35th Candid Photo

[pygmalion_perv]

[It's Sunday!  A glorious, sunny, springtime Sunday!  And there's no school tomorrow!  Clearly, this is the perfect time for a date with Shirley!  That's Hachibe's general thought pattern as he heads over to 1664 Nelson Street, anyway.  Of course, when he gets there, he's confronted with a cheerful drone asking him about the homework they got assigned to do over spring break instead.  Shoving his way past her, Hachibe storms up the stairs to her room, rummaging through closets as the drone yells at him for being a pervert and going into a girl's bedroom without permission.  After a while of tearing through stuff, he doesn't find what he was looking for, and excuses himself and leaves.]

[Action; around town]

[After leaving Shirley's house, Hachibe can be found slinking back home looking like a kicked puppy.  Contrary to his usual upbeat demeanor, he's got his eyes cast downward and his hands in his pockets as he trudges along.  Every so often he sighs deeply, lifting a hand to rub at the corners of his eyes before continuing on.]

[Phone; unfiltered]

Hahahaha!  Who needs love anyway!  Am I right, guys?  How could I ever have been so stupid?  I knew it all along - it's all about the parts!

[Denizens of 1250 Williams Road will find Hachibe up in his room late Sunday evening cleaning up his room and rearranging things.  In particular, he can be found cutting the eyes out of all the pictures of Charlotte Yeager that used to be hanging up around his room and putting them in shoeboxes in his closet.  After staring for a while at the last such picture, he tucks it into the back of a book and puts it in the back of one of his desk drawers.  After that's all done, he can be found sitting on his bed lazily flipping through some of the porn magazines he regained a few months back, looking at it with an almost bored expression on his face.]

Comments

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...Hey, Ukraine.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

What happened.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...My girlfriend got droned.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

....I'm sorry.

But I don't think you're going to help yourself by thinking this way.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

But it's the way I started out thinking. What's wrong about going back to thinking about the world that way?

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Because you can't love a person for only parts of them. It's not fair to them.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...It was different with Shirley, though. Not at first, but eventually. And now I don't know if I'll ever be able to feel that way about someone again.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

....

Sometimes....sometimes we lose people we love. It's a horrible thing, but that's just what will happen in life.

But you will meet many people and if you decide to give up then you will never feel that way about someone again.

Because you won't let yourself.

It will hurt for a long time....but you shouldn't just decide that you will never care for someone in that way again. It won't help in the long run...will only cause you more pain.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...I know. I do. But I just don't know how to feel right now.

[He sighs.]

Back when Garnet was droned before, I thought I had it all figured out. I was sad she was gone. That means I cared about her as more than just someone with a physical feature I found attractive.

That's when I decided to ask Shirley out, before it was too late and I lost her too. It was probably a little unfair of me, because I wanted to see if I could really start to love someone for who they are. I didn't know the answer when I asked.

But then we started going out and spending more time together, and I was really enjoying it. And then Valentine's Day came, and even though the memories were fake, I couldn't get the kiss we shared out of my head. That means I was really starting to fall for her, right? It was working!

And now she's gone and I don't know what to do. What if I never meet someone like that again?

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

....I think. ...Right now you should just try and calm down.

This is the rest of your life you're talking about. You don't know what will happen, you don't know who you're going to meet. You might meet someone you care dearly about in the future.

But now, right now. You don't have to decide whether or not you will. You can feel sad, horribly sad. You can feel angry, you can feel whatever you want.

But if you just throw away everything you felt you learned....then it will only cause you more pain.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what to feel right now. That's the whole problem. But you're probably right. I don't think I could forget about this even if I tried.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with that either.

You should try and take your mind off of this.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're probably right. Maybe I should try to sleep it off or something.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Do you have any hobbies?

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Um... photography, I guess...

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could try that to take your mind off of things?

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe. I'll just have to find something good to take pictures of.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Maybe some of the buildings? Or nature?

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that might work, especially now that it's nice out.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Oh! Hey, I know! Can I take a picture of you too, Ukraine?

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

M-me? Ah...well if you'd like to...

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind! You've been a really good friend to me, so I thought it'd be nice if we could take a picture together.

[motheringnation.livejournal.com]

Oh! I think that would be fine. That's very nice of you.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

I'll come over tomorrow afternoon, okay? Wear your favorite outfit!