twitter → the raven cycle

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Blue and Gansey, who were wearing headphones, winced at the noise.

"Christ, Ronan," Gansey said. "Is that necessary?"

"Um, yes, obviously," Ronan replied.

"Hello, Ronan," Blue said, somewhat exasperatedly, once her ears had seemed to stop dying.

"'Sup, Sargent?" Ronan asked.

"'Sup, Lynch?" Blue mimicked.

"Ronan!" Noah exclaimed.

"Noah," Ronan said in a tone that Blue thought might be the closest he could get to sounding enthusiastic.

"Oh my God," Noah said. "Oh my God, this is fucking awesome."

"Hell yeah," Ronan agreed. He seemed about to say something else, but was interrupted by a raven settling itself on his shaved head. Ronan glanced up at the bird and continued, "speaking of fucking awesome. Guys, this is Chainsaw."

"Hi, Chainsaw!" Blue chirped.

"Aww, oh my God, she's so cute, I just wanna hug her," Noah said.

"Right," Ronan agreed. He motioned for Chainsaw to climb down onto his stretched-out arm. She did so, and he stroked her feathers, and she appeared to almost be smiling, or at least the closest a bird can get to smiling.

"This is so cute, I'm gonna die," Noah remarked, burying his face in his jacket.

One last box finally popped up on the screen then.

Adam Parrish has joined the call.

"Adam!" Blue exclaimed once his face appeared.

"Hi!" Adam returned her greeting.

Ronan glanced away from his raven to look at Adam. "Parrish!"

Adam gave him a charming smile. "Lynch. Chainsaw," he acknowledged the bird as well.

"Squawk!" Chainsaw said.

"That means hello," Ronan translated.

Adam chuckled. "Hello to you too, Chains."

"Wow," Ronan said. "You already nicknamed my goddamn raven."

Adam smirked. "Yep."

"Amazing."

"Yes."

"Who wants to talk about memes?" Ronan blurted out to the group.

"Oh, God," Blue said.

"ME, ME, I DO, I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT MEMES," Noah volunteered.

"Pardon me," Gansey said, rising from his seat. "I am going to go retrieve an alcoholic beverage of some sort."

"Bitch, you're seventeen, you can't drink alcohol, sit the fuck down," Ronan advised.

"Says the person who is nearly always intoxicated," Gansey pointed out.

"That's different," Ronan said.

"How is that different?"

"Because. I am a Ronan. And you are a Gansey."

"That was a great explanation, ten out of ten, I rate highly."

"I fuckin' know, right?"

"Frog memes," said Noah.

"Same," said Adam.

"HERE COME DAT BOI!" Ronan shouted.

"OH SHIT WADDUP?" said Blue.