him still felt they were fair.

She looked at him like he'd just stabbed her.

"I didn't 'run away'! What's left to figure out when you won't listen to any of my suggestions and just keep saying we had to break up?"

"I NEVER SAID THAT!"

Though now... well... maybe she was right.

"You SAID that you didn't want to repeat the same mistakes you did with Dinah." She was back to speaking soft again, her complexion pale. "I asked what mistakes, because you never said anything about mistakes before. You SAID it was that you decided on a date without talking to Dinah about it."

"You weren't even listening to me, were you?" Jaime snapped. "I said that it was deciding to break up with her without talking to Dinah about it!"

He spun, unable to look at her, unable to let her see how angry he was (as if she couldn't hear it in his voice). "I guess you just heard what you wanted to hear," he muttered.

"That's what I said you said!" She spoke sharply at his back, frustrated enough to finally snap. "/You said the mistake you made when you broke up with Dinah was that you and Dinah didn't decide together what day to break up!/

Jaime was angry enough that he didn't even notice that she'd switched to Japanese and that the Scarab was translating for him.

"There it is again!" he yelled. "You're just hearing what you want to hear!" He stopped yelling to breathe heavily for a moment or two, and then let out a choking almost-sob. "Why do you want me to want to break up with you so badly?"

"/Why would I want to hear that you don't want to be with me?! And I don't want you to break up with me. Ever! I don't care that you're from another world! I never did!/"

Jaime's voice was low and pained. "Then how come when I say 'I made a mistake by deciding to break up with Dinah instead of talking to her about what we should do', all you want to hear is that I want to break up with you?"

That had to say something about her opinion of him, or what she really wanted, or something. Didn't it?

...

...

...

"/You... never said that./" She stared at his back. "That's what I wanted to hear."

"That's what I said every time!" he practically wailed.

"Never once," she denied.

"What, exactly did I say, then?"

"Exactly? I can't repeat every word!" Except she remembered how often he'd mentioned Dinah. "But I know you never said that you wanted to talk about how we could stay together!"

"I never said I wanted to talk about how we were going to break up either!" he counters. "Just that we needed to talk about what we were going to do?"

He still hasn't turned to face her again. "Why does that mean we have to break up? Why is that what you'd assume?"

"Because that's what you did with DINAH!" And Momoko had stupidly believed she was different... they were different.

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