week 4

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[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[desperateprayer]

...

[ She is going to sit and wait. She's here, Junpei. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[It takes him a moment to realize she's waiting.]

I'm not going to talk about it.

[Tsun tsun, activate.]

[desperateprayer]

Junpei.

[ She is a fountain of patience with a smile. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...It was... bad. On multiple levels. That's all that's really relevant here.

[desperateprayer]

...

[ Here. She's going to come up and... Give you a hug. You seem to need it. Bad. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[The hug surprises him in more ways than one.]

C-Clarith...?

[He's been careful around her, aware of all those horrible things in her life.]

[desperateprayer]

[ She's gotten better. And you're someone she trusts. ]

...You looked like... You needed on.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Heh. [It's not really a laugh, but he does finally return the hug.] It's that obvious, huh...? Maybe I should've stayed in my room today.

[desperateprayer]

I'm glad you didn't. Don't push us away, Junpei. But take your time as you need it.

[ Good. Hug it out. You have people here who care about you. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Don't worry. I don't think Rii-san would've let me wallow there if I did.

[desperateprayer]

How are you two doing, by the way?

[ Junpei you're family now she wants to know what you're getting into. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[?]

We're... okay, I think? She seemed all right this morning. Better than on Friday, anyway.

[Surely this is what Clarith is asking about.]

[desperateprayer]

...I meant... Well... You two clearly have feelings for each other...

[misanthropicprinciple]

[cHOKES ON HIS OWN SPIT]

Wh--I--what? We... uh? That's, what. What do you mean, 'clearly?' I mean, come on...

[...]

I... might've kissed her. Besides the strawberry thing. But 'feelings' are kind of...

[desperateprayer]

...You two... Are cute together.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...I... all right, yeah, I like her a lot. But I'm also rebounding pretty damn hard, and I... I don't want to rush things. For her sake.

[desperateprayer]

...I think you two will be fine.

[ Junpei you are a cute ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He rubs the back of his neck awkwardly. He doesn't know how to respond to that.]

Well, she hasn't trapped me in a freezer or stuck me with memory-wiping drugs yet, so she's already got a leg up on the competition.

[Haha.]

...I'll do my best by her. I just... I don't want to be the kind of person who makes promises I can't keep, unintentionally or not.

[desperateprayer]

[ ...What the fuck, bro. Still not as bad as Venomania. ]

...That's good. Just... Hold on to each other as long as you can.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[...He thinks he knows exactly where that sentiment is coming from. The reminder of loss hurts a little, but how, then, can he deny Clarith's feelings on the subject?]

I'll... try. ...Thanks, Clarith. [He rubs beneath his nose, too.] Um, can I ask you to keep it on the down-low until I see how Rii-san feels about people knowing? Can't be the guy that kisses and tells.