Week 5: Post Execution

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[After a while, like maybe three or four hours after the execution, Rebecca's looking for Evan. She doesn't seem like she's been crying or anything along those lines. But she does seem tired. Almost like she hasn't been sleeping that well.

She'll start by knocking on his door.]

Evan? Are you there?

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[He hesitates.]

...I don't, um, think it's safe for me to be alone.

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[Yeah, that's fair. He lost his partner, he's just been paired up with Lord El Melloi II.

She wouldn't want to be alone if Cardia died.]

Okay. I can stay. Something you want to do to pass the time? Or I can just... sit here, I guess?

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...I don't know what people usually do to pass the time.

[He's open to suggestions, though.]

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Read a book? Maybe do some card games? Boggle? Sudoku?

Maybe not Sudoku, I don't have any of those puzzles lying around.

Oh! Re-read old case file-- never mind, we wouldn't have anything like that around.

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[...Hm.]

Have, have you ever had a sleepover? Stephanie told me about, about them.

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Mm... I let Natsuo sleep in our room when he was partners.

But if you're asking about the normal type, then not really.

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[Curiously:]

You never had them when you were younger?

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I didn't really... I mean, I have friends now, but back then it was all about school. I didn't have a lot of time for friends.

[ That's not weird, right? ]

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...Maybe it can, can be a first for both of us.

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... Yeah, that would be nice.

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So, um...

[He tries to think of what people normally do at those kind of things. It's mostly based off what he's seen in movies.]

Truth or dare...?

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Truth?

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[He thinks about it for a moment.]

What, um, what's been the worst date you were ever on?

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That's all of them. But that one where the guy called our relationship feces is definitely up there.

[That wasn't a date, Rebecca.]

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[He blinks in surprise.]

...Whoever he was, he sounds like, like a jerk.

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He was. I still liked him, but that was a huge mistake.

Okay, your turn. Truth or dare?

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I hope you, um, find someone better.

[A beat.]

Truth.

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What was your best date?

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...Oh, um.

[He thinks about that for a moment.]

The, um, the girl I'm seeing back home... Her name is Zoe. We met because, um, we were both in the school's jazz band. She played guitar in it, and a while after we started dating, I went to her house and she, um, played me a few of her favorite songs. It was... really cool to see something she was, um, so passionate about.

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[She gives a small smile.]

Music's really satisfying, isn't it? It's one of my favorite things in the world. [Though she can't sing and can't play any instruments.] I'm glad you got to see her like that.

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Yeah. She's... amazing at it, too. I wish you could hear the way she plays.

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Zoe, right? I'd love to hear her someday.

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Yeah. You'd like her, I think.

[Oh, but—]

Truth or dare?

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Let's go with dare this time.

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Okay. Um... I dare you to try and lick your elbow?

[He's not very good at this.]