X-23 (
cutting_edgex23) wrote2009-09-12 09:36 pm
Sex and interpersonal relations: an advice column
Block parties and/or street festivals are no bad thing. Especially when there is funnel cake.
(X may have indulged in some with powdered sugar this time. No one faint.)
And there are games, and a lot of screaming children, and music. And some artwork.
But after all of that there is X's apartment, quiet and comfortable, and something like dinner.
After X feeds her fish.
(X may have indulged in some with powdered sugar this time. No one faint.)
And there are games, and a lot of screaming children, and music. And some artwork.
But after all of that there is X's apartment, quiet and comfortable, and something like dinner.
After X feeds her fish.

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"Did you like it?"
Her attention is really on some powdered sugar still on the side of her right hand near her wrist. This is frankly more interesting than watching X feed her fish.
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"Yes," X says.
"Even when it was loud."
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Instead of brushing it off onto X's floor, Elle finally decides to lick the sugar off her hand. It takes a little contorting.
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"You did not like it?"
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Sometimes this can be a problem. But, in any case, she takes the napkins from X without complaint.
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"Good."
Beat.
"But you did not like it?"
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Elle moves to throw the napkin away, before adding, "I hadn't - done it before."
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Carefully.
And somewhat obliquely.
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And maybe in the same oblique way, she answers, "I don't want to go back yet."
She's not quite as good at this.
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"I have been shopping."
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X's tastes don't tend to vary that much. But Elle's still going to ask.
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Beat.
"With chicken. And Logan has a chili recipe."
Elle can pick!
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Then -
"Which one do you like better?"
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Then --
"The quesadillas are faster. When I do not need leftovers."
And since things are quiet now --
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Really.
Maybe.
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"You can grate the cheese."
Cheese in a bag is not something Mr. Simmons will let X get away with. Or Pam.
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Because it's X, she just slips over to the refrigerator to pull it open and look inside.
'Cheese' was a somewhat unspecific instruction.
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X, meanwhile, is pulling the grater out of the cupboard.
And pre-heating the oven.
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Well, it does, but everything else is left unharmed when she does emerge.
"How long does it take?" she asks, holding out her hand for the grater.
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She is getting out a knife for her own use.
It's not only the chicken that requires cutting.
And about halfway through preparations --
"Dinah gave me a vibrator."
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Though, the lack of reaction may be partly because it takes her a moment to remember what that means.
"Why?"
She does stop, though she only sounds confused.
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Beat.
"I think it is difficult for people to explain."
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"You said you didn't like it."
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Beat.
"I do not know."
She flicks a glance at Elle and the grated cheese.
"You can stop now. That is enough."
The assembly part is not very time-consuming, either.
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"Do you want to do it?"
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