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5 ~ Every one of my classmates shared the same look of disbelief [audio]

['Well, it's been a while since Valentine's. Maybe I can show my face on the journal again. Well, so to speak. My tiny icon. Whatever. After having laid low for a while, it should be safe, right?'

And so this rather lackadaisical message appears on the journal.]

Has anyone ever had that feeling where you anticipate something bad happening for a while, but when it actually comes to pass, it's just confusing instead? And then disappointing.

Actually, I guess that would be a good way to describe everything... simply confusing. Anyway. I guess there are New Feathers coming around here, too. My advice for you would be to suspend disbelief and just move on with your life as soon as you can. Helpful, I know. Well, good luck.

Oh, and I guess Haruhi would want me to say... if you need to talk about your problems, the SOS Brigade is here. So there's that.

Well, I hope everyone I haven't talked to in a while is okay and all that, and later.

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...What? You don't feel any relief?

...Well, yeah, there's relief mingled in there too.

['Is this what people mean when they say I focus a bit on the negative...?']

But the part that's more surprising to me is how it feels disappointing, I guess...

Just what -- exactly -- were you hoping for that's been so...disappointed?

Some kind of closure, I guess. Maybe even a good fashioned climactic argument to clear the air.

An argument? Seriously? Those aren't like acts of God, you know. You could just...spark one. If that's what you seriously want.

[ though -- she can empathize with wanting one, no matter how much lip she gives. ]

I guess I'd like to have an argument, and I'd also like to be the one in the right, which is not always easy when you're just sparking arguments all over the place.

Which, yes, may not be likely, but a guy can wish.

[ right. only buffy never needs to be in the right -- why bother with justification when you've got killer glares and slayer strength? hah.

so: ] Got a name, wishful guy?

[He does indeed, which he will tell to her, followed by...]

More likely to be known as the nickname "Kyon", unfortunately.

No bells are being rung. Hi, though. I'd be Buffy.

[ a name which might be familiar if he was paying attention to the new feather guide. ]

[He has not, unfortunately, paid attention to it in some time.

'Indeed, the silence of the bells is universal. Guess it's not five o'clock somewhere after all, or at least here.']

Nice to meet you, Buffy. Hopefully I haven't solidified the impression that I'm an ornery and argumentative person yet.

And hopefully I haven't solidified the impression that I'm not.

[He chuckles lightly.]

No, I wouldn't say you've done anything of the sort, Buffy-san. Rather the opposite.

Then let me argue further and say -- please, just Buffy. None of this sanning about.

...What's wrong with that?

['Westerners, seriously...']

Edited (yeah wrong icon) 2012-03-10 19:34 (UTC)

...It's not my name. And -- before I get the whole sign-of-respect speech and cultural differences and yadda yadda yadday? I also tell the old world types not to call me miss. Really. Just Buffy is more than enough.

['...Well, I was just about to go for "miss" instead, actually...']

How about we compromise, and I'll just call you by your last name.

[ cheekily: ] Too bad I haven't told you it yet, huh?

Too bad indeed... Buffy-san.

How about your non-nickname name, Kyon? [ her accent has a bit of a tough time replicating what she heard him say, though. ] We could trade. Surname for real name.

If you'd like to use it, I would be delighted to. [And he will repeat it for her benefit.]

So, you?

[ a long-suffering sigh. ] Summers. Buffy Summers.

Well, it seems like a nice enough name to me, Summers.

['Prettier than "Buffy", actually, but I have a hunch I ought not to say that.

I mean, "I have a hunch", as if it weren't obvious.']

That's because it's nice enough, as names go.

Been here long?

I believe this would be approaching four months. And you?

[ faux casual: ] I believe this'd be approaching, oh, three years.

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