— 𝐜 𝐨 𝐧 𝐭 𝐚 𝐜 𝐭

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NOTE: I am forever backtag friendly and absolutely open to doing things from past events that won't really have an effect on things at any given time. For example, if you'd like to do something with Peter aged down or when he was his spider dream guide, etc.

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[nakedsingularity]

_{[The rest... does smack of a potential Talk, yeah. Do you need to Talk, Peter?]}

Why?

To the shitty world or the drop out, take your pick.

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[ Bougie. Ohhh. There's an actual laugh at that — not that Henry can hear him, but even so. ]

Not exactly ivy league level, but we had a grand piano
That probably puts me in a certain category, doesn't it

[ While hardly wealthy, yeah, his family did live pretty comfortably. And he's.... aware that he's really being given some pieces of information here, regarding Henry's own home life. It's a subject that both of them know how to skirt around very well. ]

If you're sure I'm not keeping you from grand college adventures
Then we can tackle college together next year

[ He... does like the sound of that. There's still a little flicker of guilt in him that whispers holding her back, but his guilt monster also looks for any reason alive to flare up. It's maybe weird to think about the future at all, but it's... a lot less daunting thinking about facing it with others. A concept that still manages to boggle his mind. ]

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[ There's a lengthy pause after, because he's aware that both trains of thought are inevitably going to lead somewhere uncomfortable, and it's a matter of choosing which track to chug along.

In the end, he chooses the latter. Talking about how Dana came from a world where she was chosen as some kind of sacrifice and died is a little too much to throw out right now. ]

Not to get all depressing
But my sister died in the middle of the school year
So whatever lingering shred of motivation I might have had pretty much fizzled out

What made you quit?

[nakedsingularity]

If no one actually played piano and it was just there for character, definitely.

Going on the theory our karma is so bad we're still here next year and still sane enough to care about self-improvement, fine. Let's join a frat.

_{[But the next bit effectively sucks the black humor out of things.]}

It's okay to get depressing. I don't think there's any that's not going to be depressing.

Kinda the same. Things got fucked up and it just wasn't important anymore.

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[ .... Fuck. ]

Okay that's exactly how it was
Though to be fair
I do play it, I just had my own keyboard to use instead
Nobody else in my family cared about music, though

And deal
We can play out the college AU that nobody asked for

[ But... Yeah, she has a point there. Peter's breathing out an odd little sigh of shuddery relief, the way he always does when he talks (or texts) about Charlie. Releasing the breath that was pent up while he was typing it out. ]

Yeah
School doesn't seem so necessary when
other shit happens

[ Only he'd had two parents to give him pushes and shoves and make sure he still went — and even when one had flaked out, he'd still had the other. He knows Henry's dad died, and he hasn't asked much more beyond that, about whether her mom had ever remarried anyone or... or if Henry had even stayed with her. ]

Was it just you and your mom?