InsaneJournal

Who: Renju, Kozue.
What: Swimsuit shopping.
Where: Outside the dorms, then around the city.
When: Between dungeon and beach trip.
Why: Embarrassing middle-school swimsuit needs to go.


Renju was less nervous about some Paradise trips than she was now.

On occasion, she'd talk to some other people on the team outside of a school- or Paradise-related context--Keiichi or Misaki about club business, her classmates about schoolwork (most often Kou these days, with cram school on her mind), or the occasional chance meeting in the Butterfly Room. She could manage these well enough (certainly better than she'd been able to before any of this had happened), and though she wasn't precisely comfortable with it yet, it was at least becoming familiar.

Outside of this pattern, which had jarred her nerves a bit, was Kozue texting her about the beach trip. Renju was still ambivalent on the matter; large social situations made her uneasy, and it wasn't as though she'd be doing anything but sitting around reading, which she could do just as well at home (though she'd at least been paired room-wise with Toshimi, which meant that nothing would be expected of her there). But as soon as she'd admitted that she had nothing really suitable for beachwear, in an attempted excuse that quickly backfired badly on her, Kozue had insisted that the situation be rectified.

And so here she was, waiting for her kouhai, clad in a conservative light-sweater-and-skirt pair that was a bit threadbare, having served her since middle school. Size aside, there was probably no way the two of them could contrast more.