"Happy" Mayfieldversary

[splashpuppy]

[Action: 1331 Benny Road]

[Hajime is sitting in the living room, a pink... bird thing next to him. He's talking to the creature.]

Do you remember? It's been a long time...

[Something is pretty obviously bothering him]

[Action: Park]

[Eventually he moves to the park, where he can be found in his favourite spot by the fountain. Just... sitting by it, quietly communing with the water]

[Action: 5720 Cunningham Lane]

[When he's feeling down, there's only one place he wants to be: Ukraine's. Which is where he can be found, sitting holding a picture from home]

[Phone]

D-does anyone ever feel like they're forgetting what it's like to not be in Mayfield? Two years is a really long time...

Comments

[motheringnation]

[She comes and sits down next to him.]

Are you alright dear?

[splashpuppy]

[The tears trying to creep into his eyes suggest the answer is decidedly "no"]

I...

I'm trying to remember what their voices sound like.

[motheringnation]

[Oh dear. She speaks gently.]

Whose voices?

[splashpuppy]

Kei and Goh and... everyone at home.

[motheringnation]

[Pulls him in for a hug.]

phone

[virtualdiva]

[Miku doesn't really have the luxury of forgetting. She's a robot, her memory's a lot better than most, but she knows how it feels like.]

A little.

Re: phone

[splashpuppy]

What do you do, when you feel like that?

[virtualdiva]

I sing.

[splashpuppy]

And that helps?

[virtualdiva]

It works for me.

phone;

[imoutos]

H-.. huh? Do you mean.. forgetting home? [ honestly, she can understand it a little, she's been here for a really long time too, but-- ] .. I.. I don't think y-you can ever fully forget home..

Re: phone;

[splashpuppy]

Not everything but... more and more. All the little stuff. What people sound like.

[imoutos]

But that's.. s-still so sad.. you shouldn't have to forget. Home is.. s-supposed to be a nice place, right..?

[splashpuppy]

Home is... I miss it.

[imoutos]

T.. then l-let's hang in there. If we don't do that, t-then.. we can never go home..

Action ☆ Park

[badend_replay]

It is a nice day to be at the park, isn't it?

[ Rika observed quietly for a while before she approached Hajime at the fountain. She herself had come here to quietly deal with some of her own stresses, but puts that on the back burner when she sees she is not alone. ]

Re: Action ☆ Park

[splashpuppy]

[Hajime looks a bit startled, as if she'd drawn him out of an intense conversation]

Uh... yeah, I guess.

phone

[butterflyinfojk]

Two years!? [ Please don't say that he has to be here that long as well, he doesn't think he'd be able to take it... ] I'm not going to forget! I've got Gentarou-san here with me, that'd make me remember even if I were about to forget. [ He doesn't like the thought of forgetting....not one bit. ]

Re: phone

[splashpuppy]

Everyone who was here from home's been gone for a least a year now...

[How long was it really? He's not even sure any more.]

Re: phone

[butterflyinfojk]

That really sucks. You're starting to forget them? [ If that's what's going to happen if he has to stay here for too long... he wants to get back right now. He's scared enough of forgetting as it is. ]

Re: phone

[splashpuppy]

N-not everything. Not the really important stuff. But... little things.

Phone

[x_geminisyndrome_x]

You've been here for two years? That's a really long time.

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

Yeah, it is. Two grades. Two birthdays. Two Christmases...

Re: Phone

[x_geminisyndrome_x]

And you're not allowed to go home?

Re: Phone

[splashpuppy]

No one's ever found a way... not really.