[ another hour, another refill of mcdonald's coffee. this is a pretty popular place, and even though he somehow missed vash's short stint as an employee he manages to find him here anyway. ]
Vash. [ ... ] Wait do you actually go by Vash the Stampede or is Vash, like, fine?
[ Vash is here with his Big Mac meal. No coffee for him, apparently. Soda instead. ]
Just Vash is fine. It's not like you call Wolfwood "Nicholas D. Wolfwood," right? I think the more hilarious thing would be to call him "Father Wolfwood."
Sure, that sounds right. [ jonas, aware that alex would do this just because it's funny. ] But we are, yeah. We were together before all of this so...you know. Why quit a good thing?
Technically I should be making sure we both get back. Senior year and everything. [ he doesn't think vash has a baseline for what that means. ] It's...pretty much our last year before we graduate, so some people think it's a big deal.
Yeah. When you graduate from high school, most places have a big ceremony where you sit and listen to some kids give boring speeches about how you've all grown over the last four years and how you'll never forget each other, and then there's more boring speeches from adults about how you're going off into the world to shape the future before you stand in line for a long time to walk across a stage, shake the sweaty hand of a principal or a superintendent or whatever and receive an empty folder that's supposed to have a fancy piece of paper in it but you don't get the paper until weeks later so they can make sure you didn't fail your classes.
[ this is all a bunch of words. ]
...but a lot of families think it's important and treat it as something special for the person who made it.
Yeah, it is. [ and he's blowing it off to get back to the original point. ] But Alex is smart and deserves a chance to finish and then do whatever she wants after that. Hard to graduate if you can't go to class.
I'm sure she'll be grateful for your support. [ help. he kind of laughs because that's not entirely wrong, except he's now wondering who told vash these things.
the question about himself is harder. ]
I should probably finish high school, too. [ probably. ] Haven't thought much about after that.
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