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[vividdream]

"Hey, this is Kusuru Syo. You just missed me. Leave a message and I'll get back to you."
' 'ACTION || TEXT || VOICE || MAIL' '

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[tunedere]

As do I. Which is why I've stopped talking to her.

[ He meant it another way. ]

[vividdream]

How the hell does that do that???
Don't stop TALKING to her!

[ He should have known. It was going too well. ]

[tunedere]

I have my reasons.

[ Tokiya's main way of coping with emotional problems is to ignore them, after all. ]

[vividdream]

I bet they're dumb reasons

[ Which is the worst coping method, and Syo will not hesitate to call him out. ]

[tunedere]

You don't understand.

We are not the same.

[ He's still being cryptic to try and shake off the subject, but it isn't hard to guess at what he's talking about. ]

[vividdream]

because she's our Haruka and not your Haruka?
is there really a huge difference in her besides not being yours?
Our Haruka cares about you like she always has all of us

[ Quiet angst meet loud confrontation. ]

[tunedere]

[ Very loud. Of course, his natural reaction is to just close up even more. ]

That's not the point.

I don't want to impose on her what she doesn't deserve.

[vividdream]

what she doesn't deserve
is a man who won't give her a chance to show him who she is
or to make her own choices

or to have the person she idolized so much stop talking to her over something dumb

[ You came into the wrong groupmate for pity. ]

[tunedere]

[ The worst part about this conversation is that he doesn't have anything to refute that with.

It hurts, because he didn't expect Syo to get to the heart of the matter so quickly and so bluntly. ]

[tunedere]

Why do you care so much?

[ It's an admission of defeat, more than anything else. ]

[vividdream]

[ You should always expect the blunt truth from Syo. ]

because I care about her and her happiness
because we're friends and groupmates and you're being stupid
because I know what it's like to think the world of someone and have everything they've ever done be important to you

[tunedere]

What do you want me to do, then?

[ He's still reluctant. ]

[vividdream]

I want you to be a man

[ Because it's that simple ... to Syo. ]

[tunedere]

[ It's not that simple to him. ]

And what does this 'be a man' entail?

[vividdream]

stop hiding behind your apprehension and excuses
stop hurting her just because you're scared
be brave and do what's in front of you
even if it's little by little

[tunedere]

[ There isn't a reply for a good hour. ]

[tunedere]

[ And then: ]

Fine.

[vividdream]

I just want her to be happy
she wont be happy if you stop talking to her

if she wants more after that, don't run away from it

[tunedere]

[ Don't they all. ]

We'll see.