“What’s the deal with you and Nurse?”
The rapid exchange of indecipherable gifs occurring on Dex’s phone ceases at Bully’s question. Dex looks up from the screen to see Bully tapping his pencil against his open notebook, a somewhat bored look on his face.
Bully nods at Dex’s phone.
A quick look down tells Dex that Nursey’s taken his pause in reply as defeat. He sends three gifs in quick succession to celebrate his victory: a series of puppies dressed as Avengers, an Elmo burning gif, and a minion that does not look right.
Dex tilts his head. “I don’t know,” he says, and Bully snorts. Dex frowns. “What?”
Bully shakes his head, turning his attention back to his homework. “Nothing.”
“Hey.” Dex nudges Bully’s ankle with his shoe under the table. “You’re my waffle, you can’t sass me.”
Bully pauses reading long enough to appraise Dex with the sassiest eyebrows ever seen before completely ignoring Dex all together.
Dex huffs and ignores him back, which doesn’t exactly work but it’s the point of the thing. He texts Nursey back that he didn’t win, Dex just went back to being productive, which makes him a winner in the end. makes you a poindorkster in the end, Nursey replies, which is really, just, terrible. Wholly, completely awful.
Which is why it’s rather distressing that Dex grins at it like a loon.
Dex looks up. Bully’s boredom has shifted into amusement. His lips quirk vaguely.
“That’s what I mean.” He gestures with his pencil. “You’ve been doing whatever it is you’ve been doing with Nurse for like an hour now and you’re still not bored. What’s up with that?”
“I don’t–” Dex runs his thumb along the edge of his phone. “I don’t get bored of Nursey.”
Bully hums. “So that’s it, then?”
“So it’s what?” Dex asks, but Bully’s back to his school work with no indication of being pulled from it. Dex looks back down at his phone. Nursey’s switched to emojis now. The X girl, a dolphin, the heart-eyes one. It could be annoying. It could be amusing. But never, ever boring.
Huh. Dex wonders what that means for a minute before sending back two lobsters and a random flag. No time to decipher that, now.
