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“Pick up the phone, Emma. Pick up pick up pick up pick up. No? Okay, well I’ve just remembered, you have your date tonight, don’t you? Your hot date. Well- have fun, call me when you get in, if you get in. Let me know what happens. Seriously, call me, soon as you can.”
He stumbles, catches his breath, then says: “Just an unbelievably shitty day, Em,” and falters again. He should hang up, but he doesn’t want to. He wants to see Emma Morley so that he might confess his sins, but she’s on a date. He pulls his mouth into a grin and says, “I’ll call you tomorrow. I want to know everything! Heartbreaker you.” He hangs up. Heartbreaker you.
Dexter stands shielded by the plastic carapace of the payphone booth, feels his face crumple inwards and his breath become broken and jagged, and as he starts to cry he tells himself that its just chemical, chemical, chemical.
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One Day (2024)
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ONE DAY
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She blinks against the rain falling on her face. She is definitely going to be late now. Dexter will be waiting.
She thinks of Dexter, sheltering from the rain on the steps of the new house, looking at his watch, impatient; he’ll wonder where I am, she thinks. He’ll worry.
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ONE DAY
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“I think you think I’m…dreary. I think you think I cramp your style. I think you’ve lost interest in me.” “Em, I do not think you’re dreary.”
“And neither do I! I think I’m fucking marvelous if you only knew it, and I think you used to think so too! But if you don’t or you’re going to just take it for granted, then that’s fine. Im just not prepared to be treated like this anymore."
“Treated like what?” She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. “Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”
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my lover, my legend.
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“Imagine one selected day struck out of your life, and think how different its course would have been. Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.” Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
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WHY did no one tell me about Farscape before. It's Australian. It's a Jim Henson production. It's the cheesiest of sci-fi's. The aliens look cool as fuck. It's got Claudia Black. They put things in that all-American-boy's ass. Truly top-tier television
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Emma & Dex | Memories | (One Day)
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good morning i am thinking of emma morley and her stubbornness in love. her immovable devotion to who she is and to do what she thinks she must for herself; how she refuses to lift a finger for anything that lies outside of what she feels she deserves in that point of time. this being dexter, separation from ian, or to not have a workplace lover twice her age. eventually she finds success, and in turn that makes her deem herself worthy of the merit of france and jean pierre.
but here’s the kicker, dexter is just as stubborn as her. or rather he’s persistent than ever before. his tragedies have turned him into an incurable open sore and his love weeps. and emma refuses. or at the very least she tries. but she knew the french word for tonsilitis, and jean pierre is too perfect anyway, and she’s been waiting on dexter to look at her all their lives. she thinks maybe this is their chance. how we’re all fools in love
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