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Kaname Chidori, age 16, has been living on her own ever since her father and younger sister moved back to New York sixteen months ago. Part of her figured she'd live alone in her apartment until she got married or something. Never in her wildest dreams did she ever imagine that she'd be forced to live on a military base.
Say goodbye to sleepovers with Kyoko. This whole moving business was something that she didn't even want to begin to explain to her best friend. She didn't bother to even try and explain it to her father. Instead, she just told him that there were problems with packages being stolen at her apartment complex and provided him with a PO Box to send letters to instead.
It was probably better if he and her young sister, Ayame didn't know what was going on, anyway. If they knew she was in sort of danger, they'd only worry. Her dad would probably move back to the US, and moving to this base was bad enough. She was still trying to come to terms with all of this, herself.
Goodbye, perfectly normal high school life.
Kaname shifts the box in her hands. Most of her things she had shipped off; they should already be in her room. But this box is filled with things that are special to her. Old family photographs -- especially ones of her mom. A few photo albums. Her childhood blanket. The Bonta-kun plush toy she's had ever since she was a baby. The box isn't exactly heavy, perse, but it's certainly large and unwieldy. That's part of the reason why she's having such a rough time carrying it.
Still, she's been walking around this base for ten minutes now, and she's still completely lost. And unfortunately for Kaname, her usual shadow, Sousuke Sagara, wasn't around. Thankfully, though, there's a figure up ahead.
"Hey!" Kaname calls out, as she quickens her pace. "Do you know where the dorms are?"
Say goodbye to sleepovers with Kyoko. This whole moving business was something that she didn't even want to begin to explain to her best friend. She didn't bother to even try and explain it to her father. Instead, she just told him that there were problems with packages being stolen at her apartment complex and provided him with a PO Box to send letters to instead.
It was probably better if he and her young sister, Ayame didn't know what was going on, anyway. If they knew she was in sort of danger, they'd only worry. Her dad would probably move back to the US, and moving to this base was bad enough. She was still trying to come to terms with all of this, herself.
Goodbye, perfectly normal high school life.
Kaname shifts the box in her hands. Most of her things she had shipped off; they should already be in her room. But this box is filled with things that are special to her. Old family photographs -- especially ones of her mom. A few photo albums. Her childhood blanket. The Bonta-kun plush toy she's had ever since she was a baby. The box isn't exactly heavy, perse, but it's certainly large and unwieldy. That's part of the reason why she's having such a rough time carrying it.
Still, she's been walking around this base for ten minutes now, and she's still completely lost. And unfortunately for Kaname, her usual shadow, Sousuke Sagara, wasn't around. Thankfully, though, there's a figure up ahead.
"Hey!" Kaname calls out, as she quickens her pace. "Do you know where the dorms are?"
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I don't... I don't know a lot of things...
It just hurts inside a lot whenever I think about it because I don't know what will make-
[Leos presses a hand to his face and trembles.]
I.. I'm sorry. You said I should try to be happy... right? I'll try. Promise.
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Kaname doesn't wait for an answer.
"There's plenty of things in this world that you haven't done yet, so of course you don't know that they make life worth living. So keep living and then figure those things out for yourself!"
A beat.
"And don't think so hard about the things that make you depressed! They're just going to make you sadder!"
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[Leos seems to be slowly working his way back up to his sunny demeanor again.]
And... and I'll try! I promise!
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Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, the box tilts in her hand -- and before she can swing her arm out to stop it, the box topples to the ground below, sending her most important possessions spiraling across the floor.
"Oh great," she says, picking up a framed photo of her and her mother. "The glass is broken." Cracked, actually, but it still means that Kaname is going to have to invest in a new frame. She liked this one, too.
She sets the picture back down in the box, and returns to gathering the rest of her things.
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[Despite some clumsiness he's going to help Kaname, looking a little guilty at this mess.]
... I could buy a new frame for it if you want. I mean its my fault and all the box fell over.
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She places her photo album back into the box, only to notice that one of the images has slipped out. It's an image of her whole family just shortly after she enrolled in junior high.
"Wanna see a picture of my younger sister?" she asks. And before he can give an answer, she slips the photo in front of his face.
A small part of her doesn't know why she's doing this. Maybe she feels guilty because he doesn't have a family of his own. But if that were the case, then why rub it in?
"That's Ayame," she says, directing a finger at a young girl with blonde-brown hair. "And the other two are my mom and dad."
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[Well it didn't look like it was backfiring. In fact Leos seemed a little more at ease.]
Did Ayame like to bug you a lot when you two lived together?
[He was genuinely curious now.]
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"The two of us were actually pretty close, though," she says, slipping the photo back into her photo album. She'll worry about sorting it into its proper place later. "She's probably the only reason I have to regret staying out here when she and dad moved back to the states."
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Then you don't have to regret anything anymore right?
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Well, given all the other weird things she's learned since she came here, she wouldn't put it past them to have some sort of top-secret teleportation technology.
"Yeah, but that would probably require a whole lot of explanation." Why she didn't call in advance of her arrival. Why she didn't want to be dropped off by the airport.
"But I'll have to consider it, anyway. I do miss her."
With all of her belongings picked up and placed back in their rightful place in the box, Kaname rises to her feet, box in hand. "How far away are the dorms from here, anyway?"