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Recently, Alice had suggested that Webs purchase a laptop so they could keep in touch without her having to walk all the way to the Withering Woods. He had agreed and gotten one, only to find out that he had no wifi in his home.
So instead he had to go to the Bone Zone to use their free wifi. Which he wasn’t complaining about, that meant more beer for him.
He was sitting on one of the couches, and had just opened the laptop. Huh. A notification from the TOL group chat.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 hey anyone online
WebbedHunter yea just got to the bone zone
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 webs we still gotta get you a better username on here
Hey, his username was fine!
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 anyway it’s back to being really boring here. things have cooled down a lot. still kinda tense, but better
Flowerywitch That’s good to hear! Also, hi!
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 hi alice!
WebbedHunter hello lass!
DRLUDWIGFRANKENSTIEN Hi. It’s Bolt again, I’m borrowing the computer.
Flowerywitch What have you all been up to?
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 ughhh literally nothing!! like yeah theres the whole thing with my family being torn apart but now im back to being stuck on this island
WebbedHunter ive just been workin on bounties and stuff. nothing big
DRLUDWIGFRANKENSTIEN It’s been a lot of work helping set up the new homes.
Flowerywitch Well if any of you get bored you can come over to my house anytime! Bolt already met him, but Webs and Beatrice, you still need to meet Scruffy! The real Scruffy.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 yeah!!! id love to!
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 wait totally off topic but webs i have a question
WebbedHunter yeah? what is it?
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 have you talked to mothman like. at all? just curious.
Oh. Uhhh.
Why is the lass asking that???
He can tell the truth, why wouldn’t he? He’s got nothing to hide.
WebbedHunter yea. we talked. had a drink together
WebbedHunter he’s really tryin to be better i think. regrets what he did. what he said back on the ship wasn’t bs
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 oohh ok
There’s nothing more after that. Webs can’t help but get the feeling she’s talking somewhere else now. About him. Just a feeling.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 and then what happened?
WebbedHunter what do u mean??? nothin happened we just had a drink
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 you sure?
What is she trying to ask?? Huh???
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 liiiike it was just a normal interaction? nothing special?
WebbedHunter lass what in the underworld are u on about??
There’s a few minutes of Beatrice typing.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 yknow! enemies to lovers!! i can see it
What.
WebbedHunter are u suggestin me and the moth are lovers????
He’s about to start typing a whole rant on why that is NOT true, but stops when he sees Beatrice typing again.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 yes it’s like. a specific thing! you hated each other before and now you have feelings for each other! i saw back on the ship! i could sense it.
WebbedHunter u must be readin the wrong books then! we arent lovers!!! i just thought id give him another chance!
But that message is making him think.
Is that what those feelings were? Of wanting to spend more time with Mothman, and actually caring about his well being.
No, no they can’t be. Beatrice must be full of it. Read too many books! Reading is overrated anyway. Why does his face feel warm- is he flustered by all of this??? Over feelings he doesn’t even have??
Because he doesn’t have them, he assures himself. Really.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 if you say so. but if you ever wanna talk about it just message us!
He doesn’t want to do that!!!! Especially not to Beatrice, with her… what did she call it? “Shipping”?? He barely paid attention when she talked about stuff like that.
WebbedHunter listen even if u were right, why would those feelings even be returned? you’ve seen me.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 aw come on you arent too bad!
WebbedHunter lass, i got rejected at least three times in one night. u were there for some of it
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 oh yeah true LOL
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 your chances arent zero tho. he could like you back!
WebbedHunter woah woah woah hold on now i just told u that i dont have feelins for him!! it’s not like i lie awake at night thinkin about him!
There’s more silence from the other end, Beatrice not replying for a couple minutes. Again, he gets that feeling they’re talking about him.
xXxBlOoDrOgUe666 alright, i wont push it
For some reason, he doesn’t believe that will last long.
WebbedHunter im loggin off for now. beatrice, dont be gettin any ideas about me and mothman, okay??
He closes the laptop, storing it away in his bag. He needs a drink. It would certainly get his mind off of everything complicated. So off he goes, over to the main room of the Bone Zone, immediately beelining (spiderlining?) towards the bar.
Webs sits down, ordering a drink. And then another. And then a third. As expected, it does get his mind off of things.
…But not for long.
Really, really, really, what is he thinking?? All these stupid thoughts invading his brain and refusing to go away. He can’t stop thinking about that stupid moth. Get out!!!
He still refuses to talk to anyone about this. They don’t need to know. Especially not Beatrice.
Ugh. He needs another beer. Maybe THEN it’ll get the thoughts to go away. Or it’ll get worse.
He can gamble.
It got worse.
After Webs got home he had tried to immediately crash into his bed, only to lay awake staring at the ceiling, thinking about his problems. The problem being a certain MOTH.
What the heck does he do? He can’t just waltz up to Mothman like oi, mothball, i think yer pretty neat! or something STUPID like that! Their relationship is already tense as it is, this would just make it worse. It would probably make it so Mothman didn’t respect him anymore. Because what kind of fool would he have to be to ruin it all…
He rolls over, staring at the dirt wall now. Well. If he wants to spend more time with Mothman, he can just do that as friends.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
There’s no way this can possibly go wrong.