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Previously in "A Mighty Fine Mess..?"

This function contains brief references to drug use. Reader discretion is advised.

Flynn had been acting pretty damn off all month but he was acting extremely goddamn squirrelly when he got dwelling house from work that night. He wouldn't look directly at me (huge sign that Something is up) and buried himself way deeper into his phone than usual (and he'd been staying pretty damn goddamn deep in his phone lately). He didn't say a whole lot just he did, oddly enough, make a comment almost Marielle being "crazy" ( um, Flynn, distressing not deplorable but I don't call up it's Marielle that'south the "crazy" one hither—or even if she did indeed go crazy...it's probably considering you pushed her there, my dude ).

The next morn he commented while sounding more than a chip annoyed that a relatively new person at work (who both he and Sapphira had heavily implied was weirder than a football bat and had less for brains than a

gnat ) who we'll call Dina had been texting him since 8 in the morning, to which I basically went "Uhhhhh , wtf is her deal?"and Flynn whole-hearted agreed with my assessment, calling her a weirdo. (While both Sapphira and Flynn go work-related texts and sometimes calls from their coworkers pretty regularly, their identify of work isn't open at 8 in the morn so for Dina to be texting Flynn at 8 a.m. was pretty damn odd.) But one twenty-four hours that Flynn had gotten off of work before Sapphira, Sapphira told me that when she went out to the car that Dina was in the car with Flynn. (Plainly they'd either gone to Eldon's identify together or met upwardly at Eldon'due south place; idk which.) Sapphira said that equally far every bit she could tell, nothing unseemly (Flynn is Dina'southward boss) had occurred only I found the whole ordeal to exist incredibly sus to put information technology mildly. Yet it seemed that Flynn didn't think much of Dina at all.

The morn of New Year's Eve was

quite the morning. Flynn got a threatening phone call from Spark that made no fucking sense (I don't desire to get into detail across that) and and so a bit later I heard Flynn on the phone talking about...an out-of-state flight.

I may or may not have had a "PANIC" moment right then. I knew that Spark was making some serious (and seriously outlandish) threats against Flynn (and suspected that Glade was none too happy with Flynn either) just the thought of Flynn fleeing the state was unbearable. It didn't help that Sapphira was sitting nearby looking rock-faced. I forced myself to calm downward a lilliputian and noticed that the conversation Flynn was having had turned to his drug use/abuse history...and eventually it clicked that the was making arrangements to go to a

rehab facility , not to get the fuck out of Dodge.

After Flynn got off the phone, I told him how proud I was of him for taking that first stride to kicking the addiction for skillful. Oddly enough, his shoulders slumped and he cast his optics down every bit he practically mumbled a "cheers". A bit later, he was sitting on the couch, looking preoccupied by something or another and I asked him what was upwardly. He looked towards me (but not directly at me) and said, "I've merely got a lot on my mind" in a way that sounded a bit distressing. When I asked him if he wanted to talk about it, though, he said "Not right now..." before looking directly at me, smiling and adding, "All in due time."I can't say that his "all in due time" brought me any comfort whatsoever (quite the opposite); when I told Sapphira about it, she looked more than a little worried herself.

That dark I asked Flynn about sharing a New year's kiss with him at the stroke of midnight (to which he answered with a "perhaps" followed by a devil emoji)...but when midnight came he was in a weird headspace (and so I had the midnight kiss with Sapphira instead).

With the help of xos (naturally), Flynn and I sat up all night texting and talking only it was clear that Flynn was in an especially weird headspace. Sometimes he'd flirt with me. Sometimes he'd zone out on TikToks. At ane point he mentioned a recently fired coworker and how she's nuts but that he still "fucks with her" (direct quote) and—very bizarrely—quickly added that he didn't hateful as in

fucks her but that he's cool with her. He seemed relieved when I told him that I understood what he'd meant by the phrase. As the outset solar day of the new year started to dawn, he became increasingly withdrawn, though.

When it came time for Sapphira to go to piece of work (Flynn had been put on leave for his rehab program), Flynn went in with her to take care of his leave paperwork and have the car afterwards. Later Flynn left the store, Sapphira and I had the following text commutation:

Sapphira: He probably ain't gonna exist at the firm long.

Me: Probably not...
Did he say anything almost heading back out?
I know he said he needed a shower

Sapphira...Yeah...

Me: Anything specific..? [Writer's note: in example it isn't obvious, my feet is mounting like crazy as this chat progresses]
[a chip afterwards]
Well, he handed me the money club and went right back out.
Didn't say where he was going...
So...do yous know where he's off to..?

Sapphira: He confirmed what I thought. He is a fucking idiot.

Me: Explain please.

[It was a painfully long nine minutes before Sapphira responded.]

Sapphira: [Dina.]

I should annotation here that at this indicate in time I didn't know Dina'due south name and as well that Sapphira referred to Dina in this text past her position at work (hence why her name is in brackets).

*sigh* Ah fucknuggets. What a way to offset a new yr...

Intermission coming 27April2022, and Part Thirty-9 coming 1May2022. Stay tuned...
--Alex

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