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Sender: Anonymous
To: Everyone
Subject: Help

With that one holiday around the corner and it's whole schtick for doing a sappy confession to someone...

...how do you know if you might actually like someone? Like... LIKE like.

It might not be a matter of life and death but it's important.







[as an ooc note, please feel free to threadjack and comment EVERYWHERE, if your character would :)]

Comments

[itsgunnabe_mei]

... Get any what? Get any what?!

[ Don't leave her hanging, bro! ]

You gotta go all out on the big day! Make her feel like a princess - no, like a QUEEN!

[stillarhino]

Back home, in Japan, girls give guys chocolates on Valentine's. An' the type a' chocolate you get can be different dependin' on how they feel 'bout ya. So I was jus' thinkin'...

[No, there's no way he's going to get any from her. If anything, maybe the obligation kind but definitely not the I like you kind.]

Nah, prob'ly not. 'Sides it's more complicated than that, Red. I can't jus' spill what I'm thinkin' to her.

[itsgunnabe_mei]

Why not? Is it, like, a shyness thing?

[ She will play cupid! She must make sure this ship reaches the shore! ]

If you can't say it, maybe you can write it out! Like a love letter!

[stillarhino]

Pfft! Do I look shy to ya?

[He says despite the blush that colors his cheeks. And that wasn't the first time someone suggest he write a letter of some kind... But it wasn't that either.]

I can't 'cause I'm still figuring out who I really like.

[itsgunnabe_mei]

... Wait, what do you mean, who you really like? Is there someone else...?

[ Oh! OVERLY DRAMATIC GAAAAASP! ]

Is this a for real love triangle?!

1/I'll tell you

[stillarhino]

[The noise she makes surprises him again.]

[stillarhino]

[But it's what she says that fully catches him off guard.]

[stillarhino]

[He's in...]

[stillarhino]

[A love triangle?!]

[stillarhino]

[stillarhino]

[stillarhino]

[stillarhino]

[No one's spelled it out to him like that.]

[stillarhino]

That's what it is, ain't it?

[stillarhino]

Craaaaap.

done

[stillarhino]

[Just gonna... bury face in hands now, cheeks burning hotter than the force of a million suns.]

that was beautiful, take a bow

[itsgunnabe_mei]

OH MY GOSH, IT IS?!

[ This is like being in one of those Chinese Soap Operas mom loves!!! Now they just need to watch out for poison in tea and declarations of war.]

Who is the other person?! Who is Futaba's rival?! Did you kiss them too?!

🙇

[stillarhino]

[His reply comes out as a muffled groan from behind his hands, this new realization taking a moment to sink in.]

Gina... If ya know her.

[There's a bit of a pause, his embarrassment these last few weeks suddenly exemplified even more. Then, finally he sighs.]

Yeah... I kissed her, too.

[itsgunnabe_mei]

GINAAAAA!

[ She does know her! ... Okay she would have had this reaction no matter what name he said, but the DRAMA. ]

I don't believe this! Beat... you're... you're a playah!

[ Yes, Playah. Not Player. Big Difference. ]

[stillarhino]

[That seemed to be enough to break him out of his embarrassed stupor.]

Player! Nah, yo! Tha's why I'm still figurin' it out. I ain't plannin' on messin' around with two girls.

[...Even if he did like the both of them.]

[itsgunnabe_mei]

[ Suspicious squint. She has to be sure... ]

... You didn't go around kissing a third girl, did you?

[ Exciting as that would be, no need to make this more complicated and dive-bomb into a harem genre anime. ]

[stillarhino]

[ASKFHKSJ!!]

There ain't no third girl, Red. It's bad enough that there's two a' them! I mean it ain't bad but— You know what I mean, yo!

[He does not have this under control. Not at all.]

[itsgunnabe_mei]

Just had to be sure, Beat.

[ Dang, and where was Mei when all this went down? She wants kisses from cute boys! But, again, keeping that to herself... ]

But now you gotta find out how you really feel! You need to ask them BOTH on a date!

[ She means separately, in order to determine who he likes more. There is a nugget of common sense in her sometimes. ]

[stillarhino]

Both?

[He's already trying to hold back and not rush into things, especially something like this. His friends have told him to take it slow and spend time with both Gina and Futaba to see if he felt anything more for one or the other. But he'd planned on just that... Hanging out.

But, you know what, he's listening, Mei.]

People been saying I gotta hangout with them more to get a better feel for it... But do you think going on a date's the way to go?

[Look at him getting schooled by someone younger than him. It's almost as if Rhyme were around.]

[itsgunnabe_mei]

Hey, a date is just a romantic hang out! You're still getting to know them!

[ Why is she trying to sound like an expert when she's never been on a date? ]

Besides, those gummies happened in, what, December? Have you totally just been leaving them hanging for two months?