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aRogueOne · 01-22-2024, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by astrocat

"I see." Brandon looked at Sloane rather curiously, and with his head tilted a bit as he thought. The face she was making- and the names she was calling him- made him disinclined to talk with her. But he wasn't feeling conversational at all to begin with, which made him wonder why she felt like she had to dissuade him. "Is that what you want, for people to always leave you alone?" he asked genuinely. He guessed that somewhere, deep down, it was not, but he didn't know her well enough to really understand. He could understand wanting to be alone, but the way she phrased it made him pause.

He sighed when she chose to call him yet another name. "Brandon Fox. I would appreciate it if you called me by my proper name and not 'balcony boy', Sloane. I'm not a nicknames person." And sure, she didn't know his name before he said it, but she could have asked. He certainly hadn't thought to call her anything besides Sloane, since that was how she introduced herself. He didn't really give people nicknames unless they told him to.

She wasn’t sure if he did actually see but again, it didn’t really matter. ”That’s the good thing about the expression. You use it when you want to be left alone.” It wasn’t that she always wanted to be left alone, duh. Who wanted that really? It was just that she, self-sufficient as any twelve-year old, liked to be in charge and choose when she wanted to talk to people.

She didn’t have to consider his request. She too, didn’t like nicknames, with her choice of name calling only coming as he hadn’t introduced himself. “Sure. That’s fine Brandon. Maybe next time, introduce yourself earlier, like you asked me to.” And with that, she turned and headed down the corridor, leaving him there on the balcony in the cold. She appreciated that not everyone liked nicknames but he had, after all, chided her on the etiquette of introducing oneself, only to not do the same. It was a contradiction and if she’d stayed any longer, it would have turned into an argument.

01-22-2024, 11:12 AM	#15 (permalink)
aRogueOne MLE & DERP Puffskein Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: UK Posts: 1,570 Hogwarts RPG Name: Sloane Aubrey Knott Slytherin Fifth Year	Quote: Originally Posted by astrocat "I see." Brandon looked at Sloane rather curiously, and with his head tilted a bit as he thought. The face she was making- and the names she was calling him- made him disinclined to talk with her. But he wasn't feeling conversational at all to begin with, which made him wonder why she felt like she had to dissuade him. "Is that what you want, for people to always leave you alone?" he asked genuinely. He guessed that somewhere, deep down, it was not, but he didn't know her well enough to really understand. He could understand wanting to be alone, but the way she phrased it made him pause. He sighed when she chose to call him yet another name. "Brandon Fox. I would appreciate it if you called me by my proper name and not 'balcony boy', Sloane. I'm not a nicknames person." And sure, she didn't know his name before he said it, but she could have asked. He certainly hadn't thought to call her anything besides Sloane, since that was how she introduced herself. He didn't really give people nicknames unless they told him to. She wasn’t sure if he did actually see but again, it didn’t really matter. *”That’s* the good thing about the expression. You use it when you want to be left alone.” It wasn’t that she always wanted to be left alone, duh. Who wanted that really? It was just that she, self-sufficient as any twelve-year old, liked to be in charge and choose when she wanted to talk to people. She didn’t have to consider his request. She too, didn’t like nicknames, with her choice of name calling only coming as he hadn’t introduced himself. “Sure. That’s fine Brandon. Maybe next time, introduce yourself earlier, like you asked me to.”** And with that, she turned and headed down the corridor, leaving him there on the balcony in the cold. She appreciated that not everyone liked nicknames but he had, after all, chided her on the etiquette of introducing oneself, only to not do the same. It was a contradiction and if she’d stayed any longer, it would have turned into an argument.