Eridan woke up feeling foul and irritable. Still in last nights clothes, phone pressed to his face, leaving an embarrassingly red imprint on his cheek, he shook himself, wiping a small amount of drool from his chin. He grumbled, not bothering to check his phone.
He took a long shower, feeling better after rubbing one off. He didn't want to admit, even to himself, that Sollux kept straying into his thoughts.
In nothing more than a pair of purple, whale-patterned boxers, with a towel around his neck, he jumped back onto his bed and picked up his phone. It was flashing a little green light up at him. Fef messaged him back! He unlocked it, and opened up Trollian, he had one new message waiting for him.
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TA: cc gave me your trollhandle
TA: ii hope you dont miind
TA: not much you can do about iit now though
TA: you there?
TA: ed?
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He was disappointed, but glad, in a way. He didn't know if he wanted to message him. Not just yet. He'd let him wait just a little while longer. Like he made Eridan wait.
Though in his mind, he was still going about his normal train of though, it seemed his rebellious body had decided there would be a second date. He was washing all of his clothes, staying in his boxers as there wasn't a point of getting dressed up. Not today. Today was his day. Grooming day!
It wasn't until a little after lunch he even remembered he had a phone. He swung by his room, snatching his phone off of his bed, and heading back towards his livingroom. He clicked on his television, and flipped through the channels until he got to the Military History Channel, and plopped himself on the couch.
He sprawled out, relaxing quite a bit, a bowl of Salt and Vinegar chips standing faithfully by his side, munching on handful after handful of them. Shaking his hand free of clinging crumbs, and sweeping them off his relatively hairless chest. He looked at his phone, and felt a tiny stab of disappointment when he saw that he had no new messages. He opened up the old chat log with Sollux, and began to message him.
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CA: hey sorry about that
CA: i wwas really kind of busy
CA: ivve got some time noww to chat but i dont knoww howw much longer thats gonna last
TA: no worriie2
TA: ii had 2tuff two occupy my tiime
TA: ii thiink ii can manage wiithout you
TA: you know, 2iince your 2o bu2y
CA: no no
CA: its fine
CA: i find you alwways havve to make time for the little people in your life
TA: thank2
TA: ii gue22…
CA: havve you heard anything from fef?
TA: cc?
TA: yeah
TA: what diid you do two her?
TA: 2he2 really pii22ed at you
CA: oh
CA: i dont evven fuckin knoww
CA: wwe had a fight, i cant evven remember wwhat for
TA: bummer
CA: yeah
TA: 2o?
CA: so?
And for a long while, it was quiet. Eridan dozed on the couch to the sound of gunfire floating softly out from the speakers. He'd turned the sound down to a mild buzz. The air was charged with a sort of calm energy. He almost fell asleep, and probably would have if not for the small vibration that his phone gave off, shuddering to life in his weakly grasping hand. Eridan jolted back away, the spell broken.
TA: 2peakiing of cc
TA: 2he told me you really liike the beach
TA: and ii know of thii2 cool liittle place where we can go and get a biite two eat
TA: you know
TA: liike a date?
TA: but maybe make thii2 one 2uck ju2t a liitle biit le22?
CA: are you asking me on a date?
TA: no 2hiit 2herlock
TA: thought that wa2 obviiou2 enough
CA: you
TA: ye2
CA: are askin me
TA: ye2
CA: on a date
TA: keep goiing
CA: wwith you?
TA: diidnt know ii wa2 dealiing wiith the next eiin2tiien
TA: congradulatiion2
TA: you won the grand priize
CA: oh really
CA: wwell then major sarcasm
CA: wwhat do i wwin?
CA: more sarcasm?
TA: you wiin a date wiith a 2uper hot model
CA: didn't knoww you wwere a model. you dont looke like one
TA: daaaw ed ii diidnt know you thought ii wa2 2uper hot
TA: thank2
CA: no
CA: no, not like that
CA: god no
TA: two late
TA: no take2ii2 back2iie2
TA: later ed
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Eridan stared at his phone for a long time, reading over the conversation. He didn't feel like it was him talking to Fef's ex anymore. It felt like he was talking to, well, somebody whose company he really enjoyed. In fact, for a few minutes he completely forgot about Fef, or life sucking as bad as it did, or even that he usually turned out to be an unlikeable character. For a few brief moments he had somebody, a friend, who he understood, and who understood him, and it was the best feeling in the world.
