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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]

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.

[lapidarius]

...Or I could turn around, tackle you, and make you stop being such a smartass myself.

[kakyoin you have no realistic concept of how small you are]

[starmark]

You weigh about as much as a housecat. You'd bounce off.