10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

[menial]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.



Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

Comments

[Voice]

[installing]

I guess. [...]

Do you think she's been okay recently?

[Voice]

[menial]

... Huh, well... As well as can be expected, right?

[Voice]

[installing]

Right...

And you guys have been getting along well? [Or at least as well as they can?]

[Voice]

[menial]

Well, it's mostly the same as usual. As this place's usual, anyway. I think we understand each other fine by now.

...You really are keeping in touch, huh? As far as I knew, she always... Well, that can't really be compared.

[Voice]

[installing]

Keeping in- What do you mean by all that?

[Voice]

[menial]

Well, I--Uh--What do you think I mean by it?

[Voice]

[installing]

That you think I wouldn't care how Haruhi is doing? Especially when it comes to someone important from her home?

[Voice]

[menial]

Okay, I'm not surprised you care, I'm surprised you think it's better to ask me questions about it directly like that.

[Voice]

[installing]

I don't see the point of tiptoeing aroung it.

[Voice]

[menial]

Out of curiosity, how often do you see a point in tiptoeing around things?

[Voice]

[installing]

Not very, I guess. But I do understand something need to be handled gently.

[Tiptoeing and handling gently is two different things.]

[Voice]

[menial]

Just not me, huh? Well, that's par for the course. Haruhi and I are fine, as usual. She hasn't done anything too crazy and as far as I know I haven't done anything too dumb.

[Voice]

[installing]

...Well I'm glad to hear you're getting along.

[Voice]

[menial]

Thanks.

...Was that your version of "was that so hard"? [He chuckles.] What's new with you, Rockbell?

[Voice]

[installing]

New? I've got a boyfriend. I guess that's new.

[Voice]

[menial]

['What.




That was quick.'

And in a pretty "that was quick" tone of voice:]


... Oh. Really? Huh.

[Voice]

[installing]

W-well, I've known him a long time and he asked me.

[Voice]

[menial]

['Soooo.

Haruhi was right.

No surprise there.']


Of course. Well, if you think about it that way, it's really not your fault then.

[Voice]

[installing]

What's with that tone of voice?

[Voice]

[menial]

Obviously I'm surprised. I can't imagine anyone having foreseen this.

[Voice]

[installing]

You're saying that like I did something wrong.

[Voice]

[menial]

No, not really. If you didn't feel it was working, and you liked him better, that was the right move. But you said it wasn't because of him.

Still. If you did anything wrong there, I'm guessing it wasn't breaking up with her.

['It was being involved in the first place. Obviously. That's how a sentence like that always ends, anyway...']

[Voice]

[installing]

It's not about liking him better. He'd be willing to settle down. She isn't ready for that. She doesn't want that.

[voice]

[menial]

Yeah, I remember. Adds up to the same thing, though. Except anyone could've told you that about Haruhi years ago.

[voice]

[installing]

Except I started dating Haruki first, and wasn't really given the heads before I dived in to date Haruhi. What, do you think I should have just not dated someone I was in love with even if we ended up not being forever material?