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[drinkswithminors]

Yo Mun.

So it's a ladies only game, huh? I can dig it. Especially if it means getting away from Hideaki for awhile. Don't get me wrong, he's a good kid, but seriously. I need my me time.

So Hanako's there? And Lilly? Shizune? Some of their schoolmates? Neat. I guess they'll need me there to look out for them, seeing as Hisao can't get in. I'm cool with that to.

Now. Point me to the nearest jazz bar and we'll be absolutely golden.


... What do you mean they don't have one?

Comments

[seventeenpills]

Wow - there's that many Yamaku students there?

I guess it's a shame I can't go, but rules are rules.

[drinkswithminors]

Unless you suddenly pulled a switcheroo.

[seventeenpills]

.....Oh. No. I'm fine the way I am, thanks.

[drinkswithminors]

Just saying. Between you and me, I'm pretty sure Lilly wouldn't mind either way.

[seventeenpills]

That's... sweet of you to say. I think.

[drinkswithminors]

Sweet as caramel, this one.

[seventeenpills]

Something like that.

[A good natured chuckle.]

Speaking of Lilly, I bet she'll be happy to have you at this place you're going to. I'm glad to know you'll be there with her.

[drinkswithminors]

That's a given, I think. Still, she's pretty independent, all things considered. I don't think she needs me there.

[seventeenpills]

That's true. But needing you there and wishing you were are two different things.

[drinkswithminors]

Heh... You're smarter than you look, sometimes, Hisao.

[seventeenpills]

Sometimes I even surprise myself with that.

[drinkswithminors]

Because most of the time, I worry about you.

[seventeenpills]

You do?

[drinkswithminors]

Well Lilly worries. Therefore I worry.

[seventeenpills]

Well, I never meant to worry her, or by proxy, worry you.

[drinkswithminors]

Geeze Hisao, try to look less like you kicked a puppy, will you?

[seventeenpills]

...I look like I kicked a puppy?

[Pause.]

Sorry. I didn't mean to seem ungrateful. It's nice to know people care. Really.

[drinkswithminors]

And don't start thinking you're a burden, either. That's just stupid.

[seventeenpills]

I never said I thought anything like that.

[Which doesn't at all mean he wasn't worrying about it silently of course.]

[drinkswithminors]

You don't have to say it. I'm a layer. I can generally read facial expressions.

[seventeenpills]

.....I never have been that great at making my face not match what I'm thinking about. Even still, that's kind of an unfair advantage, Akira.

[drinkswithminors]

I take what I can get.

[seventeenpills]

Fair enough, I suppose. I can't say I'd be any different.

[drinkswithminors]

Ever consider being a lawyer?

[seventeenpills]

No, I've never really thought about that as an option. I think I'm better suited to dealing with facts and figures in a lab situation than in a court room.