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[Calls, texts, and emails are a-okay! He has both a work email and personal email, and an office phone and cell phone. Just specify which one.]

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Not at all. [why would she? It was just sex, something she's done god knows how many times before. There was no reason she'd think about it being more than that, when... more was something she'd never experienced before.]

Nick absently curls his hand around her foot, pressing his thumb into it - because apparently he really is her gay twin and it's his duty to give her a foot massage while she talks about her not!boyfriend being a jerk and possibly has a mini crisis over dating. "I'm going to guess you're thinking about it now."

"Unfortunately." She doesn't really want to, because she doubted an easy answer would just magically appear. It wasn't a thing that even occurred to her most of the time. Not to mention that now that she was thinking about it, she feels like some stupid high schooler with their first crush because Nick might actually be right here.

She leans back onto the arm rest, groaning in frustration as she messes with her hair. "This is so fucking stupid," she mutters. Ignoring feelings is a viable option, right?

Ignoring feelings is a very viable option, as far as Nick's concerned. It's always served him well. ...or not so well, but still. "It's not stupid," he protests. "It's just... really crappy timing, paired with Karl being a really big jerk."

Says the hypocrite who probably would have done pretty much the same thing, a year ago. But that's different, he knows better now.

"No kidding." She won't argue that at least, but she still feels like an idiot about worrying over something like this. There are so many more serious things going on right now... her private life doesn't need to be the thing they're dealing with here. Right? Right.

If only it were that easy to get it out of her head. "What the hell am I even supposed to do?"

Nick makes a little bit of a face at that. "I'm not sure you're asking that of the right guy, here." Considering four months is still a record long relationship for him, network or not. Not to mention it'd taken going outside the pulse boundaries for him to do anything at Lyall.

"I guess - what would you want to do, if he hadn't skipped town for very noble but still irritating reasons?"

"Pretend it never occurred to me and hope that I can ignore it?" It's only half a joke- Melissa is so, so incredibly out of her depth here. Even four months is longer than her longest dating stint, and that was with Eugen so it hardly counts.

She sighs, dragging a hand down her face. As much as she would like to ignore it... she knows that's not gonna happen. "Fuck, I don't even know."

"That's completely an option. Sometimes, it even works. ...but I'm gonna bet this really isn't one of those times." If you're already involved with the person you have feelings for, it's really hard to ignore them and hope they go away.

He lets out a huff of air. "Normally I'd say to talk it over with him, but..."

"Not exactly an option right now, is it?" Melissa sighs, exasperated. In a way, it's good that Karl's not around- she has some time to sort things out. Of course, she has no idea when he might be back, which leaves her with this hanging over her head until he does. So she's got to do at least a portion of this on her own, which she doesn't like one bit.

"Yeah, that'd be the but." Nick absently bites his lip, considering. "He'll have to come back for the trial. If we can find out when that is..." Or at least, hopefully he'd have to come back for the trial.

"I could bug the shit out of Gerald, I guess, but I have a feeling he probably doesn't know either." Karl sure as hell didn't, since his instructions were incredibly vague. Ugh. What a jerk.

Even as she says it, she shakes her head, running a hand through her hair. "I guess I'll just do it... whenever he gets his ass back here."

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