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

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['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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....W-What kind of question is that, Rockbell!?

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Sometimes that kind of thing... happens!

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How do you know!?

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How do you think!?

[She meant "FROM FRIENDS THAT DID IT DUH" but... obviously it didn't come out that way.]

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You... you...

['...Struck into silence by Rockbell's boldness once more. What if I just ran away?']

1/IDK WHY DO THESE TWO PRODUCE MULTIPLE KINDS OF HORRIBLE

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I what? [What is that tone in his voice? She doesn't get it.]

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[Really. It's weird. Kyon is weird. So what if-]

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[...Wait a minute.]

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[Oh god wait. WAIT WAIT WAIT.]

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[WAIT ONE AMESTRIAN MINUTE.]

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N-No! [No. No no no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.]

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It's not what you think!

Okay done. Yeah.

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I didn't do those kinds of things, honest! I've heard about that from other people!

Hahahaha...

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['It's too late for that, Rockbell! The images are there. The evidence is in! There's nothing else to be done...']

...Right. Let's... let's move on.

First all the arguing. Now all the embarrassment.

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A-anyway, I guess you didn't do that. That's- that's good.

[Who would be the third person in those images, hmm?]

So dramatic.

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['I plead the fifth. I assure you it was kept purely an affair similar in gender arrangement to the one you have now, though.']

...Yes. I didn't end up doing that, as you say.

Any more dramatic (with some bad lighting) and we'd have a Soap Opera

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[So Kyon thinks of all the lesbians. Interesting.]

Then you just... need time! It'll all blow over, and be gone by the next experiment! Trust me!

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['What I need more time for is to get this picture out of my head... However, I don't think it'll be gone by the next experiment. Or ever, even.']

...If you say so, Winry-san, maybe it'll be true. I'm sure time will make it easier to forget... all of this.

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[Winry, Haruhi, and Mikuru. You can't unsee the mental image.]

Trust me. You'll eventually have other things to focus your thoughts on.

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[Nor does he want to, just now.]

Maybe... Uh, yeah, I mean, definitely.

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And we probably won't have anything major like this happening again until... Halloween, I think? That's another big one.

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...What happens then?

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It depends on the year, but usually horror stuff happens.

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['The only words for this situation are... yare yare.']

Horror stuff. Because this isn't enough of a horror?

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More like... hallucinating your worst fears.