IC Inbox for TS
Aug. 8th, 2013 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"If you were trying to reach Bart Allen. Well. I've got good news and bad news. Good news: this is he. Bad new: this is a pre-recorded me. Because I got bored waiting for people to call and went to do something cool. More good news though: I'll be back to check my messages before you know it. Probably. Usually. Sometimes. Occasionally. Look, it's a better plan to just post a feed that I can tap into anywhere, OK? Hang a sign in your window that says "Bart stop here" is gonna be the fastest way to flag me down. But if you must, leave one."
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Date: 2014-03-14 02:04 am (UTC)[She wants to bring up an example, but her memories are failing her. Because he's right. The only people she knows that are dating here are the ones who were already together before they arrived. It makes her frown a little and his avoidance doesn't help. She's not upset, but this isn't quite going how she'd hoped.]
You're seriously not going to tell me how old you were? This is what friends do.. Ask ridiculous and personal questions and banter about school and dating and whatever else there is to talk about. I won't judge. I mean, this girl I know, Dana, lost hers at thirteen and she's still cool. So unless you lost yours at like, twelve, there's really nothing to be embarrassed about.
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Date: 2014-03-19 05:11 am (UTC)I'm not not telling you. You're not asking a specific enough question for a one word answer. I dunno how old I am. Not really. So it's like. I guess 21, physically. Mentally si- let's go with seventeen. And chronologically. Um. Anywhere between 5 and 10. It depends on how you wanna count.
[Pocket dimensions can be tricky that way.]
So. How does that fit in with your nothing-to-be-embarrassed-about? I'm not. I mean. I am. But not because it happened. It's more the abstract age and having this conversation with you.
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Date: 2014-03-22 05:41 am (UTC)Truth be told, she tries not to think too much about the age thing. In some ways, Bart is years older than her and thinking about that gap makes her uncomfortable. Instead, she tries to tell herself that he's seventeen or eighteen or whatever it is and leave it at that.]
Girlfriend, casual, or one night stand? [Her curiosity is too strong to ignore entirely. While Hayley separates sex from affection in ways she knows aren't exactly normal, she has a suspicion that Bart might be the romantic type. As a compromise, she adds:] Answer me that and I'll stop asking for details.
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Date: 2014-03-22 06:39 am (UTC)Despite the reassurance, Bart squirms at the question. It's not a topic that comes up often with his friends, except with Griffin who was an anomaly, and he didn't like the topic of his sex life being on the table then either. He almost tells her to mind her own business, but... it's probably not Griffin and Hayley and all of their other friends that are the anomalies here. He - and most of his friends - don't make the cut for normal. Maybe that's what everyone else is doing while the Teen Titans are fighting Doctor Light.
... normal totally wins that one.]
Girlfriend.
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Date: 2014-03-22 07:09 am (UTC)Figures. [She replies playfully.
As promised, the girl asks no more questions on the subject. Instead, she stretches her legs out from her chest, feeling considerably less vulnerable now, and plants her hands on either side of her.
After a brief pause, her smile dissipates to something natural and her tone is free from humor. Hayley's not great at this friend thing.] Do you want me to stay for awhile? Or should I give you some time alone?
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Date: 2014-03-24 06:36 pm (UTC)[He doesn't know why it sits so poorly, but he doesn't like this feeling easily pegged. Gawwwwd, the last thing he wants is to be that boring, and he is fighting a legacy of square.
Besides, the other choices are about as appealing as a pet rock. Maybe casual. Maybe. But one night stands? He can't even get a girl's fake number at a club.
Bart still doesn't know why his sex life is news, but it's better than moping.
Of course, if he tells her to stay, the questions could get even worse, and he is so unqualified to be the ambassador for the male sex.]
Hnh. Whatever you wanna do.
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Date: 2014-03-24 07:55 pm (UTC)After that, she thinks for only a brief few seconds before she answers.] I'll stay.
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Date: 2014-03-24 08:38 pm (UTC)[It was only that, thus far, sex hasn't been one of them. The opportunity hasn't presented itself, as far as he's concerned. In reality, he hasn't put out more barest hint of effect to get people off his back with girls.
He also can't see Carol or Valerie going home with someone they met that night. It… wouldn't still be them, and he's not sure he'd be interested in who they were. He doesn't think he'd have taken them home, that's for sure. It takes him longer than that to figure out that he's interested, let alone act on it.
Even speedsters are slow sometimes.]
I don't think you can make it unintimate. Not intimate? However you wanna say it. There's a reason why intimacy and know are euphemisms for it. You can ignore how personal it is, but. Can't change what you're actually doing. It doesn't have to be all crazy intense. It's fun. But if it wasn't totally intimate and kinda… I dunno. Vulnerable? We'd all have sex with everybody.
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Date: 2014-03-24 09:08 pm (UTC)[Hayley gives him a smile. It's her opinion and she's not looking to prove him wrong or argue it.] But hey, I'm a fifteen-year-old virgin, so what do I know anyway?
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Date: 2014-03-24 11:12 pm (UTC)[Theres a quick handwave accompanying this, indicating that he wasn't any of those.]
But I think it's somewhere between everything and nothing. People get jealous of tons of stuff that doesn't involve getting naked. It won't fix things there if you don't make it mean as much. Might make it harder to track guys down for child support. Might up the spread of STDs cause people are morons about condoms. You should've seen my schools' idea of sex ed. I went to high school in Alabama and Kansas. They gave out bent Snapple caps that made this tick-tick sound when you pressed them. Called 'em conscious clickers. I dunno how that was supposed to help. Follow each other around and annoy anyone trying to talk to anyone else? Stupid.
I guess religion has a lot to do with what people think. I'm not religious. I don't know if people are are lobsters and penguins or bunnies and turtles. I dunno a lot of things so it's not like sex makes you smarter. All I know is the people I know that've made the "til death do us part" thing work - they're just happier than the ones that didn't.
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Date: 2014-03-25 12:06 am (UTC)Instead, she focuses on the rest of what he's said. Having grown up in California at pretty decent - and liberal - schools, she's kind of oblivious to other schools' inadequate sex ed methods. If nothing else, he's right about that. People should be well educated if they're going to be off having sex at random. Trying to argue for better education seems obvious though, so she doesn't bother.]
I'm a fan of monogamy. [She clarifies.] If people want to only have sex with and love each other, then I think that's awesome, marriage and all the rest of it. But I also think that some people aren't cut out for it and pretending like they are only makes things worse.