Posey:What? Why do you say that? That’s not the positive thinking we’re looking for.
OC:He’s right. We need to manifest this.
Silas:How are you fucking it up?
Pacey:Penny, has Blakely said anything to you?
Penny:I’m texting her right now. I’ll ask her how it’s been going living with Halsey.
Halsey:BE SUBTLE!
Penny:Don’t worry, I will. She hasn’t said anything to me, but we haven’t really talked about it other than the whole brother thing. But I’ve been nervous to give my position away, so I don’t press that much.
OC:Ooo, she’s being stealth about it. I like that.
Silas:I’m going to start telling Eli about how you’re sucking Penny’s ass.
OC:I’m NOT SUCKING HER ASS! Jesus.
Penny:It feels like a light sucking.
Posey:As much as I love the banter in these texts, we need to get to the point at hand. Why does Halsey think he doesn’t have a chance? What happened?
Silas:Great question.
Halsey:I was an overprotective asshole who told her she wasn’t allowed to stay in her apartment because it wasn’t good enough for her. I proceeded to hold her hand and yell at her landlord.
Posey:Explain to me how that’s bad? Seems like a white knight situation.
Silas:Ollie would probably hump my face if I did that for her, not that I need to since we’re living together, but you get the idea.
Pacey:Winnie too. How is this bad?
Halsey:She hasn’t really spoken to me since. I took her dress shopping, because she’s going to a wedding and needed a dress. And that was okay, a little awkward, but that was right after the landlord thing. We usually hang out in the living room, but she’s been in her room. I just think I fucked it up. Should I apologize?
Posey:NO. Don’t apologize. You can’t be sorry for standing up for her.
Silas:He’s right. If she’s mad at you for standing up for her, then so be it, but you can’t take that back because you meant it, right?
Halsey:Every fucking word.
Pacey:Then stand by it. Penny, any info on your end?
Penny:She’s just saying everything’s fine. She might be onto me. Or protecting the situation because if things areweird, that’s usually something she’d tell me. Then again, if she thinks I’m too close to Halsey by being with Eli, she might not want to tell the truth, if that makes sense.
Posey:Yeah, that makes sense. **Scratches chin** What do we do now?
Halsey:Drop it. I don’t want to put more distance between us.
Penny:I don’t think we can drop it. We’re so close. This is a minor setback, although I don’t even think it’s a setback. I think . . . it probably made her think.
Halsey:What do you mean?
Penny:You have to understand Blakely. She just got out of a long-term relationship, and it was a good one. Perry was a good guy and loved her. She loved him, but that love wasn’t strong enough. Your display of “affection” when telling off her landlord probably freaked her out because that’s the kind of love she was missing with Perry. That guttural instinct to lay everything down for her. He didn’t when he left, and the fact that you didn’t even blink an eye about taking the sword for her probably freaked her out.
Posey:So what you’re saying is that we’ve made progress?
Penny:I’m saying that we might need something monumental to really shift her frame of mind, because I know for a fact she’s said Halsey isn’t for her.
