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[ There's people who take comfort in the unknown, and those who agonize over it. Unfortunately, there are so many things in life that are just that: you just don't know. You don't know how things are going to turn out, you don't know what's going to happen, or how, or why, or when, or anything of the sort, but you hope for the best anyways. You pretend, because that's all you can do to keep from going stir crazy and drowning in those thoughts.

He reaches over and pats Yuya on the head— a distraction more than comfort, something to buy him time, shift the attention away. ]

Chin up, Yu~ya! Let's try being more positive about things! Not knowing what's what, means that the best possible outcome is still a possibility, right?

[It becomes hard to cling to that after five, six, seven years. Yuya shudders briefly before he looks up at the hand on his head.

It isn't comforting at all, but Yuya offers a slight smile regardless.] Maybe if it gets confirmed.

[He leans back slightly, back to the wall. For agreeing to be secret keepers, they're both reluctant to actually get into it. But Yuya thinks he shouldn't bring up bad thoughts if what he wants is to make Kano happier.]

Hey, you want to do something fun?

[ No, see, they're great secret keepers. So long as both of them refuse to share any secrets, none of them will ever get leaked.

Here's another secret Kano keeps to himself: he would really honestly just like to go back to sleep right now, after doing nothing for a month. Wist had told him to take a nap, and it felt like the best rested nap he's ever had in his life-- until all these memories come slamming back and he feels like he needs the time to sort through them a bit, try to tease out the warm ones from the ones drenched in cold sweat. ]

Something fun... Actually, yes! There's something I would like to get done, and I think it would be fun if we did it together~

Something you want to get done? [Yuya wasn't thinking with so much purpose. He tilts his head.] What is it?

[ There always has to be a purpose, so as far as Kano's concerned, otherwise they'd be stuck in a cycle of "Do you want to do something fun?" "Yeah, what do you want to do?" "What do you want to do?" "What do YOU want to do??" and he might as well make it a productive time for himself in the first place. Fun is kind of like friendship: a great excuse to get people to do things.

He spreads his arms wide, standing in the center of the room. ]

We're going to remodel!! See, somebody moved all the furniture around when I was gone, so I thought it'd be a pain to have to do it all by myself!

[ The furniture, as they stand at the moment, look exactly where they're supposed to be, mirrored room by room in the same layout as all the other bedrooms in the dorm. But that's not how he originally re-arranged the desks and chest of drawers and all that himself, and he wants things back to how they were. ]

Remodel? [Yuya looks around. It's really just the standard furniture, isn't it?

Well, at least that wasn't him and Toki's fault.] Where did you want to move things?

It goes like this!

[ Again, his hands flash out, and he casts the illusion about the room where he would like everything to be— beds shoved together to create one large mattress, desk pulled out slightly, dresser awkwardly shoved in the corner, etc etc. If only moving things in reality were that easy, but his illusions will always ever be fake. ]

Oh, I see. You want a really big bed. [He smirks.] I guess without a roommate you have them all to yourself, right?

[He glances back, making sure the door is closed before he steps properly into the room and looks over one of the beds.] But we should probably move the other stuff first.

I want a really big bed!! And a larger closet, but I'm still petitioning for that one~

[ He hops over towards the dresser first, since it's going to be shoved awkwardly in the corner so that half the drawers aren't accessible after getting blocked off by the desk, it makes sense to start here. ]

But it's not a permanent thing, you know? Ellie's coming back. [ She's got to. ] I know she will. [ She's absolutely got to. ] So I'm holing the fort until then!

Yeah, she's at the school in Canada now, right? [He thinks he'd rather be in France.

Yuya moves to help with the dresser.] But why do you need a bigger closet?

[ If the thing about Canadians being super nice is true, he wonders how they're dealing with Ellie. He hopes they don't change her too badly. ]

Hm... I've got a lot of clothes?

[ He's got like one entire outfit that he wears 24/7, 365 days a year, but okay. ]

But you don't wear them! [He's only seen the hoodie and (an illusion of) a uniform, and also there was some stuff folded in the closet so he highly doubts it.

He regards Kano for a moment.] Is it to have another hideout?

[Like a secret room for TV or something, that actually sounds really cool.]

That's why I need the closet, to put all the clothes I don't wear!

[ It makes sense, okay?? But he turns around and pushes against the dresser with his back instead of his arms when Yuya asks the question. "Another" hideout, he says, but it's probably because he remembers Kano inviting him to the rooftop one, and now that's been compromised. Kano's got lots of hideouts, scattered throughout the campus and neighboring town and mountains, but there's no reason to have one in his own room where it's basically his own place anyways. ]

But, another hideout, huh? I was thinking about that, actually! Think I can drill a hole from my closet down to yours?

[ An escape hatch... can never have too many of those. ]

[Toki thought of the same thing, except... for a very different reason. Yuya's expression twists with amusement as they heave the dresser into place.]

You could, but why would you? Just to visit us?

[ For more reasons than one, but—- ]

Yep! Exactly that~!!

Eh, are the stairs too much for you? We'll need some rules, like knocking before you come out of our closet!

[He weaves around to the opposite side of the desk, hooking his fingers under the lip to move it.]

Ah- I got that side! This side's heavier, so you take this side!!

[ That's his secret drawer side, Yuya, let him take it... ]

But yeah, I'm old, see? I've got bad knees, so the stairs are really such a pain~ I was thinking if we could convince the second and first floors too, we could have a fireman's pole a~ll the down to the ground floor!!

You're not that much older! [Yuya shakes his head as he switches sides around the desk with Kano.] And I don't know who's on the first floor but I'd like to keep the floor in my closet in one piece.

[He starts to heft the desk again.] Maybe you should join me in the gym instead.

[ He's not that much older, but he is</>I> older, and it's a status symbol he's going to milk for all it's worth. ]

We can plan it so it's Toki's half that's missing the floor, it's okay~

[ Toki would think it's a good idea? Of course he will. He's never said no to Kano's bad plans before. ]

But no way I'm going to the gym~ I don't need that sorta place? You don't need it either?

How am I going to do my own stunts on stage and move your desk if I don't work out? [Yuya lets go of the desk, leaving Kano to either stop or try to drag it himself while he flexes an arm to show off the muscle.

He's no Gongenzaka, very few people can get to that level of brick. But he is toned like an athlete, and bragging just a little about it.]

[ The desk immediately stops moving, without any real reaction on Kano's part. He might not have been pulling his weight from the start, leaving Yuya to do most of the lifting. ]

Ohh, that's right, you gotta go to the gym, or who's going to move my desk??

[ Never mind how being fit will benefit actors, it's not like Kano cares about physically being able to do anything on stage when he can just play pretend and look the part. ]

What's the thing they say? You're supposed to lift from the legs? Don't skip out on leg day, Yu~ya!!

I never skip leg day. [Yuya moves to grip the desk again, not waiting for Kano as he starts to drag it again.] Anyway, it's nice to work out. I feel better after it.

[ Great, Yuya can drag it all by himself, with Kano hand-hovering as moral support. At least there's nobody downstairs to disturb with all the racket, unless Toki's there trying to sleep. Or Kuroko. Sorry, Kuroko. ]

You're that sorta person, huh? People say the same thing about a pint of ice cream~ I wonder which one makes a person happier?

Ice cream makes me happy, too... [These are not mutually exclusive concepts to him. Why not have both, ice cream after a nice run?]

I guess it depends on the person? Nana likes sweet things, so I think she'd say ice cream. But it's not Gongenzaka's favorite, so he'd rather work out.

[ Because the concept is a pint of ice cream all at one time while binge watching movies and crying, which is sort of at odds with the usual marathon runner. ]

Bonbon definitely doesn't work out to be happy. He knows the number of stairs in the Quad, did you know that???

[ Who climbs the stairs in the Quad just because!!? And enough times to know how exactly how many steps there are. ]

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