TRUTH OR DARE

[cactusy]

1) Post your characters, one per comment.
2) Comment around ICly asking other characters "truth or dare?"
3) Truth is self-explanatory; dares should involve tagging out to another character's top level somehow ("Insult someone you find terrifying", "Tell someone you think is hot one thing you find sexy about them", "Strike up a conversation using the most awkward non-sequitur you can come up with", etc.)

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

Nate doesn't have a lot of family - most of us don't, you don't get to where we are by being well-adjusted - just his brother, and he probably wishes I dressed like that. Don't let whatever some stuffy assholes with a loser son have to say inside your head.

You're not stupid. Sometimes you wanna believe stuff in a way that makes the truth hard to see. You deserve better than that, though.

[Chloe laughs to herself a bit. Now that she's independent all the shit she’d put herself through is kind of nostalgic]

I've dated a lot of really bad guys who weren't so bad to me. Doted on me and kept me out of the line of fire, you know, only caused problems if I really stepped out of line.

Worst in terms of most embarrassing to me now is this guy who owned a chop shop in London. Used to hook up with him sometimes because he’d let me sleep in the garage at the shop. I was so grateful in there freezing my ass off! Really volatile, too, that guy was not worth it.

[somethingintangible]

[ Maddy does smile a little at that. ] Thanks, Miss Chloe.

I mean, I know. But it still hurts, you know? Like, I really li-- I really loved him. How could he do that?

[ And how could she? ]

Yeah. He sounds like he sucks. [ Maddy's Nate might seem volatile, sometimes, at first glance, but the truth is, most of his violence is calculated. He doesn't pick fights he can't win, most of the time. ] Miss Chloe... what happened to you that you were sleeping in garages? I know you said you didn't have a lot of family, but--

[ But even people without a lot of family aren't always basically homeless. ]

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, it's never great to find out someone isn't who you thought they were. Hard to say why, though. Maybe knowing how you feel about him’s feeding his ego, or he doesn't think it's going to last with this other bird and he's keeping you as a backup.

I know it sucks now, but if he likes you under all that fuckboy shit it'll happen eventually, and if he doesn't you'll find someone better.

[Chloe shrugs] Not a really exciting story, I'm afraid. Had a big fight with my mum and she said, “Don’t come home.”

[somethingintangible]

I think it's over between me and my Nate. For good. [ There's not really any getting back together with a guy who holds a gun to your head... for Maddy, anyway. Maybe Chloe would feel differently. Who knows! ] I'm glad you and yours could find a way to still be friends, though.

[ Maddy thinks about that. ] I'm sorry. That sucks.

Sometimes I wish my parents would tell me not to come home. Or... I guess that's not true, but there were times I didn't want to go home. My parents were both always good to me but they fought with each other a lot, and it made it kind of a shitty place to be sometimes.

What'd you do that was so bad your mom didn't even want you to come home?

[desperate_times_right]

Thanks. Hopefully you feel better about all of it eventually, no matter what you choose.

Oh yeah, I get that too. Staying together “for the kids” doesn't seem to actually work out for the kids, most of the time. Even if it's never bad bad, it's never good either.

I couldn't be the person she wanted me to be, and I got a bit bolder about it once I was away at school.

[somethingintangible]

[ Well, now she's even more curious. ] What kind of person did she want you to be?

[desperate_times_right]

A normal one. I wasn't Australian enough, or Christian enough, or straight enough... Anything, really.

[somethingintangible]

That sucks. Your mom sucks. [ Maddy and her mom don't always see eye to eye, and sometimes it's frustrating, and truthfully... sometimes she does think her mom wishes she had a different type of daughter. But she doesn't think her mom would disown her. Not like that. ]

So, like, are you ever going to go back and rub it in her face? That you're doing fine without her?

[desperate_times_right]

Probably enough revenge that someone with her last name is famous for the kind of stuff I'm doing.

[somethingintangible]

She should just be happy you didn't decide to become a stripper or something. Like, what would she have said then?

[desperate_times_right]

Is that really worse than hooking up with a guy so I can sleep on concrete?

[somethingintangible]

No. It's probably better. Strippers make bank. But it's more public.

[desperate_times_right]

Okay, yeah. That's fair. One of her relatives might have seen me.

[somethingintangible]

[ Smug! ] See? I told you.

I'm glad I met you. You're cool.

[desperate_times_right]

[Take that, Shaw!]

Thanks. You too. Don't let that guy and his family get you down.

[somethingintangible]

[ Chloe gets a hug! ]

Can we talk more? Later. In private. There's some shit I want to tell you that I can't say in public here. About him.

I feel like you might understand.

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe’s a little taken aback, but hugs her back]

Yeah, sure, any time.