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[He reads it and his eyes slide away to the nearest blank space almost instantly. He probably should keep staring at his shoes, or he's going to walk into someone going the opposite way. But it's easier than looking at her, at the moment.]

Yeah. A-

[Classmate he tries to say, though it's not the right word to describe Chie at all. Teammate is closer. Friend is hopeful, maybe even stupid at this point, but it's there. Either way he chokes on the word and has to try again, shaking his head, furious with himself. He's in customer service! Honestly, he should be better at this by now. He usually is.]

Um, we lived in the same town. I sat in the row behind her at school.

[It isn't hard to glean Chie's meaning; Nill doesn't even had to try to read his thoughts, they come pouring to the surface, pushing themselves in front of her thoughts like spray paint against a wall.

And for one, small moment, that horribly jealous and angry thing inside her flares up. This is one of the people that Yosuke had wanted to leave her for. This is one of the people that would have taken her senpai away.

But she looks at the boy beside her, and that angry, vicious thing shrivels and backs away; and Nill reminds herself for the hundredth time that it doesn't matter anymore because her Yosuke is dead.]

She sounds more important than that.

[It's lucky he can't hear her thoughts the way she can hear his, or this tentative attempt at repairing some irreparably broken thing would be over long before it began. As it is, he's still just thinking about himself, and his own woes. It hasn't even occurred to him that this conversation must be really hard for her, too.]

It was too soon to tell, I guess.

[That's not entirely true, but it's what falls out when he opens his mouth, anyway.]

[She doesn't expect him to think of her - outside of the acts of kindness that Yosuke performed for her (taking her in, being her senpai, introducing her to everyone she would come to care about in the future), she's certain that he never thought of her much before, either. It's just... how he is.

But Nill tilts her head at him, trying to look inquisitive. Why was it too soon? She can tell he doesn't exactly think so, but just why that is is a bit difficult for her to tell.]

[He glances up and sees that head tilt, then glances away again. He doesn't know how much she knows -probably more than he's comfortable with- but he doesn't think he can tell her about the little team they were starting to form and the hopes he had for it to be something like friendship, maybe. Something that no one tried to give him bad directions to, because hey, he belonged there. They wanted him there.

Or, at least, he likes to hope that they someday would have.]

Do you like milk tea? I, uh. I found a place that does that...

[He doesn't need to tell her. She'd known sparse details about Yosuke's world and his friends, the things they did together, but she knew enough to know that Yosuke loved his friends and his world more than her, and Naruto, and Shika, and everyone else. Enough to know that this Yosuke would get exactly what he wanted in those people, or would have if he'd been permitted to stay there with them.

This Yosuke is too young, she thinks. Too young because he doesn't even have the reasons that her Yosuke was going to leave them for yet.

Maybe if her Yosuke had been that young, they would have been important enough for him to want to stay.

Nill smiles very lightly however, and nods her head, even if she isn't looking at him. Milk tea was fine - any tea was, she wasn't picky after all.

Just keep smiling.]

[He glances at her again, opening his mouth to say something (though he isn't sure what) but something catches his shoe lace and instead he ends up wide-eyed, and open-mouthed, flailing and then tumbling headfirst onto the landing. He skids a few feet on his side, then thrashes to try and right himself or break the momentum, and realizes too late there's another set of stairs behind him, which he slides down on his ass with a series of pained yelps and thumps. When he hits the next landing he skids to a halt against the wall, still vibrating a little from the aftershocks of that last ride.]

[OW, fuck! Ow!]

[It takes Nill all of a second to actually realize what's happening when Yosuke begins falling, but as soon as she does she starts (trying) to chase after him. The attempt is utterly unsuccessful though (much to her dismay) and when he finally comes to a stop at the bottom of the second landing she hops the next few steps down to crouch beside him, wings fluttering worriedly as she hovers, unsure if she should touch him or not. kaghdkjh are you okay Yosuke? D: ]

[He groans and clutches his head. Oh, gods, his head. Owww, his ass. Shit! That really hurts. He groans again, for good measure. He's probably alright, he guesses, but his brain feels like it's playing bongos on the inside of his skull, and his ass is half numb and half carpet burned and probably black and blue all over. He glances blearily at one of his elbows, which is also sporting a bump and a bruise, and makes a whiny sound in the back of his throat before he can stop himself.]

Ugh. There aren't any teeth missing, right? [Another groan.] I landed right on my face.

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