give your friends a surprise

[closewithnewintown]

Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.

["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."

the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.

the note reads:]

I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.

- Nao Sato

[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.

either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.

click.

it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.

"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"

the exact same way, she's decided.]

We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...

And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!

[smiles]

Comments

[closewithnewintown]

No, I think it has more to do with, y'know. The murdering.

The best way to get past problems is for everybody to say out loud why they're upset so everybody can work on it as a group. [sniffs] Is it my fault that all the grownups here are less mature than a seven year old? This usually works.

[comprises]

Hm...and if people aren't upset? What then?

[he's. a little salty to be taken away from everything, but the reason why he's murdered already is to fuck with things.]

Perhaps there's no explicit reason for everyone to be upset. Or maybe they'll just pretend to get out of this room. People do tend to lie, after all.

[closewithnewintown]

People are usually upset for a reason, even if it's a silly reason. Even being upset for no reason can still be a reason.

[cocks head to the side] Let's start with why you're upset, and we can go from there!

[comprises]

[. . .

wait how did this get turned on him, that's something even he wasn't really expecting--]

Me? I'm not upset.

[even though he can't watch Neku or do his little godly shit things right now, or that he doesn't have his powers...

he's not upset.]

Are you just assuming that we all have something to be miserable about here?

[closewithnewintown]

Yes.

So, what's your reason?

[comprises]

[didn't he just say--]

I don't have a reason. Unless you're projecting on to me.

[arguing with a kid, very cool...]

[closewithnewintown]

[hmms]

Well, you didn't stab yourself to avoid talking about your feelings, so I guess that's a start!

[comprises]

I wouldn't stab myself. That'd cause too much of a mess -- and I do hate being messy.

[this is too much.]

[closewithnewintown]

You can't look too deeply into little victories here! You just have to take them as they are.

[comprises]

It makes you sound like you've seen it before. Have you?

[closewithnewintown]

Stabbings? Those happen all the time. Which is silly, because we all know what blood does; people should do something else.

[she realizes "don't stab anyone at all" is a bit of a tall order. life is full of compromises.]

[comprises]

[he catches the fact that she didn't specifically say "don't stab anyone at all"...]

Then how do you propose going about things? Doing it without blood...is a little anticlimactic, don't you think?

[closewithnewintown]

[considers...]

Punching should be okay... Oh, but if they get hit in the nose... Maybe punching, but anywhere but the head? That wouldn't be as troublesome.

[comprises]

[she's something else]

Isn't the purpose of hurting someone to be troublesome? For argument's sake, of course.

[closewithnewintown]

It's troublesome for everyone if you bleed. If you really have to be dumb and hurt someone, the least you can do is not ruin everybody else's day while you're at it.

[it's called being pragmatic]

[comprises]

But what if they wanted to ruin someone else's day? Not everyone's considerate of others, after all.

But that's the point of this meeting, isn't it? To understand one another...

[closewithnewintown]

[considers......]

Then they should try doing it a different way. Something a little less day-ruining than "putting everybody's lives in danger."

[comprises]

Maybe they want to do that. Maybe their entire point is to wipe us all out.

[Josh why are you saying this shit to a CHILD]

[closewithnewintown]

Then they should stop wasting everybody's time and get to it already.

[its fine]

[comprises]

[................................

he blinks.]

I didn't believe you would be the type to wish ill on everyone.

[closewithnewintown]

I'm not. I'm just the type to get really impatient when people are being ridiculous.

If you're gonna do it? Do it. We're people, not cats; you don't play with your food.

oh my god how did i miss this notif

[comprises]

I find it amusing when people are being ridiculous. It's usually so obvious.

[this conversation is so bizarre...]

I dunno, I always love a good game of cat and mouse.