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kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-06-14 23:26:00

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keiichi, kozue

WHO: Kozue and Keiichi
WHAT: Present! A Present!
WHERE: Chagall Cafe.
WHEN: After Seiko's Dungeon.
WHY: Kozue cannot resist her compulsion to buy the world.

Kozue had been medicating her doubts and worries in much the same way she had done after other stints in Paradise—aside from her own—shopping and ice cream and cake. Of course, she had covered two out of three of those things in her own place in Paradise. So she was out for coffee and cake; she was also being productive.

At the used bookstore, when she'd meant to buy a Feel Better gift for Renju, or an I Regret That Your Head God Is On Vacation present (they didn't make cards for that), she had ended up buying... More things. For other people. At least, in a used book store, she hadn't found anything for herself, which had probably saved her some money in the end.

She'd texted Keiichi to let him know she had something to give him—and she'd gotten a piece of peach pie while she waited. With a side of ice cream. If Ito showed up in time, he could have some.

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keiito
2010-07-01 01:01 am UTC (link)

"Your mom didn't?"

He looked...surprised was probably a good word for it. He knew a little about Kozue's late grandmother and her...issues was probably a nice way to put it, but the fact that her mother possibly hadn't said anything was foreign to him.

After swiping his card to pay for the groceries, he gathered her in...sort of a half hug, with one arm. Keiichi wasn't especially one to care what people saw when comforting was needed, and by now was fairly used to the usual Nanakamado rumor mill.

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anthesphoria
2010-07-01 01:23 am UTC (link)

Kozue had opened her mouth to explain, that her mother hadn't always been there, and that it was hard to stick up for your blond child when you were the implicated blond mother, and even harder when Kondo Fumiko was hovering over your shoulder, but then she was being hugged. Or one-arm hugged. It was... it counted as a hug, didn't it?

It took her a moment, but she responded anyway. "… Well, she was away a lot. Or we were with my grandmother, and that never went well. Even when she was there, it's…" It was cruel to say it's different than with your father, but it was, at least from Kozue's perspective, true. They didn't look as different as she did. "Come on, let's go," she added, pulling forward—briefly contemplating slipping an arm around him, because that was a thing that one did, but then that'd send all sorts of slightly wrong signals, wouldn't it? So she changed her mind.

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	keiito 2010-07-01 01:41 am UTC (link)
	"...not exactly as if your mom could have suplexed people," he offered, by way of reply. He understood a bit. Not entirely, not even close, but... Keiichi wasn't particularly upset when she pulled away from him. Public was public, after all, and it wasn't as if they were dating. "Alright," he said, agreeably, and the pair left the Iburi Duper Mart. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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