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Sora Pu'uwai

"Heya, it's Sora! I'm not here right now, so please leave a message and stuff, and I'll get back to you later. Bye~"

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[destiny_key]

That sounds cool. I wish mom would let me do that sometimes.

[Hey, there's no judging from Sora here. He spent the majority of October doing much of the same thing.]

And if you're sick, you're supposed to rest anyway.

[compendiem]

You get a spring break some time, right?

[ Whenever it is... Minato remembers liking spring breaks here, if only because everybody's gone for vacation and they leave the dorm nice and quiet for him to sleep a straight 9 days if he wanted to. ]

[destiny_key]

Well, yeah... Next month, though.

I dunno, though... Sometimes it's just hard to get up and go to school.

[The promise of spring break is a good motivator, but it's still so far off... But he can't really afford to miss any more school, anyway. He promised Sorey he'd at least try.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato stops walking and turns to face Sora, lips parted as if he means to say something, but what follows is silence. Sora echoing his own experiences... It's times like these where Minato's stuck trying to find the exact words to say or actions to do. He tries to think of what he wished people would have said to him or done for him when he needed some sort of support.

What comes out is a sigh, and Minato looks down at his feet.

Nothing he can think of seems good enough. ]

Who else knows?

[destiny_key]

[Sora stops in his tracks when Minato does, blinking up at him with wide-eyed surprise. The first response that comes to his lips is 'Knows what?', but it dies as he processes what's going on. Who else knows that he's tired all the time? That he struggles to keep his focus? That sometimes everything pushing at him makes it hard to breathe?

He closes his mouth again without having said anything. Unconsciously, his hand comes up to grip at his necklace, a nervous tick he's developed in the last year. Playing with the chain as he looks to the side and tries to answer Minato with the truth. He'd find out eventually anyway.]

...Minako. And Sorey.

[compendiem]

[ He wants to say "Good." when he hears Minako's name, trusting her to make things magically better in the way that she always does. But Minako was never able to really understand Minato being the way he is, and it's unfair of him to push everything onto her on the basis of being the "better" cousin, or the one Sora's closer to, or the one who can make people smile.

There's a shift of his weight from one foot to another, bag crinkling in his hand, the other one coming up to rub at the back of his neck. ]

Do you want somebody else to talk to?

[destiny_key]

[Sora looks back at Minato, watching for a moment before managing a small smile.]

Yeah. I... That'd be nice.

[Because as much as he adores Minako as though she were his sister, she just... doesn't always understand. She tries, and he knows she'd drop everything for him if he needed her to, but he can't ask that of her.

Minato, for as short of a time as they've known each other, seems to understand him in a way no one else does.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato mirrors that small smile, turning so that he lightly bumps shoulders with Sora before facing forward again so they can keep going. That's about all the confrontation he'd meant to have, apparently. ]

I'll listen whenever you feel like it. Or even if you don't feel like it, but you need somebody anyways. I'll be there.

[ That's the sort of promise he thinks he can make and keep; the sort where he would also drop everything if he were called, if this is an area in which he, uniquely, could help. ]

[destiny_key]

[Sora's smile widens, moving to keep pace with his cousin as they walk. It's nice, to have someone who understands without him having to say anything.]

...Thanks.

[He pauses, thinking for a moment.]

And, um, you too. You can talk to me if you want. I'm a pretty good listener, I think.

[compendiem]

[ Having somebody to listen is always nice, even if Minato is the sort to not speak and prefer people who are a bit chattier and enjoy filling the silences that he creates. But maybe this would be better- he doesn't have a lot of people who are going through the same things he is, and Sora is family. He wouldn't be as easily turned away as a friend would, nor is Minato as scared of his judgement as he is scared of Minako's. ]

Mm. I'll text you sometimes. Low pressure conversations you don't have to answer right away.

[ That sort of stuff he prefers, not like the direct confrontation of a phone call or in person meeting which he can't take his time on or escape from if needed. ]