Filling in Some Details

Tad's rolls today had him sleep horribly last night. Nightmares kept waking him up. Then, when he finally decided to wake up for the day, he kept hearing and seeing his cousin, Greg, at different stages in his life. He passed his Tessa obsession and Tessa compulsion checks, so he wasn't too worried about her today. He did fail a couple normal compulsion checks though.

Today, Tad focused on work to ground himself. Game crashed during the first tow job of the day, so I closed that. Then I started Mosley's, which I think scuffed at some point as well, but kept giving me jobs.

I'll have a video up tonight or tomorrow, depending on how fast it converts and renders and uploads. Edits shouldn't take too long. What'll be in the video?

Tad has another long chat with Saini. Concerned about his cousin, who starts flying a kite during their talk, he opens up more than he expected to. She gets two of his biggest secrets he hasn't outright said to anyone in Los Santos. I don't know how he'll feel about having told her tomorrow. Or if he wakes up without actually waking up again soon. But opening up about the big stuff that he's been hiding (rather than the big stuff he can't hide) seemed to make Greg go away. At least.

Oh yeah. During the chat, Sneaky texted. It was largely ineffectual. Tad found it interesting, questioned the motives, and is ready to see if it leads to more than sneaky giggling at him at Mosley's. He's going to give him as little as possible in response without outright ignoring him though. He's curious.  Sneaky's going to have to ramp up the crazy. Tad's former stalker used to walk into his house and watch him sleep. It's going to take a LOT a major escalation to get under Tad's skin.

One thing that Sneaky seemed to try to do was really poke at the friends thing. Sneaky has friends (one of which is Tessa). That just flew past Tad. Tad hasn't actually attempted to make a lot of friends and doesn't actually care all that much about Tessa's friends, despite having noticed who they are. He hopes that they're actually good friends and that's about all he bothers thinking about them. He's not jealous or envious.

To Tad, "friends" are often false. They usually just want something from you. They're rarely loyal. They'll toss away your 10 year friendship after one small and embarrassing mistake. Tad is taking his time to find the right friends. He may seem lonely sometimes, but he's fine with being alone. His impatience with the unreciprocated bond he felt with Tessa? That was special. It was uncharacteristic of him. And he still wonders if it was as unreciprocated as she claims. He'll test his own patience and attempt to respect her boundaries. And by "her boundaries" I mean the boundaries he came up with that are much less vague.