"Oh, you've-- You don't know what YouTube is?" It's honestly something I so take for granted that it hadn't even occurred to me she might not know what I'm talking about. I watch her for a moment as she taps her number into my phone and it occurs to me that I never asked what year she's from. The very fact that that's something I need to keep in mind when meeting new people here still just does my head in.
"This is going to sound so strange, but, uh. What year are you from? It was twenty-fourteen when I showed up here. Twenty-fourteen in my world, I mean, and back there have the internet." My gaze drops to my phone in her hands. It's obvious she can't be from too far in the past if she knows how to operate that so I push on. "There's a website called YouTube where people can post videos of all kinds of things. Basically anything you can think of. Plays, songs, stories, tutorials. You name it! I had a channel myself back home, for baking. And I watched a ton of other ones."
I don't mention that I have one here, too. Not for baking. That's a secret just between me and Blue and I'd like to keep it that way.
"Oh goodness, of course it's hard," I tell her, shifting our hands so I can wrap mine over hers in a tight squeeze. "I can't even imagine, honestly. It's hard bein' here without my mama or Coach or any of my family, but it'd be so much harder if I had kids. I'm sure of it. Evan is the youngest, I assume. What are the other two named? And you know, sometimes people from home show up, too. I was here for months and months before Jack showed. He's, uh... he's a friend from school. The coach of our hockey teach, actually. He got here in January so it's possible you could see your boys again. And your husband, too."
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Date: 2016-08-27 10:28 pm (UTC)"This is going to sound so strange, but, uh. What year are you from? It was twenty-fourteen when I showed up here. Twenty-fourteen in my world, I mean, and back there have the internet." My gaze drops to my phone in her hands. It's obvious she can't be from too far in the past if she knows how to operate that so I push on. "There's a website called YouTube where people can post videos of all kinds of things. Basically anything you can think of. Plays, songs, stories, tutorials. You name it! I had a channel myself back home, for baking. And I watched a ton of other ones."
I don't mention that I have one here, too. Not for baking. That's a secret just between me and Blue and I'd like to keep it that way.
"Oh goodness, of course it's hard," I tell her, shifting our hands so I can wrap mine over hers in a tight squeeze. "I can't even imagine, honestly. It's hard bein' here without my mama or Coach or any of my family, but it'd be so much harder if I had kids. I'm sure of it. Evan is the youngest, I assume. What are the other two named? And you know, sometimes people from home show up, too. I was here for months and months before Jack showed. He's, uh... he's a friend from school. The coach of our hockey teach, actually. He got here in January so it's possible you could see your boys again. And your husband, too."