Game 050 [Voice/Action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ While leaving out a mug of coffee, mostly-filled, might seem to be a weird thing to do in remembrance, regardless it's what Joshua does as he goes about cleaning the downstairs floor of his house, the space previously known as Kat's Kradle.

Without any real reason to keep more than the cooking area clean, he hadn't. Dust coats many of the tables and forms sometimes-impressive piles in the corners. Today, despite the rain, Joshua has the front door of House 38 wide open, and he can occasionally be seen sweeping piles of dirt outside.

It's rather cold, but Joshua doesn't seem to mind it. At least it's keeping him from working up a sweat. It's a bit late for a new year cleaning, but at least he's getting around to it at all, right?

Every so often he takes breaks to check on his journal, which he left the following question on earlier in the day: ]

How many of you learned things here that you're not looking forward to having to learn again when you go back to your own worlds? Your own death might be the obvious one, but I mean things like, say, some truth about your world, or friends, or family as well. Anything you'll need to find out again if you forget this place.

Comments

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[neverplaysfair]

Care to share with the rest of us?

[ No, he's mostly remembering the more awkward stages of young Neku's life. Like getting The Talk. ]

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[........oh god. Don't ever tell Neku you know about that.]

You mean just tell you? Now why would I do that?

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[neverplaysfair]

[ Oh he will, one day. Maybe.

Joshua giggles. ]

Are you going to show me, then?

[ ... You really walked right into that one, Neku. ]

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[Snort. You wish.]

Don't you ever get tired of hitting on me?

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[neverplaysfair]

I like to think of it as teasing. So no.

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[soundfrequency]

It doesn't work anymore so I don't know why you even bother.

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[neverplaysfair]

Would you rather it worked?

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Which part, getting me annoyed or the teasing being successful and getting me to reciprocate?

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[neverplaysfair]

I was thinking more getting you riled up.

[ As much as horniness hopes otherwise, he is still not okay with sleeping with Neku. ]

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[soundfrequency]

No thanks. Maybe you're just getting too rusty.

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[neverplaysfair]

...

[ Sup Neku. How's about a Joshua moving up into your personal space and trying to get a nice little bite on your neck? That worked rather well last time... ]

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[You know what, you do that. NEKU IS UNFAZED.

Okay there might be a little twitch because you're biting his neck, but. Mostly not reacting.]

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[neverplaysfair]

[ And Joshua pulls back with a giggle. ]

Ooh, you are getting better.

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...

[Hey. Hey, Joshua. You want to play a game? Neku watches him for a few seconds before slowly closing that gap between them again. And he's close, very close. Close enough so when he moves in their lips are thisclose to touching. He stares straight into his eyes and simply stays there, just letting his breath gently hit Joshua's lips. S'up.]

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[neverplaysfair]

[ Ah but which game are we playing? No touching or gay chicken?

The giggle that comes out of Joshua's mouth this time is barely more than soft bursts of air, and a smirk tugs one corner of his lips. He makes to no move to close the distance nor back up. ]

And what's this now...?

[ Either way, he's at least now got a boner here. ]

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[Maybe it's gay chicken. Mostly it's "screw you I can tease you right back".

He brushes their lips together juuuuust barely before backing up, shrugging.]

It's nothing.

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[neverplaysfair]

[ Ah, but Josh wasn't flustered either. Turned on, yes, but not flustered. And if it was gay chicken Neku would have a tongue down his throat before he could blink.

When Neku's lips brush his own,Joshua's eyes slip shut almost on reflex, but they open again quickly enough when the contact ends. ]

Are you trying to make this go both ways?

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[Okay so trying to tease Joshua doesn't work as well as Neku had hoped.]

Payback.

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[neverplaysfair]

You'll need to do better than that, I'm afraid.

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[soundfrequency]

No, I actually think that was good enough.

[Leaving you with a boner is just as good.]

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[neverplaysfair]

If you say so. [ He's dealt with plenty of boners left hanging, thank you very much. Funny thing about them, they tend to go away on their own. ] But I suspect you didn't come over here just to chicken out of kissing me, either.

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[soundfrequency]

That wasn't me chickening out, trust me. And I already told you why I was here.

[Yeah I'm sure you're left with blue balls quite often. Sucks to be you.]

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[neverplaysfair]

Yes, but you didn't tell me the why behind that.

[ Oh sure, mock his pain. ]

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[soundfrequency]

How about you give me an honest answer and I'll give you one.

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[neverplaysfair]

Ask a question and we'll see.