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[thenormalsquint]

So I need a roommate. I have a nice three bedroom apartment and you can have one of those. The other is being converted into my art studio. Dogs are okay. Parties are even more okay. I'm clean... relatively. Okay, it's more like controlled chaos in my room, but I know where everything is and I keep it contained. I keep late hours and hate mornings. I bring home free clothes sometimes! Free food too! I mean, if this doesn't really get you all hot and bothered, I don't know what else to tell you.

Except that I really miss Craigslist. So much easier just to post pics and ignore the emails from potential creepers. Here I have to actually tell them they're too creepy to share a bathroom with.


[Private to Cameron]

Thanks for letting me crash for this long. Let me buy you dinner as a sign of my appreciation.

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[as_damaged]

You don't have to do that, Angela. [But she won't really say no.] It's been nice having you around.

[private]

[thenormalsquint]

No, I should do it because you let me drink all your coffee for a month. It's the least I could do.

[private]

[as_damaged]

Only most of it. I still have a little coffee left.

[private]

[thenormalsquint]

And that's only because I moved out, otherwise, you wouldn't have any left.

[private]

[as_damaged]

Supposedly there are places where you can buy more. At least, that's what I've heard.

[private]

[thenormalsquint]

Now that's just crazy talk. I'm not high enough to believe that.

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[olduvai]

[ let's see him try and make conversation. ]

So you're an artist.

[ four for you, john. ]

[medicos]

Only dogs?

[ pretend that this is way after john's conversation with angela is over so it's not too eerie. ]

By the way, little bird told me that you tattled on me, darling.

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[thenormalsquint]

[An A for effort.]

Yep. Most of the time, actually.

[thenormalsquint]

I don't really like cats. They... have issues.

[No, Angela. You have issues.]

Oh good, he did what I asked him to. I figured two against one would work better than just me.

[NO SHAME AT ALL, THIS ONE.]

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[olduvai]

And the other times?

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[thenormalsquint]

Here, I co-own a boutique and salon all those other times.

[At home, it's a totally different occupation.]

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[olduvai]

Sounds like a hassle. Was never a business guy myself.

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[thenormalsquint]

Neither am I beyond selling pieces, but this place was left to me. [By somebody she's been told about but can't remember.] I'm not sure what else to do with a gift like this.

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[olduvai]

Too much of a sentimental value to sell?

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[thenormalsquint]

No. It's just...

[She groans and tugs on the single braid her hair in is. Might as well tell the truth.]

The guy that gave it to me? We apparently dated and when he left, I inherited it. Then I left and Ginny inherited it. When I came back... I don't even remember the guy so really, there's no sentimentality attached to it. It's just not really mine to sell. It's half Ginny's anyway.

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[olduvai]

You came back three times. [ well. ] No obligation for you to stay either, is there? Unless it's to help a friend now.

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[thenormalsquint]

Other than to pay my rent and make sure Ginny doesn't die of working herself to death? No.

[She isn't happy working retail, but she wasn't happen drawing death masks either. Money makes people do the unthinkable.]

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[her_waterloo]

[ It's funny... Joan was thinking about putting up one of these ads. Angela doesn't sound like she'd be a bad roommate. Definitely no worse than Sherlock, anyway. She smiles at the camera in a friendly manner. ]

Hi, I'm Joan. I try not to be creepy. I wouldn't mind seeing some photos of the apartment.

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[thenormalsquint]

Trying is good. And I can do you better than photos.

[The view wobbles and shakes as Angela stands up from the couch, turns the camera around and spins slowly so Joan can get a good view of the living room. The walls are painted a light shade of purple with one pure white accent wall.]

This is the living room. The furniture here is community property along with the TV. Just leave it how you found it, you know?

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[as_damaged]

But really, Angela-- you're welcome any time. I mean that.

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[skintoskin]

Hey. Are you still looking for a roommate?

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[thenormalsquint]

I have a potential, but you know somebody?

[private]

[thenormalsquint]

I know. And I mean it that I'm buying you dinner.

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[skintoskin]

Yeah.

[Big smile.]

Me.