039 / 005 - With a loaded gun / And sweet dreams of you

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She's curled up in a little ball under a frayed old quilt on a couch that looks like it gave up on life a while ago and now just waits for the end. It sighs stuffing out of its cushions every time Misaki moves. Her hair is in a flyaway French braid. Haruki curls up next to her head, wriggles around and curls up again. By her feet and on the floor are a scattering of papers that look like homework--and a little notebook with an embroidered cloth cover. If you guessed that it's Misaki's journal? You would be 100% correct.]

Comments

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

For someone who hates small furry animals, you do a good job patching them up. [Picking Haruki up and huggling him protectively anyway >>]

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

For someone who'd agreed to forget a certain incident, you mention it with maddening frequency.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I didn't think I'd need to mention it at all.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

And yet one cigarette is enough to throw our entire agreement out the window?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I hate cigarettes. They're ten times worse for everyone else than the person actually smoking them, they stink, and they're just another easy-access addiction for people who don't have the will to stand on their own.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

Oh, so now I've no will? I suppose you'd almost be right about that one.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that. I said they're an easy-access addiction.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

"—for people who don't have the will to stand on their own."

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

You're the one who assumed I was talking about you.