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poorlovefool) wrote2020-02-19 11:08 pm
poorlovefool) wrote2020-02-19 11:08 pm
Thursday, Week 4, 1-ISH
[As he was called out on, Eric is not at the pool at one sharp. He's got cold feet in a major way, the happy smile of the mermaid on the cover doing little to help him find his own legs. He really shouldn't have set this up at the pool. The theater of his mind paints pictures of the former swimmer pushing him in and telling him IT would make him breathe underwater while smiling. Brr...
So it's a good thing he got to bring help along. In any case, he's not sure what to expect, why their benefactors wanted him to have this story, but he has to believe it'll help somehow. ....But seriously, is this really going to be worth it? Eric steps over the threshold, then back around the corner, a little disgusted by the scent of the chlorine.]
Argh, I can't take it. You do it, Karma! [He starts to hand the book to him, then jerks his hands back before he can take it.]
Wait, don't - he's gonna stick me in one of those awful tubes if I ditch, isn't he?
[He can't have that!! Sticking his head in the door, Eric puts on his most asymmetrical smile to date.]
H-Hi! We made it!
So it's a good thing he got to bring help along. In any case, he's not sure what to expect, why their benefactors wanted him to have this story, but he has to believe it'll help somehow. ....But seriously, is this really going to be worth it? Eric steps over the threshold, then back around the corner, a little disgusted by the scent of the chlorine.]
Argh, I can't take it. You do it, Karma! [He starts to hand the book to him, then jerks his hands back before he can take it.]
Wait, don't - he's gonna stick me in one of those awful tubes if I ditch, isn't he?
[He can't have that!! Sticking his head in the door, Eric puts on his most asymmetrical smile to date.]
H-Hi! We made it!
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[Haha, get it? Because he is not interested in men and not women! Just to clear that up! He is so comfortable with people knowing about this that he can even make jokes about it!!! Everything is!!! Fine!!!!!!!! Also this isn't a distraction that Hiyori is focusing on instead of these accusations. This idea that Ikuya cares, that he's going crazy, that Hiyori loves him, is clearly striking Hiyori like a knife each time.]
The whole reason I'm here is to understand these types of things when my leader doesn't care. Of course I wouldn't have chosen something like this, before I learned more about the world. And I know that Ikuya Kirishima is not going to simply ignore that his acquaintance has disappeared. But break his heart of all things? He says he sold it to get stronger at swimming, before we "first" met seven years ago. So that's impossible.
[Checkmate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a shit-eater!!!!!!!!!!! He scoops the book up into his arms, getting a neat hold against his chest like an important business folder.]
But this is... a part of me. You could even say it's about the "inevitable reality" that nothing less than a wish can change. So I might as well keep it. Thanks for your time.
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Well, at least he is keeping the book. And that thing about him being here so the leader can understand, that's something that might be important to remember later. So... this was a success? It hasn't been pleasant at all, except maybe for Karma, but he'll chalk it up as one.]
Still sounds like a load of crap to me. Shows what I know about swimming, I guess.
[he is pretty sure it's not supposed to be LIKE that, even so.]
Well if it's really the mermaid story... There's this thing called creative license. [He shakes his head.] See ya later.