forum There are voices in our heads rp (Closed)

Started October 16, 2018 by @basil_

tune

(Imma go sleep now, gn)

Macha snorted. “Tell me about it.”

(aw gn)
"Yeah my teachers hated me too."

(Good morning)

The waitress came back with a tray of sushi and their drinks. Macha gave Tyler a smile.

(Morning :)
Tyler kept smiling as they ate. Today has been a good day.. He thought, looking at her.

(how are you?)

Macha ate neatly, afraid to make a mess and gross Tyler out. She lifted her eyes for a moment, and her eyes met him. He was smiling at her. Her heart skipped a beat and she quickly looked back down, flustered. Strands of hair fell in from of her face.

(im good, running on 4 hours of sleep but good. hbu?)

Tyler glanced back down and ate quietly. Do I still scare her? He thought, trying to keep it to himself.

(eek I know the feeling. Tip for sleep: tea tea tea and more tea)

Macha swallowed another bite of food, twining her legs together under the table like she usually did when she was nervous. After another beat of silence, she spoke up. “You look happy today.”

(I know I need to get some)

Tyler grinned. "Yeah my dad's going on a business trip for a while. So i'll be on my own for about a week."

Macha smiled widely. “That’s great!” She could feel his happiness, and it was fanning the flames of her own.

"Yeah, yeah. It's always great when he leaves." He said, not noticing the same man from before looking at them from across the restaurant.

(Oh god)

Macha nodded, feeling happy for her friend. Her mind skipped back to today’s earlier events with her own father, and her stomach squeezed, but she tried to ignore it. “Who’s that?”, she asked Tyler, indicating to the man he had glanced at.

"Don't know. Never seen him before." Tyler said. The man looked away from them.

Macha frowned at the stranger’s back, the hairs on the back of her neck pricking. You’re just being paranoid., she told herself, focusing her attention back in Tyler. Think of something to say, you idiot. she strained her mind, trying to think of something to ask him. (Btw she was saying that to herself, not to Tyler lol)

Tyler turned back to her. “So..what’s got you so worried this morning.”

Macha chewed on her bottom lip, knowing he wasn’t going to give up. “It’s just… my dad.” She fiddled with the bottom of her shirt, looking down. “He… you probably know how he can get. Distracted. He forgets… he’ll spend hours in the same position reading over the same line in a book and loose track of time, he won’t eat unless I remind him to.. I had to come get him from the subway station once because he forgot which direction he lived in. He had a bad night, I found him this morning… I’m just worried.” It felt good to tell someone.

“I’m here. I can help with anything, promise.” He offered sweetly, laying his his hands on the table.

Macha ducked her head. “Thanks.”, she replied quietly, clasping her hands in her lap. Her jaw was tense, her shoulders were drawn up, she was clearly concerned. Shaking her head in a failed attempt to clear it, she gave Tyler a wobbly smile. “Sorry, I’ve gone and ruined the happy atmosphere now.”

“It’s fine. Whenever you need me, I’ll be there. After all, I always have been.” He smiled a little.

Her stomach flipped, and she swallowed. “Me too, for— for you I mean.”

“Sorry for making you so nervous.” He laughed a bit, noticing her jitters.

Macha’s eyes flickered back and forth from his face to her feet. “It’s fine, I don’t…. actually talk to people a lot. This is very new to me.”, she laughed, somewhat nervously.

“Yeah..But you don’t have to be nervous around me I mean, I’ve been in your head as long as you can remember.”

Macha attempted a nonchalant shrug. “It’s just… anxiety I guess. You’re a lot easier to talk to then other people, if you were someone from highschool I’d probably be a jibbering mess.”

“Oof Yeah. I had zero friends in high school.” He looked down, still smiling a little.

“Same here. Honestly, before I bumped into you, the closest thing I had to a friend was that one girl who worked at the library desk who sometimes said hi to me but not always.” Macha allowed herself a wry smile. If her palms had been able to sweat, then probably be doing so right now, but thankfully they couldn’t.

“Yeah..when I was little I tired telling this one kid about you, well before I knew it was you..remember that? He pushed me down the stairs.”

“Yeah.” Macha smiled a little sadly. “I remember staying up at night and listening to you cry to me— you were my imaginary friend when I was little.” She rubbed at her knuckles, remembering. “Remember that one time— I must have driven you insane— I pulled my first all-nighter and chattered to you nonstop until dawn. I fell asleep in class that day.”

Tyler laughed as she said this. “Of course i remember. That was great. Oh and the time in middle school when I went out with that one girl and you said she was going to break up with me and two days later she did. I was such a dork.” He laughed harder at the memories.

Macha laughed. “I told you. Or that time in tenth grade you helped me cheat on a chemistry test I’d forgotten to study for. The look on my teacher’s face when I got 97%.., that was the best thing ever oh my god.”

Tyler leaned back in his chair, laughing hard. "All those times you wouldn't be saying anything and I would try and scare you by screaming really loudly."