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Look I could tell from pretty early on he had a crush on you
And I suspected you guys had F I N A L L Y gotten together bc he has actually seemed genuinely happy in a way I don’t see very often
So you can see why I’m now worried and protective instincts have made me want to kick your ass ever since he showed up
Nick (6:39 p.m.)
if it helps i’ve been beating myself up since The Incident (tm)
Lucy (Brady’s sister) (6:40 p.m.)
It does.
So he’s having a crisis bc someone said you’re boyfriends, so my first question is are you boyfriends??
Nick considered how to answer. It was a test, and he wanted to pass, but he didn’t know Lucy or what she wanted to hear from him. While avoidance and gentle nudges had been his rule with Brady, he decided that wouldn’t get him anywhere with Lucy. Not knowing any better, honesty was probably his best policy.
Nick (6:47 p.m.)
i don’t think we are boyfriends since we have never actually said the words ‘boyfriend’ or ‘relationship’ to each other. from an outside perspective - and i say this with confidence bc i have several outsiders who have confirmed this - we LOOK like we’re dating. we hang out with each other, we go out with each other, we have sex and spend the night with each other, we go to parties together…
prbly from the second i met him (okay maybe it was like the month and not the second, he’s hot but he’s the grumpy silent type y’know?), i wanted to hook up with your brother… and not long after that i realized what i actually wanted was to date him and have been doing my best since then
and seriously i’m sorry if i’ve made him miserable i really didn’t want to i have been trying to avoid that the whole time and i’ve been trying to fix it since it happened but he won’t talk to me and i don’t know what to do
so i’m kinda at your mercy right now
like srsly tell me what to do and i’ll do it. you say jump i’ll ask how high
The minutes ticked by, and he wondered if he’d failed. He looked over what he’d said, trying to find anything that could be interpreted badly or labeled him “Human Disaster: Do Not Allow Near Brother.”
Lucy (Brady’s sister) (7:06 p.m.)
Ok so imho you idiots need to talk in person
I would NOT recommend you drive to Pittsburgh to do that. Grand gesture that it might be, you’d just freak him out and make it worse
I’ll get him back in Maryland and I’ll put it into his head that he should talk to you
That’s what I can do on my end the rest is up to you. You gotta convince him that you’re boyfriend material
(And you might have to agree to be secret boyfriends I honestly don’t know what he can handle he’s not got a lot of dating experience and he shies away from the guy thing most of the time)
(Being publicly into guys has never gone well for him so keep that in mind)
So figure out what’s a deal-breaker for you, what you personally can handle, and be ready to put that out in the open and hash it out
He waited patiently to see if there was more coming before he responded. If he’d learned anything from Jenna over the years, it was not to interrupt when he was being given valuable information.
Nick (7:15 p.m.)
okay i’ll do my best
you sure you can get him to come back???
Lucy (Brady’s sister) (7:16 p.m.)
I’m a newlywed and my brother is sleeping on my couch. I’m pretty sure I can traumatize him into leaving. You let me handle that, you just figure out what you wanna say, k?
