Crush... 2!

"-and like, basically, we know Cain's father is white, meaning his mom has to be Japanese, right?"
Max paused for breath, hands on her hips, and surveyed her audience. Minnie's eyelids were fluttering. Edie was on her phone. Hailey was slumped on Faith's bed, breathing slowly and evenly.
"Uh-huh," Faith said.
"So there's really only a handful of people whom Desolator might have killed who'd be related to him." One of her limbs poked at the photos scattered across her board. "I could name 'em all, but it was down to Crimson Ronin and Miracle."
Edie looked up from her phone. "So Cain's mom was a vigilante?"
"Uh, Miracle's name is on record as Hitomi Cain."
There was a brief silence.
"You're not going to blab about this like the Desolator thing, right?" Faith's eyes were very big and very earnest.
"Don't be ridiculous," Hailey said. "Max can't keep a secret. This is known." She sat up, stretching languidly, and brushed her hair out of her face.
Max sneered at her. "Shut up. Can too. Anyway, the Desolator thing was, like, in the public interest. Or something."
"All it did was give Cain a fanclub. Not that he knows it exists."
"I can't just go up to him and ask if Desolator killed his mom," Faith moaned.
"Sure you can," Edie said with false cheer. "Just keep it in your list of backup conversational topics. Like what H did for Takeda."
"He doesn't even know me."
"I mean," Hailey said, examining her manicure, "even if you crash and burn, at least you can tell yourself that you tried."
Minnie sat up, one finger rising to gesture warningly at Hailey, but Faith's expression only wavered for a moment before settling. "Yeah," she said quietly. "Yeah."

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spookyscaryskeletons: so the lovebirds picked cain up from the hospital
not_ur_power_bank: welp
THUNDERDOME: u snost u lost
sugrjangz: ngl i was not looking forward to helping cain carry his shit home just so faith cld have the chance to talk to him
fides1104: so plan b?
spookyscaryskeletons: yeah
fides1104: hows this look
fides1104: hi chris!!!!! hope u liked the e-reader <3 <3 <3
fides1104: i just realized i forgot to add in a couple newer releases so let's meet sometime so i can put it in!!!!! :D :D :D
THUNDERDOME: hmm
not_ur_power_bank: uh
sugrjangz: too many !s
spookyscaryskeletons: lose the <3s
fides1104: hi chris! hope u liked the e-reader
fides1104: i just realized i forgot to add in a couple newer releases so let's meet sometime so i can put it in! :D :D :D
not_ur_power_bank: maybe try asking him to meet instead of just stating it outright
THUNDERDOME: u didnt actly forget those things right
fides1104: i may or may not have blown a few hundred bucks on a bunch of tangentially related ebooks
sugrjangz: god
fides1104: hi chris! hope u liked the e-reader
fides1104: do u want to get coffee sometime? love to know what u thought of the books :D :D :D
spookyscaryskeletons: ok yea scrap the emojis
sugrjangz: shd we just like
sugrjangz: go with her
sugrjangz: so she doesnt fuck it up
THUNDERDOME: did we come w u on ur 1st date w takeda
sugrjangz: thats different
not_ur_power_bank: it really isn't
fides1104: hi chris! hope u liked the e-reader
fides1104: do u want to get coffee sometime? love to know what u thought of the books :D
fides1104: im keeping this 1
fides1104: when shd i send it
THUNDERDOME: now
sugrjangz: now
spookyscaryskeletons: just send it b4 u regret it
fides1104: wdyt @not_ur_power_bank
sugrjangz: i always knew she hated the rest of us
fides1104: i j want to be absolutely sure :(((
not_ur_power_bank: now
fides1104: im turning off read receipts
fides1104: OMG HES TYPING
THUNDERDOME: what ru wearing
spookyscaryskeletons: is there sth yuod like 2 tell us edie
THUNDERDOME: for the date idiot
not_ur_power_bank: i don't think she's exactly in fit condition to think about what to wear
fides1104: HES STILL TYPING
THUNDERDOME: shes pacing back and forth in the living room
sugrjangz: not like u were gna sleep early anw
not_ur_power_bank: we do hv sch tmw
spookyscaryskeletons: hows samson
not_ur_power_bank: fine thanks
not_ur_power_bank: how's convenience store guy
spookyscaryskeletons: fuck off
not_ur_power_bank: language
fides1104: SATURDAY MORNING
fides1104: omg omg omg
sugrjangz: dont bother tryg to play it cool tmw
sugrjangz: he can prob see u comg from a mile away
THUNDERDOME: faith is the least cool person i know