Chat

babblingbrook: Good, you’re online. We need to talk.
katidid714: are you breaking up with me?
babblingbrook: ha ha. No. Listen, remember TDH?
katidid714: the guy at the bar a couple weeks ago? oh yeah!
babblingbrook: Promise you won’t tell anyone….
katidid714: depends. Is it so juicy that I’ll want to?
babblingbrook: Promise!
katidid714: fine, I promise. What happened?
babblingbrook: he’s Darcy’s fiancé!
katidid714: *pause for dramatic effect*
katidid714: NO WAY.
katidid714: wtf? How did this happen?
babblingbrook: I “met” him at her office this morning.
katidid714: awkward.
babblingbrook: I know, right?
babblingbrook: I was dropping off some linen samples because the caterers said their plates are eggshell but they’re closer to morning mist so the tablecloths will have to change, WHICH IS NOT THE POINT because I came in and TDH was standing next to Darcy by the windows of her office
babblingbrook: they were arguing about security in the building after the attacks—also not the point, shut up brook—and I think I squeaked or something when I recognized him.
katidid714: I have never heard you squeak. I’ll bet it’s a cute sound.
babblingbrook: cuter than the sound of me kicking you. anyway, so they notice me and they stop arguing long enough for Darcy to introduce me to him as her fiancé. I almost dropped the linens, I was so surprised.
katidid714: how did he react?
babblingbrook: He was cool. Just, “nice to meet you,” handshake, totally normal. Darcy probably thinks that I was going a little crazy.
katidid714: maybe she thinks you have a crush on him.
babblingbrook: Kati….
katidid714: oh, which you do, don’t you?
babblingbrook: I’m trying not to, *now.* But that’s not the point. the point is that I made out with Darcy’s fiancé!
katidid714: don’t forget that Darcy’s fiancé made out with you, too. You were single and you assumed that he was too. He knew that he was engaged the whole time.
katidid714: what’s his real name, btw?
babblingbrook: I still don’t know.
katidid714: srsly?
babblingbrook: I was thinking about other stuff—thinking really hard about other stuff—when Darcy was introducing him. So I kind of missed it. Daniel or David or something like that, I think. There was a D thing going on.
katidid714: Did he give any reaction to you being you?
babblingbrook: no, he was smarter than that. Darcy asked him a question about the tablecloths and he gave an opinion and then he looked at his watch and was all like, oh look at the time – and then he left. And then I pretended like I cared about the wedding planning more than the meeting him.
katidid714: Well, good job. I get the feeling it would be a little scary seeing Darcy mad.
babblingbrook: You’re telling me.


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