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Tweak says, "They said I was mad!"

kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-10-22 16:34:00

Entry tags:

kozue, renju

well, somebody has to arrange the matches--
WHO: Kozue and Renju
WHAT: A coincidental meeting.
WHERE: On campus.
WHEN: After school, after the rerun.
WHY: Didn't you hear about Kozue's scheme?

Tennis-free days were really quite calming for Kozue—not because the actual sport was tiring as much as because skipping and running home, or skipping and hiding out were both such stressful activities, and actually attending was rife with the terror of it being a Wrestling Day, or of having to display how little she'd improved since the beginning of the year in front of her teammates.

Today, there was no rushing home looking over her shoulder for someone she knew from the team, and no hiding in extra-dimensional lobbies. Today, she got to take her time going home, say hello to friends, say an extra hello or two to that really handsome new starting forward on the basketball team, and lollygag around the entrance of the school waiting for a friend or that basketball player to leave, and get them to offer to walk back to the dorms with her. While waiting for that, she was engaged in playing StoneShatterer on her phone.

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lotus_beyond
2009-10-26 08:49 pm UTC (link)

I don't have any room to talk to anyone about that. "I've never been good at discussing things like that," Renju mumbled, averting her gaze slightly. "And I doubt he'd listen to me. I'm sure others have brought it up by now, and it doesn't appear to have gotten through."

Her own awkwardness aside, though, the situation was rather frustrating. She remembered having a somewhat similar conversation to this nearer to when she'd first met him, and he refused to admit to being part of the team when he clearly was in all but self-reference. If he wouldn't admit to it himself, then what good could she do?

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anthesphoria
2009-10-26 10:06 pm UTC (link)

"Ah. Well…" She'd have said peer pressure, but she really didn't think that Tom would give in to it, or that Renju would believe that Tom would give in to it. "We'll wear him away if we try enough times. I mean, if you stumble seven times, you've got to stand back up eight times." She grinned—it was only a bit forced—and pondered what else to say to push the issue.

And it wasn't only for the matchmaking, either. Tom really could use people reminding him he was on the team in a gentle, persistent way. It was far more likely to succeed than some of the more obvious tactics of team members.

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