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[firstposition]

[Warded to Ravi]

Is my tone very hard to read? Do you think it is [...] a
language thing? Or only a me thing?

[Warded to Leo]

Te amo.

How are you really? Be honest.

[Added later, and somewhat reluctantly.]

[Warded to Ty]

This is [...] probably unexpected, and I do not want you to feel bad. But I have something I want to ask you.



Will you please stop calling me Raf and use Rafa instead? It is not your fault. My brother picked Raf, and I never liked it. I still have a hard time telling Rico 'no'.

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Leo/Rafael

[ninjaleo]

I love you.

I'm doing okay. Really. Promise. There's a lot going on. Tired, but that's not new. I'll be better when acceptance letters get here. I want to know what I can plan. Hopefully something. But. There's enough distractions lately to keep me from imagining how I'm gonna build a cardboard box into a house if I get rejected from everything. So. It's not too bad.

[...]How are you? Really.

Re: Leo/Rafael

[firstposition]

You take on a lot. Too much, perhaps.

[...]

Wherever we end up, I hope that it is together. Three more months is not enough time with you. You will never be homeless as long as I can do something about it.

Leo/Rafael

[ninjaleo]

Think we both might be guilty of that one. I'll let you know when I figure out how to fix it?

I know. I was thinking it'd be a nice box.
But no. You're stuck with me for a lot longer than three months. Whatever happens after school.
Are you okay?

Leo/Rafael

[firstposition]

We may be doomed.

Whatever happens, I will be okay if you are there. And since you just promised you would be, I feel much better. I am only impatient to graduate.

Leo/Rafael

[ninjaleo]

But at least doomed with a lot of people who probably owe us favors.
I don't know if that's better.

Of course I promise that. And we're almost there. Three months, that's nothing.
What's the first thing you want to do, once we're out?

Leo/Rafael

[firstposition]

In ten years we will remind them of the favors and find out.

I want to meet your family.

Leo/Rafael

[ninjaleo]

And if they think I'm not going to remember who they are.

[...] Come home with me, for a while. Over the summer.
You should meet them. I should tell you about them first. [...] Which sounds bad. It isn't.

Leo/Rafael

[firstposition]

You remember everything.

They will not mind? [...] Your father was very nice, I should not be surprised. So, yes, I would like that. To go home with you and visit.

Leo/Rafael

[ninjaleo]

Feel like you might, too.

Of course they wouldn't mind. They want to meet you.[...] It's small. But everyone's moved out except me so. It doesn't feel small usually.
My sister bugs me about this actually. Seeing you. But she's just nosy. She's a healer. Married, she has a daughter. I have two brothers too. One owns like three gyms already. The other one decided to be a no-maj fireman. So if you've ever wanted to go in a fire truck. They're all ten or so years older than me.
My parents work a lot too. They'll still have time to talk. And feed you.

Rafael/Ravi

[knightly]

Did something happen?

[...]

Oh. I see. I'm sorry, Rafael. For what it's worth it, I've never struggled to read your tone. But... you're right, this may be a case of your reputation preceding you. People tend to assume I'm always... serious? Not exactly that. That I'll disapprove more than I actually will. The same sort of thing happens when people think of you.

Rafael/Ravi

[firstposition]

I want to go home. I miss my parents, I even miss R

You are probably right. I need to be more careful. I have made myself a... standard? I should not try to make jokes, it only confuses things.

Rafael/Ravi

[knightly]

Rafael, no. Please don't let an incident like that discourage you, especially since you and Chris handled it quickly. People make assumptions. It's what happens, and the only thing to do is keep living your life as you would. We might've been given badges but we're teenagers too; we're allowed to make jokes without getting jumped on.

Although it is a little irritating to say "Do as we say, not as we do." Which I'm sure is a joke, but the prefects have been getting enough flack about being power-tripping hypocrites without fuelling the fire.

Raf [...] a

[tyhawkeswood]

[...]

Dude. Of course I will. I just thought Why didn't you

Rafa's totally cute and it suits you anyway! Consider it done!