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[superstringtheory]

hey what's up, it's jolyne! i'm doing other stuff. like probably YOUR MOM ohhh. anyway leave a message.

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[superstringtheory]

You think so?

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You're not surprised, are you?

[superstringtheory]

I guess not? Maybe surprised to have somebody actually say it.

But you always say what you mean, huh.

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Whether anyone wants to listen to it or not.

[superstringtheory]

I do. I want to.

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I know. You listen better than most.

[superstringtheory]

You deserve to have people listen to you.

I mean, like. Really listen. And think about what you're saying, because you're smart and you're usually right, and because

that's just something you deserve. So I want to hear cuz I want to hear it, but also cuz I want to be someone who listens to you.

I don't know if that even makes sense.

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[At first, Rohan doesn't know why what she's said gives him pause. It's not as though he's not perfectly aware of the objective truth she's speaking of. He's highly intelligent and he is more often than that not right. He's also not particularly caught up in the sentiment of wanting to be someone who listens to him. As far as he's concerned, that's Jolyne showing her own intelligence. But after he reads it again, it's the word deserve that jumps out to him because that's not the way he thinks of it. When he thinks of it, people should listen to him because he's intelligent and because he's right to the point it's aggravating to other people at times. But she's ascribing something there using that word, something that he doesn't know how to respond to. Deserve. For a long moment, he doesn't. He even almost thinks to just leave it there altogether.]

I don't make it a habit to put up with people who don't listen.

[So...]

[...So.]