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Day 21: Kee & Tate

In today's interview, things get a little snarky.

21.  Your zodiac/horoscope and whether you think it fits you

Kee:  Well, you know my birthday’s the twenty-second? Well it means I’m on the cusp.  Sagittarius and Capricorn.  Some charts put me in Sagittarius, while others put me in Capricorn.  I don’t think Sagittarius suits me.  It’s supposed to be optimistic, jovial and philosophical.  So I usually go with Capricorn. Responsible.  Practical.  Self-control.  Yes.  I think it fits me better.

Tate:  But hang on.  You only listed the good parts of your star sign.  What are the bad bits or the weaknesses?

Kee:  For Capricorn?  Um.  Stubborn?  We’re the goat with the goat’s stubbornness.

Tate:  They got that right.  Anything else?

Kee:  Capricorns are also supposed to want to be right all the time.

Tate:  Damn.  It fits you perfectly.  Because you’re not right over everything.  Including colours.

Kee:  They. Were. Pink. 

Tate:  They. Were. Not.

Kee:  And you call me stubborn?  So come on, what about you?  What’s your star sign – good and bad.

Tate:  Aquarius.  We’re smart, problem solvers with original flair.  Though we get bored easily and don’t trust readily.

Kee:  Don’t trust readily?  Like taking months before telling your boyfriend secrets?

Tate:  …

Kee:  Fine.  I’ll let you off.  Now tell me your weaknesses according to your star sign?
Tate:  Rebellious and sarcastic?

Kee:  No.  Really?

Tate:  I heard the sarcasm in that.  You can’t fool me. Do you want to know what else Aquarius is?

Kee:  What?

Tate:  We’re supposed to be really stubborn.
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Kee:  I told you they were pink.

Day 20: Kee & Tate

As we count down the last 10 days until release of Kee and Tate, I've pitched them 30 questions from the 30-day writing challenge.  Scroll down to see their answers from previous days.

20.  Put your music player on shuffle and write the first 3 songs that play and what your initial thought is

Kee:  Pink, Beyonce and … Oh, my God.  Pussycat Dolls.  What are they still doing on there?  My first thought is they’re all women.  Second thought is they’re all dance tracks.  And my third thought is they’re so gay.  Huh.  What did you get, Tate?
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Tate:  Justin Timberlake.  Yeah – that boy can move.  It’s so obvious he’s gay or at least bi.  He should just come out.  Number two is Sam Smith.  See – now that’s a boy who has taken his real self and used it to sell stuff.  And number three… ah.  Good stuff.  Dami Im.  Eurovision.  She’s gorgeous.

Day 19: Kee & Tate

19.  Five fears you have
**Renae’s new rule – you must answer for the other person**
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Tate:  Ha.  Let’s go.  You’re afraid of spiders— 

Kee:  Am not!  I just don’t think that having a spider climbing up my dick while I’m trying to get funky with you is not conducive to pleasure.

Tate:  Okay.  I’ll give you that one.  So you’re afraid of spiders on your dick—

Kee:  Thank you.

Tate:  —your sister-in-law, Jeanette—

Kee:  Hell, yes.

Tate:  —and your full name.  But in the spirit of your fears instead of just phobias, I would have to say you fear losing control and also being seen as less of a man.

Kee:  Huh.  I…  Jeez.  You’re probably right about that.  I’m going to have to think about that.  And while I do, I now get to psychoanalyse you.

Tate:  Ah.  I already know what you’re going to say.  You’re going to say I’m afraid of getting old and getting fat.  Right?

Kee:  Would I be wrong?

Tate:  No.  But come on.  Tell me what else you think?

Kee:  Hmm.  You’re afraid of people who put on Armani jackets with Kmart T-shirts?

Tate:  True.  That’s just unnatural.

Kee:  You’re afraid of Donald Trump.

Tate:  Who isn’t?  Do you realise what that man will do to the world economy?  I’m not even talking about the global isolation he wishes to confine America to.  But the foreign relations—

Kee:  Yes.  I know.  You’ve told me many times before.  I don’t think your opinion has changed since last time, so I don’t need another lecture.  But I have one more fear I need to find for you.  Hmm.  A deep one.  *pauses*  You’re afraid of people seeing the real Tate until you’re ready.  Your clothes, your image… they’re all ways to keep people away until you’re sure of them.  You’re afraid of revealing too much.  It took you over eight months to take me … bushwalking. 

​Tate:  *blushes*

Day 18: Kee & Tate

18.  Your favourite colour and why

Kee:  Brown.

Tate:  Brown?  Who has brown as their favourite colour?

Kee:  Exactly.  No one likes brown.  So I decided to like brown.

Tate:  **mutters**  Figures.

Kee:  Oh shut up.  It’s better than your favourite colour.  I bet you were going to say pink.
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Tate:  Fine.  I was going to say pink, but before you start crowing, those jeans were not pink.  For the forty-four-thousandth time, they were washed coral.

Day 17: Kee & Tate

17.  A quote you try and live by

Kee:  “Middle fingers up.  Put them hands high.  Wave it in his face.  Tell 'em boy, bye.”

Tate:  Did you just quote Beyonce as your life quote?

Kee:  *shrugs*  I don’t go around memorising quotes in life.  Beyonce says some good shit.  Or we could do Lady Gaga?  “I touch myself and it’s alright”?

Tate:  Kee…

Kee:  Kylie?  “I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky…”?  What about Katy?  “You make me feel like I'm losing my virginity”?  What’s your answer?
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Tate:  **laughs** Actually I was going to say “Just live your life.”  Rhianna.

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Day 16: Kee & Tate

16.  Bullet your entire day

Kee: 
·         Get up
·         Get dressed
·         Work until the boss says it’s quitting time
·         Go home
·         Shower
·         Dance
·         Eat
·         Sleep

Tate:
·         Get up after bashing the alarm clock three or four times
·         Get dressed and make myself beautiful – and you can stop laughing Kee
·         Go to work and deal with whatever may come
·         Attend fabulous parties and really boring meetings
·         Play with clothes and dress up models
·         Talk to some people, gritting my teeth and being polite
·         Try and cram it all into only eight or nine hours
·         Home and maybe relax a bit, have fun with Kee, de-stress
·         Make fantabulous love to Kee… and then sleep

Day 15: Kee & Tate

It just occurred to me that if we're up to Day 15, we're halfway through the questions... and therefore halfway to release day.  **nerves**

15.  Three pet peeves.
**Renae’s new rule – you must answer for the other person**

Kee:  Oh, great fun!  Three of Tate’s pet peeves.  Umm.  Green jello, panty lines and people who flick channels during the ad breaks.

Tate:  Oh, you’re so smart are you?  Okay.  My turn.  Three of Kee’s pet peeves.  Admitting he’s wrong about saying my jeans are pink instead of washed coral.  Getting dirt on his knees while bushwalking.  And he doesn’t like tofu in any form… if he knows it’s tofu.  I often slip it in and he doesn’t notice.
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Kee:   …?

Day 14: Kee & Tate

Day 14 of the 30 Day writing challenge.

14.  Your life in 7 years.

Tate: ….

Kee:  Renae, Renae, Renae…  What did we say about this sort of stuff on Day 9?

**Renae points at the questions in mute defence**

Kee:  Look, Tate.  Seven years isn’t going to change anything.  Age is just a number. Right, Renae?  Tate is still going to be fabulous Tate.  I can’t see him leaving the job he’s had since straight out of high school unless Versace or Dolce or one of those places decide to snap him up.  Me?  **shrugs**  I’m happy being a boilermaker.  As long as there’s work and as long as I’m physically able, I’m happy to be doing that.  I have no plans to leave.

Tate:   Will we still be watching John play football and hanging out at Aaron’s place?
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Kee:  Can you think of any better way to be spending Sunday afternoon other than surrounded by friends?

Day 13: Kee & Tate

We're up to Day 13!  How time flies.

​Don't Twunk With My Heart is now available for pre-order on Amazon and ARe as well as direct from Dreamspinner.
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13.  Your commute to and from school/work/etc.

Tate:  Well I’m lazy as anything and refuse to get my clothes wet in the rain or wrinkled or sweaty.  I live one suburb over from the city centre.  It’s about a thirty minute walk… but I drive.  So it’s about… well, forty minutes in the traffic by the time I park and get into the office.  Yeah.  I know.

Kee:  I live in the outer suburbs and work in the industrial area.  Blue collar workers usually start at a time when Tate is barely awake.  Traffic’s not too bad.  About a fifteen minute drive.  Ten if I floor it and not get stuck behind a truck.
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Day 12: Kee & Tate

12.  Two words/phrases that make you laugh.

Kee:  “ Tate” and “Break.”  And in a Tate Break.  Oooh, yeah.  Tate knows how to take a Tate Break, and I’m addicted to all the little hidey holes he finds for us to take Tate Breaks in.
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Tate:  One phrase that makes me laugh is singing “We Three Kings of Orient are.”  And I’m getting glared at because of saying it, so I can’t say anything more at this stage and you’re going to have to read the book.  The other phrase that makes me laugh is “Oh my Gawd.”  Jamie really is the bomb.