2019-09-13 - Revenge of the Shrimp

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : My head is killing me. Thanksf or getting me home.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : No problem. Did you get stitches? Are you okay? Like, I still have no clue what to think...

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Yeah. Some in my scalp, arm is in a sling. I need to go back to get checked. And... food poisoning. Or concussion. That's what I'm chalking it up to.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I feel fine though, and I'm not hurt at all. I didn't know anyone else there but you... When I woke up, I was pretty sure it was just some really weird nightmare. Every way I try to rationalize it, it just doesn't make sense. Even a nightmare. Unless texting you is part of a dream too.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : I'm not sure. Even afterwards, everyone seemed so calm about it. Course, that all is a bit of a blur, I won't lie. I've always heard weird shit goes on in the town... and I know I've experienced some, but nothing like that.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Dude. Your hands were like. I am pretty sure you turned all Thor on me.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : What? I don't remember that. I only vaguely remember you appearing next to me by that giant seal. I'm pretty sure it stole my pencil, too. I can't find it.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : At first, I thought it was like... you know when you are little and it's late at night and well, I had a fuzzy blanket that always made sparks from static. It was like that, except on your hands. and no. I swear to god, you, actually, I do not know if you threw it so hard it stabbed it in the head and stayed, or you stabbed it. But yeah, it didn't give the pencil back to you.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I felt like Lois Lane surrounded by bad ass super heroes.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : I'm pretty sure Superman never used an H6 pencil to defeat any of the bad guys. I do remember... a lot of fire? And that paramedic beating the crab out of that little french crab.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : There was a lot of fire, yes. Did we have the same dream? Maybe... maybe the food was drugged and someone did um, something, to make us think we were seeing all this craziness. But then, how did you get hurt? All I know is I am definitely not eating seafood for a while, and am definitely going to start carrying my scissors with me more often.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Mass food poisoning hallucinations. I mean, it's possible, right? And yeah. I'm totally going to be focused on pizza for a while, I think. That seems safe. Right? Scissors are a good idea. Better than pencils.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I can't wait to see what sketches you create from that whole... thing

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Already had a few from the nightmares last night. This? Is definately going to go in the comic somehow, at least parts of it.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Do you have nightmares often?

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Regularly. Not every night, or anything. But ever sense highschool, especially. Weird things. You?

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : More so the last couple years or so. Since coming back, I guess. Well, just before that. Can I ask a probably very rude question?

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : What a lead up, right? 'Hey, can I be rude?'

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Sure. You can be rude.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I've just been wondering why you do not speak much at all. Sometimes, you seem like you want to say more, but you don't. I am just too curious for my own good sometimes. Feel free to tell me it's none of my business. I certainly don't have trouble talking with you, just, like I said, curious (and rambling cuz I know I am rude and I am sorry)

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Wish I knew. 'Psychological, childhood trauma made greater by premature birth' or so they all concluded. Which, I think, is the doctors way of saying they don't have a fucking clue.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Amazing how often they don't and have such a hard time admitting that they do not. However, you still communicate better than half the adults I know. I guess you are just extra awesome.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : I've often found too many words is far worse than not enough. Besides, it means others feel a need to fill the quiet, and I learn all about other people. 🙂

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Oh god. I talk way too much. Sometimes.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Nah. You don't. Least not around me. Perfect amount of conversation.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : well good. A girl has to keep some level of mystery about her.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Job done. And that was even before the whole french invasion on the beach.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I half want to take french again, just in case I ever get the guts to go back to the beach again and... just in case.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Just in case you need to talk to the sealife again? I'm pretty sure that crab had a napoleonic complex.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Right? All, revolucion! or however french people spell that.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Same as we do, just with the slanted line above the e! Who'd have known my high school french would come in handy for that.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : So... Do you wanna go down to the beach and go swimming sometime? :big grin emoji:

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Uhm. I think I'd rather bust a water pipe in my basement and swim in it.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : That might be more frightening. If french speaking crabs come out of the beach, what might come out of pipes? Spanish speaking alligators?

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Goldfish. Big, giant, goldfish!

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : German speaking Goldfish?

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Ha! I was thinking the same thing. Mean, angry sounding german gold fish, here to flush US down the toilet this time!

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : At least we didn't see any sharks last night. Sharks are jerks.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Are they? I feel like shrimps were the real jerks last night.

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Anyway. I need to go get this looked at. I promise when you decide to pose, there won't be any crabs involved. Or shrimp. Or seals.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : I can see why you would think that. I never knew they were so dangerous.

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Oh good. We'll have to arrange the time to pose soon. Have a shrimptastic day! (too soon?)

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : ...

(TXT to Nicole) Dylan : Wear your sunscreen if you go out, else you'll end up fried!

(TXT to Dylan) Nicole : Stock up on red paint, just in case. Catch you later!