[For a moment, Mike pauses. He chews on his lip, eyes cast suspiciously to one side. Gee, wow, the dining room wall sure is very interesting tonight, don't you think? Isn't the wallpaper very... wallpapery?]
Yyyyeah? [Great job. Very natural.] They got, uh. Close.
[But the thing is, it's not like it was a secret. They never made any effort to cover up what they were doing, or what they were. Hell, Mike learned about it from Steve's DeerlyBeloved profile, of all things. And Nancy still cares about Steve, right? Would she be more pissed to learn he was... like that, or that she'd been lied to about it?
And no, Mike certainly isn't thinking about using this as a test to see if she'd accept him, at some point in the future. Absolutely not. This is 100% about Steve and Billy. Which is why, after a few seconds, he takes a deep breath and says in a voice far smaller than he'd hoped: ] Like, a couple.
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Date: 2021-06-05 04:21 pm (UTC)Yyyyeah? [Great job. Very natural.] They got, uh. Close.
[But the thing is, it's not like it was a secret. They never made any effort to cover up what they were doing, or what they were. Hell, Mike learned about it from Steve's DeerlyBeloved profile, of all things. And Nancy still cares about Steve, right? Would she be more pissed to learn he was... like that, or that she'd been lied to about it?
And no, Mike certainly isn't thinking about using this as a test to see if she'd accept him, at some point in the future. Absolutely not. This is 100% about Steve and Billy. Which is why, after a few seconds, he takes a deep breath and says in a voice far smaller than he'd hoped: ] Like, a couple.
[Why is his face so hot?]