meme: Five Things to Five People

[flourish_or_perish]

It has been since January since we've done this one, and I wasn't even here then (how dare you all? rude.) so let's do it because this is already A Week, over here.

Make a list of five things your character would like to say to five different people and don't include their names. The messages don' t have to be secrets. Try to keep it to those on the island (or those off island like our esteemed alums and expatriates!), but if you need to pad your list, or it's really important, non-islanders (canonical characters that might not be IG) count too!

Yes, you can do more than five, and by all means, please reply to one another/guess at each other's responses!

Comments

[flourish_or_perish]

1. So, you're like, really friendly for what you say you are. Not that I've ever met one before, but like, you're adorable and helpful and sweet and I should probably be more suspicious of you.

2. Mmmm, I would climb you and your leather pants like a tree. Not that I know how to climb a tree but you know, figure of speech.

3. I feel like you probably don't want people to be friends with you - that's fine, me neither - and yet you're totally cool and I kind of want to be your friend and share booze and bitchiness with you.

4. You're adorable and I am super glad that that was that easy, because I have no idea how to do this, normally. And because you were so cool, I will thoughtfully not steal any of these guns.

5. I miss you. Ugh, I'll never say it, but I actually miss you.

[defenderofdesmoines]

1. I have spent my whole life wanting to have a friendship like this one. Please don't ever decide I'm too weird (or too pretty? ugh now I feel conceited but it's totally happened) to hang out with, please please.

2. You might actually be the nicest person I've ever met and it is so easy to be friends with you. I'm not even jealous that I can't jump as far.

3. Ugh I like you so much. I know it's just early and we'll probably eventually find things that we find annoying about each other but this, right now, is like...the best feeling.

4. I hope I can keep a lid on how much I envy your relationship with your daughter, because it's probably weird but it also just reminds me of how much I actually do miss my dad, no matter what I say.

5. I wish my talents were as actually-practical as yours. It's amazing that you use them to help people - I mean, I do too, but I would have spent Saturday in tears if it hadn't been for you, true story.

6. I actually look up to you in a weird way, even if you also get right at my competitive streak sometimes. And you're totally getting some ugly-ass Yaktrax for Christmas so we can be psychotic people in the snow.

7. I wish I could help you more. You seem so sad, and so burdened, and I'm probably 100% the wrong person to even try to help.

[long_memory]

1. You live a very odd life but I appreciate that you seem to be upbeat about it.
2. I don't know when or how I'm going to mess this up, but I am. I'm doing my best to enjoy how good things are right now but it's always in the back of my mind.
3. I'm glad Rey has friends like you. She needs that kind of normalcy...as normal as it can be with all that jello.
4. I wish I had been able to work out whatever it is we had between us before I disappeared. I don't know if any good would have come of it but at least I wouldn't have this nagging regret following me everywhere.
5. I miss you, but I know you'll be fine. And I know you wouldn't have held it against me for moving on.

[knife_bender]

1. I'm really jealous of your kid because you seem like such a good dad. And, yes, I feel very weird about that.
2. I really love being around you, and normally I would worry about going too hard on this too soon but you seem to be on the same page as me with this.
3. Damn it why couldn't it have been you in the office with me when the mistletoe struck? I had to kiss your short boyfriend instead.
4. Grudges and pettiness aside, I miss all of you so much. I've felt like a piece of me has been missing for the last twelve years but I'm too proud to try to make amends with any of you.
5. I hate you for everything you did to us and I hate myself even more for still wanting your approval.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Super on the same page, and honestly knowing my luck it's probably only a matter of time before one of us (probably me!) messes it up somehow, anyway, because this is going alarmingly well considering my track record with relationships.

[mother_forker]

Oh. God. Forking feelings people might figure out. I feel like I'm going to get hives doing this.

1. Okay, yeah, totally avoiding you after that 3 minute date thing. Never felt like that before and I don't forking want to deal with it.
2. You're a giant dork and very cute and totally not my type. So I'm just going to find ways to flirt with you and push you away at the same time.
3. I don't know why but I feel this very WEIRD and UNCHARATERISTIC need to look after you. Like a kid sister. It makes me itchy.
4. My family sucks. I think all family sucks. So why do I keep thinking of you as a cool older sister?
5. You are a better person than probably everyone I know. One day you're going to save a galaxy or die trying. And I'm just a insecure girl who is going back to Arizona and do nothing with my life. I know I'm short but next to you I feel like a speck of dirt.
6. How the fork do you have such great skin tone and perfect hair EVERY DAY. It's like your skin has no pores.
7. Dude. We get it. You're dramatic. Stop with the billowy cloak thing.

[thatwaslucky]

1. You're doing a good job, and I can't express how much it means to me to have your help.
2. I'm so glad we've managed to become better friends, and that I have someone I can have actual girl talk with.
3. I'm a little worried I like you too much for how long this has been going on, like I should be better at holding myself back.
4. You're so upbeat, and it's impossible to be in a bad mood around you.
5. I do miss you, but I wonder if everything was just an easy reason to not deal with me anymore.
6. I'm sure you'd say differently but you're one of the most normal people I've ever met.

[superjoanjett]

1. I still feel weird when I see you with her face. So fucking weird. You're different, to be sure but my failure in not saving her carries over. And I don't want to lay that on you.

2. I hope you don't think this is any more than it is. I have an itch that needs to be scratched every once and a while. That's not to say I don't enjoy the company or the sake but if it goes further than that I'm just going to ruin it somehow.

3. I don't know if you really are who you say you are. I don't even know if I care. I just like having a drinking buddy I can shoot the shit with.

4. We barely talk to each other, don't judge each other and work together at the same time. Best working relationship I've ever had.

5. Yeah. There's something about you I don't quite trust yet. Then again I'm a piece of shit who shouldn't be trusted so we should get along just fine. I'm just glad I'm not the new kid on the block anymore.

[defenderofdesmoines]

I'm a really good listener, even if it's super weird to talk to someone with her face. Maybe I could put a bag on my head. Or we could find some kind of confessional booth situation.

[x_discospider_x]

1. Out of all the blondes at this school, you're definitely the cutest.

[[ I'll see myself out now ]]

[mother_forker]

Thank you! Your non-so-anonymous comment has been received and appreciated!

[somethingwithturquoise]

1. I miss you. I love you. I hope you're doing okay and I wish I could have done so much more for you. And I hope you can still be proud of me.

2. Ugh. I just hate your pretty stupid face so. much!

lol jk, I actually kind of love it? I'm so glad you're here, you are, like, such a breath of fresh air, and you haven't even been here that long, but it feels like we've been for way longer. It's just so nice to have someone here finally who, like, really just gets this part of me.

Also, you could have totally have been a major bitch, but you're not, and that's so admirable.

3. I always say this with these sorts of things, but I'm really glad we've gotten to know each other better this second time around. Because you really are a great, kind person with such a big heart and, like, so much patience. I'm really glad you put up with me.

4. Man, am I glad I decided to talk to you when we were standing in a kiddie pool trying to catch fish with our toes. That is easily one of the best decisions I have ever made. I mean, to be fair, that's kind of a low bar, but you are seriously one of the most amazing people I have ever met. You are way too good for the likes of me, but I'm just glad that, sure, you're a super-genius or whatever, but you're obviously not smart enough to figure that out yet, so...I'll take it.

Also, though? Low-key fuck you at least a little bit. There's nothing wrong with being a Barbie. That bitch has fucking everything.

5. ngl I'm honestly a little worried about you, kid.

6. Speaking of worrying....I really hope that you actually are doing better now, and it's not that you've just gotten better at hiding it. Because I do worry about. I don't want to, but I...really can't help it. I know you're not the same, but I still see a lot of him in you.

7. I cannot wait until the day you lose a little bit of that control and just let go, even if just a little, because there's a lot there that I think you keep way too much to yourself.

8. I can tell the trip home did you a lot of good, and I'm really happy to see that. I'm really proud of you.

...so don't go and fuck it up this time around, okay?