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Post by VioletJames on Jan 30, 2019 20:38:38 GMT -6
**TERRA: “Oh, they’re just boys. They’re taught from day one how they’re ‘supposed’ to treat us and view us. It’s fed to them through movies, tv, all kinds of media. So when we disappoint them, it’s just too much for their egos to often take. That’s why I often like girls more. They’re just as culpable, but I’ve never had any issues personally.” She smiles at Clara and hip checks her gently to get her to smile as well.**
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Post by spyguy on Jan 30, 2019 21:39:51 GMT -6
"Yeah they're real... I just don't REALLY need them. And *I* would never get in the way of true love. You're the one getting so hung up on May/December romances." Gavin pointed out haughtily and then leaned over to Monique. "But seriously, were you able to find any pictures or relationship info on Elderly Ariana Grande?" "I'm not hung up," Lexa jabs a knobby finger at Gavin. "I'm just being practical. A woman at her age has a lot of... mileage. As a medical professional it's my job to make sure patients come to no harm, eldritch smiting or cursing or whatever non withstanding. That means being realistic, not..." she pauses, a hint of sadness creeping into her rant "...romantic." She draws herself up, a little stiff and a little slowly, putting on her own haughty whisper. "And as a studying psychotherapist, you should know better."
She snatches the glasses out of Gavin's and puts them on. Suddenly, the vague blurs and blobs in front of her crystalize and she could finally see what was going on around her. She blinks a few times, taking it all in.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Jan 30, 2019 21:52:10 GMT -6
"I'm not hung up," Lexa jabs a knobby finger at Gavin. "I'm just being practical. A woman at her age has a lot of... mileage. As a medical professional it's my job to make sure patients come to no harm, eldritch smiting or cursing or whatever non withstanding. That means being realistic, not..." she pauses, a hint of sadness creeping into her rant "...romantic." She draws herself up, a little stiff and a little slowly, putting on her own haughty whisper. "And as a studying psychotherapist, you should know better."
She snatches the glasses out of Gavin's and puts them on. Suddenly, the vague blurs and blobs in front of her crystalize and she could finally see what was going on around her. She blinks a few times, taking it all in. Gavin looks at the old med student sympathetically. He hesitates and then compassionately puts his hand on the older woman's bony shoulder. "I don't want any harm to come to you Lexa. I want you to be happy." He whispers behind her and then leans in and gently kisses her wrinkled cheek and backs away moving over to Clara and Terra to give Lexa some space and still have a good view of what the great-grandma and her teenage boyfriend were going to do next.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 22:10:02 GMT -6
"This... this strange man sent me back in time. I've spent the last seven decades in the past, Joshua. I lived in the past, I raised a family, I got old." Paula sighs.
She didn't think she'd feel like this, seeing Josh again.
"But it's me, Polly. I'm that same girl you went to McDonald's with every Saturday. Remember when we were obsessed with Adventure Time? You were Fin and I was Princess Bubblegum three years straight! It's so... Wow, it's so nice to see you again, Josh."
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Post by chronoeclipse on Jan 30, 2019 22:18:26 GMT -6
"This... this strange man sent me back in time. I've spent the last seven decades in the past, Joshua. I lived in the past, I raised a family, I got old." Paula sighs.
She didn't think she'd feel like this, seeing Josh again.
"But it's me, Polly. I'm that same girl you went to McDonald's with every Saturday. Remember when we were obsessed with Adventure Time? You were Fin and I was Princess Bubblegum three years straight! It's so... Wow, it's so nice to see you again, Josh."
The teenager went wide-eyed at the old woman's words. "Oh my god, it is you! Polly... you're so old now..." He reached up and cupped her wrinkled sagging cheek. He thought back on their Adventure time cosplay and blurted out "Our age difference is a little bigger than Finn and PB now huh?" He joked to lighten the weirdness of the situation. With the hand that wasn't stroking the old woman's cheek he reached out and held her boney wrinkled hand. "I'm so sorry this happened to you. Does it hurt? Being old?" He asked.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 22:21:56 GMT -6
"I'm use to it." Paula shrugs, nearly hurting herself in the process. "Like I said, I've just been... living, for over seventy years now!"
Paula laughs.
"I'm sorry, I... I didn't want to see you again. Not... not like the." Paula sighs. "Again, I'm a great grandmother, in fact, I'll be a great, Great Grandmother come this fall. Kevin's sister is expecting!"
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Post by spyguy on Jan 30, 2019 22:23:54 GMT -6
"So you still going with the 'Nothing Kinky Happened In The Closet" Defense?" Monique asks with a smirk. She had been watching the two ever since the supply room shuffle, curious and more than a little entertained by how flustered her aged roommate had been around the barista.
"Oh, hush." Lexa whispers through wrinkled lips, sounding (and looking) like someone's judgmental great aunt.
Monique sets down her phone for a moment and leans over to her friend, putting a hand on Lexa's knee. "He do anything weird? You want me to slash his tires?" Lexa glances over her lenses at the young hipster scooting his chair in awkward hops over to Clara and Terra. She bites her lip and her recently wizened features soften slightly. "No. He...he's... it's fine."
Monique quickly spins back around in her chair. "Good, cuz that reverse Notebook shit over there is getting good."
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Post by chronoeclipse on Jan 30, 2019 22:40:08 GMT -6
"I'm use to it." Paula shrugs, nearly hurting herself in the process. "Like I said, I've just been... living, for over seventy years now!"
Paula laughs.
"I'm sorry, I... I didn't want to see you again. Not... not like the." Paula sighs. "Again, I'm a great grandmother, in fact, I'll be a great, Great Grandmother come this fall. Kevin's sister is expecting!"
Joshua nods. "Yeah I know, I was invited to the christening... so I guess if this didn't happen now it would have happened then, which probably would have been way worse." He said and then looked into her sunken old eyes. After a few moments of silence he said "Polly, it doesn't matter to me that you're old! Or that you lived like 70 years without me or that you have this whole family... I mean it sucks because I wanted US to have that family. But I still love you! I'll always love you. And I can see in your eyes - you're the same girl that would insist on sleeping over even though if my parents caught us they'd take my car away; the same girl that would squeal whenever she saw a puppy or Ryan Gosling!; The same girl that made me paint her toenails every color of the rainbow this weekend just so she could pick out the perfect color for the beach. It doesn't matter that you lived a whole nother life, you're my girlfriend and I'm in love with you!" He says and then remembers the bag. "Oh yeah, I came here because you left your new bikini you had picked out and the toenail polish at my house and I knew you were going to the beach with your friends later so I wanted to swing it by." He said handing her the items.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 23:57:20 GMT -6
Paula's eyes lit up in shock.
"Uh... I... I haven't worn a bikini since 1965, and it did not look good!" Paula laughs.
"Maybe you should give it to my sister? Sarah... yeah, she would love something like that! I'm just too... old!"Paula sighs.
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Post by chronoeclipse on Feb 1, 2019 10:41:06 GMT -6
Paula's eyes lit up in shock.
"Uh... I... I haven't worn a bikini since 1965, and it did not look good!" Paula laughs.
"Maybe you should give it to my sister? Sarah... yeah, she would love something like that! I'm just too... old!"Paula sighs.
"I know your sister would love it. She's jealous about everything you do! But this was the bikini you took 5 hours of us driving around to stores and trying on bathing suits until you found the perfect one. Just take a look at it. I know that the part of you that fell in love with this suit is still in there somewhere, no matter how old you are." Joshua says taking the garment out of the back and putting it into the trembling hands of his elderly girlfriend.
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Post by spyguy on Feb 1, 2019 14:44:59 GMT -6
“Wow, bold bathing suit choice, Paula,” Monique mutters, having to remind herself that the frail old grandma picked that slinky green number out decades ago when she was a fresh young teen...even though that was like just yesterday...right?
Damn, time travel hurts she thought to herself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 19:11:09 GMT -6
“Wow, bold bathing suit choice, Paula,” Monique mutters, having to remind herself that the frail old grandma picked that slinky green number out decades ago when she was a fresh young teen...even though that was like just yesterday...right?
Damn, time travel hurts she thought to herself. Paula couldn't help but blush!
"I... i bought that when I was sixteen... there's... there's no way I could wear that now!" Paula laughs. "... but, well, I do still think it's cute. Still, the less skin show on me the better!"
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Post by chronoeclipse on Feb 1, 2019 20:07:58 GMT -6
“Wow, bold bathing suit choice, Paula,” Monique mutters, having to remind herself that the frail old grandma picked that slinky green number out decades ago when she was a fresh young teen...even though that was like just yesterday...right?
Damn, time travel hurts she thought to herself. Paula couldn't help but blush!
"I... i bought that when I was sixteen... there's... there's no way I could wear that now!" Paula laughs. "... but, well, I do still think it's cute. Still, the less skin show on me the better!"
"Don't say that. Remember that time you asked me to help you clean out your parents attic and we found those old finger paints and painted crazy things all over each other? And you asked me to write one word to describe you on your back like a tramp stamp so that you wouldn't be able to read it until you were by a mirror? And that night when you went to take a shower you saw that I had painted 'beautiful' across your back? And you texted me to say that you've never felt moreso than in that moment? I STILL feel like that about you. I don't care how old you look. You're sexy on the inside! You'll always be that way to me. You're my beautiful sexy angel." He said holding out his hand to her.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 20:20:27 GMT -6
Wow! Paula hasn't felt this hot since menopause!
And Joshua is just so sweet!
Still, pretty conflicting thoughts. She's 90. She had a husband she loved, raised a family with, grew old with, misses fondly to this very day.
But, and this is a very, very, very weird situation, her first love is staring her square in the face! Her wrinkly, jiggly face!
"Joshua, I haven't been that person in a very long time. "
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Post by spyguy on Feb 2, 2019 3:52:52 GMT -6
Monique shakes her head, curls bouncing as her passions run high. "That's what I'm saying-- all this time travel stuff is BS! You were that girl only a few minutes ago for us and for your boy Josh here. And you still can be!"
She points to Clara's drooping banner. "It's like you all are saying, it's the age you are on the inside, right? I'm 28, but when a cute guy cuts through all the chatter and asks me out, I'm still that same 16 year old that got asked out for the first time all over again. You're getting a whole other chance! Get at it! Right ladies?"
Monique looks around for some support, realizing her sudden outburst might have been a little intense.
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