Errand Girl

[sevendials]

Date: Wednesday November 5, 1997
Location: Outside the Koneko
Warnings: None.

It was probably a bit late to realize that she really should have cut her hair.

If there was anything that summed up the whole... whole thing of her presence outside a flower shop she'd almost sworn she was never going to visit again, not after that whole embarrassing

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Not long after Ran left the room, Aya, too, slipped outside. They obviously didn't think there was any need to hover around her now, so it seemed fair that she didn't need to think there was either. Down the stairs she went, not minding the nip in the air or the chill of the handrail against her palm. She'd had a full day now to absorb what Ran had said, all the secrets and truths of his current life. It wasn't nearly enough time. Aya supposed it would be many days, maybe even a week or more, before she'd truly come to terms with it. Or she might never truly come to terms with it, who even knew

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Aya visibly took back at Sakura's unbridled enthusiasm. It was startling, the absolute lack of doubt in her reply. She hadn't even had to think about it. After she got over the shock, though, it was a very reassuring answer. Not for the words themselves, but for exactly that lack of doubt with which they were spoken. She slowly nodded.

"...Will you tell me about them? What they're like, what I can expect... I don't know them at all and..." And she felt lost. It was unsettling and strange and just hard to be forcibly relocated into a home with strangers, especially when they were all the opposite sex and you didn't even have your own door! Whether they were the sort to take advantage of that was completely beside the point. That kind of thing just wasn't done. It just wasn't.

"If I knew more about them, maybe it wouldn't be so... weird." For lack of any more diplomatic a word.

[sevendials]

Weird. Well, yeah. It must have been weird to be uprooted from your own home to go and live with two virtual strangers and your brother, who from what Aya was saying was, after all this time and everything that had happened, not much more than a stranger himself.

"Well, I..." She smiled, a little more awkwardly this time. "I didn't exactly get to know Youji-san or Ken-san that well. Youji-san's a good person, though. He's always really friendly to all the girls who come here and they seem to like him a lot, too. And he's thoughtful, he was the one who got Ken-san to lend me his shirt. Ken-san's nice too... he's kind of loud sometimes and he doesn't really notice things like Youji-san does but he's nice. Like someone's brother on the TV.

"Omi-san is..." Is what? Nice again? No, something as generic as just nice didn't really cover it. She paused for a moment, marshalling her thoughts. "Well. I kind of like Omi-san," she said, a little lamely, then her brain caught up with her mouth and she felt herself coloring slightly. "Not like

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Aya listened attentively as Sakura described the four boys. From what little she'd seen of Youji she could already agree with Sakura's assessment. He was very thoughtful and gracious, probably the easiest of the three to be around. That was rather sad to Aya considering one of the other three was her own brother but things were just awkward between them for now. She hoped they would get better with a little time