You'll be in good company, you know. I took a bit off too, when I graduated, to get myself under control. [Amane's was... really a whole year ago, huh? How time flies, and yet nothing changes.] Senpai and Zeke-san can help get the suits off your backs for a bit, so let them. If anyone has to ask what happened to you, they don't need to know. Tell them to take a hike. [It goes without saying Lisa was always going to close ranks around Junna, if and when something ever happened. She's more than confident the rest of the Dreamer Union will, too - she's one of them.] I hope you don't change your mind when the first eight places we look at are dirty, too small, and in back corner alleys, and they still want four hundred thousand a month, though! [But her tone is faintly teasing. They'll find something. It'll just be annoying.
The slightly more timid voice from Junna catches her attention, though, and she focuses, letting her speak without interrupting her. Normal fears, normal insecurities. Normal worries she shares too. She can handle normal. She does normal.]
It's okay if your nerves get the best of you. That definitely happens to all of us. Some of us a lot more than average. [Her warm smile quirks; Junna knows how Lisa is.] I've got your back, and I'll hold your hand. Anytime you need me.
[That smile yields to a squawk of indignant surprise - not at the kiss that follows, but at the promise Junna's appropriating a hoodie. It's not that she doesn't have those in her closet but-]
Hoshimi-san, how scandalous! -pfft, I kid, I kid. Go for it. I'm stealing yours back, though. I was going to ask for it anyway if you didn't decide to stay the night. I... figured I'd need something. [That admission... doesn't sting as much as she thought it would, but thinking on it, it makes sense. She just asked for actual physical Junna to stay with her to keep her nightmares at bay, of course she would have asked for a security blanket if that didn't work.] Let's see if anyone notices. I think the only pink thing I own is, ah, not for public consumption? That's more Rhodonite's color. [A beat, and she shivers.] Hopefully we get lucky and we don't have to answer any questions on the way out, but yeah, breakfast sounds good. Or, uh, that might be lunch now?
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The slightly more timid voice from Junna catches her attention, though, and she focuses, letting her speak without interrupting her. Normal fears, normal insecurities. Normal worries she shares too. She can handle normal. She does normal.]
It's okay if your nerves get the best of you. That definitely happens to all of us. Some of us a lot more than average. [Her warm smile quirks; Junna knows how Lisa is.] I've got your back, and I'll hold your hand. Anytime you need me.
[That smile yields to a squawk of indignant surprise - not at the kiss that follows, but at the promise Junna's appropriating a hoodie. It's not that she doesn't have those in her closet but-]
Hoshimi-san, how scandalous! -pfft, I kid, I kid. Go for it. I'm stealing yours back, though. I was going to ask for it anyway if you didn't decide to stay the night. I... figured I'd need something. [That admission... doesn't sting as much as she thought it would, but thinking on it, it makes sense. She just asked for actual physical Junna to stay with her to keep her nightmares at bay, of course she would have asked for a security blanket if that didn't work.] Let's see if anyone notices. I think the only pink thing I own is, ah, not for public consumption? That's more Rhodonite's color. [A beat, and she shivers.] Hopefully we get lucky and we don't have to answer any questions on the way out, but yeah, breakfast sounds good. Or, uh, that might be lunch now?