Call Me Out v. 7.0

[misheard]

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[aquaticrush]

[Retasu doesn't know why she related that she feels a little inadequate not knowing certain things -- comes with one of her possible rejection reasons being "too innocent to not make them feel guilty about it" -- but is more scared to ask about them. But she definitely didn't expect to be sat down by Shrimpdad of all people and given the Talk.

Remember what I said about the banana thing? She's just finally done it right on what must be the seventeenth try.]

This is embarrassing...

[cherryblooded]

It's difficult to get right without practice, particularly when you're nervous.

[Anyway, it's not like it's difficult for him to buy more condoms for when she messes up. He's married, after all.]

[aquaticrush]

[Face turns bright red.]

I didn't mean to waste so many! Or the first banana I broke, either!

[cherryblooded]

That's alright, I have plenty and they're cheap. Use as many as you want.

[aquaticrush]

[eep]

I guess these things are important to know... I mean, I'm not sure who else I would have asked. It's embarrassing even to try looking them up.

[cherryblooded]

I suppose you didn't learn this in school?

[aquaticrush]

It was all really awkward and clinical and didn't really tell us much. They didn't want to encourage us, they said.

[cherryblooded]

Young people are going to have sex no matter what sex ed says. They're just going to have safer sex if they're taught how.

[aquaticrush]

I suppose. Um... I'm afraid to ask, but what's the next thing? I know you said there was more than just what you usually hear about...

[The part about giant sea creatures was more than a little awkward and she has no idea where she would ever use that information.]

[cherryblooded]

Let's see. Are you on any form of birth control?

[aquaticrush]

No! [blushing so hard that her face is glowing]

[cherryblooded]

If you plan to become sexually active, you'll want to be. Condoms are good, but they're only so effective, and you should be as careful as possible.

[aquaticrush]

But won't somebody think that's overplanning? Or, I guess, any planning is supposed to be overplanning, but when you think about it, maybe that doesn't make a lot of sense.

[cherryblooded]

It's better to be safe than worry about looking strange and end up pregnant.

[aquaticrush]

That's true! I'm sorry, it's just that they always say to worry about these things or looking pure and innocent or something like that!

[cherryblooded]

You don't have to be pure and innocent. You just have to be smart and careful.

[aquaticrush]

I guess. Just... it's like I told someone else. I feel like that's the only thing I have. Other people can be with ten, fifteen people and still have all kinds of people falling in love with them, but that's because they're special.

[cherryblooded]

There's plenty of good things about you, angel.

[aquaticrush]

I'm not... [stops] ...Even the things I am good at, there's always someone better than I could ever be. And there's a lot I can't live up to.

[cherryblooded]

Even if there are people better than you in one particular area - and there always are - they're worse than you in others. It's the combination of all your traits that make you yourself.

[aquaticrush]

But I've seen people who are better than me at even the things I'm good at. All of them at once. I can't measure up no matter what.

[cherryblooded]

Are you sure you haven't forgotten something you're good at?

[aquaticrush]

I thought I'd found things I was good at -- fighting, baking, studying -- but either it wasn't enough or it didn't matter. Maybe I think too much about this.

[cherryblooded]

You do dwell on it too much. Someone will adore you one day.

[aquaticrush]

I'm not sure, but... thank you.

...I really bruised the bananas, didn't I?