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Hello hello~

You've reached the inbox of your One True Love and Shining White Knight, Kida Masaomi! Don't hate me for not being able to answer your call--hate my friends who kept me from answering instead! Ahhhh~ such is the price of popularity~! And the newest class idol can't play favourites, you know~! So leave me a message telling me all about your undying love for me, and I'll call you right back as soon as it's convenient for me to do so!

Ja ne! ♥

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[worldwithoutcolor]

[The text comes over late -- not middle-of-the-night late, but later than when Mikado usually sends texts, and late enough that he doesn't call for fear of disturbing Masaomi's household with noise.

It's also shorter than usual, at least for a greeting.]

Still awake?

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[aureately]

[Kida's still up, sort-of, in that he's lying stretched out on his bed and staring up at the ceiling, lost in thought and halfway to dozing. He pauses a moment before reaching for his phone when it alerts him that he's gotten a text, but when he sees who it is, he smiles and sits up, his interest already piqued.]

Even if i wasn't, i am now, & since it's u i'll stay that way!! (◕∇^)ﾉ~☆


[...It's late, so he reins in the Purposefully Bad Texting Skillz somewhat. |D]

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[worldwithoutcolor]

[Well, that's good.

So he'll just jump right into what's bothering him -- more or less.]

Have you seen Sonohara-san today?

["Today," since it's the weekend.]

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[aureately]

[...If he's texting this late

it's probably something important

maybe even something Serious

but

since when is Kida ever serious straight off the bat esp. when Mikado is around to troll

plus if he was serious right away, Mikado might think something was wrong SO...]

ohhhh~? is this ur roundabout way of asking if Anrichan & i went out on a date 2day w/o telling u~? would a tru BFF RLY do something like that 2 u??

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[worldwithoutcolor]

[...]

No

And by that I mean that I think you *would* tell me.

[.............although

what if that was what she wanted to tell him

and that was why she seemed so unsure and apologetic and

NO

No, he's over-thinking things again. He might have suspected Kida of doing that once, back at the beginning, but he's long since made it clear that he understands how ~serious~ Mikado's feelings are -- and that, among many other reasons, is reason to trust him.]

I'm serious, man. I'm kinda worried

[Text, literally five seconds later]

[aureately]

What's wrong?

[2/2] ;3

[aureately]

[He can think of a lot of things that could be wrong, and he doesn't know 100% for sure where Mikado is right now even if he didn't sound like he was in trouble from his previous texts, but.

But.]

those surprise tags lighten up my day every day /epicface

[worldwithoutcolor]

I came home earlier and she was waiting for me, I guess. I asked what was wrong but she kept telling me she was fine and

that she shouldn't have come

[And worried or not, not all details are necessary details, so--]

She was asleep when I got there so

I thought maybe she was in trouble, but she wasn't hurt or anything. She left after a while

but she never told me what was bothering her

lol GOOD 'cause I doubt they'll be stopping anytime soon |D [1/3 btw!]

[aureately]

[...bro

here for just a second you had him worried that you might be dying in a gutter somewhere

and now you dish a little more fully and it turns out it's girl problems.]

[2/3]

[aureately]

[................oooooooof course girl problems are VERY important problems

especially since it's YOU, Mister Used-To-Cry-When-Paired-Up-With-A-Childhood-Friend

and what's more it's ~♥YOU AND ANRI-CHAN♥~ 8D so CLEARLY what a good BFF would do is--]

[3/3]

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[--tease you mercilessly and demand DETAILS, MAN. >8D

and one detail in particular could be especially interesting here SO let's go in for the kill start there!]

where was she sleeping??

\o/

[worldwithoutcolor]

[.........

WTFH

DID HE NOT PICK UP ON THE FACT THAT MIKADO IS KIND OF REALLY WORRIED HERE, OR...

oh no wait it's Kida

unless it's seriously serious and undeniably bad, of course he'd think about something like that...

And it's a good thing this is text, not a phone call, because he'd have frozen up at that. As it is, his text comes over without a hitch ty technology and TOTALLY DISREGARDING THAT QUESTION.]

Does it matter? Something was wrong, so I was wondering if you knew anything.

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[lol N O P E not getting out of this that easily |D]

clearly it DOES matter since you’re saying it doesn’t!!

[worldwithoutcolor]

[GDI]

I'm saying it doesn't because it doesnt

She was on the floor and that's not the point

[his bed = on the floor so NOT A REAL LIE... not that he won't lie when he "has" to, like now. Although he's aware that to really sell it, he probably should have given that answer first instead of dodging the question entirely...

gdi.]

[aureately]

[noooooot at all convinced of this, bro, because YEAH your bed is on the floor isn't it~? but it's plain that Mikado wants to talk about something else, and the best way to get the truth of out him here is probably a SURPRISE ATTACK later on maybe even IRL tomorrow~ SO

Kida lets it go, just for now

WELP let's get down to talking this through then]

well if she wasnt hurt and she didnt say anything was wrong, how do you know something WAS wrong?

[worldwithoutcolor]

You didn't see her. she just kept apologizing and wouldn't say anything about why she came

And besides, why else would she have been here?

[aureately]

[...Hmm. That's a good question. And if it was something she wanted to tell him so badly that she fell asleep waiting for him to come back...]

I didnt see her so I dont know, but idk why it could only b a bad thing. Maybe she just wanted to b around someone else?

[Text, 10 seconds later]

[aureately]

or maybe some of my ~SUPER COOL~ animal magnetism is wearing off on u!! soon she wont b able 2 stay away~!!

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[worldwithoutcolor]

I guess she might have. She was okay by the time she left

I just don't know if I handled it well. Maybe that's what I'm more worried about

[...totally ignoring that second text, naturally]

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[aureately]

then tell me EXACTLY what happened step by step & I'll tell u if u did anything wrong!!

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[worldwithoutcolor]

[He's replayed it in his head several times since, so recalling it again is easy enough.]

I woke her up, asked what was wrong, she kept saying it was nothing and that she was fine. She said she should leave, but I

kinda offered to make dinner since it was so late. So we did that

and I told her that if she ever wanted to talk about anything, I'd listen, but she still left without saying why she came

That was pretty much it

[Text] ~KIDA CAPS~ all = ENGLISH TEXT in the midst of the moon runes |D

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were u cooking together like newlyweds?? cooking for a girl earns u 20 pts at least if it came out well!!


[okay, now that that first reaction is out of the way, he'll go back and read it over again seriously, and...]

that doesnt rly tell me all that much. girls are ~DELICATE FLOWERS~ that you have to nurture with ~TENDER CARE~ u know!!

there r a million little things u could have done wrong, from not being forceful enough to being TOO forceful!!

it just depends on the situation, so its hard to know when i wasnt there to see it all play out


[and tagged on as an afterthought--]

maybe she was trying 2 break up with u

but changed her mind in the end

[Text] pffff THANKS, BRO, THAT HELPS A TON

[worldwithoutcolor]

Well, it didn't come out bad. Nothing super, but...

[...girls are what who need what

SON HE IS NOT IN THE MOOD TO GO TO GOOGLE TRANSLATE, so just skipping over that.]

You know we can't break up if we're not dating （；￣ェ￣）

[Even if we go the novel route and say most of the kids at school regard them as a couple, anyway, but he doesn't know that.]

[Text] NP (o^∇~)b

[aureately]

[...Kida wants to tell him, and at the same time he doesn't, because he's pretty sure it would only make Mikado MORE awkward around Anri...if...that's possible.]

If you did your best to listen and told her you were there for her no matter what, it sounds like you did your best. You did all you could so there's no sense worrying about it any more.

[aureately]

[He thinks for a minute or so after sending that text, then adds, typing quickly and somewhat badly]

next time you're together u should let her know you're still there for her, but dont bring it up directly--she might have been too embarrassed about falling asleep @ your table & being alone w/ u like that to tell u wat was wrong

[...Or maybe it's something else...though Kida doesn't really know what that could be. He's really wishing he'd been there now, to fill what probably would have been a lot of uncomfortable silences and to nurture their awkward attempts at small talk, and put them both at ease a bit. Maybe she would've said whatever she'd come to say then...

...Maybe he should call--but no, it's not his place to meddle so directly, and he doesn't want to risk ruining anything. Between any of them, really.]