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[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.

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[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.

[twelfthspark]

I'm scared I'm going crazy but

[Nah. Even if everybody on this sketchy-ass app can relate, she's not ready to admit she's not so tough.]

I want to know more. See how it all fits together.

[true_noir]

[They both were, a little. And they weren't the only ones.]

Part of me wants to know, but most of me just wants it to go back to normal, for this to be some trick. It is extremely disruptive and confusing after all. Why now? Why us?

[twelfthspark]

And where does Retrospec come into it?

Maybe we really were chosen for something.

[true_noir]

I cannot believe that they are not involved. Too many coincidences, too few other possibilities. Only people with this seem to have these experiences.

I admit that sometimes I want to be special, to be important. Like those fanciful dreams of being president, or someone famous. I do not know that I like this sort of being chosen. I do not know what it is I'm seeing. The holes worry me more than what I've seen.

[That, and most of those things she'd seen were normal. Of course the holes worried her more.]

[twelfthspark]

It wouldn't bug you? Never knowing why this is happening?

[true_noir]

Yes, it would, but the phrase "Be careful what you wish for" comes to mind, does it not? I am concerned what the answer might be, because some possibilities are probably much worse than others.

And if it just stops, we will forget eventually. Sometimes the simplest solution is best. I have a life, and if I am going mad, many things may come crashing down because of it. I do not wish that, and it is hard not to think something is wrong with me right now.

[twelfthspark]

[Whoops crap abort mission this is getting too real for Arlene]

I'm not going crazy so neither are you.

Anyway I'll get back to you about maybe getting flowers later.