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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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[lapidarius]

I'd like something to that effect too. Studying art or maybe geology, I don't really know which. But you'd still graduate a year before me...that'd probably be an annoyance as far as seeing each other goes, huh?

[starmark]

We could figure it out. Write letters, call a lot.

...It's not something we couldn't work out.

[lapidarius]

Yeah. That's not really a huge problem that we couldn't deal with, right?

[starmark]

I'm pretty sure we've dealt with bigger ones than just that.

[lapidarius]

Exactly. So we can handle...you know. Dating. Or whatever else.

[starmark]

Yeah.

[...]

I'm sorry I'm taking so long. I haven't forgotten about what I said, I'm just...

It's not because of you or anything, okay? It's me. I promise.

[lapidarius]

Relax. I know you're not the kind of person that would find a way to let someone down easily. You're too straightforward for that, and I think I prefer it that way--if I was going to be rejected, you'd have done it by now.

[...]

I didn't make things too awkward by kissing you out of nowhere like that, did I?

[starmark]

...It made it a little awkward.

[Speaking of being straightforward — but even as he said it, he was hugging Kakyoin a little tighter, as implicit reassurance.]

Not too awkward. But a little.

[lapidarius]

You can live with 'a little' awkward.

[...]

I wasn't going to apologize for it, either way.

[starmark]

You're really going to be okay with looking back on it and calling that the first time we kissed?

[lapidarius]

As far as a first kiss in general goes, I think I could have done worse.

[starmark]

You could've done better, too.

[lapidarius]

Is that supposed to be a challenge?

[starmark]

...No, I'm saying I didn't exactly do a very good job.

[lapidarius]

...

. . .

[Apparently, Kakyoin hadn't expected that.]

O-oh.

[starmark]

Well.

You remember when I pulled Hierophant out of that nurse, right?

[lapidarius]

[jojo that's really not the ideal route for smooth talking]

...Yes, I remember that much. What about it?

[starmark]

I'm saying I'll kiss you like that someday.

[lapidarius]

. . . [jojo.]

I would hope you'd be a little more sincere about it.

[starmark]

I didn't mean "with the same motive that I had with her".

I mean "the way I did it".

[lapidarius]

You might be in for a surprise, if you think I'll be nearly that passive.

[starmark]

I guess I'll just have to look forward to that.

[...]

You're supposed to be trying to go to sleep, you know. You're like a kid trying to stay up past his bedtime.

[lapidarius]

And what does that make you, other than a smartass?

[starmark]

...From the looks of things, a pillow.

[lapidarius]

That's your own fault for inviting me over here.