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This is Brendan Frye. If it's urgent, you might have a better chance o' tracking me down on foot. If I'm not answering, chances are I've gotten in over my head with something, not that I'm refusin' to give you the time of day. So leave me some words and I'll get back to you as soon as I don't have a fire to put out.

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a guy named red. really quiet, pretty reserved, but he's got a big heart. he didn't even let me pay him, he just wanted the rabbits to be okay. good to know people like that still exist.

that could be good. just eat junk food and watch bad movies. i need more normal stuff in my life after this bunny caper shit, you know? though now the question is, obviously, which bad movie to watch.

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He's getting a big gift basket then. He reminds me of a friend of mine, she'd probably have done the same.

There's this shitty movie I can rent that I've been thinking about watching, it's got crocodiles loose on a train filled with terrorists.

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he's pretty broken up by not being able to save all the quolls we found. it's not his fault, but if anybody needs a pick me up right now, it's him. poor guy.

that sounds amazing and by amazing i mean horrifying. i know a place that sells assorted chocolate covered nuts by the pound, so i'm on snack duty.

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Jesus. Poor guy. Red, right? I'll talk to him and let him know. Maybe it might help if he hears it from somebody else.

They titled it "Crocodiles on a Train", so you know it's going to be amazing. And horrifying.

Great, because I've only got an excess of Jiffy Pop, and I've been told I need to expand my snack tastes a little more.

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red, yeah. i named the surviving quoll scarlet in his honor. that got a small smile out of him. i think. he's not really expressive.

i just googled it and apparently a sequel is coming out this november. promise me you'll take me and i promise to buy snacks when we see it.

oh good, i have an excuse to introduce you to a whole new world of snacks. although i've never had jiffy pop so this cuts both ways.

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No way. Really? There's more of a demand for reptiles loose on trains eating people than I thought there would be if they're making a sequel.

And of course I'll take you, I'm a little offended you think I wouldn't.

It's butter-flavored popcorn, and also I actually can't believe it's not as popular as it was back home. You're not the first person to tell me you've never had it, in fact.

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apparently it did really well in japan.

well, when i asked my boyfriend he looked at me like i'd lost my marbles. not everybody has our refined taste.

to be fair a lot of things are weird here. just be grateful your popcorn is here at all. i still haven't found my old brand of cream soda here.

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I am not even surprised anymore.

You got a boyfriend? Congratulations, but it sucks that his tastes are not as refined as ours is.

Maybe you're not looking hard enough? I can go look here in De Chima.

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japan is a magical place full of true appreciation for terrible movies.

more like i sort of realized i'd always had him around and we basically do stuff couples do as it is so we switched from friends to boyfriends. but to be fair to him, his world has precious few bad movies. not everyone grew up with the privileges we did.

nah, it's fine. i found a suitable substitute anyway. although apparently here in autumn cream soda comes in 'limited edition pumpkin spice' flavor, which wasn't a thing for any brand at all, ever, back home. i am curious and horrified.

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You realize this is an opportunity to expose him to incredibly terrible movies, right? You should bring him along with us for the next terrible movie that comes out. (Maybe not that Thirty Hues series.)

Oh, those. They're expensive as hell but they taste way better than they have any right to.

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don't even joke about thirty hues. it took me months to get manabu to the point where we can kiss without him getting flustered but if the ad for those movies comes on he goes red and we're back to square one. i love him too much to expose him to that crap anyway.

i've never done drugs but i'm pretty sure my addiction to pumpkin spice things is close enough. if i end up in prison in october it'll be for swiping pumpkin spice or maybe even entire pumpkins from somewhere.

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I took a few of my friends there once because I thought it would be fun to make fun of it. I still regret it, it didn't have any redeeming qualities at all.

I broke into someone's house once. I think I can help you swipe some pumpkin spice somewhere. [Veronica NO.] Or just buy as much pumpkin spice-flavored anything as I can squeeze into my budget.

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i tried making a drinking game out of it. still wasn't funny.

my boyfriend is a cop, i should probably lay off stealing things at least a little. he understands i didn't exactly grow up with a lot of money, but he's not thrilled with my swiping things. he's older than me so he's got this whole 'i can take care of that for you' thing. like we're a married couple or something.

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There's a surprise. Does that mean I can't invite you to go drinking or do you just need to be more careful where?

[Your priorities, Veronica.]

He sounds like a good guy, though, otherwise. More competent than other cops if he passed your standards. [Nothing like JD, she thinks. He doesn't sound like a cool and collected trenchcoat-wearing badass, doesn't sound like someone unhinged who would go on a murder spree.] You've got to keep him.

But if anything happens because of him, let me know, all right?

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more careful where. and i reserve the right to cancel if he and i have something romantic planned. we have the dorkiest dates, i love it. last time we went to an arts and crafts festival.

[It doesn't get much dorkier than that.] he is. both a good guy and the most competent cop i know, although the bar was set really low back home for that kinda thing. he's a sweetheart and i hate that word but it works in his case.

if anything bad happens it'll probably be because of me, but i'll let you know either way.

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Got it. And that is so ridiculously adorable I'm kind of surprised I'm not vomiting rainbows right now. Have you gone to Disneyland yet, because I feel like that'd just be the epitome of adorably dorky dates.

He does sound like one. I kind of want to meet him now.

You're not that bad, you know. You're a good person. [Not like her.]

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i'm, um, no lie i'm planning on surprising him with tickets to disney world for christmas. just him and me and somewhere good and happy, for the holiday i usually hate the most. it'd be nice.

he'd probably like to meet some of my friends. outside of the baby quoll we kind of adopted together, i mean. and our dog.

i'm not that bad HERE. i was a one-man trainwreck back home. i don't really deserve to be this happy, and i keep waiting for something to bring it all toppling down. i definitely don't deserve the boyfriend i have. it's kind of fucked up, isn't it? that my girlfriend back home died just before i got here, and now i'm with somebody else like she didn't mean a thing?