sidehustles | IC CONTACT ➛ duplicity.

i got the renewal paperwork from my lawyer.
i left it on the kitchen table.
if you still want to try this again.

[ she drafts and deletes a half dozen versions of "it's okay if it's too weird to be living together and pseudo-married now that we're dating." ]

Can't say I really mind the idea 😉
So I just gotta sign it and then we're all set?

Edited 2022-01-23 17:09 (UTC)

unless there's anything you want to change.
now that we're, you know.

[ it's a sheepish nudge for a conversation she had been too cowardly to bring up — had intended to bring up and utterly failed — since the day they went ice skating. ]

not that i do.
and not that anything about that needs to be in the contract.

Maybe worth thinkin about for next time
For now I think we can...

[ He hesitates, wondering how he wants to say this himself. It really shouldn't feel so complicated, yet it feels like forever since he last navigated anything like a contract/relationship (business/pleasure) situation-- and the nuances of such have never been as clear to him as perhaps they should be. ]

See how things go?

next time?

[ some of the tension eases out of her shoulders. he sounds so certain, even though when this had started, he'd been adamant that he would not contract with the same person twice. ]

Yeah
Next time

[ Reggie's not, necessarily, any more certain than she is, but he'd rather assume in three months they'll still be together, because in three months he'd still like to be.

And if they're not, well, presumably that will more or less render it a moot point. ]

I mean
If that works for you

it works for me.

[ and distracts her, effectively, from worrying about affirming that they're both not really Dating anyone else, regardless of what else is going on in a city like duplicity. ]

[ Ironically, something that Reggie himself also wouldn't mind affirming, but it's not really the kind of question you can just ask here (not in Duplicity, anyway) without apparently coming off as irredeemably insecure. Go fucking figure. ]

Aaaand signed 💛
Anything else you might wanna do to mark the occasion?

[ alright, alina. here's your chance. ]

we could go on a date 🥰
unless you're out with someone else tonight.
which is fine
if you are
for the record.

Let's do it 😘
I've got the night off
And my schedule's definitely always wide open for you.

well, thank you.
but it's okay if it isn't.
i know you're well-liked and i don't want to get in the way of anything.

Alina what are you even talking about?

Do you not actually wanna go out on a date or...?

what? no!
i mean yes. i do.
i'm sorry. i'm doing this all wrong.
i just don't want you to feel like i'm tying you down.

Cmon. Of course you're not tying me down

I want us to be contracted. Ok?
And I want us to be boyfriend/girlfriend too

So lets go out tonight.
We'll can find a place thats a little bit fancy and order champagne