Jan. 28th, 2025 07:18 pm
answering machine
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"Hey, you've reached Green Oak. If this is League business, leave a message. If not, I've got caller ID. What are you, 70? Whatever.
BEEP."
[Feel free to leave Green a voice message or a text message here, with date and time.]
BEEP."
[Feel free to leave Green a voice message or a text message here, with date and time.]
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"Hm. What should we talk about... ?"
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"I don't know," she said again, unable to think of anything. "How... mm." She shifted with her pillow again. "How was your day...?"
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"Uneventful," he sighed, "I didn't do much at all. Got up... had breakfast... read a little... I even took a nap."
He kept his voice at the same level through the description, slow, deep, and lazy.
"What did you do?"
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"Woke up a little late," she said softly. "Got lunch. Played with Jock a while. Visited Blake while he was napping."
Thought about him. Blue closed her eyes.
"Nothing very exciting."
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"Am I helping... ?"
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Blue took a deep, audible breath as it passed, easing it out as she whispered, "Yes. Just like always."
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"... You don't have to say things like that. But I'm glad you're starting to calm down."
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"...Sorry..." She frowned. Apologizing for it was kind of stupid. "It's true though. You've always helped..." She didn't feel completely calm yet this time though. Her heart was still skipping and her face felt a bit hot. That was just the tail ends of her panic though, she assumed. Probably. That's what made sense.
"Um. Thank you."
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"It's fine. You don't sound calm, though."
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So her response was a breathy, slightly nervous bout of quiet laughter at first.
"One does not simply calm down," she said, trying to make light of it.
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"You want me to sing you a lullaby?"
Sardonic as ever, even in the middle of the night.
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"Oh goodness," she said in actual surprise. "Be careful, I might take you up on that."
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""I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink... I'm so tired... My mind..."
He stuffed his face into his pillow.
"Haha. Nevermind."
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Probably she should have teased him a little. There was another soft giggle.
"...My is on the blink... I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink..." she picked up after him instead, still more concentrated on the sound than the words that were supposed to follow.
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"I'm so tired," he sighed, "I don't know what to do. I'm so tired, my mind is set on you... I wonder should I call you..."
The song drifted away, and he cast a glance over at the phone in silence.
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The song resonated a bit more strongly than probably either of them would have liked, she realized. Her hold on her phone increased slightly. I wonder should I call you. There was a nervous tightening in her chest as she shifted against her pillow, the sound filling the silence as she moved.
"You've gotten a lot better," Blue chose to say instead of anything else she might have said, trying to sound light hearted.
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"You've always been a good singer," he replied, thoroughly embarrassed that he had just done that.
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"The only witnesses are very biased parties," the girl rebutted disbelievingly. It wasn't like any of her team or the boys would have told her to shut up. Well, asides from the few times that someone might have actually done so. An awfully embarrassed someone.
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"Especially when that biased opinion is mine."
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"Oh, right, of course," she said with a soft laugh, though it was somewhat cut short by the rumble outside her window. Blue took a breath and kept talking however, more distracted from it and sounding less nervous this time as she spoke.
"I forgot I was talking to a world-class expert in everything."
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And he already had been. And wanted to continue to, for as long as she would let him.
He had missed it, too.
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Despite the fact that the rain was still hammering on the window panes and a bright flash was filling the room with light, Blue finally yawned against the phone receiver, finishing with a little, "mm." The hand tangled in her hair eased, and she let her eyes drift closed.
"I'd be worried otherwise."
Though if it was her own fault he stopped, she mused somewhat half-heartedly to herself, then she'd probably lose the privilege of being able to worry about it, wouldn't she?
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"You're yawning," he said, stating the obvious. "I guess I helped."
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