He hugs her tightly, pressing his face into her hair for a moment. He's so bad with girls crying. He's so bad at it; it reminds him of his cousin, and he'd never known how to deal with her. But this is something different. This isn't an argument. All he can do for her is hold her, and hope that his arms around her make things even a little bit better for her.
Yu . . . the guy she loved. He knows she does. And now he's gone. There's a part of him that thinks of the heartless obvious: he'll be back. It's only temporary. They all come back . . .
But no, he knows. It doesn't matter. He remembers how frantically he'd checked Kirigiri and Togami's names in his CereVice while he was under that table, how immediately he'd texted Togami after the whole thing was over, knowing he'd been taken too. How scared he'd been that it would bounce. And Togami's just a friend he barely even gets along with sometimes.
Yu is the guy she loves. He'd been the one to save her, she'd said. And now . . . ]
Hey. Hey . . . it's . . . it ain't your fault. They're the ones—they made it so there wasn't anything else we could do but this. It's not you. . . . He'll come back and he'll see and he'll know you tried, y'know? He's not gonna blame you. He'll—he'll just be happy to see you no matter what.
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He hugs her tightly, pressing his face into her hair for a moment. He's so bad with girls crying. He's so bad at it; it reminds him of his cousin, and he'd never known how to deal with her. But this is something different. This isn't an argument. All he can do for her is hold her, and hope that his arms around her make things even a little bit better for her.
Yu . . . the guy she loved. He knows she does. And now he's gone. There's a part of him that thinks of the heartless obvious: he'll be back. It's only temporary. They all come back . . .
But no, he knows. It doesn't matter. He remembers how frantically he'd checked Kirigiri and Togami's names in his CereVice while he was under that table, how immediately he'd texted Togami after the whole thing was over, knowing he'd been taken too. How scared he'd been that it would bounce. And Togami's just a friend he barely even gets along with sometimes.
Yu is the guy she loves. He'd been the one to save her, she'd said. And now . . . ]
Hey. Hey . . . it's . . . it ain't your fault. They're the ones—they made it so there wasn't anything else we could do but this. It's not you. . . . He'll come back and he'll see and he'll know you tried, y'know? He's not gonna blame you. He'll—he'll just be happy to see you no matter what.