Marathon!

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya had trained faithfully, just like she promised (and despite her period starting a few months after that promise. Really? She didn't need that!). The weights had been added by about the second month of training and she was really, really proud of her stamina!

And the marathon they'd chosen as their first was coming up this weekend, with fund raising as done by Elcy...and yeah. "Don't tell me you have to cancel!" she said into the phone, pulling one foot up to stretch out her thighs. "Don't! I can't go and do this alone!"

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[mitochondriaaya]

"He doesn't fade well," she agreed, spinning with Dilan until she could catch a glimpse herself. "I can snag him in a little bit if it looks like someone's going to pry him off the wall?" And Dilan could get refreshments. She was not hesitant to be the demanding little sister if they needed her to be!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Okay." Dilan said, "Although he abandoned me at the club last month, it could be time for payback."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Then abandon him at a club!" she snorted. "You guys are here now, on my watch, and we don't do that!" SO THERE!

[sliceitwithwind]

"How can I abandon him at a club now?" Dilan asked, "I'm seven feet tall. Plus hair."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Dilan...you're katzu." Duh. "Plus girlfriends." Slinky plus distraction could work out quite well for abandoning someone in a loud, possibly dark place!

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan doubted her. "Fine, fine. We'll rescue him. You're too soft on him."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Are you saying I spoil him?" Aya asked with a grin. "I spoil you both as far as I know! When I can! And I can go get him when he really, really needs it."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, but I'm not as egotistical as Braig is." Dilan pointed out, "Sometimes he needs to be knocked down a peg or six."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I'd like it if you had more ego sometimes." Aya admitted. It'd be healthy for him right? "What would you suggest?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"I know." It was quiet, "I try? And I dunno."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I know, I just worry. You're a great guy and everyone should know that!" THEY SHOULD! "And you don't know? How am I suppose to take him down a peg or six if we don't have a plan?!" Hmmph.

Hmmph hmmph.

"Could ditch him at a club and go see a movie with me when I'm in your town?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Maybe." Dilan sighed, "Chances are we're never going to manage to figure something out."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Yeah, well, refine the ditching idea and I'll help if I can? I just don't...know how to do something like that without a direct reason? I wasn't there! I wasn't ditched!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, yeah." Dilan nodded, "It's okay."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I'll try." She would! And she would unintentionally stab Braig's ego a lot?"Is it that bad for him? Will it get him hurt?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"I...it could be?" Dilan said, "I mean, it pisses some people off."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Okay," she mused quietly, thinking. "Why doe sit bother you? What pieces of the ego thing ping you enough to bring it up? You have great instincts, let's work from there." Because if there was a problem they needed to help!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Well. It pisses people off. And I think he loses out on things because of it."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Does it piss you off?" That was the most serious question! And Aya tended to cut to the worst questions first! "And what kind of things?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"No, not really, but I'm used to it." Dilan had to think about it, "Sometimes some really cool people won't hang out with him 'cause they think he's a dick. I've been invited to parties if I don't bring him...I don't go, but it's true."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Try going?" Aya offered. "If you have fun and make new friends they may want to meet Braig, or Braig might want to change just enough to hang out there too? I don't know, don't miss out on cool people because Braig is. You're different people!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"But that'd hurt his feelings." Dilan pointed out. He didn't want to hurt Braig's feelings!

[mitochondriaaya]

"Dilan...hurting his ego in any way will hurt his feelings." What else had she learned in highschool but to not prick the male egos there? They were directly tied to male emotions! "Talking about taking him down a peg or two, doing it? Will hurt him."

[sliceitwithwind]

"...Yeah." he said quietly, "I know. I just. Yeah."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Have you talked to him about it?" she asked. This was a valid question!