for @doggonemad

[throughbamboo]

just bros being bros

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[doggonemad]

'Cause . . . yanno.

[throughbamboo]

I don't, 'swhy I'm askin'.

[doggonemad]

'Cause I was all distant an' shit. Fuck, why'd ya make me say it, it sounds so goddamn lame.

[throughbamboo]

It don't sound lame.

I figured ya were busy . . . an' this kinda shit don't just go back to the way it was overnight.

[doggonemad]

. . .

Yeah, it feels really fuckin' weird. Not bad, just like . . . what the fuck.

[throughbamboo]

[a bit of a huff]

That's a way of puttin' it. But yeah, it's real fuckin' weird.

[doggonemad]

Almost makes me feel like I'm twenty again.

[throughbamboo]

. . . yeah?

[doggonemad]

Almost.

[throughbamboo]

[he's quiet for a moment, thinking about it]

Almost makes me feel younger'n that, 'specially right now.

[doggonemad]

What, ya think yer seventeen with a complete dumbass in bed with ya?

[throughbamboo]

[his lips twitch]

You said it, not me.

[doggonemad]

Wow.

[throughbamboo]

Heh. But that's what I mean, it feels like we're a couple'a dumbasses figurin' it out all over again.

Almost.

[doggonemad]

Almost. Some things're a lil' different.

[throughbamboo]

Some. Ain't too much that is.

[doggonemad]

[ reaches up and taps at his eyepatch once. ]

[throughbamboo]

[fuck Shimano!! His expression sobers a bit, but he nods]

That'd be one of the differences.

[doggonemad]

Heh. I'm kinda likin' yer shaved head look. Suits ya.

[throughbamboo]

[he doesn't reach up to touch his head, though his hand does twitch like it might]

Dunno if it suits me, but I'm too used to it now to try an' grow it back out.

[doggonemad]

Take it from me — ya look a hell of a lot better.

[throughbamboo]

Implyin' I didn't look good before.

[but because this has erred into lighter territory - ]

Yer not as scrawny as ya were.

[doggonemad]

[ gives him a playful smirk. ]

'Course I did. Put on some muscle.

[ thank god saejima did not see him in the late nineties. ]

[throughbamboo]

[he grins back]

Y'look good. [and less like shit] But I thought y'did back then, too.

[doggonemad]

Ehhh, s'like ya said, I was real scrawny.