2020-03-20 - Threats of Friendship

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : My ex-fiance has apparently decided to invade town and now drink at my bar.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : That sounds awkward as shit. You need someone to run interference?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I appreciate the offer, but for now she's apparently pretending everythings fine.
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : The kind of fine right before your start yelling and saying shit you'll regret

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : All right. Suit yourself. Who's your fiance? sorry, ex-fiance.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Katherine Kennedy, Thorne's new lawyer.
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : And apparently she's seeing someone in town and plans to stay. super

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Haven't heard of her. what happened with you two?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Didn't I spill this at some point? She wanted to stay after the accident. I didn't want her to. blah blah blah fucked a nurse? Pretty sure we talked about this.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Uh
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Maybe? shit if I remember.
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I do recall something about a nurse. anyway, you going to try to make nice with her now?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Maybe not? Not sure yet.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Maybe not? the fuck's that supposed to mean.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Why the hell would I want her to stay here?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : What makes you think whether she does or not is under your control

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Can I tell you how badly I want to say: I fucked her out of town once? I can do it again?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Can I tell you that you've grown since then, and can do better than fucking away your problems?
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Can I also tell you that I can't fucking believe I'm the one saying this

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Can you?
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Same Gunny. Same

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Hey, I've earned the right to say this shit. I hadn't fucked anyone but Rosencrantz in months, up until like.. a week ago.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Yes, you have. And ???
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Does he know?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Yes, of course he fucking knows.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Oh fuck you like that's a given.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : One of us here has grown, Cap
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : That sounded a lot dirtier than I'd intended

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I'd make a joke about you having a don't ask don't tell policy but it's too damn obvious

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Ha fucking ha

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Ok. Am I allowed questions?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Maybe
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : What questions?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Why? Everything okay with you and Itz?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Things are good, actually.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Good.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Was that your question?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Yeah
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : fuck. Maybe someday I'll manage to interact with her without being an asshole.
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : But today is not that day

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : You're capable of interacting with people without being an asshole?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I've managed it once or twice
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : And like you are one to talk on that front.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Takes one to know one
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : You going to make it out of there intact?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Yea, managed to get to tell me to fuck off and storm out. I wasn't even trying
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I could have just flipped her off when she walked in. Would have saved us both some aggravation probably

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I think you take a certain twisted pleasure out of fucking with her

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Only because I'm 99% sure she's just here to fuck with me

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : does that 1% keep you up at night though?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Why else would she come to my bar for her birthday shot?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : And is it possible she still wants you back

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I don't sleep as it is. That 1% is hardly the pea in the mattress
(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Pretty sure she has more self respect than that. I burned that bridge good

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I'll bite. why aren't you sleeping?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I haven't slept right since I got out.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Go on

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I sleep ok wehn I'm with someone. That's about it.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : What about Bennie?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Now that we're back together, I can sleep ok, when she stays over.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Good. You don't want me driving over there. I don't wear fucking pajamas to bed.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Ha, I appreciate the offer. Fucked up as it is

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Wasn't an offer
(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : More a threat

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : dirty. Itz hasn't mentioned sleeping over when I couldn't sleep?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I didn't say anything about fucking you, god

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Well I ain't so good at chaste naked sleepovers with people I've fucked.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Is that so

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Feel like there's a story there

(TXT to Alexander Byron Lilith Itzhak Ignacio Ruiz Isolde Isabella Bennie) Easton : Not much of a story. I have a shitty habit of sleeping with the wrong people.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : well fuck

(TXT to Bennie) Easton : Past tense! (love you)

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Super glad I just sent that to Benz, that won't stress her out with katherine in town. FML

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : (a short while later) Not going to lie, I laughed for like five minutes at that

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Super

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Super?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : What are you, a 14 year old girl?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : As in I'm super glad you found that amusing

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Do you have a habit of sleeping with 14 year girls?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Don't even fucking joke about shit like that

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I have a kid. You want a fist to the mouth so badly, you just have to ask

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Fine. That was low. Little stressed

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Yeah, well, now you know my line not to cross

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Ok.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Look, is there anything I can help with? Even if it's just stopping by after work and making sure you don't drink yourself into oblivion

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Joe's here. I have him on slap the whiskey out of Easton's hands duty.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : But I appreciate it.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Joe? Joe Cavanaugh?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Yea. Sailor guy? has a boat by Izzy's

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Uh

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Yeah. I'm familiar with him. Very familiar, you might say

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : oh

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : What

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Shit, I thought I slept around.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I'm not fucking sleeping around, he's just

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Oh present tense?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : God, this is none of your business

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Nope, it's not. Unless you want to talk?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : I think I've said enough

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : fair enough. also: understandable.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Anyway, I'll get out of your hair. let me know if you need anything, yeah?

(TXT to Itzhak) Easton : I'm going to murder you for putting me on that text chain. Murder. 🤬

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : I think I'm good. She stormed out a while ago, I'm sticking to beer.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : BACK UP

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : You have a kid?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : ???

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : (a couple minutes later) Yeah, I have a kid

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : How old? Where? Are you close?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : She's 25. Lives here. Sort of?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : (lots of dots)

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Scale of 1 to 10. If by some chance I've slept with your daughter. We're never talking again right?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : That's not a daily double I ever wanted to hit.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Never talking? I'll rip your dick off

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Yea, that sounds about right.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : 25? that's FAR too possible for my liking. Name? Not that it will necessarily help...

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Look, I've fucked 25 year olds. Guess what I don't do any longer.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Finch. Celaeno.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Oh shit. Well, my dick lives to terrorize the town another day. So that's good.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : She went to Cornell, a couple years after me.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : You know her?

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Well of course you know her, everyone knows everyone else in this shithole town

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Not then. We met here, on account of Ignacio doing trivia at my bar.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Got it

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : Wow. I'm still wrapping my around that.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Wrapping your what?

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : head. I feel like an ass for not knowing this. Not that you ever seemed eager to talk about your life.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Why would you know if I hadn't told you

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : yea I guess. Still feel like I'm too caught up in my own bullshit.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Well, offer's still open to check in on you some time. You find some time in your busy schedule when you're not shit talking exes, you let me know

(TXT to Alexander Lilith Itzhak Ignacio Ruiz Isolde Isabella Bennie Easton) Byron : Sorry, just got the message. Uh. I'm sure you know by now that you sent this to a bunch of people who probably have no business hearing about it? Just making sure.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : For sure. And on the brightside all the more reason to be faithful to bennie (not that I need any more), less chance I accidentally fuck one of your kids. Can't afford to lose any more appendages.

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Please don't ever say those words again

(TXT to Easton) Ruiz : Getting pulled in on a domestic. You might want to answer Thorne. Talk later.

(TXT to Alexander Lilith Itzhak Ignacio Ruiz Isolde Isabella Bennie) Easton : Thanks Byron. In unsurprising news, that wasn't supposed to go out. On the brightside: I'm not drunk, just dumb. So I got that going for me.

(TXT to Ruiz) Easton : later