There are some coping methods THAT SHOULD JUST NOT HAPPEN

[homewooork]

Who: Olette and YOU
Location: De Plaza, outside of one of the cafes
Time: Late Afternoon
Style: Any
Status: OPENThere was a girl outside. More specifically, there was a girl at one of the cafe tables, a blue-tinted ice cream stick lying beside her on top of a stack of books and a few scattered notebook pages. And what was the girl doing? Surely

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[lockandkeyblade]

[Sora happens by Olette at the plaza on another snack run which explains the bag at his side. It's filled with goodies for him, Riku and Kairi- just the ones they like (and a few ones he wants to try with them).]

[He makes a face hearing Olettes murmurs to herself.]

'Mysteries of Twilight Town?' Math? Is that what I think it is?

[homewooork]

Homework?

[ for once, Olette isn't incredibly surprised by this voice, and only glances up once she's finished working out a sentence. ]

Yep, it is.

[lockandkeyblade]

Homework? Who's making you do do that?!

[Oh man, Vatheon's not shoving all the kids in classrooms now, are they? It's been two years since he last did any of that stuff!]

[homewooork]

[ don't worry, Sora, you're safe.

Olette is just not right today. ]

No one. [ back to writing. ] I just realized, Hayner and Pence probably won't finish up with it if I'm not around to make them do it, and I can't let them fall behind...

[lockandkeyblade]

Oh...

[That explains it. But all this talk about her friends back home... it reminds him of the talks that Riku and he used to have about Kairi when she wasn't in Vatheon yet. It isn't overtly obvious, but he can feel something off.]

They can manage on their own just this once, can't they?

[homewooork]

...

[ Olette gives him a look. Like a LOOK. An If-You've-Known-Them-And-Seen-The-Horrors-I-Have-You-Would-Know-Better Look. ]

[lockandkeyblade]

[Y-Yeesh. Things are worse than he thought.]

That bad?!

[homewooork]

It's pretty bad, Sora.

[lockandkeyblade]

Good thing they've got you, huh?

[Hmmm. Maybe he should tell her what he learned from Cloud...]

[homewooork]

Yeah.

[ Olette's smile falters after a second and she rolls her pencil between her fingers with a pensive frown. Maybe someone's a little more homesick than she's been letting on. ]

... At least, they did.

[lockandkeyblade]

Don't be sad, Olette! We won't be stuck here forever. One of these days we'll find a way out. We'll get to go home.

[homewooork]

How long have you been here, Sora?

[lockandkeyblade]

[He pauses to count.]

About three months, I think...

[homewooork]

...

[ oh god she hasn't even reached one month and she's this bad. ]

[lockandkeyblade]

[Sometimes Sora forgets that not everyone is like him. Sora's been away from home for more than a year.]

... It's not as bad as it sounds? Other people have been here longer.

[he also missed the point, sorry olette.]

[homewooork]

I-- I know, and everyone I've met has been really nice...