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

[bigdamnprincipal]

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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Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

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."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"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.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

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?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"I NEVER SAID THAT!"

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

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"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."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"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.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"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!/

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

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?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"/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!/"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

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?

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

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

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

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

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"Never once," she denied.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"What, exactly did I say, then?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"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!"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"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?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

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

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"And me saying over, and over, and over," and OVER, "again that I didn't want to do the same thing just didn't register with you?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"Well, either your mistake was not discussing when to break up, or," she choked on this part, "breaking up with her at all."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

...

Wait. What?

Jaime finally spun to stare at her in confusion. "What?" He'd thought that not breaking up at all was the option that Momoko had wanted.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"I said," Momoko hadn't had time to pull her face back in order, okay? Just pretend she was smiling. "If your mistake wasn't about talking over when, that maybe you were saying breaking up with her at all was the mistake. You kept bringing her up."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"Since when did this become about Dinah?" Jaime asked, genuinely perplexed.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

"It's NOT!" Although, it kind of was. At least, Momoko still wondered if he sometimes wished she was more like Dinah. "But you kept saying you made a mistake with her and I didn't know what mistakes you were talking about except those two things!"

And she totally didn't want to believe he wanted Dinah back.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[weldedtomyspine]

"And you couldn't imagine the third option?" Jaime asked, the hurt coming back into his voice.

What had he done wrong to make her not trust him?

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[heromaniac]

So many circles. She'd said this already, hadn't she?

"I tried to suggest things, Jaime." She sagged, so very tired. "You were totally set on saying they wouldn't work. It was like... Like you'd already decided. Again."