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

[commie-island.livejournal.com]

........you alright there?

[commentboxtroll]

You know, by asking that question, you're going to get a bunch of people admitting even more terrible things, right? And I could hardly make out the rest of that thanks to your constant stammering.

That is really annoying.

[dragonlitany.livejournal.com]

[Just... patiently listens to the whole thing.]

Not everyone has silly things to hide, unfortunately... that would make some of this a bit easier.

...Um. Are you all right, Crowe?

[Action]

[snipingmissy.livejournal.com]

[You can't think Not!Mom didn't overhear this, Crowe. She has really good ears, so if she's in the house, she heard it.]

Crowe...

[Thankfully--for her--she did not quite catch his question at the beginning of his litany, otherwise she'd be stuck with no option other than to answer said question, and that was probably not what he needed or wanted to hear.]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[In a tiny, tiny voice:] I don't know?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

N-No, I-- What? I-I said I can't help it, it n-not like I want to!

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I-I don't either, there's more seriously thing, b-but I thought if I just got this stuff off my chest I'd feel better a-and keep from saying the other stuff, b-but it didn't work and I am very sorry--

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He's standing there by the phone with his hand over his mouth, face bright red.]

[commentboxtroll]

That doesn't change that it's obnoxious.

And I didn't really have anything so terrible happen until I got stuck here. I nearly killed my target in the town's last round of hell, but he was just too much of an idiot. I couldn't do it. Then that France guy killed me on the way back, only a few houses away from our safe house, too. I've been refusing to talk about it because my family was never really big on showing weakness and I'm more like them than I want to admit.

[...ffffghdflkshjdgh.]

See? That's why you don't open up with a question like that. I nap during the day because I just can't sleep at night. Damn it... You get stuck hearing this kind of stuff.

[snipingmissy.livejournal.com]

[She's frowning, and wished that there was more comfort to offer other than words.]

I'd ask if you are all right, but that seems pointless.

Would you like a cup of tea?

[Not!Mom is going to prepare you one anyway, and then you are going to drink it. It's the best way she can think of to calm him down a bit.]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

The target who had m-me during that kept saying things about dinner. I-I don't want to know what she meant by that.

....

We should hang up.

[commentboxtroll]

I don't even want to think about what that could have meant.

...yeah. Before I get into the inferiority and abandonment issues I have pertaining to my brother. That would literally take hours to get through.

...

I'm... I'm going to hang up now.

[mercyasdeep.livejournal.com]

[Oh, it's that really nice guy who showed him the camera. Hmm...]

Are you okay?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

O-Other than mortified beyond reason? .... Wait, no, that covers it.

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

[ His initial reaction is annoyance but he remembers that no this isn't Denmark. So then he just thinks he should be referred to as handsome rather than cute. ]

You're talkative.

[mercyasdeep.livejournal.com]

Oh...


It may not be any of my business, but perhaps you should stay away from the phones.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Don't e-even get me started in inferiority issue, I--

R-Right. Me too. Sorry.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He sits down at the kitchen table with a thud.] I give up.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAM

I mean]

N-Norway, I didn't mean-- W-Well I did mean it but what I meant was--
[You can hear the forehead slap.] Oh God.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

No, you're right, I-I should have, I-I just heard everyone saying such horrid things a-and I thought maybe there would have been a way to keep people from a-admitting they were murderers o-or whatever else a-and... Well obviously this isn't working at all.

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

What ya meant was...?

[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--

Wanna give Crowe a hug ;_;

[snipingmissy.livejournal.com]

[She's quiet as she prepares the tea, and when she's finished, she places it in front of him before sitting across from him. She knew how awful it felt to reveal your secrets to people whom you didn't want to share them with, but questions would only force him to answer and she didn't want to do that to him.]

Don't give up, now. That's what this whole fuss is about--an attempt to get us to give up.

There is nothing worse than sharing secrets you don't wish to share. There are few better ways to defeat the morale of a group of people.

[criticizes.livejournal.com]

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

People don't tend to like ya?

>:

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

M-Most things in this town are. That's why i-it's so hard to get anything done in around here. We're always being driven apart.

[He puts his head on the table and wraps an arm around it. He mutters underneath it.]

I can't believe I told the whole town I like guys.