The Apartment

[sometimesidrive]

[Isao's apartment is a low-rent one bedroom on the third floor of an apartment complex aimed at twenty-somethings with just enough money to not be considered flat-broke. His is suspiciously clean for someone who looks like him, though it appears to be less intentional and more because any signs of wear and tear prove it's mostly used for coming

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[forgive_me_my]

[Chieko enters without saying much. She's not totally sure what to say.]

[sometimesidrive]

[He's sitting on the arm of the couch, looking up.]

Ya know, eventually one of us is goin' to actually meet with the other to tell 'em good news.

[Weak smile.]

[forgive_me_my]

[She doesn't seem too encouraged.]

I hope so...

[sometimesidrive]

[Sigh.] That makes two of us. [And standing, pacing. ...Is he nervous?]

Shit, where do I start? What do you already know?

[crusheternity]

[and knocking at the door.]

[sometimesidrive]

[Opening the door a crack. You might notice his left arm is wrapped in bandages right below the stylized SEES tattoo, then around the shoulder and the upper torso.]

Oh, hey, Fujiwara. I wasn't expectin' ya.

[crusheternity]

[was about to say something, when she sees the bandages] ...what happened to your arm?

[sometimesidrive]

Oh. I got shot a couple times. [Said with about as much drama as "I went to the store to get milk."] It happened a few days back.

[Opening the door the rest of the way.] C'mon in.

[boukendeshou]

[She is...actually unaware that she's near Isao's apartment. Mostly because she's got her mind on other things.

Like the fact that it's been about two months and she's done several things she'd never contemplated doing before the start of this school year, the most recent of which being debating ways to tell someone their crush really should be committed.

Help?]

[sometimesidrive]

[Lucky for her, Isao lives about two stories above Michi and Chieko (which means he lives two stories and to the left of Alejandro, Kenichi and Saya, and down the hall from Hisa), so he's not too far from where all this is going down. Isao's going to be smoking a cigarette out on the fire escape, feel free to flag him down.]

[boukendeshou]

...Ah, Senpai! [A bit of a wave. There had been a momentary thought of going and bothering Alejandro, Ken, and Saya...but she's pretty sure that may give Ken a heart attack if she just turns up out of nowhere.]

[sometimesidrive]

[Waving back.]

Hey kid! How's it goin'?

[Yes, let's have our conversation from three stories difference or so.]