pc catchall for lili.

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[shitpost incoming.]

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[Muttered:]

Because I'm an idiot.

[coastal]

[she looks at her and frowns]

You aren't. Don't say that.

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...Okay, but now I feel kind of bad about ten seconds ago when you said you've done a lot of stupid things and I didn't correct you...

[coastal]

[she tries not to laugh]

It's fine. I know they were stupid. I... don't think things through well.

[ . . . ]

One time, I was in a completely safe situation, but I got tricked so badly trying to chase after information that it landed both me and my dearest friend into a slave camp in the desert where they only served us drugged water.

[successives]

[Likewise, she looks surprised at that, hesitating before asking:]

I'm guessing the 'one time' thing means that you got away...?

[coastal]

... it required an entire army to save us. So I still wouldn't have been able to survive with my own power.

[so she thinks she can still confidently say it's... stupid.]

Were... you worried he'd try to save you, if he knew something was going to happen to you?

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Well - it's, um, good you were okay.

[She doesn't quite know what else to say about it, but that much in sincere.]

...He would have. I didn't want him to get hurt, but I'm pretty sure it hurt him worse in the end. So I can't really blame him if things are different now.

[coastal]

... thanks. [she says that briefly, before considering her next statement.]

I get that too. Why you did it, I mean.

[ . . . ]

So if I can understand, and I've only known you three days, I think there's a chance that he'd understand too if he was really considerate of your feelings. I can't say whether it was the right thing to do but...

Do you have anything to lose in revisiting the subject?

[successives]

Uh, yeah. I mean...

[She waves a hand.]

Like I said, he already knows. So if he doesn't do anything about it, that means he doesn't want to. I don't really want to make him uncomfortable by bringing it up again. He's - important to me even if it's just friendship.

[coastal]

[she pauses for a little bit before sighing]

I said that before too since... Ookurikara was like that - for a while. I had to wait around for weeks, thinking that he wasn't interested in me. I think it's only because he was forced into considering it more that we're even where we are now.

So - I don't know. Maybe he can benefit from a nudge here and there.

Boys are pretty dumb.

[successives]

Sure, but it's not like I haven't already nudged.

[Sometimes you make out with someone, then everything blows up around you and there are 1092384 more important things to deal with, and then you show up in a brand new mess.]

[coastal]

Maybe you can go on a... oh, a date?

[she didn't know the word]

[successives]

—I can't just ask him that.

[she is so stupid, lili]

[coastal]

[she blinks]

Why not...

[she genuinely doesn't seem to comprehend]

Isn't it just - getting to know each other? Talking? That's what they're for, right?

[successives]

You don't have to go on a date to do that. A date is like... a thing. You're making it a thing if you call it that.

[coastal]

Oh - yeah. Dates are for romance but I thought they... weren't that much of a - thing?

It's not engagement, right?

[PLEASE,,]

[successives]

—We're not getting engaged!

[NOBODY ASKED IF YOU WERE]

[coastal]

Yeah, I know!

So what's wrong with a date!

[successives]

That's the exact same thing as asking him where we are, which is what I've been saying this whole time that I don't want to do?!

[coastal]

Then just go on a date and don't call it a date and see if he calls it a date.

[SHE'S REALLY NOT GETTING THIS]

Can't you just - I don't know, kiss him and see if he's okay with it? Or ask to kiss him, if he doesn't like being surprised.

[successives]

No! Look, I...

[aaaaaaaa]

Things didn't - work out so great with the last person I was seeing, I don't want to rush into anything. Especially if he might not be on board.

[coastal]

Then the last person was a bastard.

[LILI]

[successives]

No, that one was definitely on me, too.

[it absolutely was sorry lili]

[coastal]

Then it's good because you weren't meant to be together.

[successives]

I - don't know what to say to that.