so your roommate fucked up your apartment and you're upset that your friend's gone that's fair, it's pretty shitty that happened to you but that doesn't make you cursed or why i gotta stay away from you
Apologies. I'm behaving foolishly. And irrationally.
[.........]
I don't know why I'm apologizing for that. Why is it something I have to apologize for? People behave foolishly. No human being is expected to be perfectly rational at all times.
you dont need alcohol to make decisions you wouldn't normally but it's always a good excuse if you did anyway i got a bottle of wine if you're feeling up for it
[Maybe it's going out of his way for someone he hardly knows, but he's made a pretty quick assessment on Edgeworth. Overall, he does like him plenty and he does know the irrational feeling of I'm a cursed man, stay away from me. Hell, he's been there, will probably be there again one day.
As he gets closer to the address, he feels like it's suspiciously familiar. By the time he arrives in front of the door, Abbacchio feels sweat on his brow despite the cold outside.
Edgeworth's roommate ruined his apartment. Edgeworth's roommate. Yeah, that's... not exactly the truth, but it's not like he owes Edgeworth the truth right? Caesar was a dick anyway and it was his fault, not Abbacchio's.
Yeah. Sure. Anyway.
Abbacchio clears his throat and knocks on the door.]
[It's almost comical how, even for his own definition of haggard and unfit for public consumption, Edgeworth still manages to be actually respectably presentable. Sure, he's wearing sweatpants, but they're black and fitted so at a glance you might not even notice at first, and he's found himself a soft cashmere sweater in a light gray hue with a turtleneck to make up for his missing cravat. Even his hair manages to look fine, being more rakishly disheveled than actually messy.
How does he do it? Maybe it's Maybelline.
That is, the one flaw in him, for the record — the dark circles under his eyes that for once aren't covered up because he's showered and washed his face recently, and didn't see much point in putting it back on.
Tired, a little vulnerable, and cozy: that's the Miles Edgeworth that cracks the door and peers around it, already half-knowing what he'll find.]
Hello. Thank you for coming — please, come inside.
[He pulls the door open, and while it's true things have been straightened up...yeah, it's apparent that someone did a number on this place. WHO COULD THAT HAVE BEEN.]
The seating is fine, at least. Needn't worry about that. Oh — but I do have a dog. You're not allergic, are you?
[HMMM yeah it looks better in here. Oops. He'll... try to make it up to Edgeworth somehow in a way that, hopefully, he won't realize. ...No, he'll absolutely become suspicious because Edgeworth is clever, but that's for future!Abbacchio to deal with.
So, he shrugs casually, and goes in.]
Nah, I like dogs. You're fine. [The one thing he did not fuck up: anything related to the dog because dogs don't have a choice where they live.]
The, ah. Roommate felt the same way. I'm not much of a hand in the kitchen, but he showed me how to — made me, really — work up a few things. Mostly I think he was just perpetually disgusted with the state of my pantry.
[He pauses a minute, then flashes a wry smile of his own.]
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