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Riley Adams
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A Nice Day For a Sulk (dork troop) Jul 21, 2011 13:58:44 GMT -5

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Post by Riley Adams on Jul 21, 2011 13:58:44 GMT -5

Part of him wanted to agree with Cobalt because Riley didn't understand why Sean would just kill a thirty year friendship over a new man. Sean just didn't seem like that type. Not to Riley at least. But a small part of him was telling him that Josh was upset and that meant whoever was making him upset had to be at the wrong.

"I'm so confused." Riley said quietly, scratching his facial hair and leaning back in his chair as he listened to the shadow manipulator try to convince Josh to re-evaluate the situation. "But Josh has a point. I mean, introducing someone as an ex instead of a friend is...not a good thing...is it?" He asked slowly, more for himself to hear out loud than either of his friends.

If he knew what his friends were thinking about him, Riley would have blushed and his under a rock. Was he that obvious? He knew he showed more of his romantic side to his partners than his friends did but did he also make it obvious in public? That thought mortified him beyond belief, if it were true.

Riley bit his inner cheek when what Cobalt said reminded him of what Riley had told Leila about Danny. "Oh dear...is that a bad thing? Leila meeting Danny?" He truly hoped not!

"Me? Probably reading. Leila got me this book about bird calls. I'm gonna break into that hopefully." Oh simple life, Riley has it.

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A Nice Day For a Sulk (dork troop) Jul 21, 2011 14:18:42 GMT -5

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Post by Joshua Bernstein on Jul 21, 2011 14:18:42 GMT -5

Josh opened his mouth, intent on protesting, but Riley beat him to it. He felt a surge of affection for his large friend, thrilled that at least one of them was backing him up.

"See? Riley understands."

He realized that he sounded a bit like a petulant teenager, but he didn't care. He wasn't being mature or fair toward Griff, and maybe he was starting to feel a tiny itty bit guilty about it, but he still felt as if he was also sort of justified. Sort of. Dammit, Cobalt, stop asking reasonable questions.

"Well, no...." He admitted, squirming uncomfortably in his seat, "he didn't say it quite like that but it was obvious that Sean had framed our relationship as exes, not friends. There's no rational reason that Dr. Jones would waltz up to me and ask if I was Sean's ex if Sean had told him we were friends."

There. That made his position sound more logical.

Right?

"So..." Changing subjects. "Bird calls. I didn't know you were into bird watching, Riley?"

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A Nice Day For a Sulk (dork troop) Jul 22, 2011 3:13:06 GMT -5

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Post by Cobalt Weaver on Jul 22, 2011 3:13:06 GMT -5

Cobalt made a grumpy face at Josh. “Oh, don’t get like that with me. I’m on your side here.” As if it would ever be a question between Josh and Sean. “I’m just trying to understand here.”

“Well… I don’t know.” Cobalt threw up his hands, exasperated, “Look, you, I don’t like justifying Sean. At all. So I’m not gonna. I’m just saying that if you’re going to have a legitimate grievance with the guy, at least have it be justified, or own up that your reasons are unjustified in the first place. Like me,” He pointed to himself, “I have barely any justification to dislike Sean. Does that bother me? Nope.” He spread his hands out wide, “Besides, it’s not like Sean has no friends. Maybe he mentioned you, but Griff wasn’t sure it was you, you know?” That… made no sense, Cobalt didn’t think. “Asking ‘are you Sean’s friend’ wouldn’t help, because Sean has a lot of those here. Asking ‘are you Sean’s ex’ does narrow it down a little bit, since the majority of his exes are out of state except for you.”

“I mean,” Cobalt huffed out an irritated sigh, “If you’re going to dislike Sean, then great. That means I don’t have to be nice to him anymore, so I’m not worried. But I thought you’d be happy to find a reason that didn’t include Sean discarding your friendship. Whatever.” Now it was Cobalt’s turn to sound petulant.

“But to answer your question, Riley…” He paused. How was it best to explain that there were certain things that Danny knew that Leila shouldn’t know that he didn’t want to tell Josh and Riley quite yet? “…Never mind. I’m sure it’ll be fine if Leila and Danny meet. She’s just really…overfascinated with the fact that I was once a child, as unlikely as that is for her to believe. So she might interrogate Danny a little.”

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A Nice Day For a Sulk (dork troop) Jul 22, 2011 8:18:05 GMT -5

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Post by Riley Adams on Jul 22, 2011 8:18:05 GMT -5

"I can't say I actually understand but..." his voice trailed as Josh responded to Cobalt's remarks and then the shadow manipulator's rebuttal made him wince. "Maybe...maybe we're overthinking the situation. M-maybe we should change the subject? I don't want...um...this to escalate any further." Riley looked at both his friends nervously, afraid either one of them would snap at any time.

When the subject change came in the form of bird calls, Riley couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of the whole situation. "Um," he chuckled as he rubbed his face with one hand. "Yeah, no. I mean I wasn't but the book had some mighty interesting things that kind of caught my interest so it's worth checking out. I could bring Danny along with me." Riley brightened up. "And you guys too! If you wanted." He added as an afterthought. He figured, the two lawyers probably had too busy a schedule but really, the more the merrier!

"Oh," Riley gave the shadow manipulator a lopsided grin. "Leila's kinda good at the interrogating thing huh." He took the last bite of his sandwich, glad he actually managed to stomach the whole thing in spite of everything.

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A Nice Day For a Sulk (dork troop) Jul 25, 2011 22:06:44 GMT -5

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Post by Joshua Bernstein on Jul 25, 2011 22:06:44 GMT -5

Cobalt was absolutely correct that Josh would prefer a different explanation, but he'd willfully blinded himself to any alternatives because, from his perspective, there weren't any others possible. Not realistically.

But Riley's obvious discomfort was enough to keep him from continuing to debate his point. Instead he lapsed into silence once more, prodding unhappily at his spaghetti.

Each attempt at conversation seemed awkward and forced, and he simply didn't have the energy to keep up.

Neither of his friends were in a good place emotionally, either, another complication when it came to faking cheerfulness. None of them were feeling it, so why bother?

The remainder of lunch was spent in silence on his end, and for once he was glad to part ways with men he otherwise considered good friends.

It was so much easier to sulk alone.

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