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Well, you did amazing with them.

[ It feels nice, like this. The space actually helps her feel a bit more normal. Lets her lean back into the puppy love and not think about all the big, heavy stuff swirling around them. ]

So you can draw. And you can play music. What else can you do that I don't know about yet?

[ "What else do you do that makes you incredibly attractive, Ellie? Fess up." ]

[Ellie huffs out a breath. Glimmer can't see her smiling, but it comes through in her voice. She's always been a sucker for praise; but then, so were all the kids she knew growing up.]

I can paint. I'm pretty good at rigging explosives. And I'm not half bad at archery.

[She's got nothing on Bow, for sure, but it's been more than enough to keep her alive.]

Archery? Why are the people I fall for all into archery?

[ Glimmer laughs again. It feels good just to talk. It's all out in the open and she feels so much lighter now, like she isn't concealing some awful secret. ]

There's a joke in there somewhere. 'Your arrows might be straight but I'm not?'

[Ellie tries to groan aloud, but she really can't help dissolving into laughter. She actually hasn't heard that one before, if it can be believed.]

I'm gonna need to remember that one.

[And Ellie pauses for a second, racking her memory- Glimmer's mentioned Bow several times, but only aloud, and she'd assumed it was Bo, which is a name she's actually familiar with.

... but Glimmer's world has her, a literally sparkly royal with magic, and Catra, who is literally part Cat, and now she's talking about someone into archery-]

So Bow's name is literally bow, like a bow and arrow?

[ Glimmer's voice comes back a little surprised, a little on the edge 'yeah, duh?' ]

Uh, yeah. What else would it be?

[Oh fucking hell.]

[Okay. Okay.]

Don't take this the wrong way-

Does anyone in your world get named, like... Blackfang or Angelknives and then it turns out they're really into just... I don't know. Baking?

Uh... I mean yeah? Bow's dads expected him to be a historian just like them. And my dad's name was Micah. And Bow's dad's are named George and Lance. Pretty sure there was a Horde soldier named Kyle?

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... and I mean they named him Bow though-

Yeah! Exactly! So of course he turns out to be a soldier and a tech-guy. Just their luck.

[Ellie really can't help but laugh out loud. It makes her way into her next words, which sound more than a little openly curious. And it's a safer topic than their mutual interest in each other.]

... so you're into him, huh?

[ If Ellie could see the blush on Glimmer's cheeks at that question. ]

...Yeah. He's kinda been my best friend since we were kids. My only friend for a long time.

I think at some point I just realized that he was important to me in a different way than I'd thought.

From what you've told me about him he seems like an awesome guy.

[The kind of person that Glimmer really should be going for, in Ellie's opinion -- she's not trying to put herself down, just. Appreciating what she's heard about him. She can't dislike the dude.]

That's- kind of how it is, isn't it? You think you're friends until one day, you look at them and it's just-

Wow.

He's really good. I just... hurt him really badly before we got separated and I don't know if he'll ever actually, you know. Feel the same way now.

[ Bummer. But she pushes through it. ]

Yeah! Exactly! It was just like this switch, kinda. You know... oh.

[Big bummer -- but Ellie's not as sure as Glimmer is about that being over, but it's not the time.]

Spending forever not wanting to fuck up your friendship, but also wondering how they feel?

Yeah. Yeah, exactly like that.

Well... at least you're not as bad as I was. The first time I fell in love I didn't even realize that I had, at all.

Oh, yeah. Sheesh. That... must have been rough?

Mostly for her.

[Ellie lets out a rusty laugh. The sting has finally started to go out of the memory.]

She took me on a whole-ass date and I didn't even realize it. I thought kissing her was my own half-baked idea.

Ellie! Oh no!

[ Glimmer breaks into giggles. ]

That must have been so awkward.

Dude, I apologized right after kissing her. Awkward doesn't begin to cover it.

You apologized?

[ Glimmer sounds like she's being overcome with laughter. ]

She was confused about that part, too.

[A laugh bubbles up through her words, only barely catching at the edges. It's taken a long time to move on, to tell herself that it's okay. It hurts, but it feels good to talk about her, too. Somebody should know about Riley.]

Gods.

[ Glimmer's laughter subsides a little as she sprawls out on the bed. There's a faint sigh. ]

...I haven't actually had my first kiss yet.

[Ellie laughs under her breath.]

Not for lack of people wanting to, I bet.

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