Thirty Three Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[Later tonight, one may find the peace of their evening disturbed by a horrible screeching sound permeating the journals. As if metal is meeting metal in a horrible, scraping doom. Accompanying the terrible screeching is a low thudum-thudum-thudum. This continues for about a minute before the Once-ler manages to grab hold of his journal, laughing nervously into the pages]

Sooo hey. Quick FYI. You guys might want to avoid the Laundry Room until tomorrow. Not that there's anything to worry about. Mostly.

Whoaaaah just stay in that corner of the room. Oh jeez you're getting Tide everywhere.

I might have experimentally given one of he tumble dryers legs. And then I was tinkering about in the back of it, just fooling around and I miiiiight have given it a teeny tiny slither of self awareness. Like the teeniest. Hardly anything, really.

[Screeeech. Thudum-thudum-thudum]

I think it's mad.

Comments

[wilder]

...Well that is possibly the most ironic statement I'll hear all month.

[whichwayyoulean]

Hey, I've been coming outside way more recently.

[wilder]

Yeah? You mean like on dates?

[DID YOU REALLY THINK HE WOULDN'T ASK ABOUT YOU AND CASS?]

[whichwayyoulean]

[He makes a strangled sort of sound. GOD WHY]

No. Not on dates.

[wilder]

Whaaaaaat?

Oh come on- Why not!

[whichwayyoulean]

[Mumbling] Because I haven't told her how I feel yet.

[wilder]

- You what?

Oh come on! I gave you two months! Why not?!

[whichwayyoulean]

It's really difficult okay? I made her a sock bat and everything but kind of...failed at the telling her part.

[wilder]

Oh come on!

She clearly likes you, what's the big scary part!

[whichwayyoulean]

Because she could say no, or laugh at me, or say no with laughing at me.

[wilder]

Do you really think she'd do that?

And don't answer with your insecurities. Answer with you know about her.

[whichwayyoulean]

I- Well...


No. No she wouldn't.

[wilder]

See?

Don't worry so much about it. You'll get an ulcer.

[whichwayyoulean]

King of the Worry here, remember?

[wilder]

Hmmm, nope sorry. You're so not the king of worry.

[whichwayyoulean]

Oh? You got a counterpoint to that?

[wilder]

Mmhmm.

The King of Worry would've noticed this conversation is unfiltered.

1/2

[whichwayyoulean]

...

2/2

[whichwayyoulean]

You waited purposefully until now to tell me that, didn't you?

[wilder]

Please, when would I ever do such a thing? ♥

[whichwayyoulean]

You just did.

Right now.

This very second.

[wilder]

That's because I just noticed it was unfiltered!

Right now.

This very second.

[whichwayyoulean]

Gosh, how convenient.

[...]

[Zelos]

HAH! Got it now.

[wilder]

Isn't it just?

[Once-ler]

Wow. You just sounded like a newbie who just made their first filter.

Zelos

[whichwayyoulean]

Shut up, it's hard for some people to remember, okay?


...You don't think she really saw that, do you?