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Akuba Maeko (giantfruitbyday) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-03-27 17:35:00

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maeko, seiko

In which boys are discussed and Seiko learns a new word.
Who: Maeko, Seiko
What: Ice Cream!
Where: Kigakiga
When: Evenning
Why: Ice Cream!

Maeko approahed Seiko, still in her work t-shirt (though thankfully not in the large strawberry suit) and placed a bowl of peach sorbet in front of her.

"You like this kind, right? I forgot to ask what you wanted but I thought this type suited you."

She smiled, sitting opposite her friend with her own strawberry icecream.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 01:52 pm UTC (link)

After a few more spoonfuls of multed icecream, Maeko nodded. "Maybe. But I should probably try again. I don't want to upset him but I think it is kind of important. It's so stupid, before when we'd just broken up we could have talked about this no problem but once we're together again we can't. I don't want to have to break up again just to be able to have a conversation."

She tapped her spoon against the side of the bowl in thought. Boyfriends were complicated. She had no clue how Kozue managed so many.

"Thank you anyway, though. It really helps to be able to say this." And that was an important thing too. Saying things was so completely against her nature she'd have never even thought to try it had Seiko not been around to listen. "Let me know if you ever need anything, too, okay?"

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mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 02:10 pm UTC (link)

"You'll get there Maeko-chan, if this is important to you, you will manage to get it right." Seiko encouraged. "I suppose relationships can be like that, because when you are with someone, things become a lot more...intense, I think?"

She finished her sorbet with a sigh, she really did have to come here more often, she was sure there were other people she could persuade to come out for ice cream.

"I'm always here for you Maeko-chan, whenever you need me." She paused at Maeko's offer of help. As there was something that had been on her mind for a while, something she couldn't work out. She wasn't used to having feelings that were hard to understand, but maybe this was something Maeko would understand, Maeko was in a relationship after all, even if it was dysfunctional.

"Well there is something..." She paused again, looking unusually shy looking down to focus on her bowl.

"Maeko-chan...how do you know...when you...like someone?" She asked slowly, she was aware she probably should know, but whilst she had had a fair few 'partners' in the past, there had never been an emotional connection, her feelings for them had never been anything beyond their physical relationship. So, now, she needed an opinion of someone with more experience of the emotions, fully aware that her asking Maeko for 'love' advice, was a very odd situation.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 02:20 pm UTC (link)

And suddenly Maeko was out of her depth. Well, more so than usual.

"I- um-" How on earth was she supposed to know that? It took a fair bit of internal (and external) flailing before she remembered the 'oh right, boyfreind' thing. "You know because it gets really weird and dumb."

Maeko was explaining what something was like by insulting it a lot. Naturally. "You want to be around them even when they're stupid and you wouldn't really mind even if they didn't stop being stupid and you get all mad and it's dumb if they're with someone else. Kinda."

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mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 02:38 pm UTC (link)

Seiko, instead of scoffing, or just waving Maeko's advice aside, contemplated what Maeko said seriously. Well, it had been a bit weird she decided, and she was fairly sure she herself had been a little dumb. But then again that might not be because of her feelings, she frowned.

"Well, I guess...He can be pretty stupid." She said finally. "But um, it doesn't really sound stupid at the time." She waved her hand as she tried to think. "Its like, I feel awkward and stupid when I spend time with him, or like... At times when usually I wouldn't feel stupid."

Seiko began to realise she may be picking up her friend's verbal habits. "I don't know, I mean, I think I like him but, I just-" she shifted in her seat.

"I um, haven't really liked anyone before exactly." She admitted, suddenly staring at her bowl with more enthusiasm than any bowl ever deserved.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 02:50 pm UTC (link)

Maeko was almost comforted by the introduction of a word that was very special to her to Seiko's vocabulary. If nothing else it made her feel less like this was a topic she really had no place discussing.

"I think that's it. The whole thing and everyone involved is just really dumb. But it's good dumb, kind of."

"Well, if you think you like him and you havn't liked anyone before then I guess you could work it out by have you felt stupid like that before? If you have then it's probably something else. But if it's some sort of new dumb it's probably something that didn't happen before." Maeko was, once again, completely useless at giving advice. Maybe it was her who needed the subtitles.

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mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 03:05 pm UTC (link)

Seiko nodded thoughtfully, almost surprised at how much Maeko was actually making sense, admittedly it took a moment to translate it into something slightly more understandable, but Seiko herself felt comforted by Maeko's method of expressing it. It was familiar, and didn't include any difficult or soppy terms she wasn't sure she could take seriously.

"A good kind of dumb..." She mused, "I don't think I have felt this kind of stupid before." She said decisively tugging on her hair. "I mean, I'd recognize it, if it was the same right?" She managed to look at Maeko for a moment, long enough to give a small smile.

"Its just, what with everything around that place, I wonder if... If I should do anything about these uh 'dumb' feelings." She kept the conversation close to Maekoese, it made it easier to explain to her friend.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 03:13 pm UTC (link)

"I think you'd recognize it. It's a pretty distinct kind of stupid." She said, nodding. She ate the last of her badly abused icecream and made several grand arm gestures that didn't clarify anything at all, even in sign.

"That place? Is it one of us or someone from outside?" She asked, finally saying a sentence devoid of 'stupid'. "I guess that might change things."

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mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 03:28 pm UTC (link)

Seiko nodded, toying with her spoon and trying to work out exactly what kind of 'stupid' it was she was feeling. Then she took good few moments trying to understand why Maeko was waving her arms around.

Then she realized her fatal flaw in mentioning Paradise, as in it would make it a lot easier for Maeko to narrow down who it was if she knew it was one of the group.

"Nnnnnooooo not one of the group." Seiko said a little too quickly, revealing her truly awful lying face, Seiko never really had been one who could lie directly, especially about something personal. "You most certainly and definitely absolutely would not know him." She added, clearly thinking she was being pretty sneaky.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 03:37 pm UTC (link)

Maeko, however, was pretty used to taking things at face value. She was only thinking Kanaye was lying about being okay because he'd said things that contradicted themselves. Besides, she was fairly sure that if Seiko was lying she would know about it.

"Not one of us, huh? And they're probably not from school if I don't know them...Is it someone from before? You're not going to turn bad on us again, are you?" She teased.

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mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 03:58 pm UTC (link)

Seiko blinked in amazement, she had thought she was fairly bad at lying, but apparently, she was secretly some kind of ace. But then suddenly she felt guilty about lying to her friend who had been so honest with her and shared her deepest feelings.

"Oh um, no er, he is at the school." She raised an eyebrow, someone from before? She couldn't even remember most of their names, let alone hold any feelings for them.

"I will uhh, try my utmost to stay good."

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	giantfruitbyday 2010-03-28 04:08 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah, someone from school? I guess it must be someone I don't know from there, then. Unless, hmm. boys who aren't one of us...there's no way it's Gendou since he's triple dumb. Is it that boy who's a giant sweater with no hairbrush? Or, or...that really loud guy?" Maeko had decided to start trying to guess, clearly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mellow_lellow
2010-03-28 04:27 pm UTC (link)

Seiko looked blank, having no idea who those people were, besides Gendou of course. She was also still fairly surprised Maeko had fallen for her lie.

"Uh well, no none of them." She said shaking her head. "I don't know any people like that anyway." She said shaking her head, deciding to go back to honesty.

"Um, I doubt you'll guess Maeko-chan, its pretty stupid."

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	giantfruitbyday 2010-03-28 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah, okay. I don't know many more people than that offhand who aren't one of us." She thought then smiled. "Well I'm happy for you! What are you going to do? Are you going to tell them?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mellow_lellow 2010-03-28 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Seiko tilted her head and rested it on the palm of her hand with sigh and a shrug. "I don't know, I don't think he's really very...um, social. Or that maybe he wouldn't really understand a relationship or...just not like me." She looked uncharacteristically glum for a moment. "I want to try, I want to ask, but I'm not sure it would go well." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-03-28 05:15 pm UTC (link)

Maeko grinned, own relationship problems apparently momentarily forgotten.

"It'd take a whole lot of effort not to like you." She said, smiling. "I don't he'd be able to manage it. Besides, I'm pretty sure if you can keep up a conversation with the likes of Sagaki then talking to just about anyone else shouldn't be a problem even if it's about that, social or understanding relationships or not. People don't really get more difficult than we seem to be as a group."

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