TSUYUKUSA

[foreversweaterweather]

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[branches]

What??
I'll kick his ass.

But if you hide in your room aren't you just giving him a reason to think he's right??

[foreversweaterweather]

i don't care!
i don't wanna look at him
or his stupid face
or his stupid summer uniform
or ANYONE'S summer uniform

[branches]

Well what if I don't want to go to class if you're not there??

[foreversweaterweather]

...you don't?

[branches]

If you're not there being weird then the boring ones are insufferable.

Today this one teacher spent more time talking to us about bowling than actually having us do it?

[foreversweaterweather]

really?
that's dumb
maybe it was a good idea for me to skip after all

[branches]

Yeah but you'll like bowling once we get to properly do it.

You throw a heavy ball across a room to knock stuff down.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ ...okay, she can't help but laugh and snort a little at that from inside her blanket burrito of sadness ]

i know what bowling is silly
i've done it plenty of times before

[branches]

Well how am I supposed to know?

Anyway come outside already. I'll kick Nier's ass later.

[foreversweaterweather]

...why should i

[branches]

I have a collection of throwing rocks and if you don't I'm going to throw them through the windows of Fall dorm until one hits you.

[foreversweaterweather]

noooo
don't do that
i just got here!
i don't wanna make fall hate me too

[branches]

Then I guess you better come outside.

I can go beat up Nier first and then when I come back you better be outside.

[foreversweaterweather]

...okay

[ that's all she says. and if Tsuyukusa comes by Fall dorm later, he'll see a conspicuous new addition to their entrance: a lump of blankets. ]

[branches]

[He comes stomping over to the lump.]

Listen, Mabel, FUCK that guy.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ what looks like could be the head of the lump turns in Tsuyukusa's direction ]

What...? Wait, did you actually go and beat him up?

[branches]

Yeah? I mean, I tried.
[Nier is too skilled to be beaten up by an unarmed tree.]

But I did talk to him and I've decided fuck him because he sucks.

[foreversweaterweather]

...what happened?

[branches]

Well, at first he insisted he didn't force you to move, but then he started going on about how it was the best thing and it was for your own good and that obviously we're too dumb to understand his logic!

[So he got personally offended, basically.]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ the blankets deflate ]

Yeah...that sounds about right.

[branches]

I'm gonna be honest I do think erasing your sadness for a weekend didn't help. He brought that up.

But the rest of what he said didn't make any sense. And when I told him that he just said I didn't understand. As if he knows anything! We've both been through too much to be treated like stupid children!

[foreversweaterweather]

[ suddenly the blanket monster throws itself at Tsuyukusa for a giant blankety hug ]

I like being a child, though! I want to be one! I just--I also wanna help!

But all I ever do here is screw things up and make them worse!

[branches]

[Oh. She already sort of was but now even more so Mabel has been imprinted on him. This Is His Little Sister. He will pat her back through the blankets.]

You know I know how you feel. But you just-You have to just keep trying. Even if you're sad, or mad, or scared.

You can't just shut it out. That doesn't work. You have to just... Just sort of acknowledge it. And then keep going. I'm not good at it, neither are you. But sometimes I can pull it off. You can too.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ she only clutches him tighter ]

B-but what if I can't?! What if all I'll ever be good for is--is screwing up and making all my friends hate me?!

[branches]

[He lets her. He'll grip her shoulders supportively.]

Well I'm your friend and I don't hate you, so obviously that's not it!! Like I said before, I think you're strong! And you have a weird brain which means you can think of things other people won't, right??