thefoundation | [CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

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[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[arms are going around her because in fact, he is pretty chilly too.]

Hi~ Mm, mostly staying out of the way of dogs and not being overly useful. Asking more questions than can be answered at this point, writing...

How about Hitoka?

I'm...

[She sighs into his neck, soft and quiet.]

I'm worrying, mostly. Making notes, and maps. And, um. T-Trying to give Xian-kun a little more time with you, too.

I have noticed you being a little distant...

Is something besides the obvious wrong?

[does not understand?]

... if it's about what I said before...

No!

[She whirls on him, wide-eyed and immediate.]

No, absolutely no. No. What... what you said was sweet and wonderful. I-I, um. I just. I.. f-feel a bit... selfish. And, um. Guilty.

[oh, well. that's a relief but also now he's a bit flustered.... and still confused.]

Selfish? Guilty? What for?

You're probably the least selfish person I can think of.

I've been selfish with... well, with you.

... are you feeling a bit possessive?

[can't help sounding a little amused]

I, um. I-I'm... worried I have been. I had you all to myself for months, a-and, I mean, I know he wasn't alone! He had Ango-san. But, um.... but, I've been thinking about the house a lot, and I... I just, I don't...

[She fidgets with the sleeves of his coat, shrinking slightly beneath the bulk of it as her voice goes even quieter.]

I don't... I don't want you two to hold back or worry about me c-crying again, um, I... I guess. Is the main part.

[hums in thought before resting his chin on her head]

For starters... you had me to yourself because that is also what I wanted. And Wei-kun and Ango needed some time, also. A lot happened, after all.

But I'm pretty sure Wei-kun and I were aware you wouldn't cry so easily if we got up to anything? You were the one who kissed him and asked him out in the house before it was all over. [amuuuused because that sure happened] It just hasn't been the first thing to come to mind--Wei-kun wanted to fuss over Ango since he'd been dead those weeks, and... well... those words were for just you, after all.

[only a bit awkward at the last bit but, then. an idea.]

If it'd make you more comfortable, I'm pretty sure neither of us would object to your being there or participating.

I! Um!

[She melts against him, face in her hands, a steaming puddle of Hitoka.]

I sort... sort of, I wanted to, um, to m-make sure.... I mean, I don't have to b-be there! I don't.. have to be. I don't... I don't, um, I don't want him to feel like, to feel like he has to be with me, to have time with you? An-And I know he said yes to me! I know that., And that I... sort of... pulled us all together.

[She hadn't wanted regrets, and she doesn't regret it now. But it's so very new.]

Osamu, y-you're, um. You're... b-basically my first love. S-So. Um, juggling that, a-and also liking Xian-kun, and ge-getting closer to A-Ango-san, a-and also seeing b-both of... both of, um, of you... and um, being with you t-two... is... um, it's r-really, really nice, but it's a-also...

[She's cherry red, and nearly mumbling.]

I-I-I don't, u-um... I don't really kn-know what to do with myself s-sometimes.

[Case in point, this is the most she's stammered since the House.]

[it sure is and it's also her dropping L-word on him again when he's still sorting himself out from what he said and what that means and ahhhh???]

... well. What would you like to do?

Um.

[She sets her chin on her knees and shrugs a little, helpless.]

I k-keep trying to make a plan and th-then I see you two kiss and. Um. M-My brain kind of goes white? S-So. I'm not... sure.

... good or bad white?

.........................

Laundry room white.

Hmm...

[probably sounding a little sly which... he is. and he's lifting up a cool hand to tip her chin up while he looks down at her.]

That doesn't sound like disinterest.

D-Did I... seem disinterested? Um, did... did you and Xian-kun think that I didn't...?

It's more the degree of interest.

We can always check with Wei-kun, but I certainly don't mind if you watch or join in.

I-I, um... I just, I...

[She squirms a little.]

Sometimes... i-it feels like I, um, I'm really outclassed, is a-all.

Beyond classes being clearly fake constructions of society...

... I'll let you in on a bit of a secret.

[relaxing his hold and leaning in close]

Even by going by class... Wei-kun and I definitely don't fit in with ours. We've just learned to fake it very well.

He's actually a bit of an idiot about things like that, himself. He didn't even know he had interests in men before the house, for one thing. For another, judging by how much of a tease he is... it probably was the first he also did anything like that, also.

So, in fact, you're both about even in that regard. And as for me... well... emotionally speaking...

[his issues are pretty obvious]

Oh, I know that.

[She tilts her head back and cups his cheek, with a small upside down smile, fond beneath her impressive flush.]

I meant, more like... you know, that teasing. That... that ease, e-even if it's not, um, not totally legitimate. I, uh, I don't... know how to do that. I just, sort of, I-I look at you two for too long a-and, um, and then I just... choke up on feelings, I-I think. ...it's easier and harder with Ango-san, because, um, because I don't want to push him or be... too much. But, I... I still want to be something! To all of you.

...I want that most of all.

[he blinks at the touch on his face, and then again at that last part.]

... you are something to me.

I-I know. I just want to keep... to keep doing that. Being that. Being... being what I think you deserve, not just what you think you're lucky to get.

[... sighs.]

Hitoka~ You've got it completely backwards, you know that?

You're definitely far more than I deserve. And, if anything, you could do much better than someone like me. Saphir-kun--or I guess it's -san now?--hasn't been wrong on this point.

[mostly mentioning because one of the loudest objectors]

I'm definitely not the one settling for something.

That's... what I mean exactly, Osamu. I want to give you what I think you deserve. Not what you do.

[She pinches his cheek.]

...the doctor, um, he... I think, more than anything, he just... remembers me crying, before. A-And, I don't know about better, or worse, or how to score that. I just...

I know that you're what makes me happy. And somehow, Xian-kun and Ango-san make things even happier, but you all alone would be enough, too, if for some reason we had never gotten the chance to meet them, here. ...okay?

[he doesn't object to his cheek getting pinches or to what she's saying, but it's probably clear that this is an area he's not as confident in--not that he disbelieves her or how she thinks of it, but...]

... okay.

Just... if it weren't for you, I would have done much worse in that house. I'm not saying that lightly.

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