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-ey! What the heck--?! [And more garbled noises. it sounds moist over there.] Stupid communicator.. [Durn thing went and splashed her right in the face! She clears her throat in any case, apparently done wiping her mug clean.]
I have a.. hypothetical question for um. The men. Hypothetically speaking. Hypoth-- How do you know when someone likes you? ( Read more... )
I have a.. hypothetical question for um. The men. Hypothetically speaking. Hypoth-- How do you know when someone likes you? ( Read more... )
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Shall I regale you with tales of the fickle ways of a man's heart, Katara? Hmm?
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Lay it out for me, Brother.
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[He shakes his head forlornly on the other side of the communicator. He knows he should be heading over to her room, but for now he's going to recline on his bed relaaaax.]
Guys take one of two approaches. They either take the head-over-heels approach, where they want to spend every waking moment in your company whether they say it aloud or not. They trip all over themselves to be with you even when they know it's futile, aaaaand go way out of their way to get ridiculous presents that you might not actually need.
[Like Aang. And Hiccup.]
Aaaaand then there're the guys who take what I like to call the Lone Wolf Approach.
[Oooooooh. Mysterious.]
With the Lone Wolf Approach, guys act like they don't like you at all and are kind of aloof. Maybe they pick on you, tease you, punch you in the arm (but not too hard or anything), you know, that sort of thing. Of course, these are the guys who won't ever do anything until you make the first move. They're kinda weird like that. But beneath that hard, icy exterior ( ... )
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So... It kind of is the same as a girl, in a sense. Some girls get all starry eyed for a cute boy, and some pretend they don't like them so much that it's obvious.
[She scoffs. Oh she's seen that before. Hypocrite.]
[..Oddly, yes. We should play matchmaker.]
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[Granted Sal has to be at least five years older than this girl and he's living in the world of ~adult relationships~, but surely he could have some kind of advice to give.]
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[Sorry, that accent is throwing her off a little. Not in a bad way, mind you.]
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Hmm... well. M'prolly older'n you, so... well, in school, it was a bit more've a dance. Now, a girl'll usually jus' tell me when she likes me. Really depends on th'girl. But way back when? Guess I could tell if a girl gave me "th'eyes."
[Shut up, Sal, you were a teenager only a couple months ago. "Way back when" means nothing.]
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The... Eyes?
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"Uhuh."
[Jet muses with a raised eyebrow. He hasn't actually intended to say anything- much as he is WELL-versed in this topic. It seems someone hasn't quite caught on to the concept of knowing when he's started a transmission]
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... Got any insight for me?
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[A reply to him. Well- Fffff-]
[Not that he can't cover up his surprise suavely]
"I might, yeah~"
[smooth, Jet.]
"Didn't think you'd want to hear it from me,"
[A tentative pause just in case she changes her mind and jumps at his throat.]
"People aren't that hard to figure out. It's when you over analyze that things get kind of crazy. The question you really need to be asking, 'hypothetically,' is if being obvious is something that might push the other away or not."
[There. He helped. Sorta. And this is now the most awkward conversation he's ever had in his not-life.]
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For the record, I don't want to talk to you. Or hear you, or see you.
But. You probably know better than anyone. ...And your advice proves that. [Close to a thanks as you're going to get, bro.]
So what happens if you don't mean to be obvious, and the other person starts pulling away out of the blue?
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