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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[starmark]

Yeah.

[He breathed in slowly, seeming to mull on that as gradually the subconscious tension in his muscles began to relax from the proximity.]

Have you been able to sleep lately?

[lapidarius]

I was doing better, but I kind of expect that's going to change.

[Kakyoin put one hand over Jotaro's, squeezing lightly.]

...I know you're going to be worried about me, and I'm not going to give you hell for it this time. But you know I'm going to insist this goes both ways. So I want to know if you're upset or afraid in this whole mess, too.

[starmark]

I asked you to come and be with me like this, didn't I?

[He fell silent a minute.]

...I'm. I think I'm trying to shut down again. Stop feeling everything and just handle the problem. I hurt people when I do that, and I don't want to.

[lapidarius]

For what it might be worth, I'm glad that you aren't, even if we're both pretty likely to try at some point.

[starmark]

...It's easier. Less to figure out.

[...]

I know how I feel about you.

[lapidarius]

...It's not so bad to have something like that to focus on, right?

[starmark]

Don't make it sound like you're just means to an end.

[lapidarius]

I didn't mean it like that, Jojo. I just...

[. . .]

It's easier for me to concentrate when you're here. Right now, I'm not nearly as worried about all of this--because I really do believe it when I say we can't lose together.

[starmark]

I know. I was teasing.

What I mean is...don't think that it could be anyone other than you, and still make me feel that way.

[lapidarius]

...That's the case for me, too. There isn't anyone else I could fit this well with in every possible way. And there's no way I could love anyone else this much.

[starmark]

...Yare yare. Can you imagine what Polnareff would say if he could hear us right now?

[Note: he does not sound as though he particularly minds.]

[lapidarius]

I won't tell him if you won't.

[B)]

[starmark]

Maybe we should tell him. Make his head explode.

[lapidarius]

We could just kiss in front of him and watch him short circuit, too.

[starmark]

...Do you want to? Sometime.

[...]

In front of people, I mean. Is that something you...

[lapidarius]

...I don't really mind. If you wanted to, that's fine with me.

[starmark]

It doesn't matter to you either way?

[lapidarius]

Telling your family is one thing, but I don't really care what other people think when it comes to that.

[starmark]

...You're scared of my mom but a show-off to everyone else.

[lapidarius]

I never said 'scared'.

...But yes, basically.

[starmark]

Mmmm.

...All right. In front of Josuke, yes or no.

[lapidarius]

I guess so? Are you really about to run down an entire list?

[starmark]

Is there something you'd rather talk about? I'm just...

[...Talking kind of a lot, actually, and apparently calling attention to it has just made him a touch self-conscious, in a curiously benign kind of way.]

Um.

[lapidarius]

[...oh no]

[that's cute]

...Well, we could stop talking about who we want to show off to and you could actually kiss me instead.

[starmark]

But then you'd have to move.

[...]

I mean I guess you could kiss Star and it'd be almost the same thing.