Just a Normal Waitress

Haley Kaplan. Waitress at Flipped. Yes my uniform sucks. Get over it. I know I'm trying to. I swear to god if you don't tip I will light your pancakes on fire. And don't you dare ask for extra whipped cream after trying to short change me.

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] How do you cope with this like really eerything's so loud and noisy and it's so much work to focus to hear one person and I can' even hear myself think which is annoying and everything's hard. I don't know how you do it, you're magic. You're also a really great person, and whenever we meet it feels like weird and bad stuff happens but I reall like spending time with you.

[pm] So it seems like everything’s back to normal. Just in time for my phone and internet services to come back on. Guess they got their checks. But uh, yeah, sorry I missed this. You’re okay now, right? Cause dude I have to say, it’s no walk in the park being able to see glowing craziness around everyone all the time. But I sorta always had the hearing and the strength and stuff so it’s pretty normal to me. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t make me magic or a great person. And yeah we should try the hanging out without horrible things happening sometime, that’d probably be nice. 

@openbook-izel

[white-miasma]

[kat-denningsss]

[nautilus-hm]

[princessofthemoooon]

[problematicexorcist]

Uh huh.

[pm] Emotions, and it’s much fucking worse. No idea. Think it’s gotta be some kind of spell, and I need it to stop now.

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] That blows. I didn’t even know that was a thing. Like a power you could have. Someone must have really hated you to curse you with that. Unless that’s part of this power swap thing I’ve heard about. Which still sucks for you but at least it’s not permanent. I think. I hope.

At least you can’t feel emotions through the internet, right? That’s gotta count for something. 

[ballofrighteousfury-blog]

Oh. How is that possible? Is that going to happen anytime soon? Like a seasonal thing? 

[flippedkaplan]

Well the tree in question doing all that is dead or something. I think. Either way, it hasn’t been causing problems for a while now so I think there won’t be a repeat performance. Nah, they’ll probably be something new and different next time. Likely also terrifying. 

[wutheringheights]

[katdenningsarmy-deactivated2015]

[alana-murphy]

[pm] Do you know who’s borrowing your, um… your abilities right now?

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] I think so. But I kinda feel like it might be against the rules to tell you who and the what details, though. I mean I can’t even remember who was at the CSB meeting cause of the voodoo on the meeting place so I figure this is along the same lines of anonymity. 

[lainie-the-bugbear]

Yeah, I was impressed.

I think they will be. It is pretty good turkey.

wait, why are you specifically pOInTing ouT BeaRs? I’m not – I haven’t – are you –?

Okay. Okay. I need to calm down. It’s probably nothing.

That would be really weird – there are no bears in Maine

[flippedkaplan]

Uhhhh yeah there are. There are definitely bears in Maine. That is definitely a thing.

[openbook-izel]

[pm] Oh. Well, one in three chance of being right. Because I was feeling really weird around this guy I know is fae, but he was also affected by this. Although he was saying colour blindnes and Ma 

Hm.

It’s like, well, a book blurb for a person. If you know what you’re looking at, anyway. Like, species, personality, how much death they’ve experienced first hand, that sorta thing. Um, can’t really help you with the latter - everyone kinda looks dead greyscale to me because I’m used to seeing them. 

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] Weird? As in like wolf spidey senses? Yeah, he’s probably a werewolf. Tell him to see what silver does to him. If it’s not good... Whelp. Werewolf.

That’s way too much to know about someone before even saying “hi” to them. And I mean it can’t be that specific if you didn’t know that I was a hunt-- oh my god how much do you know about me? Oh my god, how much do you know about everyone? This is-- isn’t this an invasion of privacy? 

[openbook-izel]

[pm] What?

So it’s not a power sw

I’m confus

So you don’t have superhearing and strength?

It’s, ah, actually pretty old agey. It’s very real, it’s just that most don’t have it for real. 

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] Well I don’t right now, but usually, yeah. But I’m not a warden. More like hunter. Why, what made you think warden? Maybe this isn’t a 1 to 1 swap. Maybe it’s a whole big mix up....

So, uh, what is an aura then? Like what the hell does this mean and how am I supposed to look at anyone ever again?

[lainie-the-bugbear]

It was huge! Honestly, when my stepdad bought it home, I thought it was some sort of emu. But to be fair, we were expecting a lot of company, but it was snowing in Massachusetts or something and they couldn’t make it.

Yeah, I was planning on smuggling the rest out and feeding it to my neighbor’s greyhounds, but that would probably work too.

[flippedkaplan]

Your oven must be industrial or something, wow. 

Those greyhounds would be so happy. Just be careful if you throw it out the window that the meat doesn’t attract, you know, uh, other wildlife. Like... bears. 

[alana-murphy]

[pm] I do, but So I’ve been told. About the stuff, and also the things. I still have no idea who I’d be swapped with, but it does make more sense than the flu or food poisoning. …What about you? Do you believe in this stuff?

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] I mean, I’ve been around this town for a while now. I feel like if I didn’t believe in this stuff I’d go insane. ...Or maybe I’ve already gone insane but either way. 

[problematicexorcist]

Everyone thinks they’re a fucking comedian lately.

[pm] No crazy colors, but I can feel what other people are feeling and it’s a goddamn pain in the ass.

[flippedkaplan]

Oh c’mon, that’s not true. I always think I’m a fucking comedian. 

[pm] Woah, what? As in you feel their physical pain or something? Or worse, is it emotion type feelings? How does that even happen?

[x-declancleary-blog]

[pm] Entirely possible. But, once we find a way to end this, it’s over. If something has gone awry in the wiring of your brain, there may not be a fix for it. Or it may be very, very risky.

[flippedkaplan]

[pm] There are days I feel like that ship has already sailed. But you may have a point. Sorta.