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kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-11-18 11:44:00

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keiichi, kozue

WHO: Keiichi and Kozue
WHERE: Butterfly Room.
WHEN: Before summer break begins. During gym.
WHAT: Kozue is in her favorite spot to skip things. Keiichi is running errands for Ito-Sensei.
WHY: We said so.

In the past, when Kozue had felt like skipping gym class, she had made vague, foreboding excuses to Aomori-sensei about not wanting to screw up her tennis game, or "feminine problems"—and that had always been effective enough to buy her an excuse note. But that had been when she'd needed an excuse note. Now, she had a secret otherworldly Class Skipping room. Well, she and nearly twenty of her peers did, but… hell, it wasn't like people like Reizo or Kanaye were going to tattle on her for blowing off a day of gym here and there.

And they were doing wrestling. Again. Wrestling with all of its attendant miseries, like Ito-sensei's encouragements and Shirou's enthusiasm and exceedingly dire possibilities of public humiliation. Who wouldn't skip that?

Hiding in the Butterfly Room had gotten creepier, though, since the introduction of the hands. But Kozue was trying her best to ignore them; it was largely effective. Instead, she was sitting on the floor, engaged in adding another coat of pink polish to her toenails. (She was also counting down the days to summer, when she could paint her fingernails as well without risking punishment from the school. Imagine! Weeks and weeks of fingernail polish and makeup and cute outfits with no restriction! And swimsuit season!)

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anthesphoria
2009-11-18 05:19 pm UTC (link)

She went back to painting, because it made the conversation distinctly less awkward for her. It was a great excuse not to look at him while she talked. "I just didn't feel like going today." A pause. "Or yesterday." Another pause. "Or the day before that."

"And I'm fine. Are you—you know, doing okay, after what happened to Misaki-chan? How are you holding up?" Although how is she holding up would probably have been the more relevant question, Kozue was still having some trouble empathizing with Paradise's most recent victim. Just a wee bit.

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keiito
2009-11-19 06:52 pm UTC (link)

"I'm okay. Well, the glass coffin bit left a bit of an impression on me, but..." He shrugged. "In retrospect, makes saving you from that bird a lot less reckless looking decision, doesn't it?"

Keiichi wasn't claustrophobic, but spending an indeterminate amount of time in the glass box had made him....worried. Very, very much so. It wasn't something he'd wish on Reizo, much less Kozue.

"Mi-chan's mostly recovered, best I can tell. As much as she can, anyway. It's quite stressful I'd imagine."

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anthesphoria
2009-11-19 07:18 pm UTC (link)

"It does," she said, nodding; she looked up from her toenails after a moment. "Thank you, by the way, for that. I, uh, was pretty happy not to be murdered by the giant bird, and I know you're one of the people responsible for saving me." She smiled—though it was uncomfortable, just a twinge, and the smile sort of showed it.

"Good to know she's doing okay," she continued, mostly to prevent what had threatened to be an awkward silence—on her part, at least.

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keiito
2009-11-19 07:22 pm UTC (link)

"I don't think the bird would have murdered you," Keiichi mused. "Just probably taken you off to the Happy Place, a misnomer if I've ever heard one."

She seemed...somehow more uncomfortable than he was. Which was sort of odd to him, really. After all, hadn't she been the one to break up with him?

Well. Keiichi was generally the sort to keep a stiff upper lip and move on. Misaki certainly helped, but even without that, he'd be doing his level best to still be able to talk to Kozue and such.

"Everything okay," he asked, a little quizzically.

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anthesphoria
2009-11-19 07:28 pm UTC (link)

"Well, you are here to bust me for skipping gym class," Kozue lied. In truth, the idea of having a conversation with someone she'd broken up with was strange—usually the end of a romance was the end of any functional relationship whatsoever, in Kozue's life. Then again, that might have been because she usually dated people whom she had little to no interest in as people.

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	keiito 2009-11-19 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Keiichi pulled out his cell phone. "There's ten minutes left by now. Even if I get you out of here, there's no way we'll make it back in time. I would say you're pretty safe." Shrugging, Keiichi shifted on the couch. "So your streak of skipping hym should be entirely intact." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	anthesphoria 2009-11-19 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	She laughed. "Good. I'm going for the record," she declared, before looking down at her toes again. Almost done. One more coat, maybe. "Which is held by your current girlfriend, I think." A pause. "Do you like the color?" A nod to her toes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	keiito 2009-11-19 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	"It's nice," Keiichi nodded. "And yeah, I know. I'm trying to talk to her about it." Really, Keiichi thought Aoi-san would look quite nice in a leotard, but now wasn't the time to voice that opinion. "We...probably need to talk one of these days," he murmured, softly. "About the whole..yeah." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

anthesphoria
2009-11-20 01:47 am UTC (link)

That. Yeah. She nodded, though carefully. He wanted to talk? Well, they did need to continue to have a professional relationship. She supposed, at least, it could be called that.

"Any time you want," she offered. It was the polite thing to do, right? And though internally she felt some doubt about it, she'd always prided herself on being excellent at handling breakups. A real pro.

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