82 - stage four

[perfectsymmetry]

[Crowe's hit stage four, though like most, he doesn't realize this. He's frustrated beyond belief with this little event, and makes a call that starts out as some venting with innocent enough intentions. He's been telling people all the bad things about himself, and learning things about his friends in town he isn't sure how to deal with. Surely, not everyone in town is a murderer or something, right? There has to be other things we can all confess that aren't as harmful. Unfortunately, he starts to fly off the handle thanks to the effect.

What comes over the phone is pretty much one long run-on string of nonsense.]

L-Look, Mayfield, n-not everyone in town can h-have such terrible things to admit, r-right? I'm so sick of all this! I know we all want to admit things, s-so why don't we just pick stupid things? L-Like things that any people might be hiding, n-not stuff like murder a-and death and...

W-Well, like... Like how our drone mother's cooking was a-actually really bad but I felt bad telling her. Plus I'm not very good at cooking anyway. O-Or how I am failing art class both back home and in Mayfield because I-I can't draw to save my life! I-I also really hate clothes shopping. M-My friend Minnie always said I was a boring dresser, but I don't care. A-Also once right after I got here, I stole a bunch of wallets from people j-just to see who was paying attention and who wasn't. B-But I don't want to do stuff like that! I don't think. I-I'm really good at it but I think I want to be a-a detective, but my parents won't approve. Criminals w-won't want a detective for a son! My dad wants me to b-be a thief with them o-or be a pro footballer, but I-I don't think I'd be good at that. I've never been in a league before! S-Sometimes, when I get really mad, I-I curse in Italian, but I can't help it, i-it just happens. I-I think Silence i-is one the most gorgeous guy I have ever seen, t-to the point where I don't even know h-how to talk to him! A-All the nations a-are really cute too, b-but I thought about it, a-and that makes sense, I-I mean i-it would be hard to have pride i-in your nation if they had l-like buck teeth or something! A-And I always thought Norway w-was the cutest and that reminds me, I-I am g-getting really sick of everyone I know getting droned a-and coming back forgetting who I a-am! Also h-have I told a-any of you how much I stammer wh-when I'm nervous and how bloody sick of that I am--

[There's a horrified squeaking noise heard from Crowe, and the phone is abruptly hung up.]

Comments

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Oh you're terrible]

Wh-What I meant was that that I-I figured someday y-you would probably get droned some day a-and come back forgetting who I was because y-you were the first ever guy that I like who a-actually liked me back a-and God knows I-I'm not that lucky usually, i-it never works like that so I really wish I could stop talking--

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

[ Lucky for him Norway doesn't get it yet. ]

People don't tend to like ya?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

N-Not like that, I mean, just listen to what a stupid, s-stammering, spineless git I am! I-I was even too afraid to ask you anything for the longest time a-and the one day while out on the motorcycle a-and you confessed to me, I couldn't even believe it since it w-was like something from a-a movie or the like g-getting your first kiss on a tall hill wh-while sitting on your motorcycle and dear Lord in Heaven I probably sound like a complete creep r-right now since you don't remember me a-and-- [At this point, the rambling switches to Italian, like some sort of defense mechanism where his brain is trying to save him from more embarrassment. He'll probably keep going unless you stop him.]

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

Confessed? [ He starts to have an inkling of what this kid could mean but at the same time he's sure he must be thinking of someone else. ]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Back to English we go] Y-Yeah. Y-You know. That kind o-of confession oh I am really s-sorry about all of this. I-I know you have no proof because y-you don't remember me except maybe F-Finland might remember something a-and I have your stuff from when you were here last time, y-you had some journals a-and some photos you took while here. I-I thought I'd hold on to them if y-you ever came back because people do sometimes, a-and sometimes they remember but u-usually they don't.

[He sighs. He's starting to sound utterly exhausted.]

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

[ Even though he's forced to tell the truth, Norway finds it extremely hard to believe he would do something like that. He wonders what exactly this town does to people. There's a long silence because he's never really had to deal with this before. ]

'n that's all?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

W-Well that depends, I-I mean it's not like it w-was anything too serious s-since you got droned not long after a-all that, I mean i-it was a big deal to me i-in a way since we kissed a-and that was my first one and it was pretty nice and may I please crawl into a hole and die now as this is the single m-most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me.

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

... Ah. [ THIS IS UNCOMFORTABLE. OK he's just going to try to be a decent person here for once. ]

Sorry, then. [ Not for forgetting, but for whatever he did before. ]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[There's a long pause. He gets his breath back, and when he starts talking again it's a bit more collected.]

N-No, I'm the one who should be sorry. I-I should have never done this. I-I had no right, t-to you it's like it never even happened. I should n-never have put you in this position, a-and broadcasted all of this to the whole town. I should have never gotten o-on this phone today.