Mafi Pt.2
Mattie: [‘are you actually sorry?’ as a more genuine question than it probably even sounds ‘cos we likewise are not in full control of our reactions, try as we might, and that obviously did something to us ‘or do you just want me to tell you off?’]
Fi: [‘I don’t think so, I don’t think I’ve ever been less sorry’ because do not have a single regret right here or right now, soz haters, as we unnecessarily touch her lips as if correcting the lipstick application she did on herself earlier without a mirror]
Mattie: [looking at her the most !! we have ever because are we going to do this, after all this time ‘are you wearing anything under your jacket?’ because sometimes gals just wear the jacket, I can’t tell what the vibe is]
Fi: [‘guess’ as she plays with a button before undoing it but not one that’ll give you a definite reveal, just a teaser button, to do it, because I bet you aren’t, you’re that bitch]
Mattie: [shaking our head for a no, because we clearly think you aren’t either and that isn’t just wishful thinking, pulling her closer with this jacket but not with any kind of force, pretty gently so she still has to come herself if she wants to ‘it’s December, you weren’t going to overheat’ the weren’t being emphasised like UNTIL NOW]
Fi: [‘and I was running so late’ as she does come closer because ofc she wants to, like you didn’t put anything on cos you couldn’t spare the time to decide what lol ‘I couldn’t stop practising what I’d say, what I’d do, when I saw you’ because it has been a minute and you would be nervous even if this hadn’t been how it went]
Mattie: [undoing however many other buttons you need to to undo it but not moving it aside to expose her yet ‘but you can’t tell me’ with a little pout but we’re not fully pressuring like SAY IT]
Fi: [‘none of it felt how I want to make you feel’ as she’s using her fingers to gently turn her pout into a smile, or trying anyway, really just touching her face more than we ever have before]
Mattie: [‘you know how you make me feel’ almost impatiently, putting a hand around her waist under her jacket, digging our nails into the soft skin]
Fi: [making a noise in response to the action, letting herself do it ‘is that what you want to hear?’ as a shiver like we’re so cold all of a sudden]
Mattie: [just snaking this hand up your ribs until it’s under your boobs, kneading them with that impatient urgency, amped up by her reaction ‘I want to hear how I make you feel’ plainly put, yes]
Fi: [letting the next noise be more deliberately so, less of a quiet gasp and more of a lil !! moan like okay, that’s how you make me feel in case there was any doubt, emphasised by moving more into her touch as well as opposed to trying to stay as still as possible]
Mattie: [burying your face into her chest and finding a nipple with your nose, rubbing your face so softly against it, making it harder ‘very good’ as you start to lightly flick it with your tongue, your other hand rubbing the small of her back, pulling her into you more]
Fi: [pulling her into her more too because GRABBING her when all that occurs because so !! about everything that’s happening, leaving a lipstick mark on her neck the way she did on her glass, rubbing her thumb over it the way you saw her do but did not comment on or react to at the time]
Mattie: [fully sucking this nip into your mouth because you can’t handle her lips on your skin, never mind the reminder that comes with the sensation, pushing her boobs together as hard as you can to get both in your mouth at the same time if you can, swiping your tongue furiously around both similar to the lipstick application]
Fi: [fully moaning her name, excuse us everyone, nobody need a piss rn please, because not loud af but 100% her name and a moan so there’s no styling that out if anyone hears it, pushing her against the nearest wall of this bathroom as hard as she can using that blatant hip movement to do the most]
Mattie: [pulling her jacket so it’s hanging off her shoulders fully because got to let you know how little we care about anything else in this moment ‘unzip my dress’ as you’re pinned up against this wall]
Fi: [doing it, lowkey with enough !! you could break said zip because you also don’t give a shit rn, but don’t actually because that’d be very awks later, stepping back slightly to look at her once she has, because simply must]
Mattie: [step out of this dress so you’re fully here in your underwear and ballet shoes, biting your lip as you LOOK at her ‘do you want to touch me?’]
Fi: [in contrast to how little she cared but a second ago, picking this dress up and like draping/hanging it over something because it’s beautiful and we don’t wanna get it ruined by leaving it on the floor and walking over it, but not taking our eyes off her, obvs, LOOKING to a point she might as well be running her hands over her whole body because that’s the vibe of it, really making the anticipation kill before she follows everywhere her gaze was by touching her, so lightly compared to the intensity of the LOOK]
Mattie: [smiling at this, even if it looks like the smallest smile ever because the rest of your reactions, the ones you’ve allowed and the ones that you haven’t yet but can feel barely being held back, are occupying so much space in your brain that feels like it’s functioning on the most base level possible, not even consciously moving into her touch and making it more than it is but we are]
Fi: [kissing her, again leaving lipstick marks, starting where the perfume would typically be sprayed on her neck and wrists, but then because she also walked into the cloud of it and like wrapped herself in it, the excuse to just kiss her wherever the mood takes this girl, leaving lipstick everywhere on her body until there is none, y’all are gonna have to be vigilant about all the wild places that’s gone because I’m picturing the fold of her arm and all sorts of shit, but clearly in this moment you’re in it and you don’t care about the after, so]
Mattie: [you’re going to need to lowkey give yourself a bath with a wetwipe after this but neither of you cares in this moment about that, at all, nor do we have any desire not to be covered in your kisses entirely and our everything is making that well known]
Fi: [when your breathing is like you’ve been running a marathon or actually fucking each other senseless because the feels and level of desire is too high, nobody’s ever seen this sporty gal this breathless before, I’m sure, love that for y’all, I’m sure this boujee bathroom has some kind of seating moment, so sit on it and pull her into you]
Mattie: [putting both your hands over her heart to feel how fast it is beating right now, just looking at her like !! ‘cos do we stop here do we continue and get in a even more compromising position]
Fi: [knowing damn well you should stop because someone could literally come through that bathroom door any second, like they did earlier, so looking at it after we’ve returned her !! look to communicate that, but easier said than done to actually fully stop this now you’ve started it]
Mattie: [‘just-’ also looking between her face and the door constantly now because this is already a compromising situation and you know it girl, like you could be sorting an issue with your dress, yes, but you’re covered in lipstick so that doesn’t explain that away; holding her head in your hands and taking a deep breath before you go for it and actually kiss her on the lips because you haven’t yet, making the soft sounds that parallel the way we’re pushing into you with this, not holding back on making it a proper kiss]
Fi: [not making a single glance towards the door after her first one, purely watching this girl’s face the entire time, because in no world do you wanna stop either, we all know that, hence likewise doing the most with this first kiss immediately, so y’all are shamelessly just lying here making out as if there is no threat of discovery at all, we can’t even talk about the state of Mattie’s hair now too, cos obvs can’t leave that be, pulling her hair constantly to keep deepening this kiss somehow]
Mattie: [‘I want you so badly’ as something you can barely cope with stopping kissing her for one second to say but you must, holding her face in place for another stolen moment to trace your tongue around her lips like you’re putting on lipstick again, pressing it deep into her mouth to meet with hers and stifle your moans]
Fi: [‘you can have me completely’ with identical energy ‘I don’t care about-’ not needing to finish the sentence because of how clearly you don’t care about literally anything else rn with every single reaction you’re having to her actions and the way you’re once again kissing her like it’s your job]
Mattie: [‘I’ve wanted you since-’ cutting yourself off, putting your hands on her stomach, pressing down, kneading, with no clear goal beyond wanting to touch her more and in more places ‘wanted you in-’ again rudely not finishing that sentence properly, letting our mouth smear against yours so our faces are a mess of pink]
Fi: [‘you’ve given me butterflies every day since-’ not needing to finish her sentence because of course the answer is immediately ‘how I ate anything, I’ll never understand’ shoutout to those first ever iconic treats that she slayed]
Mattie: [whether you’re on top or she is or you’re sort of side by side, pulling her legs apart again to be closer to her like that, resting the full weight of your body on hers, feeling her bare legs under her trousers, grasping at every bit of her ‘you’re lovely’ like you always have been from that moment on]
Fi: [unzip your trousers with the same could break the zip energy as you did her dress, moving as much as you can without dislodging this gal from how she’s positioned but so they’ll fall because aren’t just going to the way her dress did but you wanna give her as much skin as she gave you, yet again regardless of this setting]
Mattie: [shamelessly folding them up and moving them to the side safely because she did it and you thought it was adorable, running your fingers up the full length of her legs, purposely ending right in the join of her thighs every time you come back up, pushing your thumbs in circles in this spot]
Fi: [the smile we’ve gotta do about it, because I’m sorry it’s as adorable when she does it, and such a caring and feminine gesture, what man would ever, doing hot lols because that’s ticklish when she’s touching her legs like that, which obviously catch every time she does her other antics, because that does not but we couldn’t be more into it]
Mattie: [just watching her face so adorably excited about her every reaction because you’ve never gone this far with a woman, going to say you’ve kissed some girls ‘cos that gay film exists and we’d be a fool to ignore but like it was never any deeper than that because then you got a serious boyfriend who didn’t let you do anything and you’ve only just got rid of him in the grand scheme of things ‘I can do it with my fingers but you’ll have to show me how to do it with my mouth’ quite matter of fact despite the !! of the current situation, ‘cos you’re a girl yourself, you know how that works but not the rest]
Fi: [my boo says we’d be damn fools to ignore that gay ballerina content and she’s so right for that, not this girl taking that as an instruction like okay hold on I’m gonna show you rn immediately, because of course she is, seriously excuse us everyone, because positioning her in a way she’ll be most comfortable on whatever kind of seating we have to work with and just going at this]
Mattie: [the GASP because we did not mean right now, obviously but it could not be more apparent how we feel about the fact you even attempted it ‘oh my god!’ and CLAMPING your hands over your mouth, the definition of shook about this right now excuse us]
Fi: [like, I’m sure you’re being slow and romantic and gay about it because you love her and you just know her terrible bf was not bringing the energy you’re going to to this, if he ever did it, there’s no telling with men tbh, but you’ve clearly done this before and have skillz that you’re absolutely buzzing to show off to her so, it’ll be !! especially because you 100% wouldn’t be able to resist talking her through some of these antics, being a literal teacher about it for obvious reasons]
Mattie: [when you’re torn between genuinely trying to concentrate and learn ‘cos obviously you want to do it well when it’s your turn and being too far gone because of how hot everything about this is to you ‘I can’t believe we’re doing this’ ‘cos truly, basically an understatement at this point]
Fi: [what I love most about this moment is, as much as she does wanna show off/teach her mad skillz, she’s also paying such close attention to the things Mattie likes and then really tailoring it instead of just being like hey look what I can wow you with, so important, thank you ‘maybe I’ll believe it when we’re genuinely old’ like maybe when I’m 45 it will sink in that this happened, because atm, hard same]
Mattie: [as much as there’s a general skill to it, also can be v personal which little flairs people do or don’t vibe with, so an important overall lesson as well as being vital, honestly just pay attention and I don’t think you can go horrifically wrong; anyway, give her hair a little stroke about that as if you’re imagining it being grey]
Fi: [agreed, bubs, agreed ‘or perhaps not’ when she strokes her hair like okay no I’ll actually never be over it, with a smile and some heart eyes, before she’s back at this, doing the most to kill this girl in this bathroom]
Mattie: [clutching at her hair before you can even help it here ‘oh, Fi, fuck’ we’re so ridiculously turned on we’re bright red about it]
Fi: [‘it’s okay’ to echo the many times Mattie has said this, like don’t worry gal, I’ve got you, we’re gonna do this and it will be iconic, all of that emphasised by the fact she’s really concentrating now, no more talking or teaching after that, just responding to her and giving her what she wants]
Mattie: [just be here having the best orgasm of your life casually, no, nothing to see here, not wrapping our legs around this girl’s body, shuddering into wave after wave, only being spurred on by this being neither the time nor place yet here you are]
Fi: [they’re lucky we haven’t left Winnie in charge because he’d have someone walk in at exactly this moment, but I won’t do that to y’all, because can’t stop won’t stop and we all know this girl is not until Mattie is the one crying happy tears about this]
Mattie: [count your blessings huns because we could, we’re here meanwhile being progressively louder because the overstimulation is real ‘I didn’t know it could feel like this, that I could cum like this, all over your face’]
Fi: [for realism’s sake we probably should, but that feels so evil when these gals are so happy rn ‘you aren’t ever going to feel any different’ just promising that you can always make her feel like this, the confidence, where’s the lie though]
Mattie: [we can always have it be a random or you don’t see who ‘cos who isn’t going to walk out again immediately unless they’re weird lol; ‘I need this, need my girl fucking me everywhere’]
Fi: [mhmm, that was my thought exactly, it doesn’t have to be anyone in poor Mattie’s fam, there are nay friends and peeps Noah would have invited here who are frankly irrelevant and will just walk in and straight out cos they don’t know either of you, I’m just aware how long y’all would have been in here and how unlikely it is towards the end of the night no pissed ladies need the toilet lol ‘sweet pea, you don’t even know what you need yet’ cos it can be a term of endearment and so it is, from this moment on]
Mattie: [yeah agreed, y’all should’ve at least got in a stall but I understand it isn’t very romantic for you so you didn’t but that is where we are now, even if this toilet is one of and thus it’s not got constant traffic, still impossible no one is gonna come in]
Fi: [soz to whoever that woman is but not really, sapphic tension needed to be addressed, soz to mafi for the heart attack only, we’ll be kind and let you finish Mattie but Winnie says that’s all the kindness allowed]
Mattie: [Winnie is an evil lil man and loving every minute, never has a bitch moved so fast to grab her dress and lock herself in one of these stalls like oh my god oh my god]
Fi: [give her a sec while you likewise get your clothes back on and clean yourself up at least somewhat, out in the open, because what do you care at this point, it’s too late, and then do the cutest knock of all time for how quiet and hesitant it is ‘it’s me’ like not another random coming to ruin your life, don’t worry]
Mattie: [‘I just need- just give me a moment’ breathless for the wrong reasons right now]
Fi: [‘do you want me to leave?’ genuinely, even though her tone betrays that she doesn’t want to/think that’s a good idea]
Mattie: [‘we should leave separately, probably’ but giving you don’t have to run out right now and leave me the f alone]
Fi: [actually take a second to fix how insane you look and re-apply your face, she’ll hear you and know you’re still here but there’s no pressure for her to come out/say anything rn immediately]
Mattie: [work on rubbing off this lipstick without making your skin red and blotchy as hell, which would probably work better with a bit of water so you’ll have to come out to do that, awkward dot com, clear your throat after a while of just scrubbing it silence here ‘did you see who that was, what they looked like?’ ‘cos unless if was someone really obvious aka the worst people it could be, Fi isn’t gonna have a clue lol]
Fi: [silently zip her dress back up for her because if it’s at the back how they usually are she won’t be able to reach to fully do that herself ‘Jay’s friend?’ with the question mark because we don’t actually know we’re just basing it on approximate age + odds it has to be cos of whose party this is + the fact she probs also looked like a gym girlie with the brief glance we got, cos wanna help you here and give you some kind of answer that isn’t idk]
Mattie: [nod, as if any answer was going to be that comforting, you’re just mortified, end of, but at least it wasn’t a family member so even if this lady goes and runs her mouth, they didn’t fully see THAT ‘I need to go see the girls now’ like you’re telling yourself more than you are her, reminding yourself of your priorities ‘excuse me’ and rushing out like you don’t want to leave this party immediately because how shaming being like WHO WAS IT]
Fi: [I’m just imagining if she does run her mouth that the woman in question and Jay will both think it was Fi and Dolly because they are here together and also it’s feasible to me that she’s mixed her sisters up, so soz if she does say anything, cos Jay won’t she’ll just be off with Dolly, more than she is as standard, and the poor girl won’t even know why, but here and now, this girl has gotta let Mattie go, you could leave, but you won’t cos that isn’t who you are, awks that you literally only know her sisters and that’s who she’s making a beeline for but at least you can get a drink and bring Dolly one like soz I’m been AGES, peace offering vibes and go have some last dances so you aren’t stood there STARING at Mattie dramatically]
Mattie: [not you getting accused of being gay, also I thought this the other day that it’s hilarious that the sisters you think would be queer are the straight ones, fight those stereotypes hens; ANYWAY, focus all your attention on Lulu which she will love so Fi can take Dolly because this is all we can do when running out screaming is not an option lol]
Fi: [soz that we’re really confirming that it must be Dolly who we were gaying with cos insisting she dances with us until this party ends and the music is off because what else can you do, we know you put some secret alcohol in your drink to take the edge off but Dolly doesn’t need to, getting wasted isn’t the move, hence the dance sesh]
Mattie: [oh lord if either of your other sisters comes at you about this later, we cannot, meanwhile you start tidying up this party on the low because you just need to focus on being helpful now]
Fi: [the gay urge to go over and help her clean up, but don’t gal, resist, resist, focus on Dolly until she leaves, you can help her then if she’s still at it]
Mattie: [me like soz I might have to cockblock y’all now ‘cos she isn’t going to want to go out after this fiasco, mean of me but true, would lowkey be encouraging Dolly to go so hard in an obvious attempt to send y’all off there]
Fi: [I agree though, y’all should be cockblocked and because Dolly isn’t gonna go out, you’ll have to eventually go home and do some gay overthinking about every second of this function, after you’ve awkwardly helped her tidy up a lil bit]
Mattie: [soz girl, it’s just very legit, I will put you out of your agony after some time at home to likewise be cringing at everything we did and did not do and the mess of it all]
Mattie: I just wanted you to know that wasn’t your fault, I mean, I didn’t want you to think it was, if you were, it isn’t
Mattie: That was a very foolish thing of me to do and I take full responsibility for it
Fi: I wasn’t looking at it like there was fault to take, but okay, sure
Fi: thanks for clearing that up for me
Mattie: Well, it was wholly inappropriate, for so many reasons but there was no onus on you to behave in any sort of way, really
Mattie: it was my family function, after all
Fi: I’m not disputing wrong location, but if that’s the problem, I caused it as much as you
Mattie: No, you truly didn’t
Mattie: I don’t know what I was thinking, I should have never started that
Fi: I don’t need you to excuse my behaviour, I’m perfectly aware you weren’t thinking, because of me
Mattie: I ended up drinking too much for how little I’d eaten
Fi: you don’t have to do this, in fact, please, do not
Mattie: I don’t want to have made things between us awkward, or have upset you
Fi: what’s upsetting is, you’re genuinely trying to fob me off with something that we both know is false, something that makes me feel like I need to crawl into a hole
Mattie: no, no, that’s not what I’m trying to do, I’m trying to explain why I would have acted against all sense and got us into that mess
Fi: you’re trying to blame it on the alcohol, which I thought I’d left behind with schoolgirls and underage drinking
Mattie: you know that I would never normally act like this, I can’t
Mattie: because I’m not a schoolgirl, for God’s sake, I’m a teacher, my whole family was there
Fi: I know what it makes me if you were drunk and I wasn’t, the same thing it makes me every time any girl freaks out
Mattie: I didn’t say I was drunk, just that we’d had drinks, it was a weird party, weird night
Fi: it’s what you’re trying to say
Fi: a backpedal is a backpedal, and you’re allowed to do so, but it’s just, I’d rather you chose one that paints me in a less predatory light
Mattie: How could you possibly be the predator, by anyone’s imagining
Mattie: I started it and I’m the one who met you at school, as an authority figure, there’s no world in which I’m not the predator
Fi: because I’m the one who’s out, Mattie
Fi: and that’s enough for everyone to believe I’m the one who doesn’t know how to act appropriately
Mattie: and I’ve told you it was my fault and if anything comes out about it, I’ll say the same to whoever I have to
Mattie: if it does, I don’t even know who it was, it felt like all their friends were looking at me after that so
Fi: It doesn’t make me feel any better, how willing you are to fall on this sacrificial sword, real or imagined, is it supposed to?
Mattie: I think it’s the reality of the situation, from all angles I’ve considered it
Mattie: my family has no real reason or vested interest to judge you
Fi: no, the reality is, we didn’t do anything morally wrong
Fi: socially frowned upon, a little bit, I’ll admit, but you wouldn’t judge the other guests as harshly if you walked in on a similar scene
Mattie: Would we not
Fi: getting carried away at parties is the norm, had you barely finished uni like everyone else your age you’d be acting messier than you did tonight, give yourself a break
Mattie: but this wasn’t a University party, it was my sister’s engagement
Mattie: a child could have walked in, Jesus
Fi: which would have been horrific, but they didn’t
Mattie: The point is that they could have and I wasn’t thinking about anyone but myself
Fi: a lapse in judgement isn’t a hanging offence, I’m not gonna allow you to punish yourself to an unwarranted level
Fi: guests were actually drunk, your fictional child could have witnessed untold horrors as a result of the mass overindulgence
Mattie: I appreciate the sentiment but no other guest was having sex in public, I can guarantee you
Mattie: I’m not going to accept that that was at all appropriate, but I’ve said I’m not saying you’re inappropriate or it was your fault, just the act of
Fi: can you?
Fi: there were other bathrooms they could have been using, you know
Mattie: please be serious, Fi
Fi: Shall we address your real stumbling block here, that way I can skip to the part where I tell you again you weren’t my teacher, until I’m blue in the face if necessary
Mattie: Would you have met me if I wasn’t a teacher?
Fi: potentially, you’re Dolly’s sister too
Mattie: and I was your form teacher
Fi: it doesn’t mean having to kid yourself you had any authority over me at the time, or that you honestly could, ever
Fi: we’re essentially the same age, I respect you as a person, not your form tutor title which lasted all of a year
Mattie: The point is I signed a contract to look after the well-being of and safeguard all the kids at that school, and you were one of them, like it or not, that’s the truth
Fi: like it or not, no I wasn’t, because I had privileges at that school I’m the first to hold my hands up to, we both understand why I was set apart, I didn’t sign an official contract to run the place, but I did, anyway
Fi: though, entertaining your version for a moment, if I were, you still didn’t do anything to harm me or null and void a single thing you signed up for
Mattie: Waiting for the moment something becomes legal or otherwise uncontentious, is no better
Fi: so I’m supposed to give up on you, am I?
Mattie: I know what happened to Dolly, what that did to both the twins’ lives
Fi: Dolly was a deeply unhappy and isolated underage girl who got exploited by a sick opportunist, a comparison doesn’t exist
Mattie: That isn’t how anyone would see it
Fi: I can try and change their minds too, one at a time or all at once, with the facts, but that’s all I can do
Mattie: Let’s just slow down
Mattie: as far as we know right now, no one knows anything
Fi: Jay’s friend didn’t go running screaming back into the ballroom and announce it, no
Mattie: we just have to hope word doesn’t get back to Jay
Fi: I’ll hope she was too drunk to remember what she barely saw
Mattie: anything is too much
Fi: I’m sorry I didn’t stop it, the last thing I want is to hurt you, in any way
Mattie: it isn’t your responsibility to take accountability for me and my actions
Mattie: it’s fine, I’m just mortally embarrassed but hopefully no more comes of it, as we’ve said
Fi: I acted as well, it wasn’t only you
Mattie: I’m just sorry, okay, that’s all I needed to say
Fi: and we’ve both apologised now
Mattie: yes
Fi: you understand what my sorry covers and what it doesn’t, right?
Mattie: I think so
Mattie: but you can explain, if you’d like
Fi: as long as I’ve been clear
Mattie: have I?
Fi: yes 💎
Mattie: so we’re still friends
Fi: of course we are
Mattie: Thank goodness
Fi: It’ll be okay, almost no one at the party had the slightest idea who I was or how we met
Mattie: except Dolly and Lulu
Fi: thank god neither of them saw us is the overwhelming take away
Mattie: I’d have to run away, again
Mattie: perhaps to the Malaysian site of the college, would be about far enough
Fi: I obviously can’t give my blessing to such schoolgirl antics, kindly don’t
Mattie: I can’t make any promises until I stop feeling so queasy
Fi: I’d promise to hold your hair back, sadly you may as well be in Malaysia for what it would be worth, because I can’t fulfil it with the distance regardless
Mattie: Did you arrive back in Surrey safely?
Fi: My arrival there isn’t required again until the new year 🥳
Fi: I get to stay in [somewhere close to her uni, because her parents would sort her a flat or something, they are those bitches]
Mattie: Oh, I see, sorry
Mattie: just assumed
Fi: a fair assumption, anyone else’s parents would see the pitfalls of allowing a 19 year old girl to live alone, especially after boarding for years and years
Mattie: could you get a flatmate, once you’ve made a friend you think you could stand to live with?
Fi: perhaps, unless I’m loving the solitude too much by then
Mattie: possibly
Fi: it’s been nice thus far
Mattie: you’d recommend it then?
Mattie: I've only ever lived at home then in dorms or flat/house shares before this so
Fi: you know me, I can always look on the bright side 🌞
Mattie: it is what people strive for, independence
Fi: and I’ve definitely fought for it, Allegra has the battle scars
Mattie: quite
Fi: Anyway, if I remember rightly, when you’re feeling sick [something Mattie did/told her to do during a school trip moment that we’ve clearly committed to memory] helps most
Fi: you should be doing that, not this
Mattie: A simple goodbye would suffice 😌
Fi: it wouldn’t
Mattie: travel sickness and this are very different things, too
Fi: I don’t have the foggiest how to make you feel better about this though, I wish I did
Mattie: I’m sure it’ll all seem better in the morning 🌞
Fi: my cue to say good night? 🌝
Mattie: if you’re tired
Fi: wouldn’t be very Tigger coded of me
Mattie: you did seem insulted by the comparison
Fi: did I?
Mattie: unless bringing up your defiance to an ADHD diagnosis was a positive
Fi: firstly, it’s a simple fact I apparently don’t meet the criteria, and secondly, Piglet is Winnie’s best friend, I’m defiant about not having that spot
Mattie: I never said I was Winnie, just that I loved him
Mattie: I’m probably more Piglet coded
Fi: oh please, you’re Winnie
Mattie: 🤔🤔
Fi: book Pooh, Disney can hang for all I care
Mattie: well, I am very fond of honey but I’m not sure if I would go to the lengths
Fi: you’d go to the lengths he does for your friends and family, you do, I’ve witnessed it ☂️
Mattie: I’m sorry I made you feel like you wanted to crawl into a hole, that isn’t a good friend
Fi: I haven’t been a good one either, gatecrashing your sister’s engagement
Mattie: you were invited
Fi: but I showed up selfishly to see you
Fi: I shouldn’t have come
Mattie: I’m glad you came
Mattie: regardless of how it had to end
Fi: are you?
Mattie: of course I am
Fi: you wouldn’t be feeling mortified if I hadn’t, there’d be no consequences to worry about the knock on effects of
Mattie: I suppose that’s true
Mattie: but I wouldn’t know if we were still friends or not, had you not shown
Mattie: and it was a nice thing to do for Dolly, even if you had other motives as well
Fi: Dolly won’t want to still be friends if this blows up
Mattie: We have to hope, then she’ll never find out
Mattie: learn our lesson from a near miss instead of a catastrophe
Fi: why is learning lessons consistently a giant negative?
Mattie: I’m not sure that’s the angle you want to go with, when you go for your PGCE
Fi: well, let’s hope, in three years time, I’ll have done all the painful growing required to be less of an idiot, or it’s probably not a suitable career path
Mattie: I cannot participate in that thought spiral, with this long left before I have to be back in the classroom
Fi: it’s not a reflection on you, we’re not the same person
Mattie: We both behaved in the same idiotic way, and as you said, you have years left before anyone is expecting you to behave accordingly
Fi: you don’t typically, I’d be lying if I said that’s true of myself
Mattie: I don’t think the school would be any more forgiving than Dolly would
Fi: the school aren’t going to find out
Mattie: I can’t lose my job
Fi: No, I’d tell a million lies before I allowed you to take that big of a fall, you’re too good at your job
Fi: you love it
Mattie: You aren’t going to have to do that, it would be unconscionable for me to ask that if it was a possibility though
Fi: you don’t have to ask, if that’s what it comes down to, I’ll do it
Fi: my only consequence is going back to therapy like I did post divorce and pre-remarriage, and as you said, it does work wonders
Mattie: It’s wrong, I wouldn’t allow it
Fi: then it’ll be my word against yours, and I think it’s a fairly easy guess which of us everyone is more inclined to believe
Fi: our reputations precede us, remember
Mattie: I don’t think anyone would imagine I’d lie about having an affair with you
Mattie: lest they think I need something stronger than therapy, which rather hurts the keeping my job case
Fi: we aren’t having an affair, Mattie
Fi: you were drunk, I took things too far, as I am prone to do, that’s the story
Mattie: Is it the truth though
Fi: if needs be, for the sake of your job and your relationship with your sister
Mattie: I don’t like lies
Fi: you can’t lose your job and Dolly can’t lose you, both of those things are more important
Mattie: As far as we’re aware no one beyond a basic stranger knows so we can only act as such
Fi: I told you, I’m prepared for the worst outcome, I know what to do, don’t contradict my efforts and it’ll be fine
Mattie: No, Fi
Fi: my life isn’t over taking complete blame for this, I can go live in [wherever her dad lives], start again
Fi: yours would be, I should’ve cared more about that in the moment, but I didn’t, so I will now, I have to
Mattie: This is just ridiculous, you haven’t done anything wrong, and you’re in Uni, you can’t just leave
Fi: it’s a last resort, this could end here, as an embarrassing faux pas, hopefully
Fi: but I want you to be aware I have a plan, in case it doesn’t
Mattie: It will, regardless of how rightfully crushed Dolly would be, she isn’t a spiteful person, she wouldn’t do anything
Fi: God, she really deserves better friends than me
Mattie: and better sisters
Fi: I’m going to have to ghost her, aren’t I?
Mattie: No, no, don’t do that
Fi: I used her, like everyone else
Mattie: I mean, she invited you for her own purpose
Mattie: and a purpose you fulfilled, you didn’t ignore her as soon as you got there or anything, friendships are reciprocal like that
Fi: she didn’t have an agenda to her invitation
Mattie: you’re being too hard on yourself, you wanted to see me as well as her, that’s allowed
Fi: and look how that turned out, someone needs to be hard on me about it
Mattie: She needs friends, no qualifier
Mattie: I think that’s more important
Fi: packing my bags and moving feels easier, but okay, sure
Mattie: you said you wanted hard
Mattie: You can’t see her often now anyway but if she needs you, show up, okay
Mattie: you know how to be a good friend, whatever you think
Fi: I do care about her, however much it doesn’t seem like I could be all that bothered, after what happened
Mattie: I know you do
Fi: I’ll be there
Mattie: Thank you
Fi: and for you, if you need anything
Mattie: I don’t want things to end like this, to feel so
Mattie: I shouldn’t have vented to you like that, all my fears, when I’m sure it’ll be fine, I didn’t intend to make you feel bad
Fi: who else could you vent to? I’ve put you in a position where you can’t talk to anyone about this
Mattie: it just feels like an overreaction, for all the things you’re suggesting now, I didn’t mean to take it to this level
Fi: I took it to this level, because I don’t want you to think I’m underreacting
Fi: I know this is serious, I can take it seriously
Mattie: I don’t think that, I know you care
Fi: I didn’t mean to scare you either
Mattie: It’s perhaps not better to spiral together than alone but that was my intention when I first reached out
Fi: I’m sorry
Mattie: Don’t be, please
Mattie: no more than I am
Fi: maybe I should’ve gone out, made myself unreachable for a while
Mattie: I would have been worried
Fi: you don’t have to worry about me, I can look after myself
Mattie: when has that ever stopped me
Fi: I have plenty of space left to get another drunk tattoo
Fi: [because I vibe that on her 18th bday she did that, and it’s a lil star with a gold outline, sadly I can’t find a pic of one, cos the glee gal has one but it’s ugly af and filled in gold so no]
Mattie: [it must be a hard colour to do because you think it’d be easier to find than it is but still loves it, could always black and white one, as long as it's not a heavy black line]
Mattie: I can imagine your mother’s reaction
Fi: unless I committed to my forehead, she’s unlikely to notice
Mattie: did she notice the star?
Fi: eventually, but that was pre having her precious baby boy join the school, these days I could chop off an arm and have it reattached as a leg and she wouldn’t express the slightest concern
Mattie: Maybe she’s giving you that freedom you fought for?
Fi: or maybe this era of my life is irrelevant to her because it doesn’t reflect back
Mattie: Have you talked to her?
Fi: 😅 why would I?
Mattie: well, you seem upset
Fi: of course not, if I’m irrelevant to her, she can be irrelevant to me
Mattie: okay, as long as you’re okay with how things are
Fi: I’ve learned to pick my battles
Mattie: I know
Fi: it’s my little brother you should feel sorry for, thrust into her full spotlight as well as having to walk in my shadow, poor thing
Mattie: I can speak to his form teacher, if you’d like
Mattie: Obviously I’ve kept an eye out
Fi: me too, he’s doing okay, considering
Mattie: he has plenty of people there for him
Fi: I’m going to invite Doll to spend her birthday in [wherever her dad lives again] as an alternative, since she doesn’t and lent term doesn’t start until the 9th
Fi: I don’t have to be back at uni until the 16th so
Mattie: Oh, right
Mattie: well I’m sure she’ll love that
Fi: I’m sure she’ll refuse me, she loves to
Mattie: it’s a nice offer nevertheless
Mattie: you’re leaving then?
Fi: not like that, but I have making up to do for her, and she’s told me enough about the tragic state of her birthday for it to be a clear starting point, if she wants it to be
Mattie: Yes, I suppose so
Fi: should you need me, I’m [however many hours, can’t be many because it’s probably europe somewhere] away 📌🌎🛫
Mattie: as you said, I don’t think Dolly will want to come
Fi: I’ll do my best to convince her but she’s as stubborn as I am
Mattie: Perhaps she will want to spend her birthday with her family, however ‘tragic’ it may seem
Fi: it’s understandable, I won’t hold it against her
Mattie: right
Fi: don’t be cross at me, I’m not calling you tragic
Mattie: I just think it’s rude, things are complicated, beyond face value, you don’t do yourself any favours being that flippant
Fi: I’m not going to write a giant footnote re using the word tragic to explain I understand it’s more nuanced, am I? You know what I mean
Mattie: Nevermind
Fi: Mattie
Mattie: What?
Fi: you’re allowed to say what you want to say instead of brushing it off
Mattie: I did, I said it was rude
Fi: okay, if that’s it
Mattie: It is, you can’t expect to fix everything for her when you don’t know the half of it
Fi: I don’t have an expectation of actually fixing anything, like you just heard me say, it’s an alternative, so she doesn’t feel like she has none
Fi: you should be able to spend your birthday how you want to, if only that one day
Mattie: Her birthday is New Year’s Eve, it’s not radical that her parents combine parties
Fi: she’s dreading it, that’s my only consideration here
Mattie: because her and Lulu need to fix their relationship
Fi: which is out of my hands
Mattie: Yes, because I’m sorry this isn’t your business
Mattie: this is what I mean, you try to fix things when you can’t and shouldn’t be putting yourself in the middle
Fi: wow, fuck me then, I guess
Mattie: Can you just not appreciate that it’s insulting
Mattie: to act as if the people in their lives are sitting there twiddling their thumbs when it isn’t the case
Fi: it’s insulting that’s what you think a nice gesture means
Mattie: I find it insulting that you want to take my sister away from me and her family on her birthday
Mattie: I’m sorry but you asked me to speak candidly
Fi: it’s about what she wants, it’s more than insulting you think I’d engineer this for my own, what, saviour complex or something?
Mattie: You feel guilty, you want to whisk her away, you said it yourself
Mattie: it isn’t a nice gesture if you’re absolving yourself
Fi: forget I fucking suggested it, god
Mattie: I think that’s best
Fi: and it’s best you concentrate on your sister, since she’s none of my business
Mattie: Don’t tell me mine, I’m aware
Fi: do you even know me at all?
Mattie: I could ask you the same question
Mattie: all I do is for them, for my job, that’s it
Fi: it’s not your failure, you’re not her mother, or the sister she can’t bear to be in the same room with
Mattie: but it is because it’s my job to fix this
Fi: and it’s mine as her friend, to help her make new non-traumatic memories and have experiences other girls her age have already had and taken for granted, it’s her 18th
Mattie: not everyone has the same experiences, that’s so narrow-minded
Fi: oh please, I’m not trying to force her into a tunnel, she’s screaming out for space, her own life
Mattie: She misses her sister
Fi: yeah, but she wants her own identity too
Mattie: She has one, and is more than capable of carving it out further
Fi: without my interference, you may as well finish your sentence to the .
Mattie: her own identity explains itself, she can make the decisions and work out how that looks for her
Fi: because I’ve ever tried to make her into me or tell her what to do
Mattie: you think you know best
Fi: I can’t believe you see me like that and this is the first I’m hearing
Mattie: You literally said I didn’t know what I needed right before that girl walked in
Mattie: you monopolize how we react to this, in theory or otherwise and tell me what I can and can’t do and how and why you’ll be believed
Mattie: I had no reason to point it out before but this crosses a line
Fi: I don’t know where to start with any of that, how upside down it is
Mattie: then perhaps we do need to leave it here, I’ll go and focus on my sister
Fi: you do that, Mattie, how could I possibly resist telling you what to do for a final time?
Mattie: Quite
Mattie: you know, you could just take onboard one bit of criticism, accept that you’ve hurt me
Fi: one? you’ve just ripped apart my entire, supposed, personality
Mattie: after you made a mockery of all my attempts to help the twins
Fi: oh my god, it wasn’t about you, I’ve never done anything except praise your attempts, with them both
Mattie: you were rude about Lulu earlier
Mattie: as if her life hasn’t been upended by something she didn’t have anything to do with, never mind any knowledge
Fi: I took on board that criticism, but I draw the line at being utterly misunderstood
Mattie: We’re both upset, and scared of more to come, we can draw a line under this
Fi: you have full artistic licence to draw any shape you wish
Fi: you were right the first time, I can’t be friends with you after this
Mattie: I appreciate your honesty, if nothing else
Fi: I’m glad the unappreciation isn’t total
Mattie: Ha, wow
Fi: my sentiments exactly
Mattie: I can’t handle this
Fi: again, I couldn’t agree with you more, you describe my mother to a tee and put all the attributes onto me, and I’m supposed to be a good sport about it
Fi: I don’t fucking think so
Mattie: I barely know your mother, still
Mattie: you can’t say I did it on purpose, when that’s impossible
Fi: you barely know me, apparently
Mattie: it seems like it now, thinking otherwise was my faux pas
Fi: it’s irrelevant now
Mattie: you’ve said
Fi: no, you’ve said you think I’m borderline tyrannical, so if you’ll excuse me I have packing to do, where better to flee to than a country formerly under a dictatorship to process my wrongdoings
Mattie: It isn’t your fault, it was wrong of me to square it at you as if it is solely down to you
Fi: regardless, in your eyes I’m gigantically at fault, hence the character assassination, and I can’t square who I thought you knew I was with the person you’re saying you think I am
Mattie: oh this is such a mess
Mattie: you said it yourself, okay, that you were afforded privileges at that place, you were, you didn’t ask for them but of course it’s had an impact
Fi: I said it to erase a power imbalance that doesn’t exist, not to hurt you
Mattie: I mean that your faults, however they’re sized, aren’t just your own, no one’s are and I went too far in this conversation
Fi: drop it, I’m aware of my actual faults, and they don’t include saying that I had only just begun to give you what you want, ironically as we were interrupted, or caring enough about your future to want to keep it on track
Mattie: then here we are, your conviction that you’ve done nothing wrong
Fi: you’re upset because of me, I’ve done plenty wrong
Mattie: I am, I don’t know how to make that clearer
Fi: it’s clear
Mattie: I didn’t ‘freak out’ because you’re a girl, I freaked out because it’s wrong and I shouldn’t have done anything I did
Fi: I know why, there’s never been a ? around it
Mattie: I can’t undo it but I don’t know what I can do now to make it right
Fi: you don’t have to do anything unless your hand is forced by whoever saw us doing something herself
Mattie: what about you, I’ve just made it worse
Fi: what about me? I’ll be fine, I keep telling you
Mattie: You’ve said I’ve given you an identity crisis and you’re fleeing the country so
Fi: name a first year uni student who isn’t having one, and going to visit my own father is hardly a cause for concern
Mattie: no, I suppose not
Fi: it must be that for me, putting away childish things means casting aside the notion that you understood me better than anyone
Mattie: I let you down
Mattie: because I wasn’t real before, not to you
Fi: I’m the one who barely knows you, that’s what hurts more than you thinking I’m a know-it-all bigheaded bitch
Fi: that’s where the true imbalance is, I told you everything about me and you couldn’t
Mattie: which is why this is inappropriate, you confided in me, in a role as a teacher, whether we like that or not, which I don’t, by the way
Fi: as my friend
Mattie: you said it, I couldn’t
Fi: but you did, sometimes
Fi: I haven’t just fantasised solidly for an entire school year
Mattie: no, I did, of course I did
Mattie: but I wasn’t meant to
Fi: it isn’t fair, we had no control over the circumstances of how we met
Mattie: I know, I had no intentions, that isn’t why I cared for you, but that’s how it will seem in hindsight
Fi: which is exactly why I should leave, give you a fresh start too
Mattie: I don’t want you to leave
Fi: it’ll be impossible if I stay, because I do have conviction I’ve done nothing wrong, just not in this conversation, it exists before in what I did, what I’d do again
Mattie: Just in private
Fi: I don’t want to give you an identity crisis, Mattie
Fi: you’ve said so many times you think this is wrong
Mattie: only when it’s examined by people who don’t know the full story, which it doesn’t need to be
Fi: tell me what you want to happen, I’ll 😶
Mattie: You should go see your father, obviously, it’s the holidays
Mattie: but don’t stay away
Fi: I’m relieved, I really like my course
Fi: perhaps more than you
Mattie: you’re an idiot then, in the nicest possible way
Mattie: You need to be here, you’re on the right path for you
Fi: I’m joking, I don’t like anything more than you
Mattie: Still?
Fi: unless I get to know you more and change my mind, but it’s unlikely, with the basics I’ve already got down
Mattie: that’s allowed, I could have some terrible habits you know nothing about
Fi: you know you’ve always been real to me, don’t you?
Fi: I may be young and stupid but I’m not that young and stupid
Mattie: it was me I was accusing of having to have a veneer of fakeness
Mattie: but I wasn’t exactly good at keeping that boundary in place
Fi: there’s a lot I’m not good at
Fi: I wish we could start this conversation over
Mattie: then lets
Mattie: it doesn’t paint either of us in a favourable light
Mattie: and I want you to know me, I always have, you know that, don’t you?
Fi: You haven’t been back on the bottle, have you?
Fi: because if I have catching up to do I better had there first
Mattie: Um, no!
Mattie: I’m at my parents’ house, that would be close to a crime
Fi: you kill me
Mattie: I didn’t get a chance to
Fi: you know where I live, without any of my parents
Mattie: you did make a point to tell me
Mattie: though now that conversation is REDACTED… perhaps you ought to tell me again
Fi: [do obvs]
Fi: and I don’t have to go to my dad’s, that was a decision made in another, now non-existent, conversation too
Mattie: I will miss you when you do go, after we’ve finished what we started
Fi: I refuse to call you out for telling me what to do, sorry, I can’t
Mattie: You know it’s going to be what you need too
Fi: I miss you already
Mattie: I have so much to make up for, not just the time lost
Fi: and I have to show you what I meant, so there’s no more confusion about what I said
Mattie: 🥺 okay
Fi: I’ve barely begun to do anything to you
Mattie: I’ve never been more cross with a perfect stranger than I am that girl
Fi: medieval torture wouldn’t suffice
Mattie: I’ll be jealous
Fi: impossible
Mattie: I want to be the one benefitting from your knowledge
Fi: 🩰 is torture, the level you took it to, of course you’d like it
Mattie: I like how passionate you are, thinking about when you were a weird kid too
Fi: [tell her some more weird kid stories that I haven’t learnt enough history to make up because we just did the tudors and world war II constantly]
Mattie: You’re so adorable
Fi: there could be something diagnosably off with me, I don’t know
Mattie: no, you’re perfect
Fi: it feels bizarre to be blushing in an empty house
Mattie: I shouldn’t have let you go back to an empty house
Fi: I should’ve bought you with me, then it wouldn’t be
Mattie: It’s okay, we’ve both been suitably punished for our indiscretion now
Fi: in a bad way, not yet in a good one
Mattie: I can’t possibly think about what that might entail
Fi: I understand why, as fun as anticipation is, making you wait for a single thing you want would be a foreign concept to almost anyone
Mattie: I’m aware this contradicts every single (sensible) thing I said
Mattie: but the way you didn’t wait or hesitate at all was
Fi: I couldn’t
Mattie: I wouldn’t, given the chance again, aware how stupid that is
Fi: perfect time, imperfect place, I’ve said that consistently
Mattie: You looked so hot
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