WHO: Tom and open
WHAT: Post confession
WHY: Tom is trying to figure things out
WHEN: Shortly after Seiko confesses.
WHERE: School Library



Tom had taken up a table in the corner of the schools library. Wholly unaware of how obvious he was being in comparison to his usual mostly hidden way of doing things. On the table in front of him sat self help books, romance novels, magazines. The same research he did before, he now poured over again intensively.

Seiko... liked him. And he had no idea what do about that now. He would have asked Kozue but after her ordeal in Paradise he wanted to give her a chance to work things out on her own. Everyone else... seemed just as confused by love as he was, just less willing to admit it.

There had to be some instruction, maybe something he could practice? Personal accounts of relationships. The whole thing seemed so very irrational. But Tom was determined to figure it out, and so he kept reading.