To: irialdorian@gmail.com.uk
CC: rosieireland@gmail.com; cherrietayberry@gmail.com.uk; haroldpotter6999@gmail.com.uk
From: crossesoflead@gmail.com.uk
Subject: Flight Reservations
I know you said you'd book a flight, but I just needed to be sure so I went and did it. Flight's on British Airways, departs at 6:13 from Heathrow and lands in Dubai 9:58 (UAE time naturally). Its 6hrs and 45min so you can catch up on your sleep. I'm going to go now because I'm trying to behave and not say how excited I am to see you, to have you in the same country let alone the same city because apparently we're broken and something happened that I don't understand, but I AM excited and nervous and ecstatic and terrified. I've missed you ridiculously. You're my best friend and I'm still so in love you so...yeah
Sorry for going off
Crispin
Text message from Rosie to Irial
Rosie: do you think he realized he cc'd the rest of your flt party in that?
Irial: No. He's not the best with email.
Rosie: Are you ready for this?
Irial: I have to be.
Irial Dorian (@DorianII)
About to visit UAE with @rosieposie @HaroldBSterling @Cherrie_TA #ItsEarly #ImExhausted
Crisial Updates (@CrisialUpdates)
@DorianII is going to UAE where @breakingfourth is performing this weekend #DorianPleaseFixThis #sorrynotsorry #LetsGetItDone
Breaking Fourth (@breakingfourth)
Salutations Unites Arab Emirates, nice to meet you
Benji Irving (@BenjiDIrving)
Weird stuff gets written when @Nic_Kinsey updates @breakingfourth
Micah Cross (@MC_Cross)
French breakfast waterside in UAE with @Cris_Emerson @Nic_Kinsey @BenjiDIrving
Dominic Kinsey (@Nic_Kinsey)
Pancakes, maple syrup, bananas and hazelnuts because today is going to be a big day #FingersCrossed
Cris Emerson (@Cris_Emerson)
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
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In retrospect, Irial should have realized this was going to be a total disaster...Rosie clearly did.
Rosie had come over mere minutes after Irial had sent her a text message asking if she wanted to go to Dubai over the weekend; while she was never one to turn down a travel experience, she'd known something wasn't good immediately. When she'd arrived at Cris and Irial's flat to find him drunk in the living room surrounded by pictures of him and Crispin, Marius watching him warily from the loveseat, and a huge bottle of wine already three quarters of the way empty, the whole story had simply spilled out...or the plan anyway because even beyond drunk he had some sort of self-preservation.
Her immediate reaction had been simply not to go to Dubai...like that would keep Irial and Crispin's relationship. It needed to be over so she'd agreed to go as moral support, then brought Harry so that Harry could be hers. Cheryl had tagged along when Harry suggested that dropping hints about Micah being spotted with a girl around the same time as Irial would be the next step in slowly introducing their relationship via PR expressway...Irial thought they just wanted to make sure someone else could help control Irial if he lost it while on the trip.
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