✧ — peach iced tea.

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[transmit]

When's the last time you changed your mattress?

I'm not sure what this picture's supposed to tell me…

[oversea]

It's your pillow.

Why would I change the mattress?

[transmit]

It's memory foam and ergonomic. You can try it if you want.

You didn't notice a difference between our beds when you were in it last time? I guess you were delirious more than half the time…

[oversea]

I wasn't paying attention to the beds.

I was paying attention to you being sick.

[transmit]

Okay.




You can pay attention to it now.

[oversea]

Go to sleep.

I did see all of your time stamps.

[transmit]

[ he hates it here ]

I'll sleep if you sleep.

[oversea]

[



he calls him. ]

[transmit]

[ oh.


he hurriedly finishes typing up a message before picking up. ]

What's the level of trust we're looking at? Having to fall asleep on the phone together?

[oversea]

Yes. That is the level.

[ at least he's being honest about it.

but elysium's hours make no sense if he's actually sleeping normally. ]

[transmit]

[

he will simply just wake up super duper early to make up for it. ]

Mm. I still need to brush my teeth and get changed…

[ and. finish an email. but he thinks he can squeeze that in between these two things without being too obvious? ]

You?

[oversea]

I don't have to do anything...

[ he was probably just going to watch tv until he fell asleep... but he saw a labubu mention and realized it's been a while since he's seen it so he went looking for it. ]

[transmit]

[ elysium is thinking thorns is so lonely he's seeking companionship from his labubu. elysium is officially the worst boyfriend…

this is why they need a creature (that is alive). ]

… Okay. I'm going to mute myself while I get ready. Give me ten?

[oversea]

Take your time.

[ but not too much time that thorns starts getting suspicious....

but he will sit in silence as he tries not to think about being in elysium's room. ]

[transmit]

[ he takes twenty, because he is required to deal with other people's stupidity. that said, elysium taking an absurdly long getting ready for bed is nothing new; it should not be surprising that it can stretch into the realm of longer. if anything! ten minutes would almost be too generous of an estimate even if he weren't sneaking in work.

in the meantime, thorns can occupy himself with whatever is in elysium's room. It is no more decorated than the last time he visited, but the shelves offer yearbooks and humiliating photos of them tucked between the pages to preserve them over the years.

but once he finally returns: ]

I dropped one of my bottles and had to clean up… you still there?

[ he'd be more embarrassed about this if he'd had more than a handful of seconds to think about this… ]

[oversea]

Uh huh.

[ he is, in fact, idly flipping through a yearbook. thorns would not be the type to have bought his own copy, so this is likely the first time he's even seen the contents of this. ]

What did you eat for dinner?

[transmit]

[ oh, good. if thorns flips to their graduating comments during their senior year, he can see how much elysium glazes thorns from that alone. the way you're asked for them way before you actually graduate so if you write anything you regret, it's so doomed…

but elysium opens his mouth. he closes his mouth. hm! ]

I had some pasta earlier. You?

[oversea]

[ this is actually deeply embarrassing to read. he also notes that he has no idea how elysium could have looked through this after their friend breakup, because there's so many candids of them together in random places.

if thorns saw this earlier, he would have just sssumed elysium just shrugged and kept turning the page... ]

The meal kit had mashed potatoes.

[transmit]

[ he's also the type of bitch who'd have a secret message and think he'd being slick. something about finally doing the thing he's been wanting to for years and if by the time he's reading this he hasn't, he's pathetic!

your youth exists to be cringe. he's still cringe. ]

I was worried you wouldn't prepare them for a while. That's good.

[ … ]

On three, we turn on our cameras?

[oversea]

... Okay.

[ he says this but he is very quickly getting up to put the yearbook away before elysium can count to three.

he is sure that elysium would not mind that he looked through it but it would still feel like he got caught doing something without permission. never mind the fact that thorns technically entered elysium's room without permission in the first place, but he is not thinking about those optics. ]

[transmit]

[ there is a reason why elysium was so mortified by thorns' rejection!! okay!!!!!! he would technically be okay with thorns being given the reminder of their dark history, but he would also die.

anyway. ]

Three… two… one!

[ tada! he waves comfortably from bed. ]

[oversea]

[ elysium gets a visual of the labubu




and then of thorns crawling into the bed a second after. he picks the phone up. hi. there is a light bruise on his cheek. ]

[transmit]

[ this is so cute





but then his cheer (and arm) drop so fast. ]

Did you get into a fight?

[oversea]

Why are you immediately jumping to a fight?

[ the answer is yes, but that's not important. ]

[transmit]

[ he is going to kill thorns then kill the person he got into a fight with ]

Are you going to tell me you tripped and fell on your cheek, then?