4th Gumball - Phone/Action

[connedviakeyboard]

[Well, someone isn't happy now that he's back to normal and away from the effects mint has on him. To say he was embarrassed would be putting it lightly; Benson was out and out ashamed. And he dealt with shame the way he dealt with everything else: by being angry as hell and trying to bottle it up.

Either way? He owed some apologies to people.]

[Phone]

...Look. I know that there were a few people I might've been...uncouth towards, a few days ago. Okay. I guess that's putting it lightly. I was acting like an asshole. And I'm sorry. That's not what I'm usually like. It really, really isn't, and I don't know what came over me. It won't happen again.

[Phone - Filtered to Mordecai]

Yeah, hi.

Let's pretend Valentine's Day didn't happen, alright?

[Action - Outside 507 Ricardo Street]

[If you're going by Ricardo Street today, feel free to notice the man who lives at 507 removing every single potted plant he could find in the house, hell, everything that could conceivably be called vegetable matter, and placing it on the sidewalk. Watch in amazement as he takes out a lighter and proceeds to try and get the plants to catch flame, running back a bit when the fire actually gets started.

He's just going to wait, and watch, as every plant that had previously been in his house burns.]

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[connedviakeyboard]

It-it won't talk back anymore, that's for sure!

[Still giggling, he'd ordered another drink in the meantime. Though at least he's fine with just sipping this one.]

You...you know something? You're alright.

[misterunsmiley]

Yeah? ...You're not so bad, yourself. Your flirting aside.

[Clambering back into his seat, with no lack of effort.]

[connedviakeyboard]

So, okay. I'm gonna be honest. I'm being honest right now, alright?

When I first met you? Thought you were gonna be an asshole. That's just how I thought you were acting.

But you're alright. You're okay. And I'm sorry.

[Benson just pauses at that, before laughing. You know what? He feels fine. So what the hell ever. No reason to be pissed off.]

Hey hey c'mon cut me some slack man. I haven't had a date since high school.

[misterunsmiley]

Apology accepted.

[He leans his elbows against the counter, folding his hands and resting them beneath his chin. At Benson's rebuttal, he scoffs.]

Please. Even I could do better than you. And I've never even been on one.

[Unless you count Valentine's Day. Which Shadow certainly doesn't.]

[connedviakeyboard]

Oh. Oh.

[So that's how we're going to play it, huh? Time to get nasty again.]

I'd just like to see you try and pick up a woman. Like to see you just try. You're a tough guy, sure, but shit. With that attitude you'd probably piss them off bad enough they wouldn't want to be within 20 feet of you.

[misterunsmiley]

[Shadow's cool with being a nasty drunk. He's nasty enough while sober.]

Is that right, Prince Charming?

[connedviakeyboard]

Yeah. It is. Know what? Cause I've at least kissed a girl before. How about you? How many girls have you kissed?

[1/3]

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

I've kissed one. What does it matter if---

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

[Wait. Shit. He wasn't supposed to say a word about that.]

[misterunsmiley]

...Don't say a word. You can't. This is between you and me, Benson. If you dare to tell anyone, anyone at all, I swear I'll... I'll...

[Hopefully think of a good threat.]

[connedviakeyboard]

[All the anger he'd been holding on to earlier? Dissipates. And he just sits there for a moment, before finally responding.]

Oh. Uh. Sure. Yeah. Yeah I can keep it a secret.

[misterunsmiley]

Good.

[Shadow raises his hand for another drink. No drink comes. So to make up for it, he awkwardly reaches for the beer he'd abandoned earlier in favor of whiskey and sips it for a lack of anything better to do.]

Damned human holiday...

[connedviakeyboard]

Tell me about it.

[Benson swirls the last dredges of whiskey around in his glass, tilting his head as he looks into it. It's as if he's trying to see if he can find something in it.]

It's a scam, you know? Setting up a single day for love. What kind of crap is that? It's a dirty, rotten scam.

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

And, of course, this place finds a way to make it worse. It makes everything worse.

[connedviakeyboard]

I know. It's like-

You know. That Law. That one guy's Law. About things getting worse.

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

It's a complete waste of time is what it is. Days like that are only meant to.... to distract you from what's important.

[connedviakeyboard]

No. You're right. You're right. It's laziness. It's a lazy day and so you don't...don't get what you need done. You get bogged down, and tied up, and everything else when there's work to do.

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

Exactly. It's a day that excuses---no, no, no, celebrates---the fact that you were too busy acting like a goddamn idiot to have gotten anything productive done.

[connedviakeyboard]

And it's not even worth anything, in the end? I mean, what does it net you at all? You can try and try and try and you'll only even manage to get something if you're lucky. In the end, you just end up more annoyed and angry than you were earlier.

[misterunsmiley]

In the end, it's pointless. It hardly matters in the grand scheme of things.

See---see, Benson, you understand. [He raises his finger to articulate, and it wobbles unsteadily in the air.] You get it. Hell, if everyone else in this town were at least half as smart as you and I...? There'd be no stopping us.

[connedviakeyboard]

Eh. Eeeeeeeh. Okay. Okay see yes. Yes it'd help but sometimes-sometimes you just have to deal with it. Just have to-to accept that not everyone DOES get how things are. Sad but true, my friend. Sad but true.

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

The truth hurts. [He chuckles to himself.] To borrow one of your human expressions.

[connedviakeyboard]

Oh? Oh, I'm not human. Well, kinda. I'm humanoid.

[thegoddamnhedgehog]

No kidding. You're---You're not human.

[connedviakeyboard]

Oh, no. Well.

Well....I'm a-I'm a gumball machine.

[And had been one for all his life. But for some reason, saying it out loud, and doing so here? Makes it seem like that should be odd.]