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

[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.

[naicha]

That's not a heroine. Heroines don't give up. They always find a way!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

No matter the means?

[naicha]

Ummm, she'll try not to hurt anyone! Diplomatic relations are important.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Then it's a good thing you're not hurting anyone by declaring your massive adoration for him.

Romance novels are nice, but they're not truth.

[naicha]

I know that! But... ooh, stop making everything so hard! Everything will be alright, okay? It'll be okay, it'll be okay, it'll be okay! 'Cause... 'cause I like him and stuff, okay!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Sorry, what was that?

[naicha]

...like him and stuff...

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Can you say that a bit more clearly?

[naicha]

Ooh...

I like him, okay!?

[ That's the sound of a table being flipped over. ]

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

[ a quiet silence

and then he's laughing a little ]

[naicha]

What? What's so funny? Don't laugh! Doooon't!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm... I'm not laughing. That'd be... s.. stupid. [ laughing ]

[naicha]

You're stupid, stupidhead! Don't make me get over there! I'm really doing to do it...