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RUBILYKSKOYE

25/09/----

Sorry I missed you, but stay out of my goddamn head.

— JH

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Rubilykskoye

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[verbol]

I’m on the damn roof!

[otherbitches]

so come off the roof and cool off with a beer

[verbol]

I'm fixing my tan. Don't know if you noticed, but a year in Russia made me look like a ghoul.

[otherbitches]

i know you look like a ghoul. i'm the one who has to look at you. get off the roof before you fall and break a hip, you can sun down by the water.

scared i'm gonna sap your stamina?

[verbol]

If you did any of the work you're supposed to be doing, I wouldn't have to be up on the roof, would I?

[otherbitches]

I'll do it later, dad. I said I would.

Later.

[verbol]

Keep that up and you'll be grounded, young man.

[otherbitches]

You're not the boss of me.

At least, you aren't actin' like it.

[verbol]

Stop flirting and start working.

[otherbitches]

If I was flirtin' you'd know.

What would you play if you had a tapedeck? What'd you used to play when you were a kid, Jim?

[ Jim's not that old. Except he is. Billy kind of likes it. Easy to admit on hot days when he's skiving off work. ]

[verbol]

Jim Croce. You know him?

[otherbitches]

[ There's a brief pause, because Billy thinks, memories shifting, kicking up dust, and he laughs. ]

my mom had an album, maybe two. what was it? 'better mess around with jim'?

[ Her records fit in a box he'd kept in his room. Pete Seeger, Fleetwood Mac, Cliff Richard, and yeah, ol' Jim. The box got dusty, then dustier, then crammed under his bed or into his closet, to make room for his records. Louder. ]

[verbol]

Don't Mess Around With Jim. Your mom had good taste.

I played it for El, back home. Don't think she was much of a fan.

[otherbitches]

think i like my version better.

[ there's a little delay. they haven't talked... a ton about el. about Jim's kid. ]

tell me she wasn't listening to wham.

[verbol]

madonna.

whatever shit that wheeler kid was bringing over. and your sister.

[otherbitches]

count myself blessed i dont know what stankface listens to.

sorry about that. dont know whats up with that babooshka song.

[verbol]

Yeah, I'm a fan of Madonna by comparison.