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[idolpro]

Who: kisses and the attached lips
Where: Game Tower => home
When: Day 73, night

[ You're summoned to the Game Tower - or maybe you're not, maybe you're too far away to get there. In any case, there's not really much at the Game Tower for you to see - winners are highlighted on the television screens in the lobby, the elevators once more locked. There are a number of radio announcers' voices as the results go by and none of them are recognizable or even very easy to focus on with how dull they sound. You can catch some of this:

" -- Heart Soldier Senshi -- not surprising that they got the most kisses, but who would have expected ☆ZRAEL!?"

"I know, right!? They really did a 180 since the last game!!"

"It's crazy! Now, here are some fan favorites -- "

" -- You voted, listeners, and your voice was heard! Who did you think deserved to win!?"

"First pick! Drumrooooooooooll -- "

"CEO ☆ S2FPYME= on future is now for his AMAAAZING game with Jigsaw! He was so intense! That's why the fans named him Intensity, you know!!"

"I knoooow, right? Oooh my goooood, it was sooo good I couldn't stop watching! Okay, next up is -- "

"Speaking of pep!pep!, you know who I reaaaally liked? A Sleeping Knight and 😘 were just like, the cutest! But it was sooo funny too, like, LMAO, a spray bottle???"

"Hahaha, I totally get it though! Guys are pig disgusting! But I totally ship the two of them, they're so good together! I loved them in the last game too ♥"

"Now, last but not least - ! BAD END=DEAD END . . . "

" . . . "

"Aaaaah, no one's surprised by that, huh!? They're so steamy with their kisses! They're so crazy! But man, the stuff that Prisoner did with Warden - I mean, their names say it all, right!? Right!?"

"I knoooww it was sooo crazyyyyyyyy!!! My heart was racing the entire time!!! You know, I totally prayed that they would kiss in the trial and then they did it here, they're soooo gooooooooooooood."

"You prayed!?"

"Yeah!?"

-- the chatter goes on, completely unimportant and fizzing out once the relevant portions have been relayed. pep!pep!, BAD END=DEAD END, future is now, ☆ZRAEL, and Heart Soldier Senshi will find not 500, but 800 points deposited into their banks. Every other unit gets the standard 100.

There's nothing in the lobby but leaves and sprigs of leftover mistletoe. You might find a few stray mistletoe around the buildings too, but they'll start to disappear with time. ]

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

...

You're ridiculous.

[liftoft]

Why's that?

[rollplayinghouse]

Basically every word out of your mouth is why.

[liftoft]

--Well, you keep hangin' out with me anyway, so I guess I'm okay if you think I'm a little ridiculous.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Well, I am involved with Intensity.

[liftoft]

So there you go!

[rollplayinghouse]

...I still...

...There are some things I wouldn't be comfortable doing unless I was officially involved with you. Which needs a bit more than "you're you."

[liftoft]

Well, yeah, I figured that.

[rollplayinghouse]

...




Do you want that sort of thing?

[liftoft]

[ he blinks a few times.]

Isn't that what we were already talking about?

[rollplayinghouse]

[internal screech]

We were talking about whether you'd do the things, yes. But what I want to know is if you want to... be officially involved with me.

[liftoft]

Well yeah--! But that's why I said you weren't just anybody. You'd only do it with your boyfriends, so of course if we were gonna do it I'd have to be!

[rollplayinghouse]

Not "if we did it, I'd have to be." Do you want to be.

[liftoft]

[ he blinks at her for another few seconds, again, then breaks out into a grin.]

Haha... Sorry Harumaki, I get why you were tryin' to puzzle out that 'what am I' question so hard, now. Yeah, I wanna! I kinda thought you knew that, since of course I'm not gonna ask to kiss your boyfriends with you, if I didn't wanna be like that too. Sorry for not just spelling it out for you! My bad!

[rollplayinghouse]

...

[rollplayinghouse]

[///////////////]

I-I'm not just going to assume that! Especially after I just kissed like a dozen people who didn't think it was a big deal, and probably a lot of them kissed my boyfriends too, and you were acting all confused about why I thought it was an intimate thing!!

[liftoft]

Well, now you don't gotta assume!

Anyway, it's fine if the answer is no 'cause you can't or don't want to, or not yet--we still got a lot of getting to know each other to do, right?

[rollplayinghouse]

I...

[why is this happening]

I... I can't. Not now. I'm still... not totally sure how I feel, and anyway it's... a bad time. A really bad time.

[liftoft]

That's okay! I know stuff's complicated.

[ he repeats, and steps a bit closer ]

Hug?

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah... sure.

[but she's pretty awkward as she steps towards him]

[liftoft]

[ he wraps his arms around her, warm and solid, and squeezes gently. Then he relaxes a little, and rests his chin on her head, playful.]

No matter what, you're my friend. Okay, Harumaki? That means it's my job to back you up whenever you need it. You can count on it!

[rollplayinghouse]

[For some reason that makes tears well up at the back of her throat. She blames having had Way Too Many Feelings these past few days. At least if she tucks her face down towards his chest he can't see her expression as she swallows them back.]

R-Right. I'll be counting on you.

[liftoft]

[ he'll just let that hug continie for a little bit, so she can hide as long as she needs.]

Since neither of us won, I don't have a lot to work with, but we can keep doin' the memory stuff whenever you want, too.

[rollplayinghouse]

M-Mm.

[she takes a few breaths to calm down enough that she can at least pull back and look at him, though she doesn't move completely away]

I've got plenty of points at the moment, but probably I want a little bit of downtime, right now. But, maybe in a day or two...?

[liftoft]

Yeah... I can understand that. Since there's no way to choose a relaxing memory or anything.

I was kinda hoping this event would help people out after all that stuff that happened, but I dunno. It might not have made it worse, but it seems like it definitely didn't make it better either, for some people.