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He didn't remember falling asleep, but he was acutely aware of waking up, mainly because of the uncomfortable feeling of sleeping in day clothes.

He yawned when he sat up, stretching and rubbing a hand over his eyes. It took a bit to find his phone, and even then a fee seconds until he could focus on the time. An hour and a half until his exam started. Shit. He turned his laptop on in a hurry, glancing at the instant pesterchum alerts and scowling slightly, remembering the night before.

There were from Dave, however, and he simply opened the file to download and play the songs while he had a shower and got changed.

He probably won't have enough time to stop and stay for coffee.

He'll just get one after all his exams.

He sent a quick text to Dave thanking him for the tracks before hurrying down to his car and driving off.

2015-07-06 13:47:02

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Dave waited for a bit, but once the actual clients started coming in, he realized Eridan wasn't going to come for a while, as he was always early. He instantly blamed it on the exams, shrugging it off, and just went about his business. Jade bombarded him with questions and words of caution by lunch time, which he tried to quickly dismiss, as he already heard that same sermon from Lalonde, but they didn't seem to stop coming. She even threatened to come by with a shotgun if he did as much as hurt him, so then Dave had to tell her to take a chill pill and actually calm her down.

It was getting kinda bothersome, getting all these alerts, even from people that didn't talk to him face to face, but he supposed it was worse for Eridan, so he tried to ignore it as best as he could. He spent the afternoon at the coffee shop again, chatting up Aradia, until she had to go to class too.

2015-07-06 13:51:48

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He ended up having to turn his phone off completely. The vibrations from the notifications were driving him insane, and he really didn't need that right now. He was getting messages from everyone who knew him, and had some how found out, and even from people he'd never heard before. Some bright green text and blue text. He didn't touch his phone at all.

Not even when he'd finished his exams and was driving away from campus.

The coffee shop caught his eye as he drove past, and he slowed instinctively. He could go for a coffee. Even just take away. Maybe even a pastry.

He pulled over quickly, scooping up any change he could find and stepping out of his car to head back to the coffee shop.

Maybe Dave might be there, and h could apologise for all the message he was probably being spammed with.

2015-07-06 14:01:16

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He was just watching some troll that was doing a card trick for his friends, smiling as he held up the tray still. There weren't as many people here as there as most days, but it was still nice. He had more time to talk to people that way. As soon as he heard the bell ring though, he excused himself as he looked at the door, and smiled, walking over behind the counter as he signaled for him to come closer. "Sup Ampora, how come you didn't drive by to get some premium coffee before the exams? Also how did those go?"

2015-07-06 14:04:35

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"I actually slept longer than two hours and woke up later then I would've liked. I had to rush to exams." He smiled slightly, tiredly, empty.

"I want something that is both calming an' will wake me up. Also I'm not sure if you're getting a bombardment of messages, but if you are I'm sorry. Didn't think they'd flip out this much at me making a friend." He rolled his eyes and jiggled his hand a bit, looking up at the drinks menu.

"Do you know anyone who types with green text or blue text?"

2015-07-06 14:11:58

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"Ah shit man, im sorry about that. You actually slept for once though, that's good news." He smirks, starting to make his signature coffee. "I am, mostly from Jade, honestly... she's the green text." He sighs a little. "John is the blue one. And if Rose tries to bother you, she's like, lilac or something. A colour between pink and purple, more on the pink side, shouldn't be hard to spot. And im sorry for them, they just... care I guess. I've told them to chill, and I swear to god Jade wouldn't be like that if she knew you, im so sorry for her." He sounded genuinely concerned for him. "I think i got more texts than those, but i didnt read any. Too busy working."

2015-07-06 14:15:24

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"I read a few messages

between my exams. They got a bit creative once they realised I wasn't replying to any of them. Your friends pose very violent tendencies Dave." He shrugged, waiting for the price of the drink so he could pay. "They obviously care about you a lot. I haven't even touched the messages from my... Acquaintances. Those will be much much less polite an' probably a lot more threatening-ly. You haven't gotten any messages from someone you don't know have you? I'm sorry if you have. This is my fault."

2015-07-06 14:29:45

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He shook his head. "On the house, don't even bother. Just go sit over there by the heater and tell me what you want to go with it." He looked back, putting his own money in the register. "I probably did, I have about fifty messages left to read. That's going to be a fun night deleting them all. And I'm sorry for them again... Jade threatened you with the shotgun didn't she? Just- don't take her seriously, she threatens everyone with her shotgun. Once a wolf looked at her dog funny and she threatened him with the shotgun, just, don't let them get to you." He sighs. "I don't know what Rose told them, but it obviously wasn't pretty, and they haven't heard me out on it, I'll make them stop."

2015-07-06 14:33:07

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He smiled, grateful and tired, before heading to the heater seats and sitting down with a sigh. His phone when off at him again, and he sighed, taking it from his pocket to look at the message. Lilac text.

Ignored like the rest.

He waitsd until Dave was sitting in front of him with the coffee before he spoke. "Whatever Rose told them would be what Kanaya told her. An' Kanaya's more likely to tell a truthful story then a non-truthful one. So they're all probably going to assume I'm an uncontrollable highblood who's simply talking to you to later murder you."

2015-07-06 23:04:11

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He does his best to hurry, and, as per usual, he warns his co-workers before sitting down with him, handing him a cup of coffee. "You should turn off your phone. I did that to mine a while ago." He starts. "Just chill for a bit, you look tired. I'm sorry that they bothered you that much, fucking christ.. Did John say anything too bad?"

2015-07-06 23:08:03

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He shrugged at him, wrapping his hands around his coffee and looking down at it. His fins were lax against his head, and the only indicstor of his tiredness and irritatedness was his eyes.

"Nothing too bad. He said that he knows who I am an' if I do anything to you hems going to string me up by my fins an' see if I can take hits like a piñata."

2015-07-06 23:16:14

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He seems utterly shocked, disgusted even. "What the fuck, what even- what the fuck." He furrows his brow. What do people even have to do with his personal life to be threatening a guy like that. "They will be off your case tonight tops. I really can't do much about your friends, you know, just kinda tell them whatsup and that you're chill. Also, if you want to tell me why they're reacting like this, you know, I'm all ears. Later though, not now. Definitely not now."

2015-07-06 23:19:48

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"Don't worry about it Dave. It's fine. I'll just keep my phone off for now. It's not like anything your friends say is something I haven't heard before." He flapped a hand at him as if to tell him to calm down.

At the thought of explaining why this had all come about he blanched, staring at him intently.

He probably deserved to know.

"Later then." He agreed, taking to sipping at his coffee.

2015-07-06 23:30:54

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He just looked all the more irritated to ear that, eyebrows furrowing deeper for a second. It really starting to get to him, the way how he just dismissed the nastiest things people said to him, all because he was used to it. It was sickening.

He did force himself to relax though, taking a deep breath and pinching the bridge of his nose. "I'm chill. I'm chill, I'm calm." He mutters, forcing himself to stop glaring at the table. "Anyway, off to another topic, did you listen to the tracks I sent you?"

2015-07-06 23:35:20

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"Only a few this morning. I liked them so far. I was planning on listening to the rest when I get home." He studied Dave almost curiously, wondering as to why he got so worked up over a few creative sounding insults. They weren't that bad.

"Anyway. Have you learnt any new knots? I found a long coil of rope i don't use yesterday, an' there were knots all through from the last time I got bored an' wanted to see how many knots I could fit on there."

2015-07-06 23:44:16

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He nods, leaning back against his chair, and crossing his arms in front of his chest. "I have learned a few, can't remember the names for the life of me though." Dave shrugs. "It's probably just not coming back to me now, and I'll know it as soon as you're out the door or something. It's weird, my memory works in weird ways. How many did you fit there so far?"

2015-07-06 23:46:22

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"As long as you can remember them an' do 'em properly, knowing the name isn't really important yet." He grinned slightly, sipping at his coffee. "There were about nine or ten I think. There would've been more but I made a massive monkey's fist, like five or six loops big an' was using it to keep something down. But whatever I was keeping down was gone so I'd either already moved it or it's dosappeared."

2015-07-06 23:50:03

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"I'm pretty sure I do." Dave nods, his expressions soon starting to come back to him, instead of the annoyed-looking face. "A massive monkey's fist? So extra good to hit people in the head with? What's the biggest one you've made?"

2015-07-06 23:52:22

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"Exactly. An' the rope was what made my biggest one big. It was really thick rope, strong an' or was actually hard to make the mnot. The rope was about this thick." He gestured with his hand a diameter of around five or six centimetres. "It was pretty interesting when i finally finished it. Around the size pf a basketball?"

2015-07-06 23:56:06

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"Why the hell did you buy rope that was like five centimeters thick?" He laughs softly, grinning. "Dude, rope is your weapon, do you realize this? You've just revolutionized weaponry. Knots are now weapons, and pretty dangerous ones too." Dave keeps laughing for a while longer, shaking his head.

2015-07-06 23:59:29

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"I didn't buy it! I found it!" He huffed, but ended up laughing as well. "Do you know that knots were used as weapons an' torture methods years an' years ago? Just look at a cat-o-nine tails. Loose knots with sharp objects inside them used to flog people with."

2015-07-07 00:03:09

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"Oh i've heard of that, isn't it that sort of whip thing?" He looks serious for a second but then the corners of his lips start twitching. "...Do you think that's how BDSM started? Like, without the sharp objects, just knots being used in tolerable-yet-painful ways? I don't know why but this amuses me. People deciding to harm themselves slightly with knots for sexual pleasure is absurdly hilarious right now."

2015-07-07 00:06:05

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He thought about it for a minute, head tilted slightly. "I guess? It makes sense, some nutter probably got flogged, liked the feeling enough thta he wanted to downscale it to fit his fantasies an' promptly started BDSM." He grinned a bit. "It is a bit funny. Especially considering how wrong knots can go if even the slightest mistake is made in setting the mnots up."

2015-07-07 00:29:21

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He laughed a little louder than he was supposed to, covering his mouth. "Oh man, imagine this fool just getting out of torture all fucked up like: man, I want to get me some of this shit again, aw ye, it's doing wonders for my dick. It takes so much dedication too, that guy really wanted to get off to getting beaten with knots." He bites his lip, just silently laughing for a few seconds. "And how so? How can knots go wrong? Like, they undoing themselves?"

2015-07-07 00:31:52

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"I don't want to imagine thank you. I happen to like being able to tie knots without thinking of some guy gettin off on being beaten with knots an' tied down with ropes." He shuddered slightly, grossed out by that thought.

"Well it's with anything really. If the rope is shitty or slippery, then yeah the knots will unravel themselves or break apart. But if the knots done wrong then it could tighten if stretched or something. Knots can be fucked up really easily, an' you would 't know it jntil you're dying from lack of breath because the rope around your ribcage or neck just tightened to the point of stopping breath."

2015-07-07 00:38:51