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]

I'd like to see you sing Lusty Young Smith in one go!

[naicha]

I don't want to sing anything lewd.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

For all I know, Common Jasmine Flower could be a lewder song! About... promiscuous men and women fornicating. The title is insidious.

[naicha]

Vincent Fang would never let Jay Chou sing something like that! What kind of title is Lusty Young Smith, anyway? Who writes songs about young men in heat, huh?

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

The title is misleading. It's a moving tale about the complex emotions and feelings of a young man and a frustrated young lady.

[naicha]

Feeling lusty isn't very complex...

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

It's about more than lust.

Besides, you've never heard it, have you? I'm surprised you know of it at all. It's not a recent song.

[naicha]

Well, um, you know! Mayfield has a lot of old titles in the record shop and stuff, haha.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, Mayfield the American town surely holds plenty of English songs.

You're acting fairly suspicious.

[naicha]

Aiyooo, look at the time! I'm gonna be late for my dance class, you know! Let's talk some other time, okay? Bye bye, England!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Wait! I won't keep you long, but at least let me tell you something. About... Hong Kong and all those shenanigans.

[naicha]

[ that manages to keep her. ] ... Huh? What is it?

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

... He's stupid, and he'll never come to me for advice. The Hong Kong I know isn't the one he is today. It's difficult, confusing, and blasted frustrating.

But you mustn't tell him what I'll tell you.

[naicha]

Coming from different years and stuff is a little annoying, isn't it... I won't tell him, I promise!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Don't hurt him.

[naicha]

... I won't.

I promise.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Don't cheat on him. Don't put him on the ropes.

Don't let his ex-girlfriend hurt him.

[naicha]

Mm! I promise, I promise, I - I'll do everything I can!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

If he runs into trouble with her, or any of his multiple of ex-girlfriends, then let me know.

He won't come running to me for help, but I'm not unreliable when it comes to protecting my own.

[naicha]

[ but he's not yours anymore, england... taiwan doesn't say anything, though. ]

I'll help you! He's family, too.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

If you put it like that, people will get the wrong idea about the two of you.

[naicha]

Oh, y-yeah... I'll keep it a secret!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

And tell him to call, sometime.

Hearing about this from someone else isn't all that pleasant.

[naicha]

Ah! I'm sorry, it just happened recently...

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Unlikely he would have told me even this happened years ago.

He doesn't write, either.