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[preybeforemeals]

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(Meridiana, you probably want this one.)

"Ah, amore, it seems I've missed you; do leave something for me and we'll see if we can rectify that, shall we?"

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[irenicly]

Why are you still letting me stay in your house?

It's not that I don't appreciate it, I just don't understand it.

It doesn't really benefit you in any way that I can tell.

[preybeforemeals]

[...Oh.]

Because I appreciate the company; it benefits me in that I'm not alone, I suppose.

[...well, that's a lot more straightforward than the usual, um]

[irenicly]

[....oh. He honestly wasn't expecting that.]

So you just like having me around for the social aspect?

[He's going somewhere with this. Really.]

[preybeforemeals]

...Something like that? Why do you ask?

[irenicly]

[He could ask this subtly or]

Are we friends?

[.....or he could do that.]

[preybeforemeals]

[Normally, this is the sort of thing that Tsukiyama would avoid answering at all, much less directly; that involves actual thought, and trying to work out feelings, and wouldn't you know it he's been in Johto for over a year now and he still hates feelings because they make him feel weird.

So honestly, his initial temptation is to skirt around answering, or blow the question off, even, but after a moment he just kind of-]

Thank you for asking so I didn't have to, because at this point it's a little like having to tell someone that you can't remember your name after you've been dating them for a month.

[...Tsukiyama, holy shit.]

Needless to say, I've no idea either.

[irenicly]

[Tsukiyama, did you just....]

....Well at least we're both confused about this.

[preybeforemeals]

[APPARENTLY?]

It certainly seems so. I'm not particularly good with this sort of thing.

[irenicly]

That's something we have in common, I guess.

[...............]

So what now?

[Because pretending this never happened sounds like a good idea right now.]

[preybeforemeals]

Knowing us, we'll be mutually ignoring it by the end of the day, only we're both going to spend months thinking about it and it's going to be the most awkward elephant in the room until one of us does something else on this level. C'est vrai?

[...]

...Is there something in the water today? We're normally not quite this direct, are we?

[irenicly]

Yeah.

That sounds about right.

[...]

Not normally, no.

Maybe we're both having an off day?

[preybeforemeals]

Hopefully that's all it is, because it's going to get a little unfortunate if we're both utterly unable to keep a secret all of a sudden.

[irenicly]

You're telling me.

[Some thing are far better kept a secret.]

Now that I'm thinking about it, I had a strange thing happen to me last week, too.

[preybeforemeals]

[...Now that you mention it.]

Fridays have been strange this month, haven't they? I know a few weeks ago I was so wired I wanted to kill a person, and it's a small wonder that I didn't - I haven't felt quite like that since coming here.

[Tsukiyama, holy shit.]

...Do you remember that discussion we had quite some time ago, about how this place likes to keep holidays? I genuinely hope it hasn't decided to change up the schedule to something a bit more frequent.

[irenicly]

[....Tsukiyama, you are being way too honest right now, holy shit.]

Thankfully you didn't kill anybody.

[Let's pretend to be normal humans for a while longer, okay??]

I wonder why things would change now? hope this was a one-time thing, and not a sign of things to come.

[preybeforemeals]

[He'd stop if he could.]

Well, if we're feeling optimistic we should be capable of actually shutting up in about twenty-four hours or so, n'est-ce pas?

[irenicly]

With any luck, there won't be a repeated of this next month.

[......]

Unless it ends up even worse in February.

[preybeforemeals]

Ah, good...Valentine's Day.

I'm going to call it now, we'll all be ridiculously in love with each other by the fourteenth.

[irenicly]

[....Please don't jinx them.]

That's going to be incredibly awkward by the fifteen.

[That was probably an attempt at a joke.]

[preybeforemeals]

...You tried to make a joke just now, I'm proud of you.

[Tsukiyama, for god's sake.]

[irenicly]

...I'll take that as a compliment.

[Which is. Probably more genuine than he realizes; not so long ago he just would have gotten mad.]