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punkscowardschampions · 19 days ago

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Ruster pt.2

Buster: [do call and see, I really hope she’s at the shops like Johnny asked for peak inappropriate phone call timing]

Rio: [just in big tesco, nbd, you assumedly are and you should really remember that conversation and not pick up but is that who you are, no, to a fault, so we are answering but not saying anything, which is something I guess lol]

Buster: [Winnie says how many rings though sis, did she make him sweat even a lil before she picked up or were we blatant lol lol, also tell me why you can hear his smugness down this phone because she did answer even though he’s likewise not saying anything for a sec, I love y’all and your initial silences/ just breathing, the way his breathing is too steady so you know it’s a deliberate effort to be and not at all actually casual]

Rio: [Win says give me details gdi and he is right for that honestly, my apologies, idk how long phones ring if you just let them and the person doesn’t hang up, like can a mobile just ring indefinitely now? Who can say but we know you aren’t leaving it THAT long, it’s giving three rings or something like peeps do when they’re like lemme know you got in safe vibes; me like thank god you have shopping to be doing so you aren’t just staring at this phone with the !! you want to and would be if you were home because you need to at least sound indignant about and/or unaffected by his air of smugness that is palpable]

Buster: [eventually asking, after that BEAT of neither of them speaking has STRETCHED, ‘where are you?’ because he can clearly hear the supermarket background noise and hence is even more smug she answered if it’s possible for him to be any more rn haha]

Rio: [you love/hate a silence that says so much honeys, hence we out here holding out longer than necessary before we say ‘Johnny asked me to get [the thing(s) he did]’ to tell you where we are, likewise doing the most to sound so casual here like this is just a random call whilst you’re perusing the aisles and you aren’t admitting to a lot with answering]

Buster: [a sound that’s meant to be like mhmm/oh okay yeah that tracks but is forever less casual than that because he’s making it for her and giving daddy vibes always ‘you are on your best behaviour this morning’ like ofc that’s what you’re doing rn despite us having a serious convo prior to this phonecall but he didn’t have to phase it like that, except yes he did]

Rio: [doing a little omg choke back because ‘yeah he said that too’ and you didn’t need the reminder then and you don’t need it now, although you can see the funny side still you’re mostly 😳 of course ‘did you make sure you were alone first?’ because you took a while to respond]

Buster: [‘taking his daddy role seriously’ phrased like that because do you mean Johnny or do you mean you, heathen, shameless excuse to put the d word out into the world, we see you, but as if this is a casual convo letting her hear your (obvs quieter than a supermarket tannoy) background noise more clearly cos I imagine you’re likewise out and about whether you’ve been to boxing or football or whatever because he’s always busy with stuff and why not have the parallel of him being out and about and we haven’t specified whether this is a weekday or a weekend that St Paddy’s fell on so I can do what I want]

Rio: [‘baby will be a breeze compared to me’ said like it’s bants and what am I like but you are a little embarrassed how vulnerable you were with him, accidentally with the crying and then again this AM ‘but he must not hate me ‘cos he’s getting me a job’ because clinging to this job as something to distract you is all you have at the minute and you’re attempting to show Buster you are in fact trying even though you truly don’t want to because you still want him and you can’t tell yourself otherwise soz not soz]

Buster: [the way he was gonna say SHE’S a baby because he was literally still drunk (because such was the STATE he got in) until he did whatever exercise he’s just finished and sweated/vommed it out in a very undignified manner so being sober is a new concept but he is enough that he can stop himself but it was obvious he was gonna say something and it doesn’t take a genius so you might as well have just said it tbh sir, hear him running a hand through his curls instead as he shakes his head like no I must not, finally, asking ‘what job?’ because of the awkwardness and because he’s always failing the pretending not to care challenge]

Rio: [the expectant pause you do when you think you heard someone try to say something but didn’t hear what was said like oop sorry, go ahead but of course he is not going to go ahead and you can work out why if not exactly what he was going to say, eventually doing a little sigh like okay then and forging ahead like that moment didn’t just occur ‘don’t know yet, I just want to work’ because you aren’t opposed to anything truly, even if this wasn’t mainly an attempt to stay busy, you are a hard worker ‘maybe he’ll take me on his jobs’ with a lil lol because you know he absolutely will not and it is an amusing mental image]

Buster: [when it’s such an adorable mental image that when he joins the lol it’s so affectionate and so with her and not meanly at her that you’d forget he’s been an absolute dick this entire previous convo and know that it’s the audio equivalent of doing heart eyes so big at her rn, no notes]

Rio: [me and this girl here like why can’t it be like this always, as if we don’t know the answer because we don’t accept it thank you, doing the thing of not wanting to say anything because you don’t want this moment to pass]

Buster: [literally, the way it’s so effortlessly good when they let it be is what really fucks his head up because simply can’t let it be all the time and the injustice of that because they have the audacity to be related, catch him here eventually doing a sigh (after another pause for some more breathing post their shared lol) because of all the above and because he should hang up but as per he doesn’t want to]

Rio: [mhmm, oh lads, we really did you like that I’m so sorry, catch this girl always giving you an out because don’t have it in us to be cruel even when we could be ‘I know I shouldn’t have answered’ like I’m SORRY but there was likewise no way she was not going to]

Buster: [‘you wanted to’ not in an accusatory tone of yes hun it is all your fault bye but because she said he wanted to before he rang so it’s instead a way to acknowledge this is mutual without being like yep I/we wanted you to outright, the softness in his tone actually and the way it’s quieter will be the death of me, all traces of his earlier smugness totally gone]

Rio: [‘yeah’ using the exact same soft and quiet tone because we did, we do and we would again ‘you’re big on the truth’ because love to repeat someone’s words back to them always, and in this instance it isn’t in a sassy manner, just letting you know we were being honest]

Buster: [‘yeah’ to repeat her word back to her but also because he genuinely is and we hate so much that we have to lie to everyone rn, trying to lie to himself included, he wanted to tell his mum so hardcore and so many times nearly did, being even softer and quieter as a result]

Rio: [‘I know’ because you do know that about him and you know he’s only lying to try and make this possible in a way you should also be helping with but you find it so difficult ‘I’ll miss it’ in an almost wobbly small voice because you hate that you can’t even give each other honesty]

Buster: [‘I know’ in ref to how hard she finds it to be an arsehole unlike him, had to say it like that though so he could get another echo of her words in ‘I’ll miss you’ we all know there would’ve been a lil pause where he could have stopped himself from saying that but he did not because he wanted to give her that honesty, that tiny bit at least]

Rio: [trying not to immediately start crying again, because you don’t need to make this harder than it already is also you are in a supermarket but that’s far less relevant to you tbh but you can tell she is GATHERING herself by the way she’s doing dramatic swallows and nodding like okay, it’s okay, we’re okay ‘I’ll miss you too’ as a rush of words, as if you are being hurried but really you know if you try to think about it any more you’ll either be able to say nothing or say too much so you just gotta]

Buster: [‘don’t’ still softly but with a firmness that comes with daddy energy to genuinely try and stop her from crying because obvs you know she almost is, a daddy who cares if you will, speaking of, there’s nothing I’d like more than for her to cause a scene in big tesco and her new dad have to come and pick her up but alas he’s busy so we must find some chill, when you likewise wanna say a million things back but cannot so you just say her name with as much feeling as you’ll let yourself, pretending as if we’re remotely saying it like stop/enough of that/any kind of warning at all]

Rio: [very much doing sounds that are giving I’m sorry, I won’t as we continue to get it together because the kind of energy you appreciate, as well as appreciating the effort he’s going to to keep it together for himself as well as you ‘I’ll be better’ like I am so sorry for failing at being good right now, so sincerely too and the ‘really’ when he says her name like no I PROMISE]

Buster: [doing comforting sounds of his own which are lowkey unnecessary because she can and already is getting herself together but they feel very necessary to him in this moment, anything to focus on her so he doesn’t fall apart himself rn ‘you’re the best’ shamelessly blurted out as sincerely before he could stop himself even if he was going to which atm he clearly isn’t but we can’t care about saying too much cos we care more about saying what she needs to hear and giving her something to keep hold of because we all know that no matter what she is the best to ever do it and nobody does like her as far as he’s concerned so there’s no taking that back whatever else he may try to gaslight her or himself into thinking he never said/thought/felt]

Rio: [is clearly shaking her head ‘I make everything harder for you’ and scoffing so hard at yourself when you realise the double entendre because you did not mean it in this serious moment and are mad it just happened ‘it’s not your job’ softer, after this scathing energy directed towards her own self, because we know from what has been said that he feels like it is and you’ve said he has to, in saucier moments, look after you but you need to tell him he doesn’t because that’s the best you can do as far as letting him go for now]

Buster: [unable to resist doing his own noise like true because despite the seriousness of the situation there’s no lie detected in that double entendre ever ‘I’ve had more than enough shit handed to me’ with some scathing energy directed his own way because baze have made everything too easy and he doesn’t blame them but he also doesn’t want that for himself and his future cos he simply isn’t Nancy ‘and I haven’t got another lined up yet’ because no part-time jobs for him but also a way to tell her that he’s always going to, despite everything]

Rio: [‘you didn’t ask for it’ because literally, you were just born into the family you were born into, none of us ask for those cards and how they’re dealt, we believe that and aren’t about to drag you for your privilege here and now ‘you’ve got America in [however many days ‘til that first excursion]’ to be like you can keep busy too but also like I remembered that detail because I care so much about you don’t forget]

Buster: [‘neither did you’ because likewise not just the incest though ofc that but everything else ‘we’re dealt our cards blind, the only thing up to us is how we play the hand’ because literally what he believes too, hence I must, a noise that’s giving omg you remember, that kind of not at all casual intake of breath and we all know he’s thinking about when they talked about her going with him and he wants to say it but doesn’t, it’s HANGING there in the air regardless girls, eventually after such a dramatic pause as a result ‘I’ll have a phone’ because they have done so many phonecalls, not you saying you’re around still if she needs you]

Rio: [doing noises of agreement because you do fundamentally agree with this because you two are compatible and on the same page, soz to say except I am not, these noises turning into your own noise that I could capitalise but you’re trying to not do all that even though it was involuntary so you can’t help the !! fully ‘can I have your new account?’ shamelessly even though you said you did not want to see because we know you in fact do because you need to know what he’s doing and how he is]

Buster: [the way he stops breathing when he hears her noise cos he feels it in his bones and he’s so !! ‘Give me yours, I’ll give you mine’ as shamelessly because not over the fact she has one and we don’t know how long it has existed for or what might be on there, the possibilities are absolutely thrilling and he couldn’t be more turned on by them]

Rio: [‘I will’ as excitedly because however much you should do the ‘right’ thing and are attempting to, you will always be thrilled at having connection to him, you can’t help it; we also all know this account is you testing the waters of what you eventually want to do so it will be exactly the sort of content this boy will want to see]

Buster: [doing such a big lip bite about this that it’s almost audible because the prospect of being dropped new bae content of any sort when he’s absolutely rinsed every second of her other insta/all her socials has him ready to make a NOISE that he’s barely able to stop himself from, hence ‘hang up and send it to me’ because he needs access to this rn IMMEDIATELY before he can talk himself out of it]

Rio: [doing it with your own hot lol because can’t give any time for this to become a no or a regret either, not to mention you avoid the goodbye neither of you ever wants to say this way so hang that call up and send him your sneaky 2nd account, on however many platforms you have one because it’s probably a few]

Buster: [add her and immediately post insta story content of you sweaty and flustered from your exercise (and her) and looking so indecent as a result so she knows it’s you]

Rio: [react in a private way whether through sending emojis or a DM, just shamelessly thirsting and heart eyes however we go about it because we can]

Buster: [catch him as shamelessly reacting to everything she’s posted, the same kinda way, however long it takes or how far he has to scroll back, we can’t and won’t stop, no fucks given to where he is, who might be around or anything else at first, but hopefully he’ll find some privacy somewhere because we all know he’s gonna and gotta be touching himself as this escalates and be blatantly letting her know it too with what he’s then saying in his comments/with his emojis]

Rio: [messaging him via DMs here for the foreseeable because feels like a loophole to say what you want at this moment in time]

Rio: Now I have to somehow checkout and get home without dying

Buster: [likewise unless we otherwise specify because we can kinda pretend we’re different people/this is acceptable doing it here like this]

Buster: Or die at checkout because you can’t wait to get home

Rio: 🥺

Rio: Even at a self-checkout, that’s pushing it

Buster: You love pushing it, that’s what this account is

Rio: True

Rio: you aren’t going to judge me for it though, are you

Buster: Are you going to go as far as you can with me?

Rio: I really want to

Buster: Tell me

Rio: I want to take it as far as possible with you

Buster: [the number of miles from Dublin to London to Harvard not at all casually, love that you know that even in this state of !!]

Rio: [adding the miles to New York like I’m going to be there with you too]

Rio: That far

Buster: A little further, you need to add [a number of miles he hasn’t specified the meaning of and she wouldn’t necessarily be able to as easily guess teehee cos I can]

Rio: Where are you taking me?

Buster: To [insert somewhere where she’s said she wanted to go when she was a child and he’s not clearly remembered but keeps good enough tabs to know she hasn’t been yet, whether that’s her namesake place or wherever else we want, the point is he knows and wants to take her] and back

Rio: [ain’t no way Caleb is taking you in this lifetime so it’s definitely Rio]

Rio: You could leave me there and I’d only be mad at you for the one reason 😍

Buster: You know I couldn’t leave you

Rio: Promise

Rio: don’t ever leave me long, I need you to feel like me

Buster: I promise

Buster: tether me, I want you to

Rio: I’ll tie you to me, happily, always

Rio: I’m tiny, I won’t ever drag you down

Rio: and you won’t ever get tired, holding me close

Buster: Like a baby

Buster: I remember

Rio: You remember everything important

Rio: don’t you

Buster: No amount of [whatever drugs and drink combo he was on to get blackout, using Dublin slang as per how he does when he talks to her] could make me forget

Rio: but you’ll have some fun trying

Buster: But we have more fun together, don’t we?

Rio: And we could have so much more fun still, me and you

Buster: Are you buying yourself [something that’s giving an even more realistic replica of him because we all remember when, get yourself down the fruit and veg aisle lol]??

Rio: I would be if you told me to

Rio: *dared, sorry

Buster: I dare you to press them against you until you find one that’s [giving PRECISE details about his dick here to give her as vivid a mental image as possible and so she can get this right, whether that’s about thickness or a slight curve or both, we know the vibes] and makes you need to bite the inside of your mouth

Rio: Jesus fucking Christ, okay

Rio: how is LITERALLY every inch of you perfect, please?

Buster: Next time you’re in church, ask the question

Rio: You want me to think of you wherever I am

Buster: You will be whether I tell you to or not, you’re always thinking about me

Rio: How can I not

Rio: even if I’m trying not to, I’m concentrating all my energy on that

Buster: Like now, I can feel how hard you’re concentrating on avoiding detection, but you still have a dare to complete

Rio: [take a picture of your 😳 flustered face and have the background of where you are to show him you’re going through with it]

Buster: Good girl

Rio: If one has the [one of those PRECISE details] then it doesn’t have [another]

Rio: this is so hard

Buster: What are you going to do?

Rio: Keep looking

Rio: you’re perfect, nothing less is acceptable

Buster: Try until you succeed, exactly

Buster: which is why you’re perfect for me

Rio: You want me too

Buster: Truth, you can still dare me though, as you already knew it

Rio: You’re already touching yourself, which is all I really want you to do if I can’t

Rio: I’ll dare you not to block or unfollow this account though, no matter what

Buster: Keep looking and you’ll be able to touch me, however you want

Rio: Oh I’m looking, I feel like I’m about to be arrested for how I’m looking

Buster: I’ll bail you out, don’t worry

Buster: defend your honour, no matter what

Rio: Did I prepare you for your career?

Buster: You’re an angel, even now

Rio: Not right now

Buster: Especially right now

Buster: it would be criminal of me to deny you anything when you’re just doing what you’re told and behaving so well

Rio: You know what I want from you, it’s all I’d ask of you

Buster: And you know I’d only offer you what you deserve

Rio: You’re so good to me

Buster: We’re on the same level

Rio: We’ve never been like the others

Rio: you know I was bullshitting when I said you’d do this with anyone else, or that I would

Buster: I’ve always known we were more alike than different, deep down, where and when it’s most important

Rio: More twins than you and her, you said that

Buster: Yeah, you understand me better than anyone else

Rio: That’s why I worry about you

Rio: not because I think I’m incredible, but you need me

Buster: I think you’re incredible and I’m rarely wrong

Rio: [not you blushing more in the middle of this supermarket than when you were full-on shopping for replacement dick but of course you are]

Buster: Tell me you agree with my correct opinion

Rio: Only because you’re so sexy when you’re all demanding

Buster: Say it, I’m waiting to hear you

Rio: [you should be really damn embarrassed now but we know you’re also the most turned on so will do this regardless, enjoy that !! voice note]

Buster: I bet the entire aisle agrees with us after listening to you

Rio: The entire aisle is going to know way too much if I don’t get to somewhere with some privacy immediately

Buster: I should demand you stay there, knowing you like that so much

Rio: Do you think I can touch you how I want to here?

Rio: [a pic of the thing you have eventually chosen up to your lips like you’re winnie pondering but you’re just showing that they are bitten, ofc]

Buster: I have faith in you

Rio: Hm, you know I would if it was really you, anywhere

Rio: I suppose it’s only right

Buster: You need to start somewhere

Rio: [now this becomes a game of you being progressively but stealthily inappropriate with this as you walk around the shop, which you can prove to him to a point because hand and mouth stuff is only suggestive but he’s just going to have to trust you or y’all are going to cross that line once more for the rest]

Buster: You really love pushing it

Rio: So do you

Buster: I told you, we’re perfect for each other

Rio: I know

Rio: you push me

Buster: I want to, against every single shelf

Rio: You’re going to

Rio: it’s laughable how easy it will be to be alone

Buster: The world won’t end if I touch you, it’s ours

Rio: There’s so little difference in you telling me to fuck myself for you and you doing it yourself, to everyone else

Rio: it only matters to us

Buster: I’ll show you how much difference there is, babe

Rio: This doesn’t end here, at hypotheticals

Rio: show me

Buster: It’s too real

Rio: We belong together, I won’t deny it

Buster: Letting anyone or anything else call the shots is bullshit

Rio: I only want you telling me what to do

Buster: You make me proud and happy and feel a lot of things only you can

Rio: I can’t picture my life with anyone else, not how I can with you

Buster: Don’t, you’re mine, no-one else can have you

Rio: I’ve never belonged to anyone else

Buster: You never will

Rio: I’ve never been without you, you were waiting for me

Buster: I saw you first

Rio: You put your lips on mine first

Buster: It’s my turn again

Rio: I don’t need any other friends if you’ll play with me again

Buster: I promise not to spin any more bottles, you’re who I want to kiss

Rio: I’ve never been able to kiss anyone and not think about the time it was you

Rio: and I wouldn’t want it any different, I love how stuck my brain and body is to that moment

Buster: I close my eyes and they’re all you

Rio: Open them and it will be me, it has to be me

Buster: If I say your name any louder I’ll be the one getting arrested

Rio: No, it’s only natural you want me, I am so needy and obsessed with you

Buster: It’s meant to be intense, remember

Rio: You’re so bright and hot, literally but in all my memories, compared to everyone else

Buster: Vivid, that’s what you are too, in every room, actual and metaphorical

Rio: God, we’d be perfect together

Rio: actually the perfect couple

Buster: I’m not interested in having a girlfriend unless she’s you, the first

Rio: When are you going to ask me?

Buster: When I can ask you in person

Rio: I don’t even need to tell you that any of my boyfriends have meant as little as your hookups, you know

Rio: but I’ll tell you anything you want to know

Buster: All I ask is you don’t ever lie to me

Rio: I won’t, not even to do the right thing anymore

Buster: Promise

Rio: I promise I won’t lie to you, Buster

Buster: Your lip is almost bleeding, you know what to do

Rio: Am I ready?

Buster: You tell me, are you?

Rio: [simply show him the evidence that yes, you are]

Buster: You need everyone to see what I do to you, what I always have

Buster: you were born ready for me

Rio: I’ll go insane if no one else ever acknowledges it, it’s so obvious, it’s just a fact to me

Rio: I was literally made for you

Buster: Your eyes get so fucking big when they look at me, ever since you first opened them

Rio: You’re a lot to take in

Rio: can say that with near certainty but I mean, look at you

Buster: Yeah, look at me

Buster: [and sending her the most indecent images rn because why not when you’ve already described yourself in all the possible detail]

Rio: OH

Rio: [when there’s no need to exaggerate how huge your eyes are rn]

Buster: Don’t blink

Rio: I haven’t taken my eyes off you since I first saw you, now is no exception

Buster: I’m not letting you out of my sight when I see you again

Rio: I’m not letting you out of me

Rio: you’ll just have to live with me constantly attached to you I’m afraid

Buster: No further than [however many inches] apart

Rio: You deserve me at your disposal

Buster: And you deserve to be mine in plain sight, claimed in front of everyone

Rio: Why shouldn’t you get me, you’re the golden boy, it’s not just me that’s so proud of you

Buster: You’re a goddess and everyone but me is only human

Rio: They’d be happy for us, if they stopped and thought about it

Rio: how could they not, if you take me like that

Buster: If it wasn’t a family trait to prioritise your own happiness above all else neither of us would be here

Rio: Why break from tradition, what for

Buster: I don’t regret this

Rio: I never will

Buster: Neither will I, despite any bullshit protests I end up making to the contrary, you know that

Rio: This is the truth, whatever happens

Buster: Hold me to it

Rio: I’ll try my best

Buster: My eyes can’t lie either, try looking there

Rio: Your eyes are holy

Rio: there’s nowhere to hide when they meet mine

Buster: [show her that you’ve made her giant eyes your phone pic so that you can keep staring at it]

Rio: You really like me

Buster: You remember what I said

Rio: If I think about it now

Rio: I can’t

Buster: Find somewhere to hide and think about it

Rio: Can I have a picture too?

Buster: You can have anything you want

Rio: I need to be able to look at you too, whenever I need to remember

Buster: [send her one obvs]

Rio: [show him you’ve set it as your pic too because couldn’t be more in love]

Buster: When are you going to say it back?

Rio: I have, haven’t I?

Buster: Say it again, even if you have

Rio: [after you have clearly taken the time to get somewhere private like he suggested, sending him the audio of you saying he’s the love of your life because you have not said it exactly like that I don’t believe and you couldn’t sound more !! rn for all the reasons]

Buster: [send her your extra ass audio response because you will be absolutely sent by that and you need her to know it killed you despite the stop and start touching yourself you’ve been doing because she couldn’t and so you were clearly trying not to die many a time in solidarity and succeeded until this]

Rio: I barely made it into this cubicle

Rio: Damn

Buster: I’ll need a minute before I can leave this one

Rio: Understatement

Rio: but I’m glad I’ve got you alone

Buster: I’m glad you’re here too

Rio: I’ve hijacked your day

Buster: I’m the opposite of angry about that

Buster: not to mention, you often do, the difference was you didn’t know how much time or attention I devoted to you before

Rio: I’ll remind you how un-angry you are when you let me look after you

Buster: And I’ll remind you, regardless of what you’re planning, you can’t move more than [the length or his tongue] or [the length of his longest finger]

Rio: 🥴 no moving

Rio: Unless security comes but I’ll take you with me

Buster: If they show up I’ll protect you

Rio: It is only right you take all the blame for the state I’m in

Buster: Full responsibility is the least I can do considering what I expect you to take

Rio: You’re the opposite of scared of responsibility

Rio: that’s how I feel about your expectations too

Buster: I know, it’s why you don’t let me down

Rio: If I don’t get [whatever you were getting for Ali/baby Maggie] home sooner rather than later I’ll be in everyone else’s bad books so I appreciate that

Buster: I appreciate you staying with me

Rio: I don’t want to be anywhere else

Buster: Commit this to memory, I want you to commit to me in every possible way there is

Rio: There are no substances to hide behind or muddy any of it

Rio: This will be vivid too

Buster: The high’s all you

Rio: How are you real?

Rio: how has this happened?

Buster: Because I’m sick of forcing it not to

Rio: It’s exhausting

Buster: Yeah

Buster: I’d rather put my energy to better use

Rio: You need to, to get where you want to be, if nothing else

Buster: I need to when where I want to be is with you

Rio: You can’t leave it ‘til August now

Buster: Tell me when I should come back

Rio: Assuming right now is out of the question?

Buster: You’re already late home, so for you it is, arguably

Rio: The sensible and serious answer is whenever your parents next plan to come over then

Buster: What happened to your happy medium?

Rio: When do you think you can come over?

Buster: [something sporty that you can pretend you really need to be in Dublin for as a spectator which will blow your mum’s mind because you were just basically telling her you hate Dublin, but needs must, I shan’t commit us to an exact date but it’s clearly closer than the next big fam function]

Rio: You are so smart

Buster: Dad would typically come too but [insert some baze work nonsense which just means you know he’s busy then]

Rio: So

Rio: you can come alone then, no obstacles at all?

Buster: If my parents object I’ll launch a superior counter-argument

Rio: Nerd 😍

Buster: You’re welcome, babe

Rio: You’re serious

Rio: this can happen

Buster: Trust that I’m capable of making everything happen, nothing’s impossible

Rio: I already knew that about you, no proving it necessary but I’m not going to be upset when you do

Buster: [send her the confirmation that you’ve already booked this flight despite not asking baze cos that’s how confident you always are]

Rio: Are you excited?

Buster: [call her so she can once again hear you breathing because yes you are and that’s therefore the only acceptable response to that question]

Rio: [just listening to him for ages, having moved your face away from the phone clearly so your own !! reaction isn’t interrupting, finally hitting him with the most intense ‘me too’ like you just said ILY you said it with so much feeling behind it]

Buster: [catch him doing the exact same thing when that me too hits with all it’s intensity so he isn’t even more extra fully down the phone because she’ll know damn well the impact it has anyway and it’ll take him a sec to ask ‘Where are you meeting me?’ cos we wanna hear if she’s !! enough to say immediately at the airport or if she’s gonna have more chill about this, cos he clearly has his own plan to take Fearghal to see this sporting event, which is presumably a boxing match as those are expensive and something he’d be the most into, to be his alibi but also as he is genuinely soz he missed st paddys and disappointed him, haven’t yet verbalised any of this plan to this gal though lol]

Rio: [‘when does your flight get in again?’ said in a casual jokey kind of way, with a little laugh like you’re not being serious about how you want to see him immediately at the airport but we all know you absolutely are but you just don’t want to risk anything because it still feels precarious ‘I can meet you wherever, I’ll make it work’ because we too are confident we can make this happen]

Buster: [tell her seriously because you’ve memorised these flight times already and you’re not about to pretend you don’t wanna see her ASAP when it’s this obvious cos you’ve literally engineered this trip so you don’t have to wait for the next fam function, he simply cannot do casual I fear, hence also tell her all your plans re taking Fearghal and the times for the boxing match starting and ending and the venue etc so she also knows exactly what you’re doing and can genuinely decide where and when she’ll be able to meet him because y’all both want it to feel like a real plan and not just a fantasy, despite his tone giving this is a convo you’d have with friends or fam discussing what you’ve been up to nbd because can’t be too !! when she isn’t]

Rio: [making aww sort of noises about his plans, but in a genuine fashion not a patronising one because you see the vision here and think it’s a sweet idea to make it up to Fearghal and thus you are not planning to get in the way of this and invite yourself along or anything like that ‘will your parents let you stay at yours alone?’ as a next move because you can meet him there/stay there, is your thought here]

Buster: [making your own dismissive kinda noises back like no no I’m not being sweet at all ever I’m just using him as a means to get what I want because he is used to his being a dick persona and that just comes naturally in this era I’m afraid, even though we already know this gal sees through it and always has ‘I don’t see why not’ because you genuinely don’t, as far as y’all are concerned you’re grown af lol and in fairness you’re not little kids, again with the unspoken confidence that if baze are for any reason unconvinced he’ll convince them because he’s 1000% that bitch]

Rio: [affectionately and unthinkingly hushing you here like boy I know who you are you don’t need to play but we don’t need to labour the point as far as actually saying this in words because not really where we’re focused, ngl ‘there we are then’ casual and breezy words like oh that’s sorted then but the pause that is filled with everything we’re not saying and the way we feel about being alone with you is palpable and unignorable, clearing our throat like that’s going to continue to stop the words or make them come, either way, the !! is real]

Buster: [likewise not where his focus is rn so he’s not gonna stage a hardcore protest to the fact he’s actually a dickhead, we all know he isn’t and the entire point is always that he isn’t trying v hard because he’d love someone to see through it but she’s the only one who is ‘there we’ll be, yeah’ letting it really hang there that y’all will not only be alone but completely so, in his house for as long as you literally decide to be, because UNHEARD of, you’re used to getting a snatched moment of tension at most so far in your lives, couldn’t be more thrilled about the possibility or the reaction it’s obvious she’s having to it, so you can hear the smug grin again in his tone even as he’s matching her casual tone]

Rio: [doing a laugh that is the audible equivalent of blushing down the phone at him because you are hardcore, as if the prospect of what him coming over alone means has only just hit you because honestly, it has and all at once too ‘I’m not scared’ as if he just accused you of being scared, very playfully combative like how dare you, crossing your arms which he’ll hear even if the pout is only heavily implied in your sassy tone]

Buster: [doing his own laugh at her pout he can basically hear too because it’s so apparent and we love to see it because ofc he doesn’t want her to freak out about this even though it’s a massive deal and they both know that on a million different levels, not just because of being related but because she’s told him she hasn’t done this with anyone else unlike him being a big slag ‘So what are you?’ giving big tell me energy because he always wants to be knowing how she feels]

Rio: [when you’re just beaming down the phone like he can see you because love when he’s laughing, love when he’s happy, don’t mind us, shaking your head like focus, try actually saying something and not just being heart eyes lol, doing a hmm like you’re considering what you are just to keep him waiting for a second before you reply ‘excited, like you, remember’ because y’all are in this together]

Buster: [when you know that because you know her and you’re shamelessly doing your own heart eyes as if she can see them in response, don’t mind them just falling deeper in love here and now ‘I remember everything’ because he does and we don’t need to pretend otherwise anymore when we can reaffirm that as being the truth instead ‘like you’ didn’t need to add that but yes he did because they are in this together and she hasn’t forgotten anything either]

Rio: [mhmm, oh lads, we do put you through it but right now you are having a lovely time and as you should, we’ll be here smiling even harder somehow because of course you knew he remembered but he’s admitted it and that’s HUGE ‘I’m not going to forget’ said like that’s an impossibility because it is, even if we wanted to which right now we absolutely do not]

Buster: [enjoy it while it lasts guys because with y’all in this era there’s no telling how long it will, once again so aware exactly how happy this girl is because of what he admitted and living for it ‘it’s impossible’ being vocalised by him because it is and they couldn’t be more on the same page or connected than they are rn so shamelessly the easiest way to show that and I’m not above taking it lol]

Rio: [making dramatic noises of agreement because yes, exactly boo ‘good’ because never want to forget really and truly and we’re not about to wish that you could and let you off like that, no thank you ‘you’re mine’ quieter than how you are naturally speaking the rest of this convo but still, so assured and so confident]

Buster: [doing another lol like oh okay that’s me told as if it’s a diva demand that he can’t ever forget either and that she’s never letting him off anything but we all know that’s exactly how he wants things to be too, hence he’s not laughing when she says that next bit, doing his own DRAMATIC noise of agreement because yes he is hers and couldn’t be more into the confident way she said so]

Rio: [‘yeah’ with your own smug vibe like you’ve been told tehe but you are way too about his agreeing with you for your next ‘yeah’ not to be closer to a moan than an actual word, clearing your throat again because damn, trying to hold on to some composure here ‘will you say it when we’re together?’ a pause between when and the last part of your sentence as you clearly take time to think how to word the fact you are going to be alone, together and together in a way you have never nor never thought you would be]

Buster: [his own ‘yeah’ which does manage to be an actual word but is said so indecently and with so much !! because likewise thinking about them being alone together and all the things he could therefore say and do, having to do so more BREATHING down the phone about this, bringing us full circle because the excitement is at an all time high]

Rio: [matching his breathing because you really do have to take a minute here and you don’t want to hang up to do so because you never want to stop talking to him ‘[the date/time of his flight landing] can’t come soon enough’ because sure wish you were here already, need I remind you that she’s still in the tescos toilets and that is just not the vibe for how romantic you are feeling lmao]

Buster: [god knows where this boy still is too, it’s giving as unglamorous and unsuitable because it’s probably changing rooms at football or something if not also a toilet, god bless the juxtaposition lads it’s very amusing, tell her the time of an earlier flight you’re suggesting you could get even though you know damn well that isn’t what she means and also that if you meet her before you won’t wanna leave to go to this sporting event at all but he simply can’t help but be more extra ‘I could come on the [whatever earlier time]’ as if it’s casual when it is nothing of the sort]

Rio: [‘you don’t have to do that’ said in the way that makes it clear you’d not at all be mad if he did because of course you wouldn’t be but you’re not going to ask him to do it either ‘how long are you staying?’ because now just thinking how long you will have together, how much time this sporting event is going to take up etc]

Buster: [‘don’t you dare me?’ because he absolutely will despite the money it would waste to change a flight he’s already booked without asking, always gotta make her ask for things he’s already gonna do haha, a noise like hmm which she did earlier as if how long he stays depends on her and not on actual other real factors, we’re also likewise enjoying thinking about time they could have]

Rio: [‘it’s not a dare if you want to do it’ but catching yourself like I know, I know, ‘cos that’s all y’alls dares are lol can’t pretend otherwise ‘okay, I do, come on [this earlier flight]’ doing a hmm noise back at him as if you’re now considering how well you plan on behaving]

Buster: [‘Okay, what if I leave on [the latest possible flight he could on Sunday without taking the piss about school on Monday because I’m imagining this boxing match is saturday night plausibly and so he was coming some time saturday day, because can’t push it coming friday night he’s not THAT grown, which is now even earlier lol cos he’s about to change that flight as soon they are off the phone and he can]’? Like hmmm? Imagine that sis]

Rio: [‘I’ll make sure you getting home in time for school is a pointless exercise’ like you might be there Monday morning but you aren’t going to be able to concentrate on your work AT ALL honey and again we mean it so seriously]

Buster: [‘If it’s truly pointless, I might as well make you return home with me’ said as seriously as if he’s gonna bring her to London and she’ll just never go to school or home again because it’s how we feel in this moment]

Rio: [making a noise that is part excitement part agreement like okay, yes, do it as if y’all can because in this moment you want nothing more ‘I could find plenty of reason to visit London’ because it’s true, at least you both live in/near these capitals because it’s not out of the question that you’d want to spend time in either place]

Buster: [‘there are a lot of sights you haven’t yet’ because true of London but more importantly he’s thinking of everything they haven’t done together yet that her visits would let them, entirely in a saucy context atm because that’s the mood y’all are in and his tone is making that blatant, so much emphasis on A LOT, as if we needed it]

Rio: [‘you gonna be my tour guide?’ and making the awh cute noises again but sounding so indecent with it this time because we know there is nothing wholesome about such an offer because we all know what is being said and THOUGHT about here]

Buster: [‘I’ll show you absolutely all of it’ because we’re not gonna pretend otherwise, everything is always the vibe, no less, letting that sink in for the both of you for a sec because he so sincerely means it about not holding back ever]

Rio: [doing a soft yet unhinged ‘oh’ because you are so 🥺 thinking about this and you don’t even know what to do with yourself rn ‘I need to be with you’ do we mean now in this moment, or perhaps, always, who can say but we know we MEAN it]

Buster: [‘I know’ as if she’s doing the 🥺 at his face rn because that’s how it feels with how blatant it is and how in sync they are, soft, but we can’t lie, unhinged comforting noises as the only thing he knows to do atm ‘we’re soulmates’ as if that’s a fact and something he’s said before to the point of being casual and not just a really intense thing to drop here because he’s clearly felt it for so long that it doesn’t come across as something he’s telling her for the first time]

Rio: [making your own unhinged baby noises back because what are words but then he drops that bombshell so off-handedly that the stunned silence that comes after is in dramatic contrast completely accidentally but unavoidably so, doing very shaky breaths as the first audible response he will hear ‘we are’ not as a question but as if you can’t believe you’re able to finally be saying it out loud]

Buster: [has never focused on anything as hard as he is this silence and waiting her to fill it either with breathing or words because despite things feeling the least precarious they ever have here and now, you know that was an extra ass thing to say, however true you also know it is ‘we’re meant to be’ because however hard you fight it you cannot]

Rio: [‘I’ll do anything to be with you’ with your whole chest, blurting this out because you can’t keep it in, it has never felt truer than in this moment ‘you’re the only one who gets me’]

Buster: [‘I did everything I could think of to try and keep you away from me’ because years of that nonsense and nevertheless here we are, it hasn’t worked and he’s out of ideas for going down that road, which is HUGE of him to actually admit when he’s never that boy who can’t think of another idea ‘you’re closer than ever’ because true in every sense, they are gonna be alone together so soon but also they’ve talked more lately and had more phone calls recently than all their other awks convos before combined]

Rio: [making a noise of apology but not being able to say the words I’m sorry because even if you are it’s so deeply uncomfortable to admit that you could have made it easier for him than you did because you’re meant to be good and give a shit and it is undeniably selfish of you in many ways and there’s no hiding from that fact ‘we can’t help it’ realising this sounds too much like just an excuse for your liking and correcting ‘we don’t want to’ because you do have agency here and there’s a reason y’all are talking this much]

Buster: [a noise that fully interrupts her noise of apology as the - stopping it dead equivalent of him saying don’t without needing to say it, because they’ve both been selfish in their own ways and he isn’t hiding from all the wrong he’s done with his flawed approach, changing to a noise of agreement though at her correction because this isn’t accidental anymore if we could’ve ever called it that, he’s literally booked a flight, y’all are being deliberate now ‘I don’t want any regrets’ because his mum doesn’t have any according to her (Ro doesn’t count not soz) and baze are his role models, Bea especially no offense Fraze, not calling you a flop but when Nancy basically called him a mummy’s boy she was so right lol]

Rio: [‘life’s too short for them’ because who does, truly, no one we know and that includes us ‘you’re sure?’ like let’s just check in and avoid this getting messy if you think this is going to be the regret, not that that’s where you think his head is but you’re giving space for the possibility]

Buster: [‘the years I’ve already spent without you were too fucking long’ because truly how we feel rn and that’s without taking into account the rest of his life he was trying to avoid her for ‘I’m sure I can’t keep this bullshit up indefinitely’]

Rio: [the noise like that actually physically pained you to even contemplate it for a second there is all the ‘I know’ you need but you’re still saying the actual words too ‘you don’t need to, whatever happens’ with the confidence of being able to work SOMETHING out even though you have no clue beyond what you want to and hope will happen lbr]

Buster: [stopping breathing v dramatically when that noise escapes because it pains him to hear her make it and know why and what it means never mind the rest ‘I need to be with you’ throwing back her words from earlier before he dropped the s word because we love to do that and also it’s just true so he has the same confidence in that being what’s going to happen now that he’s decided to change tact and commit to this instead of being a bastard, me like oh hun little do you know, prepare to flip flop again v soon]

Rio: [‘you’re with me’ like he is the one that needs soothing right now but also just to say it and to feel as if it is true because in this moment it is and soon it’ll be true in every way it could be meant, so soz for what we’re about to do lads but y’all have no idea]

Buster: [‘do the maths’ because she’s good at it and you’re both nerds so obvs he’s gonna tell her to now they know which flight he’s getting and leaving on and it’s easy enough to minus out the fight stuff to work out exactly how long they think they’re gonna get to spend together, they cruelly are not but jemily can take a lil comfort in him ordering her to do that as if he ordering her to do something way more indecent lol]

Rio: [do do that maths like an excited little nerd, whatever it works out to, it’s the most time you’ve ever spent ALONE ALONE because you’ve never and at most it would’ve been a few pretty unsupervised hours in a day as children, not since you’ve developed these intense feelings as you aged so this is a moment]

Buster: [do a countdown so you get to be an excited little nerd too because it clearly isn’t a far away visit way in the future when the point was being extra and meeting up before the next fam function, so it adds to the moment how soon this is actually going to happen]

Rio: [‘I can’t wait’ again, in the sincerest way possible, spoken like a wistful lil sigh almost because not just a platitude to get you off the phone here]

Buster: [‘neither can I’ as sincerely meant because he wouldn’t have put a rush on immediately organising this if he didn’t, however much we know he does also wanna make things up to his gdad he would’ve waited until his bday to do that lbr ‘hang up and I’ll change my flight’ because absolutely must make that earlier like he said before he even gets home and discusses it with anyone ‘book the return too’ like lest you forget I’ve decided exactly how much time we’ve gonna have and it’s the max possible, even though jemily (and mainly Winnie) have decided otherwise and I just know he’ll end up getting the earliest one he can in the AM after kicking her out as soon as he gets rid of mcvickers/fearghal that PM but y’all aren’t aware of the incoming cockblock so]

Rio: [excitable noises like okay, okay because you want him to do both those things too and you need a reason to hang up that isn’t sad so you’re gonna take it but first the ‘I love you’ flying out like he is one of your loved ones and you’ve always been able to talk to him like this and not even think about it, the slight pause after when you realise that you just did that and that was not actually the case]

Buster: [when you never want her to hang up after saying that but also immediately want her to because !! there is so much you could and want to say in response that the pause is just stretching because it’s overwhelming and also you know her so you know how she said it and that she didn’t exactly mean to so then it’s like do I ACKNOWLEDGE this or not, so much just being expressed by this boy once again breathing down the phone for a second having a tiny debate with himself which is only lasting seconds but feels SO long ‘say that again’ eventually, not in a tone of I’m pretending I didn’t hear you and giving you and out if you want one but v much like say it like you mean it if you 100% do]

Rio: [likewise the silent internal struggle between wanting to immediately press end call so neither of you need to address it to wanting to address it so badly and make a thing of it NOW but you’re doing neither, just living in this silence fully !! until he decides for you, of course you’re not going to back down and deny it when you do so taking your time and saying it with as much intention as possible]

Buster: [when he’s clenching his jaw SO hard not to make even the slightest sound that could interrupt her saying this a second time that she’d be able to feel as well as hear it because despite telling her to repeat herself he could not be less prepared for the effect it has on his entire body because they are sober and this couldn’t be more intentional and it hits different and so deeply]

Rio: [when y’all are both sober in the cold light of day for all of this, can’t just turn around and say otherwise now, we’re way too far gone hence you weren’t going to not say it, even if the way your heart is beating in your ears right now means you feel like you literally cannot and would not be able to hear him reply so you do hang up in pure AHHHHHH vibes]

Buster: [the way he’d immediately want to and almost does call straight her back knowing she’d pick up again as fast but hence he must resist because she was mid running errands and he has to go home eventually and face real life too however much neither of y’all want to and this way at least it is on that high of her ILY being the last thing said rather than a goodbye or anything so that feels too perfect for rn for him to risk changing, however much we all know he wants to say and how much we all know he LOVES having the last word, fight it sir, you must so it’s cinematic and peak romance lol]

Rio: [my boo says dare y’all to stfu challenge and that’s so real honestly lmao]

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