alone—and—together started following you
“Hey there~! S’up?”
“Oh, hiya! Nothing much going on here. How about you?”

“Attempting to get in the ever so cliche Christmas spirit. I’m Kate, by the way.”
“Nuh-uh, man. Santa Christmas season starts right on thanksgiving, Jesus Christmas is the one everyone waits for.”
“Works for me.”
Pfft. “How are you, babe?”

My real name’s Ophelia, but when I found out she was the bipolar bitch in Hamlet, I cut it down to just O…
“Soon as she was old enough to know that Ophelia was Hamlet’s bipolar little squeeze with borderline issues who went for a one-way swim, she insisted that her friends start calling her just ‘O’. They were cooperative, but there are some risks to glossing yourself ‘O’, especially when you have a rep for glass-shattering climaxes.”