Room 330, Wednesday Evening

[genesishero]

Evan had gotten his first voicemail today since... well... since he'd come to the island, really. He'd been out walking Ozzy, and he'd just missed the call, and was actually almost excited to see that it had been Yeul to leave the message.

Until he went to listen to it, and was met, first, with the sound of his own voice in his own message to anyone who called.

... Especially if it's you, Ma and Pa. I haven't heard from you in ages.

It hit him like a baseball bat to the chest, and he was out of breath as he hit the button to play back the message that was there for him. There, Yeul's voice, promising him in a voice incapable of lying that no matter what, she would never be afraid of him. She probably had no idea just how badly he needed to hear someone say those things. He listened to her message through once. And then, after a moment's hesitation, he listened to it again. And again.

He was going to have to change his own voicemail message soon so that it wouldn't blindside him again. But before that, he was just going to sit there, curled up on his bed, listening to someone telling him that he was a good person over and over and over, and struggling not to cry.

[OOC: Open!]

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[genesishero]

"Oh... Um..." Wow, Evan had no idea, so he was going to just venture out on a limb and throw some suggestions out there. "Going out on dates, and spending a lot of time together?"

He blushed a little more as he realized he had just suggested what they'd already been doing.

"And... holding hands, and maybe eventually even... kissing?"

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Holding hands sounds nice," Sholeh said softly. "Kissing sounds nice, too, but I've never done that, so I'm also kinda worried that I'll mess it up and, maybe drool on you or something and then you won't want to kiss me ever again, because who wants to kiss people who drools on them?"

Hiding her face in her hands, Sholeh moaned. "I really don't like saying everything that I think."

[genesishero]

"It's kind of annoying that the island is making us do this," Evan admitted, frowning a little. "I always try not to lie, but at least I get to pick and choose what I share. Today's been a pain that way."

A pause and then he was offering her a tentative smile. "And I don't think you'd drool on me. I don't have any experience with kissing, either, so at least we'd be on the same learning curve. But I'd be okay with hand-holding if you're worried about it..."

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"I'm not saying I don't want to kiss. I do! I would probably even like it a lot if you--" Sholeh said before she could help it--then promptly clamped down on everything else she was going to say. Because the island was stupid.

"Maybe we could just read?"

[genesishero]

Evan couldn't help but grin at that. Really, she didn't finish that sentence, but what he'd heard, he liked.

"Let's read," he agreed, softly. "I've got plenty of books for us to pick from."

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"And curl up?" she asked, just to be sure.

[genesishero]

"With my arms wrapped around you as many times as you want," he promised, nodding. "It'll be a great way to spend the evening."

Way better than crying over a phone message, at least.