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[waterholdmedown]

Who: Shizuru, Mirai.
What: Forgetting.
Where: A club.
When: Night of Sunday 5/7.


The table was well-stocked with drinks tonight. Shizuru, it seemed, had no problem with picking up the tab.

The beat was strong in her ears, but unlike last time, there was no part of her that was moving to it. Her usual carelessness seemed to have shifted to... something peculiar. Sluggishness married to a strange sort of restlessness, laxness in tension with tension. Every so often, she'd start fiddling with something -- her hair, her hat, her drink.

But at the moment, her arms were splayed across the back of the couch, long spindly legs -- mostly bare -- crossed lazily, head tilted back to stare off into the middle distance.

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[waterholdmedown]

"Yeah." Shizuru's head bobbed in what was probably agreement.

Her voice, peculiarly, lost a little of its usual slow, dreamy quality when she added, "Not worth dealing with."

[burningbow]

"You're gonna have to, though," Mirai said openly. "You're in this school for a reason, in spite of what you want. You certainly ought to have no idea you're getting out of here." This amused him, and he smiled.

He began to feel like an oracle. "I can't see Yachiyo letting you get away with that."

[waterholdmedown]

A slow, cock-eyed smile spread across Shizuru's face. "Yeah? Let's see."

Her legs slid over the side of the couch and she rose to her feet, swaying like a reed in a nonexistent breeze. She moved over to Mirai's seat and gazed down at him, and her eyes shone with an odd light beneath the brim of her cap.

"Hey. Let's use tonight to forget it all for a while, yeah?"

[burningbow]

Mirai mirrored Shizuru's smile as she showed it. Then he threw his legs over the side of the couch in the same manner, and stooped to get his drink from the table. He removed the straw and drunk straight from the glass. He stood quietly afterwards, and slid his free hand into his pocket.

Truly she knew what to do to cheer him up, he thought. He had been thinking about Miyume a lot lately, but there was also the need to enjoy himself. Finally some company he could enjoy, he thought.

"... Yeah. What have you got in mind, huh?"