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punkscowardschampions · 8 months ago

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Sulu

Sekhmet: 👋🏽✨🌸🧁🩰🎀💝👋🏽 This is like SUCH a bizarre request to have to pose that I can only assume that’s why [the head of drama/this production] is making ME do it, save the cases 💁🏽‍♀️

Sekhmet: But we need your measurements, to start on your costume, can adjust and be more exact at your first try-on, saves me chasing around every cast member

Lulu: Golly, how potentially triggering 🚩🚩💣

Lulu: the rest of the cast must be shook, [someone we’re being a bitch about] to her core! 💔😔

Lulu: but as of last night [her exact measurements to a freakishly accurate degree] 😘

Sekhmet: Mhmm… the Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity Society are probably on the case as we speak

Sekhmet: [this poor person] doesn’t need to worry though, there’s not a body that doesn’t suit tailoring over everyone wearing some one-size-fits-all monstrosity 💔😱

Sekhmet: Naturally, I’ll make sure you look extra snatched 😘

Lulu: When it’s giving sack it’s giving opening night screening at the wretched RE film soc instead of stage debut, I could never

Lulu: 😱 I’d be snatched by any other name 🥀 & to an entirely different degree, naturally 😱

Sekhmet: 🤪🤭 No but why had no one BC heard of a belt?

Sekhmet: You’re SO lucky, girl, this play is giving high fashion in comparison to last year’s end-of-year

Lulu: They’d heard of bdsm the book’s FULL of it & so is EVERY era painting, priorities be like…

Lulu: That’s me, in the incapable hands of whatever dyslexic runs the inclusivity club 🙄

Sekhmet: So those are the kind of movies they’re watching in that society… I knew there had to be a reason ANYONE joined

Sekhmet: Thanks for the reading rec 🙏🏽

Sekhmet: What’s your role? I have [the teacher]’s notes but what do YOU want your costume to represent?

Lulu: You’re beyond welcome, it’s a real page turner & not at ALL a dry bore of a 📖

Lulu: Oh, I play [whoever your role is] & [pop off about it because you are a nerd and you clearly wanna do this or you wouldn’t be]

Sekhmet: I know there’s a LOT of incredibly hot fashion that takes from it, McQueen’s A/W 96 Dante collection could never be wrong OR a bore 🥵🥵🥵🥵

Sekhmet: You got it, I’m gonna start sketching immediately

Lulu: Bad luck for that girl Eden who doesn’t live up to her name, do you know her? It’s terribly tragic 😢

Sekhmet: I know most everyone here, to a point

Sekhmet: You don’t like her?

Lulu: I don’t like anyone here, to a point

Sekhmet: Bad luck for us

Sekhmet: Why not?

Lulu: A super long story, you’ve got one to read & sketches to start

Sekhmet: I refuse to believe it’s rivalling the length of the bible but I hear ya 🤐

Sekhmet: What are you doing this evening?

Lulu: I refuse to join you for bible study, however tempting the offer clearly is

Sekhmet: Something tells me we’d fall at the first hurdle and that is not my style

Lulu: Mine neither

Sekhmet: I didn’t need notes for that one

Sekhmet: What’s your horse called?

Lulu: Kasparov

Sekhmet: Suitably grand, I like it

Lulu: What’s yours called?

Lulu: [make some fashion related guesses for designers you think it could be]?

Sekhmet: My first ever pony was Coco, I didn’t know much more back then but she was such a sweetheart

Sekhmet: Madame, for Madame Grès, the full title felt like a lot but if you don’t know her, you should look her up, you’d like her style

Lulu: 🥺 I still don’t know much more than that, about fashion

Lulu: to me, grès is a sort of stone

Sekhmet: She was a sculptor, well, she was trained but her family didn’t want her to be one, so she designed dresses like Grecian statues

Lulu: She changed her name for privacy numerous times, I love that

Sekhmet: They called her The Sphinx of Fashion, which could only be fitting for my girl, given how Egyptian mama went with our names

Lulu: She really did that, a BOLD move

Lulu: not that I have any room to talk with how mummy was 🎲🎲

Sekhmet: I know, people learn to pronounce it when given reason though so I’m not that mad

Sekhmet: Your name is soft

Lulu: But a double - did she have to? Pick one, darling, no one’ll accuse us of being impoverished, it’s fine

Sekhmet: The real question is do you feel you fared better than your sister?

Sekhmet: I know I do

Lulu: Undeniably, as I should

Sekhmet: 🥂

Lulu: In answer to your earlier question, what I’ll be doing this evening is falling further down the 👗 rabbit hole 😍🥰

Sekhmet: You are SO welcome!

Sekhmet: I can’t get any of my friends interested in fashion beyond buying it, which, fair enough but 😩😩😩

Sekhmet: Your evening is shaping up better than mine

Lulu: Buying would prove rather redundant in my case 😩😩😩

indeed

Lulu: but let’s focus on how offensive it is you’re not excited to spend the evening designing my health & safety approved corset!

Sekhmet: No way, you’re like sample size, you should be wearing ALL the couture ALL the time, it’s practically your duty 😍👏🏽

Sekhmet: OMG, don’t get me started 😒😒 like swooning is entirely appropriate, it’s actually the point, hello???

Sekhmet: If I had my way… 😅

Lulu: I escaped Dolly by name but not by nature, my duty is to parade around in whatever monstrosity mummy tells me to 😇

Lulu: sometimes her wild choices do make me feel awfully faint

Sekhmet: Then we have to introduce her to [some designers you are saying would actually suit this girl] as a matter of urgency

Lulu: Your sense of urgency will have to wait until she’s back from [wherever the hell your parents are because they are always somewhere atm]

Sekhmet: Nice for some

Sekhmet: meanwhile we’re stuck languishing at a school that doesn’t even want to allow heels on stage, for God’s sake

Lulu: Honestly! In what world would anyone but [someone else we’re dragging] fall to her death

Sekhmet: Exactly! I said, if you can’t walk in heels by seniors, what hope do you really have on stage or anywhere, for that matter

Lulu: I’ve been doing the 📚 balancing act since I was practically a toddler, no brag, it’s just, like, a necessary life skill to be able to walk with some poise

Sekhmet: 🥺

Sekhmet: Girl after my own heart

Lulu: My modelling career was short-lived but all blame to the cringe photographer & his less than thrilling backdrops

Sekhmet: How old were you?

Lulu: [the age range you were when your mother tried to force this but couldn’t make fetch happen]

Lulu: VERY pre glow up 😳💀

Sekhmet: That is so adorable

Sekhmet: I WILL demand evidence when I am taking your mother down the rabbit hole of what to wear

Lulu: OMG make no such demands! I was THE ginger-est child you’ve ever seen! It was horrific 😬

Lulu: 📸 doesn’t just wash me out I’m literally washed away 👋🏻

Sekhmet: Your hair is the most gorgeous colour, I refuse to believe it’s anything but the photographer’s fault

Lulu: [send her the most unflattering pics you can find of the previous play she mentioned like well I’m not gonna get any good ones when we do ours either lol, dragging whoever took these for the school’s website to filth]!!

Sekhmet: 😶😶😶

Sekhmet: I haven’t seen some of those, [naming some of these peeps] will FREAK if they see the light of day

Lulu: If they don’t get their top uni places they’ll know why, those would actually have a negative impact & I’ve never felt so second-hand embarrassed

Sekhmet: Never?

Sekhmet: I need to show you around some more

Lulu: Well…

Lulu: okay, every class I’m in is populated with incel boys & pick-me girls, never is a stretch OR I’m growing more & more dead inside from the constant 😳💀

Sekhmet: YIKES, what subjects did you choose?

Sekhmet: I thought the arty types I was stuck with were tiresome enough

Lulu: Maths, Chemistry & Physics 🤓

Sekhmet: So you’re surrounded by THE worst people but you’re going to be SO rich, I see the vision

Lulu: Inherited wealth isn’t going to be, not the way my parents blow through it

Lulu: & my daddy’s idea of a jolly good investment is [something which absolutely isn’t and we’re calling him stupid]

Sekhmet: What will you do with yours?

Lulu: That WOULD be telling & you’re far from a confidante for being trusted with my measurements

Sekhmet: Wait until I’ve measured you in person

Lulu: With no less than utterly bated breath

Sekhmet: Save it for when you’ve got the corset on

Lulu: My faux corset couldn’t cause a swoon if it tried, you said so

Sekhmet: Give me time

Sekhmet: [the drama teacher] can be persuaded

Lulu: Until opening night, that’s everyone’s deadline

Sekhmet: Do you get stage fright?

Lulu: Do I look like a masochist?

Sekhmet: 🤔

Lulu: 🤭 take your time but I don’t get stage fright

Sekhmet: I won’t stitch a safety net for you then

Lulu: You’ll be too busy attacking me with pins to see how I react now

Sekhmet: No, no, not if you stay still

Lulu: I wouldn’t dream of moving unless you told me to

Sekhmet: You make an excellent Dolly, I remember

Lulu: I’ve had years of practice

Sekhmet: 📚

Sekhmet: It shows

Lulu: All the world's a stage, to quote [the drama teacher] quoting the only playwright they’ve ever heard of

Sekhmet: It’s giving Coco, truly 🤭

Lulu: No, because that was adorable 🥺🥺

Sekhmet: [send her the content I really have of this horse and you riding it etc]

Lulu: [send her the content I really have of you as a kid on a horse which is literally that one pic]

Sekhmet: 😖 KILL ME

Sekhmet: What a little munchkin

Lulu: My first horse was called Gambit so I totally understand, we were naming in awkward parallel according to our interests

Sekhmet: We were totally precious

Lulu: YOU were

Lulu: mummy would die if she was your mother, she’d kill herself

Sekhmet: Why does that feel like the biggest compliment I’ve ever received maybe?

Lulu: Because it’s the biggest I’ve paid anyone ever

Sekhmet: You’re too sweet 😋

Lulu: I can see her now, doing it in the most dramatic fashion

Sekhmet: I’ll lend her my fabric scissors

Lulu: What makes them different from other scissors?

Sekhmet: Carbon steel, longer blades and sharper edges

Lulu: Wow

Sekhmet: I know

Lulu: Maybe I do care about fashion or I will from now on

Sekhmet: Then my work here is done ✂️💝

Lulu: You’re leaving me? ✂️💔💔💔

Sekhmet: No, no

Sekhmet: This is too interesting

Lulu: You can’t drop the news fabric scissors exist & then dip

Lulu: you’d have to lend them to me

Sekhmet: I see how it is 😏

Sekhmet: I’ll show you how sharp they are at your fitting

Lulu: Okay, I’ll count the seconds until my fitting, that’s what you want

Sekhmet: Is that what I want, are you sure?

Lulu: I know it is

Sekhmet: Do you want me to finish your costume first or last, that’s the question

Lulu: What do you think my answer is?

Sekhmet: I’m in two minds, so perhaps you are too

Sekhmet: You want me to want to finish yours first

Sekhmet: but you want to wait as long as you can to show you can too

Lulu: I’m of the mind what you want matters more

Sekhmet: I’m afraid I can’t bear leaving you any longer than the task requires I do

Lulu: It’s your task, your art

Sekhmet: No one will be able to take their eyes off you

Lulu: What does that feel like?

Sekhmet: Ribbon laced around you, tightening with each glance

Sekhmet: Does that make sense?

Lulu: Perfect sense

Sekhmet: Fabric scissors at your throat sounded too intense but it isn’t wrong

Lulu: Too intense can’t be wrong

Sekhmet: I don’t think so

Lulu: I’ve been labelled as such too many times for it not to fit

Sekhmet: It’s a good thing

Lulu: It feels good or I wouldn’t bother with the thing, I’m not labelled stupid

Sekhmet: You’re a smart girl, your classes didn’t come as a shock

Sekhmet: but neither does this

Lulu: I’m unshockable too

Sekhmet: I don’t think so

Lulu: Why? What are you thinking of?

Sekhmet: We aren’t there yet

Lulu: We’re [the seconds you have counted because maths nerd] seconds away

Sekhmet: 😅 Exactly

Sekhmet: You’re cute, I wish it were time now

Lulu: Can’t it be time for something else?

Sekhmet: What are you doing this evening?

Lulu: What do you want me to do?

Sekhmet: Come out with me

Lulu: You’ll have to dress me, I don’t know how

Sekhmet: Of course, it’s what I do

Lulu: You’re welcome to come here first but I mean it when I say the wardrobes have nothing to pull from, out of my uniform I look beastly

Sekhmet: I’ll show you what you can do with what you have

Sekhmet: Even if it is showing-off, that’s the kind of mood you’ve got me in

Lulu: Pride in the skills you have is valid for every mood

Sekhmet: What clubs do you go to?

Lulu: 😳 …unless you mean after school, I don’t 🤓😇

Sekhmet: 🤯🤯

Sekhmet: So the adorable angel bit isn’t completely one, interesting

Lulu: My parents have lots of parties, I’m not like [someone we’re shading yet again]

Sekhmet: We’ll go somewhere young then, out of your comfort zone

Lulu: If this is an elaborate practical joke, it’s been tried already, most of them have

Sekhmet: God, no

Sekhmet: We’re 17 not 7

Lulu: Tell me about it, I ADORE your school & being the 👽 new girl just because I spoke French instead of English a few times

Sekhmet: You have to teach me, my French is TERRIBLE

Sekhmet: How am I gonna work in Paris without your help

Lulu: Mine’s Swiss which they’d definitely bully you for in Paris but yonks ago I learned what the differences are & how not to trip up

Sekhmet: Were you there for the banking?

Sekhmet: You must miss it, your friends

Lulu: My friends, my boyfriend, everything

Sekhmet: Aw, what’s your boyfriend called?

Lulu: Gabe

Lulu: Gabriel 😇

Sekhmet: So perfect

Sekhmet: Well, we’ll keep you busy so you can’t miss him too bad

Lulu: It’s a top 10 baby name there but we’ll pretend his mother tried harder than my next door neighbour with [the chelsea equivalent of a popular boy’s name] 😅

Sekhmet: When there’s at least 5 [whatever name] per class, it really loses the shine

Lulu: In my class there were only [and the top 10 girls names because girls school, I’m not gonna look them up to make this point when we’re joking and only some of y’all were called that]

Sekhmet: I bet the uniform was RIDICULOUS

Sekhmet: another picture I gotta see

Lulu: [send her one of you wearing said uniform because I’m sure you have all your pics from your cult school close to hand because you’re in your hardcore missing it era]

Sekhmet: You look so 😁

Lulu: I was

Sekhmet: Will you go back, are there good Unis there?

Lulu: I can’t, mummy thinks the country is the size of a postage stamp & EVERYONE knows & deeply deeply cares why we left 🙄

Lulu: she’s right anyway, it is ruined

Sekhmet: I know you’re not going to tell me, it’s cool, I’m not going to ask

Sekhmet: You’ll have to bring the energy to wherever you go next

Lulu: I didn’t do anything apart from have my life wrecked, it was my sister’s attention-seeking act

Lulu: & really, what’s to tell? It’s a girls boarding school, pick the most blatant means of getting kicked out, because she did

Sekhmet: I hear the rumours, I just don’t take them in as the truth

Sekhmet: She really let you be collateral? That’s low

Lulu: She’s the lowest that’s why she’s bringing religion into her bind

Lulu: mummy & daddy aren’t going to forgive her & neither will I, my soft touch grandparents & god are it 👋🏻

Sekhmet: Never?

Sekhmet: You aren’t waiting for a suitable price paid by her or the most opportune moment to play saviour yourself?

Lulu: Anyone else, of course I would be

Lulu: but she was different

Lulu: I trusted only her and she betrayed me as completely

Sekhmet: I get it

Sekhmet: a bridge too far, there have to be some rules that can’t be broken

Lulu: The bridge is in ashes, she broke me & she doesn’t even feel sorry

Sekhmet: I’m sorry, for what that is or isn’t worth

Sekhmet: I don’t know what I’d do in your position, if Hath did that to me

Lulu: I’m sorry you’re here to witness me at my literal worst, I’m a dreadful mess because of her

Lulu: I never anticipated being in this position & I truly don’t know what to do

Sekhmet: I’m not judging you

Sekhmet: Not even a bit, your sister however… 👀

Lulu: I am, I should’ve seen it coming, it’s what I do

Sekhmet: Had it happened before, like lesser aggressions and betrayals?

Sekhmet: Or was it completely out of the blue

Lulu: It couldn’t have been more out of the blue

Lulu: we were devoted to each other, I still don’t understand how or why she’d do any of what she did

Sekhmet: Crazy…

Sekhmet: There HAS to be a reason there

Lulu: She was willing to make me collateral damage to cause our parents the upset she HAD to

Sekhmet: Oh, teenage rebellion

Sekhmet: 🙄😬

Lulu: My second-hand embarrassment is back hardcore

Sekhmet: I won’t bother getting to know her now

Lulu: 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Lulu: you’re an absolute brick

Sekhmet: Of course, it’s not like we could be friends now, WAY too much drama and no loyalty, what’s to like?

Lulu: True, but don’t you think I’m bringing as much drama?

Sekhmet: No, not to me

Sekhmet: You’ve been hurt by her actions but that’s not your fault, we’ve all got that kind of baggage

Lulu: I can’t imagine anyone hurting you, not on purpose & not without being the most sorry

Sekhmet: Well, I can make almost anyone sorry, of course 💁🏽‍♀️😘

Sekhmet: People do it unwittingly, more often than not, I’ve found

Lulu: Fall at your feet? Yeah, I don’t doubt you’ve found that

Sekhmet: 😏 Hurt people, I meant

Lulu: Sure you did

Sekhmet: Is that how I seem to you? 🤔

Lulu: Unwittingly means you don’t encourage it, it isn’t a reflection on you, more a light shone on the people around you & they seem fully capable of 😍🥰

Sekhmet: I think I’m flattered

Lulu: Every day of your life, I’m assuming

Sekhmet: Oh, please

Sekhmet: Like you’re totally unfamiliar with that

Lulu: Oh, please

Lulu: I’m not ravishing, I’m just thin & not a brunette bore

Sekhmet: 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️

Sekhmet: Be so fucking for real!

Sekhmet: You’re doing a bit, yeah?

Lulu: I am for real, if I didn’t have those exact measurements I wouldn’t get looked twice at, there’s the trickery

Sekhmet: I know every trick in the 📚

Sekhmet: You can’t fake what you have

Lulu: I have discipline at the dinner table, that’s all

Sekhmet: If this is true, then my new mission is to get you to see the real truth that I’m seeing

Lulu: You’ll over mission yourself, mummy’s fashion faux pas list alone is full time

Sekhmet: I’m productive

Lulu: I’m aware

Sekhmet: You don’t want to like it here, I get that

Sekhmet: but you can like me

Lulu: Bold of you to assume I can like anyone once you’ve been told my intensity level

Lulu: I’m my mother’s child, obsessed or utterly apathetic

Sekhmet: I don’t see a problem there

Lulu: It wouldn’t be one for you, you’re used to being the object of desire

Sekhmet: But for you?

Lulu: I wouldn’t survive you, not now

Sekhmet: I’m not going to hurt you

Lulu: People don’t intend to, right? Isn’t that what you wrote?

Sekhmet: I’m not people

Lulu: You’re a person, making promises you can’t keep

Sekhmet: I haven’t promised

Lulu: Because you know it’d be broken & I’m already in pieces

Sekhmet: You’re not going to see if I could put even two pieces back together?

Sekhmet: Isn’t that worth the risk?

Lulu: The risk to me, but it’s too ugly what she did & who I am in the frightful aftermath to subject you to

Lulu: what you think you see, more than flatters me, even if it is a ridiculously false narrative, it’s worth something

Sekhmet: I’m glad

Sekhmet: Seriously, you’re welcome if that’s all that comes of this then that’s worth something to me too

Lulu: I can see how liking you would give people a reason to feel glad, doubly if they were liked back

Sekhmet: You’re adorable, you don’t have to compliment me, truly

Sekhmet: I’m not going to take it personally, this is about your sister

Lulu: Yours is lucky

Sekhmet: I don’t think she’s interested in me these days

Sekhmet: No great fall out or stab in the back, not to say it’s worse but it’s a different type of pain, that’s for sure…

Lulu: 🤯🤯 What or who else could come close to half as interesting? 🤯🤯 Full offence to her 👀

Sekhmet: That’s what I want to know

Sekhmet: It’s gotta be something/someone 🤯🤯🤯

Lulu: No one from school then 🥱

Sekhmet: Honestly 🤭

Lulu: I thought she’d be coming out with us when you extended that clubbing offer, which you’re free & totally fine to retract after discovering how crazy I am btw

Sekhmet: She likes to go to raves and squat parties, I don’t know if I could convince her to come to a club any more than I could get you there 😅

Lulu: I can’t speak for her, but I’d go anywhere you asked me to

Lulu: vile field & whatever a squat party is?? included

Sekhmet: We’d have to leave Surrey, think [giving London postcodes that are poorer]

Sekhmet: not the direction I aim to go in but you know, that’s her MO, I guess 🤷🏽‍♀️

Lulu: No judgement because my sister’s idea of fun is spending her free time with my grandma exclusively

Lulu: they’re teetotal besties & she isn’t a grandma like [insert someone cool but old from the era], it’s insanity

Sekhmet: SUCH a vivid picture has been painted, I just thought she was shy but okay

Sekhmet: the judgment of me would be SO real from her, I can feel it 😱🥶

Lulu: That’s what she wants everyone to think & it worked on sir so why not? 👌🏻👌🏻 But ask my grandparents & I’m the manipulative one

Sekhmet: Aha

Sekhmet: 😇 hiding 😈s

Lulu: She’s her father’s daughter, finding it thrilling to be stared at however mortifying the reason if everyone’s looking

Lulu: could never be me, I need praise for how 🤓 or 😇 I am, but go off you two

Sekhmet: What does your dad do?

Lulu: You’re NOT ready

Sekhmet: Now you HAVE to tell me

Lulu: You have to come over, I’ll SHOW you

Sekhmet: Now I know it’s good

Sekhmet: I wouldn’t attempt to lure you over with promises of my dad’s office, it’s truly not that thrilling, we can’t pretend

Lulu: You’ll shriek

Sekhmet: 😱 or 🤣?

Lulu: Depends on the track

Sekhmet: NO

Lulu: I know! 💀

Sekhmet: Not the rock star, that makes A LOT of sense for your mum actually

Sekhmet: I see the vision

Lulu: They are so gauche, it’s unbearable

Sekhmet: You poor thing

Sekhmet: It’ll have to be a room makeover next then

Lulu: If only

Lulu: you’re going to be gagged by how wannabe 😎🎸 the house is

Sekhmet: Okay, give me a month to convince them to reno, don’t want to overpromise THAT hard

Lulu: [write the date a month from today whatever that may be like okay there’s your deadline] 📅💞

Sekhmet: Your parents better make a couple IRL appearances in that time or I’m really going to have to do the 📱💞 work

Lulu: You could do the 🛫🤍🛬 work of meeting them IRL in [wherever they are cos we all know the vibe is they aren’t gonna reappear in that month]

Sekhmet: ☁️💫 sure beats my Young Enterprise classes any day

Lulu: The boys in those classes… I don’t know how you do it

Sekhmet: I just find it cute, how they act as if they’re already top rate businessmen because their dads are

Lulu: Some of their daddies 📈💳💵💴💶💷

Lulu: the others are play acting along with their sons 💼👔⌚️

Sekhmet: Exactly, and how could I do anything but coo at that 👶🏽 behaviour?

Lulu: I’m not that girl

Sekhmet: I figured 😏

Lulu: Oh, you think you’ve got me all figured out?

Sekhmet: Not all, no need to be offended, honey

Sekhmet: I’ll give another 📅💞 for that

Lulu: You’ll have until [whenever their last day of school ever is], [the name of their school] doesn’t give the impression it’d frown on Dolly getting up to her old tricks

Sekhmet: And once you’re done here, you’re 🛫🤍🛬 for good

Lulu: The ultimate 📅💞

Sekhmet: I’m not concerned

Lulu: What are you?

Sekhmet: Confident

Lulu: Used to getting your own way

Sekhmet: That makes it sound undeserved

Lulu: Overindulged if you were someone else who didn’t bring anything but we both know that isn’t you

Sekhmet: Or a 😸

Lulu: I’m not that girl either 🐶💕

Sekhmet: I’ve seen your pup on your socials

Lulu: & now you’ll get to meet him IRL too 😊

Lulu: Monty can’t wait, he adores having people over & besides Gabe’s visits I rudely deprive him

Sekhmet: Awh, he wants the social life moreso 🥺

Lulu: I’m such a bad mother 😢

Sekhmet: When did he last have a visit?

Lulu: [Whenever that was, like if this is September then sometime in the summer hols deffo]

Lulu: poor baby 🥺

Sekhmet: You or Monty?

Lulu: Gabe, most of all, naturally

Sekhmet: That’s what I like to hear

Lulu: I have to hear about what a bore it is for him waiting for his uni term to start like he wasn’t told he could stay until then 🙄🙄

Sekhmet: Boyfriends truly are exhausting, I always want rid when I’ve got one

Lulu: How completely relatable

Lulu: Have you got one?

Sekhmet: Yes, I can’t stand being lonely for long

Sekhmet: he’s not a totally tiresome business baby though, don’t worry

Lulu: [a post she’s pulled from the boy’s insta because has clearly stalked and found him via hers or tags or whatever]

Lulu: Is this who he is?

Sekhmet: 🔎

Sekhmet: That’s him

Lulu: & is he coming out with us?

Sekhmet: How awful to make you the third wheel like that, definitely not

Lulu: Aren’t your friends coming anyway?

Sekhmet: They could

Sekhmet: A girls night is a totally different vibe to me hooking up with my man all night though, that’s so uncool

Lulu: I assumed they were, as a given

Lulu: maybe I’ve totally misread the vibe

Sekhmet: I can put out the call, for sure

Lulu: But you weren’t going to?

Sekhmet: I hadn’t thought to, no

Sekhmet: I didn’t know if that would be too much

Lulu: Because I’m too loony & sad

Sekhmet: No

Sekhmet: because you seemed shy, or at least shyer than all that, I didn’t want to scare you off

Lulu: Anti-social not shy

Sekhmet: Here, yeah

Sekhmet: agreeing to go out with me isn’t necessarily agreeing to go out with a whole group but if that’s what you want, we can

Lulu: I know why I don’t want that, why don’t you?

Sekhmet: Because I asked you out

Sekhmet: I’ve been out with my friends too many times to count, I’m not showing them anything new

Lulu: I hate to burst your bubble, darling, but it’s highly unlikely you’re showing me anything new

Sekhmet: You said you’d not been out like this

Sekhmet: I didn’t say it would be mindblowing, still new, like your altered outfit

Lulu: Okay

Sekhmet: Is it a plan then?

Lulu: Yours & I surrender to it as originally devised, no alterations of my own

Sekhmet: Good

Sekhmet: it’s a great plan

Lulu: If you do say so yourself 😄

Sekhmet: You’ve got to withhold your judgment until you’ve given it a suitable crack, that’s just fair

Lulu: I’ll try and be sporting as though we’re 🎾

Sekhmet: If it’s truly that awful, I’ll let you pair with me next 🎾 instead of [whoever she has been that we’re saying isn’t as good as us]

Lulu: Meaning I’ll have to poker face through the whole night pretending it’s beastly to rid myself of [her partner] & have you play with me

Sekhmet: Now I’m helping you with your acting too, see, told you it was great

Lulu: You’ll feel a huge sense of pride watching me perform knowing you’ve had a hand in it

Sekhmet: Both hands, blood, sweat and tears if you include how you look in your costume and how that’ll make you feel on stage

Lulu: Which one of us is crying?

Sekhmet: I can see now how pretty you look when you cry

Lulu: Daddy’s music would have anyone with taste on the verge of tears, I guess I can show you that too

Sekhmet: What if I can’t bear it?

Lulu: The music? No what if there, it’s ghastly

Sekhmet: 😅

Sekhmet: We’ll go with that

Lulu: If you hate seeing me cry, I’ll stop

Sekhmet: I won’t hate anything you do

Lulu: You’ll loathe my clothes, they’re a crime against fashion

Sekhmet: I’ll adore ripping them to shreds to fix then

Lulu: & I’ll be devoted to watching you

Sekhmet: You won’t believe how much can be done, from the tackiest, gaudiest rags, I swear

Lulu: I believe you

Sekhmet: You will, in me and my skills, completely

Lulu: Mummy & daddy wouldn’t recognise me

Sekhmet: Equally undeniable how fucking incredible you’ll look though, blame me entirely if they still want to disagree

Lulu: They will, the idea of me being incredible is entirely foreign to them

Sekhmet: 🥺

Sekhmet: They’ll need to come back home to witness it for themselves, see you like I do

Lulu: I hope they never do, we’ll be having way too much fun in their absence

Sekhmet: True

Sekhmet: be my girl instead then

Lulu: I can be whoever you want, I’m an actress

Sekhmet: You need to be yourself

Lulu: You wouldn’t like her

Sekhmet: I want to be intrigued, not entertained

Lulu: What happens when you find out I’m not very interesting?

Sekhmet: I show you how to make interesting things happen

Lulu: No one has ever answered a question I’ve asked as perfectly as that was

Sekhmet: You deserve interesting things to happen to you, just like me

Lulu: I need something to change for the better, for once

Sekhmet: This is it

Lulu: You’re being the change I wish to see in the 🌎

Sekhmet: It’s too big for your ❤️ to be stuck in Switzerland forever, you need to see more with me

Lulu: [give her your address]

Lulu: come & see the garish cage I need freeing from first, there truly is SO much gold

Sekhmet: 🔐🕊

Lulu: He’d love if I had the voice for daddy daughter duets, it wouldn’t at all threaten his fragile ego

Sekhmet: Well I’ll need you to sing, I need to allow for your diaphragm’s full expansion in your corset

Lulu: Pick a song & I’ll be word perfect by [whenever this first fitting is]

Sekhmet: Good

Sekhmet: I’ll tighten those extra inches I’m not meant to for you

Lulu: I won’t tell, I am good

Sekhmet: You’ll feel it when you have no room to catch your breath

Lulu: I can hold it for yonks, I used to whenever my grandma was being horrid to me

Sekhmet: To scare her?

Lulu: Yeah

Sekhmet: I love it

Lulu: She hates me, she’d have me committed if that was still an acceptable punishment for your relatives

Sekhmet: How awful, why, what’s her problem?

Lulu: Dolly finished the job mummy’s jealousy started of turning her against me, neither of them can do any wrong, so I am

Sekhmet: You’re stuck, aren’t you

Lulu: Every 🎄🎅🏻

Lulu: but it could be worse, it was every hol when I was younger

Sekhmet: You should be treated like a 🎁

Sekhmet: every hol

Lulu: I’d die if anyone tried now

Sekhmet: By everyone

Lulu: I’m not you, not a 🎁

Sekhmet: You are, you’re mine

Lulu: I can’t tell if you’re going to unwrap me or tie me up in knots

Lulu: but I accept either way 🎀

Sekhmet: TBD, no schedule

Lulu: [send her a picture of you in a dressing gown because ready for this try on clothes sesh, with a ribbon in your hair to keep it out of the way]

Sekhmet: You are so beautiful

Lulu: No, but I’m ready to be made to look it by you

Sekhmet: I can see how ready you are

Lulu: [a goosebumps pic because true]

Sekhmet: �� OBSESSED

Lulu: You can’t leave me here alone, even think to

Sekhmet: I’m coming, you promised we’d have fun

Lulu: This feels like a game I’m incapable of winning

Sekhmet: You didn’t realise you could want anything more than a win, right

Lulu: I’m not that girl

Lulu: but suddenly I am

Sekhmet: You’ve only just tapped the potential of the girl you are

Lulu: You’ve tapped into it, we’re blaming you

Sekhmet: Oh, right

Sekhmet: I can handle it

Lulu: Whoever I am?

Sekhmet: Who you are

Lulu: You have to want her

Sekhmet: I’m here, I sought you out

Lulu: Technically, you sought out my measurements

Lulu: Gabe wants my body & I could throw it at hundreds of boys, I don’t care about that

Sekhmet: That was a reason to

Lulu: Why would you ever need to hide behind a flimsy excuse?

Sekhmet: It was a test

Lulu: How did I do?

Sekhmet: I’m still here, and on my way

Lulu: Grade me, I need to know

Sekhmet: B+

Lulu: Because?

Sekhmet: We got to the right answer but there were a couple of diversions on the way

Lulu: I wasn’t focused enough, I’m sorry

Sekhmet: You seem like a girl who needs a goal to work towards anyway

Lulu: Absolutely

Sekhmet: Then I pass my test in return by not placating with an A*

Lulu: It matters to you whether or not things are deserved, you’ve used the word lots

Sekhmet: No one has told me they’ve noticed that before, I hadn’t

Sekhmet: but I suppose it does, yeah

Lulu: Fair too, I don’t know anyone else who really cares about what is or isn’t enough to bring it up, my family certainly doesn’t

Sekhmet: Does make me sound like a good person, much more 😇 than I am

Lulu: You’ve been nothing but 😇 to me & I don’t make it easy, I know

Sekhmet: I hate to burst your bubble, darling, but you’re not that scary

Lulu: I don’t want to scare you off, believe it or not, this is a toned down version of me, darling

Sekhmet: That’s mutual

Lulu: When can we mutually agree to stop?

Sekhmet: When you stop being scared

Lulu: When you start protecting me I won’t have to do it myself

Sekhmet: What from?

Lulu: Opening myself up again is dangerous & reckless ✂️💔

Sekhmet: So’s shutting yourself off

Lulu: Touché

Sekhmet: And dying of boredom seems to me about the worst way anyone could go

Lulu: A broken heart is

Lulu: & less fixable than a dowdy hemline

Sekhmet: I don’t want to see either of us proved right

Lulu: You want fun & it’s been yonks since I was

Sekhmet: You want fun

Lulu: It’ll be okay, won’t it?

Sekhmet: Better than that

Lulu: I want you to still be here, it’s horrifically lonely

Lulu: I wasn’t even born by myself, I haven’t been prepared for independence in the slightest

Sekhmet: Did you two do everything together?

Lulu: She spent every second with me, awake & asleep

Lulu: it’s like I had to relearn it all after a coma, rewire myself totally, or she’s my phantom limb

Sekhmet: She must miss you too

Lulu: She doesn’t, I’m the twin she ate or finally got surgically removed from

Lulu: I miss her, Gabe misses her, Dolly’s thriving out of prison 🥳

Sekhmet: That’s as cold as you’ve tried to project

Sekhmet: Jesus

Lulu: Bad luck I’m not as 🥶

Sekhmet: This would be easier

Sekhmet: but you’ll have a life that’s full of ☀️ and 💞 whilst she clearly can’t

Lulu: Wait until you’ve seen my freckles pop in the ☀️

Lulu: you’ll be as overwhelmed as I am right now hearing you say that 🥺😢😭

Sekhmet: But Summer is YEARS away now

Sekhmet: 🥺😢😭

Lulu: It isn’t if we go on a weekend away 🛫🤍🛬

Lulu: or use half-term hols to our advantage 🧳👙

Sekhmet: Felix's family has a place in [whatever European country we’re saying here]

Sekhmet: he’s been dying to take me since before we went out 🤭🥰

Sekhmet: We should all go go, make it a party

Lulu: We aren’t guaranteed ☀️ until [whatever month you’ve just googled the info for the place she said] 📅💞

Lulu: but it’s still a yes

Sekhmet: 📍

Lulu: [tell her about your family holiday homes in this era because I’m sure y’all have multiple, but obvs as per we’re saying it in a slagging them off way not as a brag because everything they do is trashy and not it, feel free to include any your grandparents have as well so a potential shoutout to the villa Chlo ran away to when James left her haha because I think it was theirs, hey girl hey, definitely dropping that tea if they still have that gaff like mummy practically lived there when her first marriage ended etc etc because gotta throw in funny flop anecdotes for all of these places as you go, as I know you also will when she shows up and you give her a house tour, because your parents have so many of them]

Sekhmet: [swap your own stories because your fam would likewise have places even though you’re not shading your fam as hard of course you aren’t obnoxiously bragging either but yeah we know you don’t hate your parents so that is what it is lol]

Lulu: [take a moment to be a nerd and gush about wherever the ruster holiday homes are located, talking about the places you love in those destinations or the places you’d love to go to if you haven’t been, we know the vibes, we’re validating her parents making better choices than ours]

Sekhmet: The less-than-six-degrees-of-separation is really hitting rn

Lulu: It’s being almost related

Sekhmet: 🤯

Sekhmet: It’s wild, how close yet how far…

Lulu: Your daddy was mummy’s one who got away for longer than she’d ever care to admit, whilst sober 🤭

Sekhmet: Awh, that’s so sweet, poor thing

Lulu: My daddy gets hilariously sour about it, poor thing

Lulu: she has a frightful amount of past indiscretions for him to fret upon whilst blotto

Sekhmet: Men are so paranoid, it’s the cutest

Lulu: Gabe refuses to stop sulking about the co-ed thing, as if I personally championed the idea

Sekhmet: Your old school wasn’t? How did you two meet?

Lulu: His mother was the music mistress, he was forever hanging around to borrow some instrument or other

Sekhmet: 😏 Wow, original Gabe

Lulu: Honestly, I should invent a better story, but unlike mummy I don’t intend to bore my children with them

Sekhmet: Cliches are that for a reason, it’s a fun story

Lulu: Options were limited, needs must

Sekhmet: Sure, gotta do what you gotta do

Lulu: How did you & Felix meet?

Sekhmet: He’s on the Rugby team, I was watching my brother play, or we were there for someone else’s boyfriend, I forget

Sekhmet: but he first approached me at the after party

Lulu: Well of course he would

Lulu: How long ago?

Sekhmet: Last year

Sekhmet: some people changed school for sixth form, he was scared I might before we got the chance to talk

Lulu: He found his courage, bravo 👏🏻

Sekhmet: 🥰

Sekhmet: He’s pretty great

Lulu: But I’m dying to know why he hasn’t taken you to his family’s place yet, what’s he scared of now?

Sekhmet: I don’t know

Sekhmet: I might not be a family kind of girl

Lulu: It won’t be your fault

Lulu: his father probably has a mistress in residence

Sekhmet: 😅 Maybe you’re right

Lulu: Or perhaps he’s taken it a step further & committed to a second family, assuming he’s still able, those must be dreadfully tricky to schedule around

Sekhmet: Do you know any 2nd families?

Lulu: Both absolute secrets & the terribly poorly kept ones, it’s rife among daddy’s school friends, those who aren’t tellingly impotent anyway

Sekhmet: Do you think you could be that, the spares?

Lulu: Secrecy would mean it has its compensations, I’m sure

Lulu: moreso than the spare I’m made to feel when mummy’s eldest joins us

Sekhmet: Well, she is little Ms Perfect

Lulu: Miss only to her students, she doesn’t find it at all amusing if I address her like that

Sekhmet: It’s a shame she doesn’t teach here, that would be entertaining

Lulu: Tragic, isn’t it? What’s the point of her going into teaching if she isn’t eager to at least try & shape my young mind?

Sekhmet: We haven’t had a good student-teacher here in FOREVER

Sekhmet: Surely she’s offered to tutor you?

Lulu: Mummy would forbid it, her sole form of entertainment when she’s at home arrives in the form of her (mostly) imagined rivalry & exaggerated hatred between us

Sekhmet: I see

Sekhmet: What about Dolly, what’s her role in the production?

Lulu: In light of recent theatrics, her role has been axed

Sekhmet: You think your mum would be OBSESSED with it

Lulu: She’s devoted to stage managing

Sekhmet: Not her dramatics, gotcha

Lulu: We’re supposed to make her look good, spinning the scandal into a positive is beyond her

Sekhmet: You are making your sister sound worth knowing again but

Sekhmet: I did promise

Lulu: Old habits die the hardest

Sekhmet: 💔

Sekhmet: You live really close to Tansy, I’m surprised I haven’t seen you on your way in/out before

Lulu: Mummy & Nancy are sometimes close friends

Sekhmet: A love/hate affair

Lulu: Yeah

Sekhmet: At their big age too

Lulu: No wonder I was such a precocious child, needs must again

Sekhmet: You’ve been competing for her attention forever, that explains a lot

Lulu: Unfortunately it does, I’m a ghastly bundle of clichés 💔😔

Sekhmet: Babe, don’t be 💔😔

Sekhmet: Who isn’t?

Lulu: You’re not

Sekhmet: No?

Lulu: Not as yet

Sekhmet: We don’t know each other yet, right

Lulu: I know that much

Sekhmet: Doesn’t everyone end up disappointing though

Lulu: Without holding out hope someone isn’t going to, I’d have 0 to live for

Sekhmet: Sorry, major downer vibes there

Sekhmet: 🤐

Lulu: I’d be a fine one to talk telling you to shh when those are MY vibes

Sekhmet: Yes, it’s totally your fault that you’ve got me thinking about all the ways people are let downs

Sekhmet: Thanks 🤪🥴

Lulu: I’ll easily make it up to you by being anything but

Sekhmet: The confidence is 👌🏽👌🏽

Lulu: It would be awkward if I’d immediately let you down

Sekhmet: You haven’t, we’ve still got 📅💞 for fun

Lulu: 😁

Sekhmet: You’re too cute

Lulu: [send her a pic of you actually smiling like that because you do]

Sekhmet: STOP

Lulu: Sorry, I can’t 😁😁😁

Sekhmet: I’ve not seen you smile in person

Lulu: When was the first time you saw me?

Sekhmet: 🤔

Lulu: [tell her when you first saw her which is giving in school on her way to somewhere whether that was a class or at her locker or leaving/going to an extracurricular activity, regardless she’s being the most gay about describing this obviously]

Sekhmet: I’ll tell you in person

Lulu: Okay, because you’re almost here

Sekhmet: Because you’ve earnt it now

Lulu: I’ll smile for you in person

Sekhmet: You will, that’s my guarantee, not yours

Lulu: I promise it won’t be fake

Sekhmet: I can tell the difference, so don’t bother faking anything

Lulu: I’ve promised, it’s too late for a test

Sekhmet: There’s way too much to be done before we can get to [the club]

Lulu: We’re going to [the club because she hadn’t said which one before now]?

Sekhmet: Yeah, I think [this place] makes the most sense

Lulu: For your vision

Sekhmet: For your first time out with me

Lulu: My first time out, period

Sekhmet: I did suspect as much

Lulu: I told you!

Sekhmet: Then you turned around and said you were unshockable so I wasn’t sure which I should go with

Lulu: I am, both can be true

Sekhmet: Touche

Lulu: You’ll never work in Paris if you don’t type out the é

Sekhmet: I thought it would autocorrect, UGH 😩

Lulu: I’ll be your autocorrect for now

Lulu: until you have so many 📱💞 convos with mummy é becomes second nature

Sekhmet: 🤓😘 with you until I am your mama, naturally

Lulu: If I end up calling you that, remember you said it first

Sekhmet: OMG, well that came out hilarious wrong but okay 😅 thanks for rolling with it

Lulu: Unshockable

Sekhmet: Or into it

Lulu: Mummy issues are a given, it’s hardly my fault

Sekhmet: We’ve established this is a no judgment zone

Lulu: Thankfully just between you & I, because I’ve made no secret of how into judging everyone else I am

Sekhmet: And who am I to deprive you of your favourite pastime?

Lulu: It isn’t my very favourite, but even if it were, I’d let you deprive me if you enjoyed doing so

Sekhmet: What is it you enjoy the most about chess?

Lulu: Golly, I’ve been devoted to chess forever, playing used to be the most intimate & romantic activity I had access to, in some ways it still is

Lulu: you can make someone love or hate you, crawl inside them without being told no & stay there for yonks

Sekhmet: That’s a good answer

Lulu: It’s a marvellous game 😍🥰

Sekhmet: Next time we hang out

Lulu: Have you played before?

Sekhmet: No, but I’m sure I can pick it up quickly

Lulu: OMG I can’t believe I’m getting a first time from you too

Sekhmet: Fittingly fair, isn’t it

Lulu: 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Lulu: I’m fittingly light-headed

Sekhmet: I know, I feel similar

Lulu: I don’t know how I could possibly have a similar effect on you

Sekhmet: I just know I feel like I’d 😳😳😳 to death if I didn’t learn quick enough for you

Lulu: I’d 😢😭 if it was over too quickly

Sekhmet: I’m not used to being a beginner in front of anyone anymore

Lulu: It’s fair you let me turn the tables once, I’m a beginner at everything else 🍼

Sekhmet: That’s why I suggested it

Lulu: You knew what it would do to me

Sekhmet: Something like that

Lulu: No, you knew exactly what this would feel like

Sekhmet: Tell me what it feels like and I’ll tell you if I meant it

Lulu: When I was [an age we don’t need to specify] & had [an illness which likewise we don’t] which gave me a fever

Lulu: I couldn’t tell what was real & I thought & said the wildest things

Sekhmet: Like a sugar cube melting under your tongue

Lulu: Yes, because I’d never be allowed to eat a sugar cube

Sekhmet: You’re allowed with me

Lulu: If I earn it

Sekhmet: What about just because?

Lulu: If you say so, whatever you say

Sekhmet: Does free rein scare you?

Lulu: I don’t know, it would be another first

Sekhmet: We’ll slow down

Lulu: Do you want me to have free rein? Everyone else craves control

Sekhmet: I think watching you experience unbridled pleasure in any form would be worth my attention

Lulu: You’re perfectly unusual

Sekhmet: Hm… is that a compliment or veiled critique?

Lulu: 😅 I don’t veil my critiques, it’s obviously a compliment!

Lulu: I’ve never met anyone else like you

Sekhmet: That’s okay then 😅

Sekhmet: I just want to indulge you, over-indulge, famine to feast

Lulu: I’m NOT okay

Sekhmet: I can’t ignore how starved you are, I can’t stop thinking about it

Lulu: Welcome to my brain, which doesn’t feel connected to my body right now AT ALL

Sekhmet: There’s nothing to think about, you feel it

Lulu: You’ll think for me?

Sekhmet: You are all I have on my mind

Lulu: I’ll have nothing on my body except what you put there

Sekhmet: You’re going to see the transformation happen like magic in your mirror

Lulu: I’ll hold my breath until we’re in front of a mirror

Sekhmet: Good girl

Lulu: Will you tell me in person?

Sekhmet: How pretty you look in your new outfit?

Sekhmet: I wouldn’t be a very good friend if I didn’t, not to mention the lack of pride in my work

Lulu: I’ve never felt pretty with my clothes on before

Sekhmet: I hate that

Lulu: He says it when they’re off, naturally, or he wants them to be

Lulu: & I stand there knowing I’m not hideous or anything, but they are

Sekhmet: So many people do themselves a disservice in their clothing choices

Sekhmet: but it’s that it isn’t your choice

Lulu: But it’s the only time she looks at me like it doesn’t hurt her to

Sekhmet: It’s an equalizer

Sekhmet: to bring you down to her level

Lulu: She’d have to break every bone in my body if she didn’t cover me in the most wretched clothes

Lulu: I can feel how much she wants to when she measures & weighs me

Sekhmet: She isn’t even as big as she thinks she is

Lulu: It’s a thrilling amount of rage, the biggest

Lulu: I get to feel so alive again

Sekhmet: What else makes you feel alive?

Lulu: Praise, knowledge, closeness

Lulu: those are the usual other things, I suppose

Sekhmet: Yeah

Lulu: I’m ruining the vibe, aren’t I? 😶

Sekhmet: No, that was just very succinct

Lulu: It’s a depressingly short list

Sekhmet: If it was easy, right?

Lulu: You make it seem effortless

Sekhmet: We’re not close enough to give up that secret

Lulu: Yet

Sekhmet: Aim high

Lulu: My secret is, I deliberately aimed to make the list less succinct than it is, they’re all forms of intimacy, really it’s just that one thing

Sekhmet: I think a lot of people would agree with you, if they thought about it

Lulu: Loneliness is a killer

Sekhmet: Okay, now you’re threatening the vibe a little

Lulu: 😅 whoops 🔪s & fabric ✂️ down, I swear!

Sekhmet: Good or I’d not be coming in at this point

Lulu: You have to, you make me feel the most alive

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