二十五 ❀

[naicha]

✿ action

[ Tiny Taiwan is walking around or on top of a ladder covered in Christmas lights and tinsel as attempts to hang them on the front of her house at 1245 Williams Road. On one hand, she looks like she could use some help! On the other, she looks like she's having so much fun... She doesn't celebrate Christmas, not like this, but cold weather and recent events have gotten her in a Christmas mood.

The cafe isn't open around this time yet, but passerby may notice the sudden addition of a pair of plum blossom trees in her front yard. ]

Look, I'm a Christmas tree!

[ Chances are she's talking to Pops, Nadeko or Homura, who are inside the house, but feel free to approach her while she's decorating, too. ]

✿ phone

Hi, um, I have a question!

[ You can just tell this isn't important. She is all about the trivial things today. Oh well, they easily take her mind off the events of last week! ]

Are nations allowed to kiss each other? Is that okay? If your nation kissed another nation, would that be okay with you? [ A beat. ] What if they weren't a nation?

I really want to know! Because I don't want to not be a nation if it's not allowed... Thank you!

[ TAIWAN WHY DIDN'T YOU FILTER THIS SCREAMS ]

Comments

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

What works for food might as well work for people.

But you can tell now, with absolute certainty, that he won't cheat on you. His responsibility for his current actions must surely convince you that he's an outstanding young man who may need a haircut.

[naicha]

[ what are these warm feelings ]

I like his hair, though.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

It's very long.

You might like him well enough, but trusting him is another matter.

[naicha]

Hm. Well, I've kind of known him longer than you have, so I should know better than that, huh? He doesn't look very trustworthy, does he? But it'll be okay! I know it will. Anything can happen if you believe so!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

If I believe my food will taste very good, will that come true?

[naicha]

I guess so, if you work really hard...!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

That hesitation was too long.

Dreams don't come true if you just wish for them. Are you taking this situation seriously?

[naicha]

I'm taking it very seriously! I'm in Serious Mode right now, you know. And it's not like I'm going to sit here and do nothing about it.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

I can feel the seriousness of your actions, resonating in serious questions about serious nations kissing serious nations.

So you've decided on what you were going to do, then.

[naicha]

You don't think I'm serious.

Hm! I think so. I got a lot of advice from a lot of people.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not from any romantic idiots.

What will you do?

[naicha]

Um... Prove my love for him and stuff!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

And locking lips isn't a declaration of adoration at all.

[naicha]

Eh? Eh? Um... I guess it is, huh? But... we haven't said it out loud or anything...

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Sometimes people kiss even if they don't mean anything by it, and sometimes people say words they don't mean at all.

[naicha]

Well, teacher says it's not good to show how you really feel... but it's also bad to lie. Lies hurt people sometimes.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's why you lie.

... Are you really going through with this?

[naicha]

Yes! If I didn't, I think I would really regret it and eat lots of ice cream until I feel better. You don't remember anything after you leave.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

... Yeah.

But you might not remember anything if you returned, either.

[naicha]

... I'll do my best! I can do it.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Why are you so optimistic?

You're having an affair with a boy who inhales food, his girlfriend is still in town, and she won't be happy with any of this.

[naicha]

Hahaha! Don't you know? The heroine always makes it in the end!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Really?

Sometimes she dies forgotten and alone, in my experience.

[naicha]

No! She'll live forever and everyone'll know her name and she'll have lots of friends and she can like whoever she wants to like 'cause no one'll be there to scare them away from her anymore 'cause she's her own person...

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Or she'll spend her life doing the right thing, but the world will hate her for it, and she'll be bitter and tired by the end of it, and lonely, because she can't make a friend to save her life.