Akiko could tell that her admissions were making her father unhappy. He tried to police his expression, but there was a set to his jaw that she recognized. It was too easy with him because he always tried to seem so cheerful. Akiko didn’t want to upset her father, but she didn’t feel bad about selling out Dawn on her bad parenting.
Letting herself be pulled into a crushing hug, Akiko didn’t say any more on the subject. Hugging him back, they sympathy of his words washed over her and she felt comforted by his understanding. “Thank you for listening to me,” she replied, the words muffled from where she hid her face against his chest. Akiko had never explained the problems with her mother, because no one had ever asked before. “Thank you for letting me move here.”
She felt like she could cry. Talking about her mother always made her chest tight, but tears never came. Akiko was always left with the suffocating pressure of a sob that never came. When Sanders pulled out of the hug, she sat back as well and picked up the controller she had been using previously. Needing something else to focus on. Akiko hummed and nodded when he promised that things would be different. He didn’t need to. Things were already different.
Returning to the game, Akiko ran her character around in lazy circles. She didn’t want to talk about Dawn, or the potential difficulty of her impending move to Colorado. “Soooo, what did you think of Miss Loch?”
Letting herself be pulled into a crushing hug, Akiko didn’t say any more on the subject. Hugging him back, they sympathy of his words washed over her and she felt comforted by his understanding. “Thank you for listening to me,” she replied, the words muffled from where she hid her face against his chest. Akiko had never explained the problems with her mother, because no one had ever asked before. “Thank you for letting me move here.”
She felt like she could cry. Talking about her mother always made her chest tight, but tears never came. Akiko was always left with the suffocating pressure of a sob that never came. When Sanders pulled out of the hug, she sat back as well and picked up the controller she had been using previously. Needing something else to focus on. Akiko hummed and nodded when he promised that things would be different. He didn’t need to. Things were already different.
Returning to the game, Akiko ran her character around in lazy circles. She didn’t want to talk about Dawn, or the potential difficulty of her impending move to Colorado. “Soooo, what did you think of Miss Loch?”
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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