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English
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Part 3 of Mask
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Published:
2015-09-07
Completed:
2015-09-07
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Distance

Summary:

The communications between friends and lovers as Daria takes charge of a family medical emergency. (story told entirely through text and email)

Chapter 1

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

To: Jane, Quinn

Text Message
Sep 16, 2014 6:17 PM

JL: Hey D

DM: Jane, what have I told you about lazy texting? It's only four more letters.

QM: god sis we ned hlp. don b a grmmr Nazi

DM: I prefer English major. What did you two get into this time?

JL: Gonna need a ride

DM: I have a date.

QM: me to!

DM: What happened?

JL: Q puked on us

QM: nt my falt

JL: U got n a drinking contest with a linebacker

QM: i won

DM: Where are you?

JL: Farmingham

DM: Why the hell are you all the way out there?

JL: Party

QM: prty

DM: Hold on.

Text Message
Sep 16, 2014 6:21 PM

DM: Brit?

BT: Yeah?

DM: I can't make it tonight.

BT: Why?

DM: The idiots are stuck out in Farmingham, drunk and covered in vomit.

BT: Farmingham!?

DM: Congratulations, you can read.
Sorry, I didn't mean that.
I'm just sick of this and it's pissing me off.

BT: No prob. Come pick me up.

DM: What?

BT: Not letting you drive angry and not letting Jane crash in our dorm without showering.

DM: Fine.
I love you.

BT: Love you too.

::

Text Message
Dec 14, 2014 6:43 PM

HM: Are you done with your client?

JM: Yeah, I'm done with him.
For good.
DAMN IDIOT!

HM: Calm down.

JM: I am clam!
Damn phone
I typed calm

HM: Just get in the car and drive home and we can have a nice dinner.

JM: Already on the road

HM: Are you driving?

JM: Of course

HM: Then stop texting. It's not safe.

JM: I now what I'm doing!
I mint know
stupid phone thinks it knows better than me!

HM: Jake stop texting this instant!

Text Message
Dec 14, 2014 7:01 PM

HM: Jake?
I'm sorry.
Please answer.

Notes:

Greetings gentlereader,
A little different, huh? This is a continuation I did not plan to write.
Like every part of this story so far, this came from a challenge. This time it was 11tee, he asked the writer to "...compose a shipper told entirely through SMS-style texting, Google-talk style chat, and informal emails between the various characters...". Writing around events instead of directly describing them or the character's thoughts was an intriguing experience.
This was something of a prologue, the rest is a bit heavier and beefier (there are emails). Hope this doesn't scare you off and keep you from reading it.
I hope you enjoy and look forward to any reviews you feel like leaving.