Natsuko chats with her friend as they walk to their next class together, "...And then he said, 'I don't care what your mother thinks. You're the only one for me.'"

Her friend giggles and smirks. "You wish"It really happened!!" Natsuko insists, turning red ( Read more... )

[Upstairs, in the room that Hotaru and Edward share:]

The door to the room opens without much effort, revealing a medium-sized room.

There are bunk beds off to the right, and a window, reminiscent of that on a space port, next to the top bunk. A small table to the left side contains a laptop.

The room is quite empty, otherwise.

Opening the door to her room, Hotaru steps inside, followed by Spike from downstairs. The door is left open, at the moment. She thinks that he's leaving right after he's seen her to her room, after all ( Read more... )

Hotaru takes the boxes upstairs to the room she shares with Edward ( Read more... )

[OOC: Continued from here]

Hotaru sits, unmoving.

She just sits there, on the barstool next to Death.

At long last, Death takes her leave. And the small girl's eyes regain their glint of consciousness. She begins to fold over, faint, but catching herself on the adjacent barstool, clenches the flowers in wait.

.... It happened again.Too weary ( Read more... )

Hotaru sits alone in the fresh grass by the lake. The stars, pinpricks of light in the space beyond, are perfectly mirrored in the lake's dark, inky stillness ( Read more... )

Hotaru heads upstairs after leaving Paikea. Her footsteps are delicate, and she seems not as introvertedly contemplative as she seemed when she entered the bar earlier that night ( Read more... )

Hotaru Tomoe is ( Read more... )