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[To: Enjolras, Sept. 1 2013, 2:35 PM] I miss you
[To: Grantaire, Sept. 1 2013, 2:35 PM] You’ve literally been gone five minutes. If I went outside and looked, I could probably still see your taillights. Also you’re driving and shouldn’t be texting.
[2:36 PM] It’s a talk-to-text thingy on my phone. Asshole. Like you’re one to lecture me on safe driving. Ha
[2:36 PM] Besides, I really do miss you. And everybody else. Already
[2:37 PM] It’s going to be very different without you here.
[2:37 PM] Is that your way of saying that you’ll miss me, too?
[2:38 PM] You’re only moving a few hours away. I’m sure we’ll still be able to see each other.
[2:39 PM] It won’t be the same
[2:40 PM] I’m sure it won’t. For one thing, you won’t be knocking on my door at two o’clock in the morning to crawl inside and puke in my living room.
[2:40 PM] THAT WAS ONE TIME!!!
[2:41 PM] There is no way your talk-to-text knew to capitalize all of that and put three exclamation points. Put your phone away. You can text me when you get there.
[2:41 PM] In fact, make sure to text me when you get there. You’re liable to drive into a tree or something.
[2:42 PM] I’m not going to stop texting until you admit that you’re gonna miss me
[2:44 PM] Fine. I will miss you. Happy?
[2:45 PM] Unbearably. I will text you when I get there
[Sept. 1 2013, 4:26 PM] I have arrived. My apartment is even shittier than my old one, if that’s possible. Are you all still at the Musain?
[4:28 PM] Apollo?
[4:30 PM] Tell everyone I say hi
[4:45 PM] …
[5:04 PM] I miss you guys
[6:15 PM] Sorry my phone was charging.
[6:20 PM] Grantaire?
[7:31 PM] ENJolyeas I MISSSSSSSSSS youuu BUT i found a bar and its WoNDERful
[7:35 PM] Glad you’re enjoying yourself.
[7:36 PM] Id enjoy it MORRRe if u were here
[7:40 PM] Text me when you’re sober.
[Sept. 4 2013, 5:40 PM] How’s the job going?
[5:45 PM] Really well, actually!! The staff at the museum is super friendly and the job’s pretty chill. How’re things back home?
[5:47 PM] Same as usual for the most part.
[5:50 PM] Courf said that he and Jehan are planning on coming up to visit soon
[5:53 PM] Oh that will be nice.
[5:54 PM] …
[5:54 PM] Any talk of the whole group coming up to visit?
[5:56 PM] Not that I know of. I think everyone is pretty busy.
[5:57 PM] Of course. Makes sense
[5:57 PM] Shit gotta go I’ll text later
[6:00 PM] Talk to you later.
[Sept. 14 2013, 8:07 PM] Congratulations on getting arrested at the rally today
[8:09 PM] You heard about that?
[8:10 PM] Jehan sent a picture of you in handcuffs. Very nice. I’m going to print it out and frame it
[8:12 PM] Ha. Ha.
[8:13 PM] How was the police station? Any of our usual officers working today?
[8:15 PM] It was fine. They were all surprised that you weren’t with me. I didn’t think we had been arrested together THAT many times. They all said to tell you hi, by the way.
[8:16 PM] And Jeremy – Office Boyd – wanted to let you know that his wife had the baby. A girl. They named her Nicole.
[8:18 PM] Awww adorable. Too bad I won’t be dropping in to see him anytime soon
[8:20 PM] Next time I get arrested I’ll ask him to send you a baby picture.
[8:22 PM] How sweet of you Apollo
[8:22 PM] What’s sad is I actually kind of want you to
[8:23 PM] Not get arrested of course
[8:23 PM] But have him send me a baby picture when you inevitably are
[8:24 PM] Anyway, other than that, how was lockup?
[8:25 PM] Boring without you, actually. I never realized how long I was stuck in there before. You made time pass quickly.
[8:28 PM] All part of my charm
[8:28 PM] Did you get hurt at all today?
[8:29 PM] And don’t lie to me I’ll just text Joly
[8:30 PM] Black eye. Nothing bad. Not like that one time
[8:31 PM] When you had to go to the hospital and get stitches? Yeah I remember
[8:32 PM] Thanks for coming with me that time, by the way.
[8:35 PM] We were arrested together, Apollo. I don’t think I had much of a choice
[8:36 PM] What’s with the sudden gratitude?
[8:40 PM] Nothing
[8:40 PM] It just wasn’t the same without you today
[8:43 PM] You’ve stopped using punctuation at the end of your texts. Are you sure you didn’t get hit in the head?
[8:45 PM] You’re hilarious
[8:46 PM] I do try
[Sept. 22 2013, 4:38 PM] I’m supposed to let you know that Courfeyrac and Jehan just left and should be back to yours in about an hour. They apologize profusely for being late to the meeting
[4:40 PM] It’s fine. Did you have a good weekend?
[4:42 PM] Yeah it was fun. Would’ve been better if everyone had been here
[4:45 PM] I know. Maybe next time?
[4:46 PM] I’ll hold you to that
[4:48 PM] I said ‘maybe’.
[4:50 PM] Still holding you to it
[October 3 2013, 10:56 PM] It was Bossuet’s birthday today.
[10:58 PM] I know. I wished him a happy birthday on Facebook. And tweeted him a picture of the beer I’m drinking in his honor
[10:59 PM] #happybirthday
[11:01 PM] Yeah. The party wasn’t the same without you.
[11:02 PM] Oh really?
[11:03 PM] Yeah for starters no one spiked my drink so I was actually sober for the whole thing.
[11:05 PM] Hey, 98% of the time that’s Courfeyrac. Don’t go looking at me!
[11:08 PM] Whatever. Still wasn’t the same.
[11:10 PM] You can say it, you know
[11:11 PM] Say what?
[11:12 PM] You miss me. You’re allowed to say it
[11:13 PM] Enjolras?
[11:20 PM] Whatever Apollo
[October 4 2013, 1:31 AM] If it makes you feel better I miss you too
[October 9 2013, 6:03 PM] Hey – what’s up with you? Haven’t talked in awhile.
[6:10 PM] Not since Bossuet’s birthday
[6:10 PM] I’m fine
[6:11 PM] Pretty much same old, same old
[6:11 PM] How are you?
[6:12 PM] I’m good.
[6:13 PM] I heard…an interesting rumor. About you.
[6:15 PM] Oh? Do share
[6:17 PM] I heard you’ve been…seeing someone. Romantically.
[6:20 PM] Grantaire?
[6:23 PM] Are you FUCKING kidding me??
[6:24 PM] I just wanted to know if it was true or not.
[6:25 PM] Even if it is, why the FUCK would you care??
[6:26 PM] Because. You’re my friend. I care about my friends’ personal lives.
[6:27 PM] You didn’t realize Joly and Bossuet were dating for six months until they LITERALLY MADE OUT IN FRONT OF YOU
[6:28 PM] That was different.
[6:28 PM] Bullshit
[6:29 PM] It was!
[6:30 PM] I bet you couldn’t even name one of the people that Courf’s slept with this week
[6:32 PM] Also different! And unfair – they don’t stick around long enough to need to learn their names.
[6:33 PM] Jesus Christ Apollo
[6:33 PM] Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess
[6:40 PM] So…
[6:42 PM] So what?
[6:43 PM] So are you? Seeing someone?
[6:45 PM] I’m not doing this wth you. Not now
[6:46 PM] What are you talking about?
[6:49 PM] I’m talking about the fact that in all the time we’ve known each other you’ve never once asked who I’ve been dating until I’m suddenly 100 miles away and you can’t do anything about it
[6:50 PM] I’m talking about the fact that you’ve never cared who your friends date until its me dating someone
[6:51 PM] I’m talking about the fact that you waited until I was gone to give a shit
[6:52 PM] I’m talking about the fact that you’re too goddamn far away and WAYYY too goddamn late to pull this shit
[6:52 PM] Grantaire
[6:53 PM] No
[6:55 PM] Grantaire please…
[7:00 PM] Grantaire?
[7:15 PM] R?
[7:30 PM] Fine. Whatever.
[From: Courfeyrac, October 10 2013, 8:43 PM] I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO ENJOLRAS BUT PLEASE UNDO IT HE’S MAKING A PLAN TO TAKE DOWN THE GOVERNMENT AND I DON’T THINK HE’S JOKING
[8:45 PM] Enjolras is a big boy. He can do what he wants.
[8:46 PM] COME ON GRANTAIRE DON’T BE LIKE THIS
[8:46 PM] HE MISSES YOU
[8:47 PM] WE ALL MISS YOU
[8:49 PM] He has a funny way of showing it.
[8:50 PM] You and Jehan coming up again this weekend?
[8:53 PM] DEPENDS ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE UP WITH ENJY?
[8:54 PM] If you’re trying to blackmail me, I’ll forward him every text where you refer to him as ‘Enjy’
[8:55 PM] YOU’RE MEAN
[8:56 PM] And you overuse caps-lock. What’s your point?
[8:57 PM] THINK ABOUT FORGIVING HIM, OK?
[9:00 PM] Please, R?
[9:05 PM] I’ll think about it
[From: Combeferre, October 10 2013, 11:35 PM] Go to bed. I can literally hear you pouting.
[11:36 PM] Our walls are thin, but they’re not that thin.
[11:36 PM] Also I’m not pouting.
[11:38 PM] Shut up.
[11:40 PM] Ok fine, I am pouting.
[11:42 PM] You could just call him, you know. And apologize
[11:45 PM] Or I could not. I don’t have anything to apologize for!
[11:45 PM] Do you know where I put the protest permit form?
[11:46 PM] It’s saved on your computer under “This Folder is Locked Until You Make Up with Grantaire.”
[11:47 PM] Please tell me this is a joke.
[11:48 PM] It was Courfeyrac’s idea.
[11:48 PM] Well, it might have been Jehan’s idea. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
[11:49 PM] Either way, you’re not getting the password for that folder until you talk to Grantaire. Preferably in person, but we aren’t all that picky.
[11:50 PM] I’m going to murder all of you.
[11:52 PM] Stop being melodramatic.
[11:52 PM] And you can stop glaring at me; it’s not going to help.
[11:55 PM] I hate you.
[To: Grantaire, October 11 2013, 12:01 AM] Hey.
[12:03 AM] Hey
[12:04 AM] Just so you know all of my Les Amis stuff is being held hostage in a locked folder on my computer and I can’t get the password back until I talk to you.
[12:04 AM] So.
[12:05 AM] Wow you sure know how to make a girl feel special
[12:06 AM] You’re not a girl.
[12:07 AM] It’s a figure of speech
[12:08 AM] Look, I wanted to talk to you anyway.
[12:10 AM] I’m sorry for what happened.
[12:13 AM] I just…I was surprised at you dating someone. That’s all.
[12:14 AM] But you’re perfectly at liberty to do what you want.
[12:14 AM] Wow glad I have your permission
[12:15 AM] It’s NOT
[12:15 AM] It’s not my permission
[12:16 AM] I understand
[12:20 AM] What exactly do you understand?
[12:21 AM] You like someone. I get that. You should date as much or as little as you want.
[12: 25 AM] Right. Because it doesn’t affect you in any way, shape or form
[12:25 AM] Right Apollo?
[12:30 AM] Right. Sure.
[12:31 AM] So we’re ok?
[12:32 AM] Sure
[12:33 AM] I’ll text Combeferre and have him give you the password for your computer
[12:34 AM] Thank you.
[From: Courfeyrac, October 17 2013, 9:02 PM] NOW WHAT DID YOU DO?
[9:03 PM] Nothing
[9:03 PM] We made up
[9:04 PM] Or whatever
[9:05 PM] Why?
[9:06 PM] HE’S WORSE THAN HE WAS BEFORE
[9:06 PM] HE’S NOT EVEN TRYING TO MURDER ANYONE
[9:07 PM] HE JUST SEEMS SAD
[9:08 PM] DID YOU BREAK UP WITH HIM???
[9:10 PM] Since we weren’t dating I can’t really have broken up with him
[9:11 PM] YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
[9:12 PM] I actually really don’t
[From: Courfeyrac, October 17 2013, 9:13 PM] DID YOU AND GRANTAIRE BREAK UP????
[9:14 PM] What are you talking about?
[9:15 PM] We weren’t dating.
[9:16 PM] YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!
[9:20 PM] I have no idea what you mean. Now leave me alone. I’m trying to get work done.
[From: Courfeyrac, October 17 2013, 9:22 PM] CODE BLUE CODE BLUE I THINK R AND ENJY BROKE UP
[From: Combeferre, October 17 2013, 9:24 PM] They weren’t dating
[9:25 PM] WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THAT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[9:26 PM] Deep breath, Courf. Now what are you talking about?
[9:27 PM] THE PLAN OF WITHHOLDING ENJOLRAS’S WORK FROM HIM DID NOT WORK. I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES.
[9:28 PM] …
[9:28 PM] What did you have in mind?
[October 18 2013, 6:27 PM] Are you home?
[6:28 PM] Maybe. Why?
[6:29 PM] Um
[6:29 PM] There’s no way to really say this
[6:30 PM] I’m outside your apartment?
[6:31 PM] The fuck are you doing outside my apartment??
[6:33 PM] Courfeyrac and Combeferre kidnapped me and drove me up here and then dropped me off and told me to fend for myself.
[6:34 PM] They KIDNAPPED you??
[6:35 PM] Um
[6:37 PM] Well they lied to me about where we were going and then Courfeyrac provoked me into an argument and I didn’t realize that we were driving the wrong direction until it was too late.
[6:38 PM] Where did you think they were taking you?
[6:40 PM] The library.
[6:41 PM] Enj the library’s like five minutes from your house
[6:42 PM] So?
[6:43 PM] I LIVE OVER AN HOUR AWAY!
[6:44 PM] It was a very important argument.
[6:45 PM] What was it about?
[6:47 PM] …I don’t remember.
[6:48 PM] Look will you just let me in?
[6:48 PM] I can literally hear you laughing from outside.
[6:49 PM] Please let me in?
[6:50 PM] Well since you said please…
[October 19 2013, 1:41 AM] You don’t have to sleep on the couch
[1:42 AM] It’s fine. I’m not gonna kick you out of your own bed. Not when I’m an unwelcome guest.
[1:43 AM] You’re not unwelcome
[1:43 AM] You’re like the furthest thing from unwelcome
[1:44 AM] And I didn’t say anything about me sleeping on the couch
[1:45 AM] What do you mean?
[1:46 AM] In simple terms: you + me + bed
[1:48 AM] Not like that
[1:48 AM] Just like sleeping
[1:49 AM] Enjolras?
[1:50 AM] You don’t have to
[1:51 AM] It was just a thought
[1:52 AM] No it’s fine. Just give me a minute.
[October 19 2013, 7:56 AM] Hey I hope this doesn’t wake ypu up I had to run into work for something
[7:57 AM] We’ll talk about what happened last night when I get back
[7:57 AM] If you want
[7:58 AM] Don’t worry you can borrow a pair of my pajamas tonight
[7:59 AM] Sorry about ruining yours like that
[8:00 AM] It’s fine.
[8:01 AM] And they’re not ruined, they just need to be washed.
[8:02 AM] You should pick up milk on the way home by the way.
[8:02 AM] I used the last of yours.
[8:05 AM] And Grantaire?
[8:06 AM] yeah
[8:07 AM] I don’t regret last night.
[8:10 AM] Oh
[8:10 AM] Good
[8:10 AM] Me neither
[October 19 2013, 3:13 PM] Can I kiss you?
[3:14 PM] You are literally sitting two feet away from me on this couch. Why the hell are you texting me?
[3:14 PM] I just wanted it in writing that I have permission to kiss you
[3:15 PM] You have permission to kiss me.
[3:16 PM] When?
[3:16 PM] Whenever you want to.
[3:17 PM] Why?
[3:17 PM] Are we really doing this right now?
[3:18 PM] Fine. Because you’re my boyfriend. Happy?
[3:18 PM] Unbearably so.
[October 20 2013, 7:42 PM] I love you.
[7:43 PM] You’re driving. Don’t text me while you’re driving.
[7:44 PM] This conversation sounds familiar.
[7:45 PM] Yeah and if you’ll recall I was a good boy and put my phone away and didn’t text you until I got here.
[7:47 PM] I’m not going to stop texting until you tell me you love me.
[7:48 PM] Sometimes you’re more of a child than Courfeyrac.
[7:49 PM] Grantaire… :(
[7:50 PM] Emoticons, Enj? Really?
[7:51 PM] :( :( :(
[7:52 PM] I love you. Idiot.
[7:53 PM] :) :) :)
[7:55 PM] Seriously. You are an idiot. Put your phone away.
[7:56 PM] Fine. I miss you already, though.
[7:58 PM] I know. I miss you too. But I’ll come visit next weekend. And we’ll work this out. Right?
[8:00 PM] Enjolras?
[8:02 PM] Enj??
[8:05 PM] You told me to put my phone away…
[8:06 PM] Asshole.
[8:07 PM] And yet you love me.
[8:08 PM] And yet I sadly do.