applesaucechat | Text to the Balladeer (from Johnny's phone)

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Text to the Balladeer (from Johnny's phone)

Hello! It's Greta, I've borrowed someone else's phone. Are you in the Park?

Yes. [Oh of course this is after he finished searching the park for her, concluded she must not be around, and left.] Where are you?

[Oh, thank goodness.]

In the Ramble, off the path. I can't leave. I'm with a young man named Johnny, and he's all caught up in brambles. Can you please help us?

No.

[Yeah he should have seen that response coming. He's already on his way back though, he'll be there soon. The Ramble's pretty big though...]

I'm going home now. Where exactly?

[After a brief, stunned pause.] No?

[But they're stuck! She's fumbling a plea along those lines when his next text comes through, and then she frowns at Johnny's phone, confused and a little bit hurt.]

I don't know where exactly, I kept wandering in circles. But I don't suppose it matters if you're just GOING HOME.

[Okay, more than a little bit hurt.]

[God damn it. Okay, maybe if he just does what he did with the others and stresses the most dishonest parts...she knows he wouldn't really just leave her there, right?]

No, it doesn't, because I am NOT coming to look for you. It's not like we're friends or anything.