DAVI + REN

[shineforswine]

It'd been a decent holiday season, meaning one one had died, no one had gotten belligerently drunk and/or the cops never paid a visit to their house, but Ren was still eager to get back to school. Well, not school, but Countshire at large. There was only so much of her extended family she could take before her ears started to bleed. So she returned

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[doitallforyou]

The days after Christmas slipped by with the all the casualness of . . .well, something rather casual, Davi considered. He was never one for words when he consciously tried to think of them. One too many days spent out toiling away at his papers while merry and quite often drunk colleagues and schoolmates had paid off and he was just about eighty percent done with the review goal he'd set for himself. Bending over his laptop, he was just entering in the last few digits of the article he'd been reading's publication number when his phone gave a vibrating ring. He'd thought of changing the boring Motorola ring tone multiple times but never got around to it. Picking it up out of its holder on his desk, he starred in surprise at the number- and the name.

"Hello? Ren?" He asked as he hit the answer button and brought it up to his ear. "You're back early!"

[shineforswine]

"Unnghh-" she said, as not speaking much all day and hanging upside down did not make for a favorable combination. Clearing her throat and crossing her eyes in embarrassment, Ren tried again.

"Davi, hey. Yeah, yeah. Got bored, haha," she said huskily, trying to sound as cool as possible to make up for that tender greeting, "How's it hanging, huh?"

[doitallforyou]

"Nothing much. Just finishing some reading, databasing. Paperwork type of things." Davi tried to lean back in the standard dormitory chairs and failed. The wooden backings were made for easy mass production, definitely not comfort. Maybe he should get a pillow for it now that it seems like he'd be staying for a while at least.

"Bored of home? Did you come back alone or with your brothers?"

[shineforswine]

Man, this guy was all work, work, work, wasn't he? It was admirable she supposed, but also worrying. He was going to blow a gasket if he kept on like this...

"Oh, huh, wow. You never quit, do you?" she laughed a little, drumming her red nails against the body of the phone. "Alone. I don't know what they're doing. I need some non-fam time, you know?"