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[droptheious]

[Varian never makes it easy for anyone, the first time around. It's like learning to love some feral, rabid cryptid that crawls into your basement and spends the first month just hissing at you before it lets you pet it. He tends to have to grow on people.

Ah. His smile does fade a little though. ]

Oh, thank you but that's... not a thing, now. Ruby and I broke up. Not just because [he waves a hand in the air to try and encompass the everything going on that was his turbulent teenage existence] of the Fern thing. She was actually really understanding about that. More than she probably should have been.

[Because Ruby is ultimately a good person who'll shoulder everything that hurts her with a gentle "this is fine" which is where the breaks started to happen. They both had a tendency to shoulder too much and the weight of it was starting to crush them.]

We kinda realised we're better off as friends. We can support each other better like that, romance ebing added to the mix was making it... I think we were just hurting each other in tiny little ways and we didn't want that to turn into big ways further down the line.

[He picks at the bar a little, frowning. It has been his first relationship ever and while both he and Ruby were well aware it could never last forever, and that they did the best thing they could for one another- the loss still stung. He'd made two healthy life choices in a relatively short period of time and he's not sure how to feel about that.]

It was the right thing to do and I'm glad we can still be friends- and it feels... I don't know, good and sad at the same time? I guess we're just... figuring each other out again now. It's weird. I'm not great at people anyway, so. New stuff to learn. I guess.

[It's SUPER HARD being a teenager and he feels someone should have informed him of this. ]