Inbox - Recolle

[true_noir]

CHLOE BOUCHARD

This is Chloe. Sorry, I guess you missed me. Just leave a message and I will get back to you soon.

VOICE | TEXT | VIDEO | ACTION

Comments

[true_noir]

Perhaps you do, though I suspect he is fine about it. He certainly wasn't hiding it before. I take it that you got paired up for Valentine's Day too?

My date was quite... interesting. Friend date, but nevertheless, everything about that person is interesting, not to mention hazardous.

[twelfthspark]

Yeah? Who did you get?

[true_noir]

I can only describe Peridot as a mad scientist. I suspect she would embrace the title with relish. We went to see a movie about a giant moth devastating Tokyo.

I think she found it funny. It was an experience.

[twelfthspark]

Again with the weird names. I think I might have seen her around campus? Maybe? idk idk

[true_noir]

I think that she might be younger? I'm not 100% sure. She's very difficult to miss, believe me. You will know her the moment you have seen her.

Equally hard to forget.

[twelfthspark]

Doesn't sound like we run in the same circles. I'll take your word for it.

[true_noir]

I would not say she is either of our circles. I met her by accident at the festival, blending some horrible concoction and selling fireworks. And apparently someone signed me up for the blind date.

Very curious, really, since I'm seeing someone long-distance.

[twelfthspark]

Long distance huh? How's that working out for you?

[true_noir]

Difficult, but I do love her. We time our facetime calls just right so we can see each other, and we do it at least once a week, if not more. Getting a good plan that covered calls to France was important.

I do miss being close to her, though. She was always the stronger of us, I think.

[twelfthspark]

Wow you really meant long distance. I don't think I could pull it off myself. I'd need the guy there to see and touch or what's the point you know?

[true_noir]

I can admit that it's been very hard at times. I wish to be with her again, and the loneliness gets to me. We can't travel to see each other yet, and I'm saving up to help bring her here one day.

It's the hope of the future that helps. We won't be apart forever.

[twelfthspark]

So you're staying in the states for good? lol why were you calling yourself weak. Moving to a different state sucked enough, it's hard to picture moving to a different country.

[true_noir]

Oh, I never said I was weak, just that she is the stronger of us. It is the land of opportunity, yes? The American Dream. Think of me as one of your modern pioneers.

Perhaps I should buy a bonnet and those covered wagons.

[twelfthspark]

If you do, I demand picture proof.

If you're nice to me I might even keep it off Retrospec. ;)

[true_noir]

Who is to say that I could not just post it all over the network to deny you that fun? I wonder if it is so odd, to have a dream of making a flower shop of my own to bring my girlfriend to this country. Is it really so odd?

[twelfthspark]

You'd do that to me? 💔 And nah just sappy~

Oh hey speaking of flowers I never did get around to my question.

[true_noir]

Heh, we french can be cruel when wish, and Sappy.

Oh? I thought you had. What was your question?

[twelfthspark]

Did not! The thing about flower meanings was your idea. but let's get back to that in a minute I have an idea.

IDK if he even got them from your shop or not but... has anything weird been happening with the flowers over there? Like

idk

People having strange reactions.

[true_noir]

Not that I'm aware of? What sorts of strange reactions do you mean? Is this allergies or something else?

[Her flashes of memories came to mind, but she didn't want to say that unless Arlene mentioned something similar.]

[twelfthspark]

Something else. More like hallucinations.

[chloe did you put LSD in the flowers]

[true_noir]

Do you mean like visions, of another place? I don't think those are flowers, Arlene. I've had them too. Once, when I was looking at some new flowers we got from Europe, but once when I was in the Retrospec offices. No flowers around.

What did you see, if I may ask?

[twelfthspark]

Look, I had my face in them when it happened. Wouldn't you ask the same thing?

A man in a black coat, and there were all these rose petals flying around him. He had a hood up and I couldn't see his face but I'm *sure* I know him from somewhere.

[true_noir]

It is reasonable, but I don't think they're related. My own vision had to do with the very flowers I was looking at.

It felt too real, like it was a memory you'd forgotten, didn't it? So close that you could swear you knew it, but you had never seen it before in your life?

[twelfthspark]

Just like that. I knew what color his eyes were, Chloe, I swear I nearly fell off the scooter.

(god I dated a guy who drives a freaking scooter and I would do it again?? wtf @me, I'm getting soft)

[true_noir]

(There is nothing wrong with a scooter. It is a cheap way to get around, you know. More money for the things you want.)

I understand how you feel a little. Remembering the Alps, remembering some old man I've never seen in my life, visiting Corsica. It was so surreal, no matter how mild. And it felt like there were holes in each vision.