Maybe a word of advice, please?

[buttonpink]

My Mom and Dad went on like, this huge cleaning spree since we're having a Christmas party this year. It'll be totally fun! We're buying lots of decorations and snacks and Mom is going to make a couple of like, really delicious pies! If any of you want to come by when it happens in December, you're like, totally welcome to! I can tell you the

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[nycplayday]

Still as adorable and fickle as ever, Meems.

[buttonpink]

Oe~! Michael!

[nycplayday]

Private: Mimi
Alright, alright. You can cut the angry tone. It doesn't suit you very well, pretty girl. Now, I'm not an expert, but I'll make an educated guess in saying that it's something related to being over here. You've always been the kind of girl to wear her emotions on her sleeve; there isn't a thing in the world wrong with that.

Was it a yearbook?

[buttonpink]

Private: Michael

There were boxes of photos and pictures from everyone at school~ holidays and even some photos from Ashley's birthday party. I took them upstairs and like, went through them all one by one and tried to write the names and dates on the back. There were notebooks from school when friends would pass notes and like, write fun things~ phone numbers and little handwritten 'always be friends' cards.

I don't want to throw them away~ they're meaningful to me. At the same time... they make me feel so angry and miserable like, I wish I hadn't have found the box at all. Thinking that makes me feel bad. I kind of wonder if they would even remember me at all now~

I'm like, totally too afraid to contact any of them. I never got a chance to say goodbye or explain why I left so suddenly and stopped being friends with them. I don't feel happy about any of this.

[doctorsorder]

I guess I can relate. We have a few boxes of things like that at my dad's home too.

[buttonpink]

Y-You do? What did you do with them?

[doctorsorder]

Some of them are in my dad's study. The rest are in the attic.

I haven't looked through them since my second year of high school, to be honest. The contents are a little hazy to me now. I can't be sure if they're even there anymore.

[buttonpink]

If... it's okay to ask you~ I don't want to be personal or uncomfortable or anything~?
Would you keep them still? Even if they were like, filled with terrible things?

[nycplayday]

Private: Joe
Hey, it's Michael. Do you have a minute? It's about Meems; I could use your help.

[doctorsorder]

Private: Michael

Why? What's wrong?

[nycplayday]

Private: JoeI'll uh... spare you some personal details, but she's pretty broken up over some things she found. A good handful of the content were things related to friends of hers here in America. I tried to talk to her about it privately where she told me some of the things inside, but I guess in the rare occasion I couldn't sway her. When she left, it was a very sudden and rocky break

[doctorsorder]

Private: Michael

The four of you? Do, um, you all have a place to stay? I mean, it's a surprise and all and the Tachikawa's place isn't very big...

... I suppose I could keep it a secret.

[seniorsavy]

A word of suggestion for you from the more experienced peanut gallery:

The thing is about items like that is they're negative either way. If you have something that was important to you, but now reminds you of something bad is it really worth keeping? The item doesn't hold any value whatsoever. It's the intangible memory that's associated with it that can change its worth. Being honest here, the world is filled with situations like these. I would think the memory of whatever it is would be more meaningful than the item itself. If you throw the box away is it really going to change the value of how you feel about the content

[itsthegoggles]

It feels pretty bad when something important to you makes someone else feel bad too. I guess.

I can kind of relate.

[buttonpink]

Oe~ but it's how it feels, doesn't it? I really want to feel happy and have good memories about events. When things that are bad happen and it like, ruins the memory~ it's hard to feel good about what reminds you of them in the first place. Then you feel bad for just feeling bad at all.

[itsthegoggles]

Yeah. Kind of like that.

Maybe- ... sometimes it can be fixed?

[buttonpink]

I'm not really sure~ like, I can feel sorry or bad for things, but it doesn't always mean how I feel is going to change someone else's opinion of me or if they want to forgive me~ maybe just forget me. Matt always was mad at you, right? Like, I remember the fights you used to have, but didn't you ever feel like he wasn't going to forgive you?