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[jack rivers]

_{feel free to tell hanna so she stops fucking bitching about you being my friend. which you clearly aren't anymore}

[summer blumenfeld]

---you're such a typical man. instead of acting off with me in public - which will only raise suspicions, by the way - maybe you should work on building her confidence up. if you let her know how gorgeous she was and how much she meant to you, she wouldn't have to view you having female friends as a threat. but you'd never be that sincere.

[jack rivers]

_{no matter how many times i tell her, she insists on it. she was looking over my shoulder the whole time we were talking. sorry for being a dick.}

[summer blumenfeld]

---i'm sorry for being such a bitch, i'm undergoing one of those awful times you realize your whole life is a sham, y'know? but honestly, i was like that with tomas and i can tell you, it's 100% an insecurity thing. you have to continuously reassure her, eventually she'll feel she can trust you when you say how beautiful she is. assuming you don't fuck it up before then.

[jack rivers]

_{please don't quit? and yeah, she's always kinda been like this. she thinks i'll lose interest or be like our dads.}

[summer blumenfeld]

---i'd really love to keep working for you, honestly, but i think i'll have to move back in with my parents. i can't afford to raise trent in any decent way now that i'm not splitting the rent with dorian, embarrassing as that is to admit. then show her you won't! what have you got planned for v day?

[jack rivers]

_{then you'll need a job. come on, i'll give you a raise. you're my friend and i really want to help. i'm taking her to her favorite restaurant, and then to her favorite hotel, and i got her a promise ring, and i'm going to ask her to move in with me and arista.}

[summer blumenfeld]

---but i already do such a shitty job, it'd be so embarrassing! i'll see if tomas can take trent more and take a second job. thanks so much for being so understanding, i know i can be a total cow. oh come on, take her somewhere outside ny at least! though those last ones sound like a v. good idea.

[jack rivers]

_{i need you there! i'm surrounded by slutty interns and coworkers who are ten years older than me. i couldn't do it without you! i'd love to take her out of new york, but i don't feel comfortable leaving my daughter with sicily for longer than just one night. atleast if i'm in the city, i can make it home in less than ten minutes if something happens.}

[summer blumenfeld]

---i've made it my mission to out-skank them all! anyone in the office i'm not allowed to fuck, while we're on the topic? oh come on, chill out helicopter dad. i could take her if you wanted, she's comfortable with me and trent loves childcare! i swear i'd take good care of her, pleasepleaseplease?

[jack rivers]

_{my dad, obviously. that would be disgusting. you can take her on one condition.}

[summer blumenfeld]

---but he's so suave, he complimented my hair yesterday and i thought my vagina was going to set on fire i wanted him so badly. elaborate!

[jack rivers]

_{that is disgusting. and i want you to talk to hanna and try to work things out. perhaps become friends. if you promise me you'll do that, then you can take arista}

[summer blumenfeld]

---ughh no, girls always think i'm this boyfriend-stealing skank, she'll think i'm just being fake. surely me taking her so you two can have a romantic getaway is enough evidence that i've got no desperate lust for you?!

[jack rivers]

_{she just doesn't know you. it's all i ask! and we both know that you lust for me, but that is not the case.}