Nervous in the Service
Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage.
~Anais Nin
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| Allen POV: I stopped by the mailroom before I walked up to the boys dorms. Dryden was out in the hall with Gadeth, his floor's Resident Advisor, who was pulling chaperone duty while Dryden talked to a girl. The girl was provocatively dressed, insistent and familiar. Tansy, Dryden's cousin. "Think how much money we would make!" she said. "I'm thinking we would be sued for creating a monopoly in every industry we touched. Think years of annoying lawsuits, think assassination attempts, think never having any peace!" "Aaaaaw!" Dryden wriggled away from her. "I don't think so. Not that you're not a lovely girl, but we are too much alike. And we're cousins!" "Oho! You've got bigger plans, eh?" "No way! I-" "-Uh-huh. If you're throwing me over, it goddamn better be for a princess," said Tansy. Gadeth looked back and forth from Tansy to Dryden, clearly loving chaperone duty today. "Er...Riiiiight," said Dryden. "So how many favors can I call in when you're King?" "Tansy! Sheesh! Will you leave off already?!" Tansy sighed discontentedly. "Cousin, I do believe you led me on." "Uh... Did I? Ooopsie. So sorry." "Alas, indeed" She reached up and patted him on the cheek. "See you around, kid." Dryden, Gadeth and I watched her rear rotate its way down the long hall. "You said no to that? Are you sure you're not gay?" asked Gadeth. "Do you think they practice walking like that or does it just come natural?" I said. "Yeah, yeah, my cousin's gorgeous. Big whoop," said Dryden sourly. Gadeth leaned over and whispered, "You should have kissed her goodbye at least. A big wet one. She would have done it." Dryden bit his lip. "Fucking hell. You're right." Tansy waved at us from the end of the hall and then disappeared around the corner. Gadeth smirked. "Too late now. Maybe next time." "Aaaagh!" Dryden pulled me into his room and shut the door on Gadeth's grin. "So how was your day?" he said. "You don't like her, huh." "No, no, she's a great girl. Brilliant, ambitious, rich... dangerous as a basket full of snakes, but yeah, a great girl. She'll be helleva tough business competition later, but that's better than marrying her. Oi. C'mon! Tell me something that's not about girls. Anything. Please!" .... |
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