IC contact post for Mask or Menace

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Hey! This is Max. Sorry I can't pick up right now; I'm probably snapping pictures of cute animals or something. Leave a message! Or text.

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[Sometime after their last conversation. It's not illegal to greet someone, you know.]

Boo!

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What the hell?

Permatext; FOR NOW

[restingstitchface]

What the Hell, indeed.

Hello, Max. How are you today?

[ditto, FOR NOW]

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I'm fine.

[restingstitchface]

Are you? What the Hell is rarely used to say one's feeling well, you know.

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I was actually saying that in response to your test.

"Boo"? Really?

[restingstitchface]

Yes.

It's a nice, beautiful word that encapsulates so much in its simplicity. Don't you think so?

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What's your point?

[restingstitchface]

In short, I'd like to understand you better. Your drives, your dreams, your fears. Everything about you, really.

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Does that line ever actually work?

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You're still talking to me, are you not?

[So yes. It obviously works, hdu.]

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Only because if I block you, you'll just change your number.

[Asshole.]

[restingstitchface]

Excuses. Sounds like you're a chicken, to me.

Besides, I don't need a phone call to contact you.

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What are you, five?

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[Wow, no. RUDE.]

That childish retort implies more about your age than mine, to tell the truth.

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You're the one who called me a chicken. Plus, I'm still in high school. I don't think anyone expects me to be at the height of maturity.

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Children rarely are.

But I have lived my share of life among grown ups, Max. Little of them has won my approval. The same goes for your peers.

[He had been. He'd... learned to mature fast. Some would say losing his mind had been part of the price of that.]

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Let me guess: teens are assholes.

[She feels you, Crane, if that's the case.]

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[Don't think he doesn't notice that attempt at fishing.]

Oh everyone is. But violence is a complex thing. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Now, would you like to tell me about your classmates?

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[Don't think she doesn't notice the dodge.]

"But enough about me, let's talk about you." Why would I tell you anything about them?

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Curiosity?

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I'm curious, but I'm also not completely stupid.

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Morbid curiosity, then.

Consider why you read the horror genre. You enjoy being scared.

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I don't JUST read the horror genre. I just happen to like Poe's work.

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Yes, well, my work is outstanding, I assure you.

I would like you to experience it sometime too.