From Wally and Dick's Text Messages, Chapter 48:


For just this chapter, THE ASTERISK * around a sentence means the sentence is being spoken in French! I didn't want to have to write the translation after every sentence.


W: so you were sleeptalking in French last night

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-Last night-

Wally turned onto his stomach, making sure he stayed on 'his' side of the bed on Dick's California King size luxury mattress. 'Why', he thought, 'won't my parents get me one of these'…probably because it wouldn't even begin to fit in his room. He'd have to ask about getting a bigger room.

He turned his head on the pillow and looked at Dick; all he could see was a mess of ebony hair sticking out from the blankets. His friend had fallen asleep an hour ago, while Wally had been asking advice on girls. M'gann, basically. Surely Dick had picked up on or noticed some of Bruce's tricks? He'd simply been told, "Become a billionaire."

Great, really helpful.

Dick started rustling around a little bit. He said Wally's name, but the rest of the sentence was lost on the redhead, as it was in a different language.

*"Wally, can you please turn down the brightness of your skin."*

What?

Oh. Must be sleeptalking. He felt pretty sure it was French. Didn't Dick have an Aunt who wasn't really his Aunt, but he called her that cause she was really close to his mom, and she was French and thats how he learned how to speak the language?

Something like that.

Wally fumbled to find his phone, opening his translation app when he did. It happened every now and again that Dick would get talkative in his sleep.

He kept talking.

*"Who is that in the corner?"*

*"Hello?"*

After reading the translation, Wally turned his head so quickly to look at the corners of the room he felt like he had whiplash.

Dick then switched to speaking English.

"The woman in the mirror just waved at me…"

And then he whispered, "Watch out for the red lady."

This was taking 10 years off of Wally's life.

Wally let out a very unmanly yelp as he was suddenly hugged by his best friend; Dick said "Have a great day at school," and then just as suddenly as he'd been hugged, Wally found himself pushed onto the floor.

Getting up off the cold floor while grumbling under his breath, Wally crawled back onto the bed only to find Dick in the process of stealing all of the covers.

"This is my right as a human."

Wally grumpily jerked half of them back onto his side, which elicited a response of, "I don't want your freedom, America, just blanket," from Dick. He then said, "I don't want to go, I am completely irresponsible."

"Dude, shut up," Wally told him.

"I'll trade you…" Dick said.

"Trade me what?"

"Harddrives."

"…Nerd. Go to bed."

"I would but there's a damn chandelier in the sky, why aren't they using machetes?!"

"I dunno dude."

"We'll just burn the videotapes then hide under the bed and blame Roy."

'Why didn't we do that last month?' Wally thought to himself. Would have saved a lot of hassle.

He then switched back to French.

*"Bruce, you can't just BUY Canada!"*

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W: kinda sexy, kinda creepy


you can't just buy Canada Bruce GOSH. lol.

It's a reflex for him I guess. :)

If you read Lazy Days at the Circus you'll know who I'm talking about in regarding Dick's "Aunt".

In my last chapter of WDTM I mentioned "Spring is here!"...never again am I making that mistake haha. A bunch of you were like, "Spring? What Spring?! Its blizzarding! SNOW! COLD!" and I mean, I get it, I live in North Dakota. We had a blizzard days after I wrote that. But it's spring to me, cause we are no longer 30 below 0 - yay!

Stay cool guys! (pun intended) XD