show naomi angry flip at sright with easeinbottom:
xalign 1.2
"Naomi stands up, her previous sadness supplanted by anger."
show naomi:
ease_cubic 0.4 xalign 1.0
N "I’ll have you know that I’ve dedicated my whole life to being as perfect as can be!"
F "That’s complete bullshit, and you know it."
F "Before you and my brother started bumping uglies you were just some meek nerdy bitch."
F "Mostly harmless."
F "But then you became... {w=0.5}whatever this is."
"I motion to her whole being."
show fang:
ease_cubic 0.4 xalign 0.1
F "You became a bossy, machiavellian perfectionist BITCH with plans on top of plans like you’re some kind of chessmaster!"
F "You never actually cared about Naser in the first place, did you?"
F "You only wanted him for the prestige it would bring you!"
show naomi:
ease_cubic 0.2 xalign 0.6
ease_cubic 0.2 xalign 0.7
"FUCK! Ow!" with hpunch
"I can feel a searing heat on my cheek."
"Surprised she had it in her."
show naomi:
ease_cubic 0.5 xalign 0.8
"Naomi isn’t looking me in the eyes, but she’s huffing as she cradles her hand to her chest."
N "I LOVE Naser! He actually cared about a useless girl like me! So I had to become his perfect girlfriend!"
"I rub my cheek and do my best to keep my temper under control."
"Though I want to, jumping on top of the bitch and beating the shit out of her is not the answer right now."
F "Does a ‘perfect girlfriend’ intentionally try to secretly manipulate her boyfriend’s family without even telling him?!"
"Naomi’s breath hitches."
show naomi:
ease_cubic 0.5 xalign 0.9
F "How do you think Naser would react to finding out what you did?"
N "... He…"
"Naomi shuts her mouth as fast as she opens it."
show naomi considering flip with dissolve
F "Probably wouldn’t like it, would he?"
F "Aaron Fuckwingham was way too protective of my retarded ass to approve."
F "And he clearly did care about you, too."
F "It wasn’t even that you didn’t care to know how Naser felt. You knew and actively disregarded that information."
show naomi sad flip with dissolve
N "Shut up…"
F "No way, I’m-"
N "I know already…"
show naomi sad with dissolve
"The dumb bitch shifts her head to the side, trying to hide her eyes."
N "P-please, couldn’t y-you let me just...{w=0.5} g-grovel h-here?"
"Naomi’s words are coming out haphazardly. It’s clear that she’s having a hard time forming thoughts."
"She’s already pretty fucked up. But she needs to hear what comes next, even if it hurts her."
show fang:
ease_cubic 0.5 xalign 0.6
F "You know what your problem is, Naomi?"
F "You’ve stayed stuck in your own little world with your own little plans, thinking that everything you do is always going to turn out just like you planned."
F "Well guess what? The world doesn’t revolve around you!"
show naomi considering flip with dissolve
"Naomi raises an eyebrow at me at first."
"She then grimaces before fixing me with a look that I can only describe as disgust."
show naomi sad flip with dissolve
"Yet as the seconds tick by, Naomi’s expression changes."
"Her grimace slowly vanishes, replaced instead with a thousand-yard stare."
N "You’re…"
pause 0.5
N "...You’re right…"
N "I… {w=0.5}I haven’t changed one bit…"
show naomi:
ease_cubic 0.5 yalign -0.5
pause 0.2
hide naomi with dissolve
"She grabs hold of her head and once more falls on her knees."
N "Ever since I… {w=0.5}I stopped being a meek nerdy girl, I became obsessed with perfection... {w=0.5}to the point that I… I wound up becoming some kind of coral castellan."
N "Did I work hard to get there?{w=0.5} Yes."
N "Should I have worked so hard when it led to where I am today?"
N "... I… {w=0.5}I don’t know anymore…"
N "All I know is that…{w=0.5} aside from your brother… {w=0.5}nothing's ever really made me happy…."
N "...Nothing…"
pause 0.5
hide fang with dissolve
hide naomifangcg blur
show naomifangcg
with dissolve
"Against my better judgment, I kneel next to Naomi and put a hand on her shoulder."
F "Hey, just because you’re a manipulative fucking bitch doesn’t mean that you haven’t done some good."
F "I mean… {w=0.5}you did bring me and Anon together."
F "Also… {w=0.5}you did make my brother happy… {w=0.5}even if it was under your authoritarian thumb…"
"I kinda feel sick saying that."
"I shouldn’t be praising her manipulative bitchiness, but I can’t deny that Naser was genuinely happy being with Naomi."
"Even if most of that happiness was a side-effect and not a direct result of a healthy relationship..."
F "Maybe… {w=0.5}maybe a break is what you two need now more than ever."
F "Time away to think."
F "Time away to contemplate what the two of you really mean for each other."
F "Time to really figure out what the two of you mean to each other…"
"Once again, though my words are meant for Naomi, a part of me can’t shake the fact that they’re applicable to me as well…"
N "Y-you really think so?"
"I shrug my shoulders."
F "I don’t fucking know."
F "Maybe this break’s what the two of you need to really start a new phase of your relationship."
F "Or maybe this is it… {w=0.5}and maybe you two will go your separate ways…"
"I almost feel myself tearing up as I say those words."
"I don’t want to admit it, but a part of me fears that my words may turn out to be prophetic in regard to Anon and Myself…"
"Naomi is eerily quiet as she absorbs my words."
"I keep my hand on her shoulder. I’m not entirely sure why though."
"Maybe as a sign of support?"
"The fuck did I know."
"Still, being there for Naomi - even if most of me still hated the bitch - felt good…"
N "So… {w=0.5}What… {w=0.5}What am I supposed to do now?"
"The question really struck me harder than it should have."
"What was next?"
"I don’t know any proper answer."
"But the one thing I can do is try to bury this hatchet with Naomi once and for all…"
"So I spoke with Naomi. Truly spoke to her."
"For the first time, we talked on a common ground."
"Even though both our voices were already dry, we just kept letting it out for hours."
"Every insult and begrudging compliment we’d ever thought of each other was put out to air."
"When we run out of words we just lay in silence."
"I nearly drift off to sleep on the sidewalk when a car pulls up in front of us."
"Oh, Naomi must’ve called a taxi."
scene home fang outside night
show naomi sad flip at sleft
with fade
"I crank one eyelid open and see Naomi hesitantly moving to get in the backseat."
show naomi sad with dissolve
"She stops with her hand on the handle."
N "Fang?"
F "..."
N "This is probably just me being deliriously exhausted, but…"
N "I… {w=0.5}I enjoyed this talk we had."
F "You better. Not everyday I pour out my soul to anyone that isn’t Anon."
show naomi neutral with dissolve
"Naomi actually laughs at my humor this time."
"Progress…"
N "Hanging out might not be so bad sometimes..."
"She goes quiet. Before she can muddy up her thoughts with something else, she gets in the taxi."
N "See you around…"
show naomi neutral flip with dissolve
pause 0.1
hide naomi with easeoutleft
"She shuts the door before I can say anything and is gone within seconds."
"Yeah, I can probably hang around with Naomi again…"
F "..."
F "......"
"I need to get up from this curb."
stop ambient fadeout 5.0
stop ambient1 fadeout 5.0
show black with fade
"A few of my feathers have bent and gotten stuck to the concrete from being pressed into it for so long."
"The door was still unlocked, luckily."
scene home fang night
show dimmer_lighter
show dimmer_darker behind dimmer_lighter
show dimmer_darker2 behind dimmer_darker
with fade
"Good thing I don’t live in Skin Row."
"My place would probably be down to the foundations by now."
"..."
"Dragging myself up the stairs, I remember Naomi and Naser didn’t even really get to say goodbye."
"He took it about as well as I expected."
"Judging by the loud music coming from his room he’s still upset."
"He’ll probably stop crying by the time he’s leaving in a few days."
