STAND BY ME ONEGAIIII (toi catchall)

[sadiskick]

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[sadiskick]

Who placed their friendship on you?

[ She sounds amused. ]

[soba]

Anya...

[ he is tired ]

[sadiskick]

[ She thinks this is a little funny. ]

I thought any boy would be charmed that such a sweet girl would want to be friends with him.

[soba]

What? It's weird. Why would someone want to be my friend that bad?

[ it's incomprehensible to him ]

[sadiskick]

[ Something about that makes her smile. ]

Did you ask her?

[soba]

Yes.

[ it solved nothing ]

[sadiskick]

What did she say?

[ Not that she fully understands friendship either, but. ]

[soba]

Something stupidly sappy...

[ it was

very embarrassing. how do people live like that. ]

[sadiskick]

I want to hear it.

[ Be mortified and tell her. ]

[soba]

Ugh... what if I asked embarrassing things of you?

[sadiskick]

Do you know what would embarrass me?

[ She's a pretty shameless person. ]

Tell me.

[soba]

Girl... stuff...

[ IS IT LIKE

OBVIOUS HE DOESN'T HANG OUT WITH A LOT OF GIRLS? BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HANG OUT WITH A LOT OF GIRLS. ]

[sadiskick]

[ She shifts until she can reach over and poke him (gently?) with her leg. ]

Tell me. What Anastasia said.

[soba]

It was just stuff like... wanting to be my friend... and things...

[ it's mumbled ]

[sadiskick]

Say that louder so I can hear.

[ She totally heard. ]

[soba]

You definitely heard me!

[ he's embarrassed he hates this deeply ]

[sadiskick]

I didn't.

[ She pokes him with her foot again. ]

Repeat yourself.

[soba]

Isn't this bullying? Are girls like this?

[sadiskick]

[ That gives Meltryllis pause. ]

Do you see me as a girl?

[ Because she thought he was saying girl stuff about Anya earlier. Not her. ]

[soba]

Well, you are one.

But... different from Anya?

[sadiskick]

[ To be thought of and treated of as a girl instead of some kind of monster... it's not something Meltryllis experiences often. More and more, she wonders what kind of strange people this house has summoned. She shouldn't get used to it, but... ]

How so? What is she to you, and what am I to you?

[soba]

Well, she's just someone closer to my age, but... she lives in a completely different world.

[ he doesn't mean literally. ]

And you're... it's all just not really what I expected.

[sadiskick]

[ He avoided saying anything about her. She's not missing that. ]

What were you expecting? To be ignored?

[soba]

I don't hang out with a lot of girls older than me?

[ well according to her profile, she's younger, but like. mentally and physically older???

he doesn't hang out with a lot of girls in general, but also he does have girl classmates so he at least is in their vicinity more often ]

[sadiskick]

You should be honored, then.

[ To be able to spend time with her.

But also, all Meltryllis wants in the end is to be treated like a girl and not like a monster (even if she knows and accepts that she is one in her own way). ]