[Jul 30, 01:13] Email — MikroMachine
From: MikroMachine@[withheld].com To: Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com Date: 30 Jul, 01:13:02 -0500 Subject: Apologies and...
Hey Alice,
Hope you don’t mind me reaching out to you via the email you use to comment with, but I wanted to apologize for Dan’s (DK) asshole behavior. He’s usually an ok kind of guy, even fun to be around at times IRL. Except when he’s drunk. Well, a couple of nights ago he had been drinking again. He’s an old friend of my buddy I’ve known since high school, Ekul. I knew DK too, but didn’t. If that makes any sense. We were never close friends or anything. We just end up hanging out because of Ekul.
Anyway, he was mad at himself after he read what he said about your brother, said it was a jerkwad thing to say. Esepecially when I told him Grendel was a friend from my side of the RR tracks and all. Well, we weren’t friends. We just had the same friends at the Deck and Entry, and y’know how that is. He felt even worse when I told him what happened to Grendel couple years ago. Swear he’s gonna dry out permanently on account of it, but none of us is holding our breath.
ANyway, I wanted you to know that I apologize for his behavior and he’d like to as well. I’m not asking for you to forgive his sorry ass, just consider reading any new responses he might have in the comments instead of ignoring him outright. I won’t give him this email or nothing.
There is another thing.
I don’t know if you saw kali’s response or if you just ignored any comments from the site, but they wanted me to reach out to you to invite you to talk to them about what they know. It’s not something for blog comments, and I agree. But I barely know them. A few emails here and there, and I thought we might meet up at some point, but they decided it was a bad idea. Probably gave them the wrong vibes, y’know.
Anyway, email back if you want to talk to them and I’d do the handshake thing for you too and y’all can talk about what it is they want to talk about. I got a pretty good idea, but y’know what? I think I’ll stay out of it.
Last: I want to tell you I’m sorry about Grendel. Situation sounds totally fucked up. Wrong place, wrong time. Fuck.
And, if you ever want to hook up and talk about old times in person, that’d be cool. Grendel was cool, so I expect his kid sister all grown up would be cool to hang with too.
Anyway, write back. Let me know. Fuck DK. And fuck assholes with guns.
— Mike
From: Alice.Donovan.73@[withheld].com To: MikroMachine@[withheld].com Date: 30 Jul, 19:01:23 -0500 Subject: RE: Apologies and...
Good evening, Mike,
Thanks for reaching out. I really appreciate it.
No hard feelings about DK. You can’t take any of the blame, it’s all on him. You did warn him to be chill and it was his choice to be a jerk. I’ll give him another chance if one comes up but, yeah, don’t give him this email or anything. I don’t need that kind of energy in my life and my boyfriend would get triggered and want to hunt him down if he was rude to me at all. Silly big Vikings (he’s from Norway) always want to throw punches first. Must be why they live so far north.
Drunks, right? Le sigh.
Thanks for your sympathy re: Kyle. Not a lot of people knew him like I did. Then again, they would have had to have had him as their brother to know him that well. Right?
And, while I know that he was in no rush to “shuffle off this mortal coil” (as he often phrased it, always with a chuckle), he gave his life to save another’s and that was a very Kyle thing to do. I’m sure he had no regrets. But I miss the hell out of him some days and I wish I could have spent more time with him before he had to leave.
Or at least got a chance to say my goodbyes.
Enough of being all melancholic and morose!
I did miss what kali had said. Tell them it should be okay as long as it isn’t some kind of pickup.
Thanks for the offer, but I expect you weren’t inviting Nils along for a hook up. If I’m wrong, let me know and I can see what days and times he thinks work best.
Respectfully,
Alice
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