Video 05 → The First Person to Make a Sleeping Beauty Joke Will Be Punched.

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[Have a very, very rumpled and bleary-eyed Ken, rubbing at his eyes with one hand as he struggles to get his Dreamberry working with the other. Triggering the video feed was not what he had in mind, but either he hasn't noticed that small detail or simply doesn't care.

[He yawns, incompletely covering his mouth with his hand, and blinks a couple of times and for some reason he's got a horrible feeling he's late for work. In fact he's got a feeling he is incredibly late for work, so late that if he was anyone else doing any other job he'd probably have been five minutes away from a pink slip. How long's he been asleep for, anyway? Don't these things have the time on them somewhe--]

... this thing working? Wait, what date's everyone else got?!

Comments

Would you prefer Rip Van Winkle, Ken?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

Well look who's finally up! Sleepyhead.

At least he was the right sex, I suppose... ^^

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Aya...?

What'd you mean finally up?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

You've been in a sleep coma.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Say what? Oh, geez... What'd I miss? I didn't miss anything important right?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

Well, Oniichan found out about that painting but... I don't think there's been anything else important. I don't know. I haven't been around much myself.

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... and ain't that a Hell of a thing to lay on a guy who just woke up?]

He did?! Oh crap [where'd he hide the body] Should I just go back to sleep or hide under the bed?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

It's fine, Ken. He liked it. And I didn't tell him about the little accident.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

He did?

[What, really?]

I... uh, I appreciate that, Aya. Thanks.

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

Mmh.

[Distracted Aya is distracted. And she might look a little flushed.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Ken blinks. Mmh? What kind of an answer is--]

Hey, Aya, are you okay? You're not coming down with anything, are you?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[She opens her mouth to reply and finds the answer caught on her tongue. She takes a couple of breaths, as though debating whether she should even answer honestly.]

Maybe feeling just a little off. Sorry, Ken.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Why'd you wanna apologize? It ain't like it's your fault if you're feeling crummy. You need to rest up a bit or something?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

No, I just-- I'll be fine.

[She is not fine.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

You don't sound fine.

[Blunt Ken is blunt.]

You wanna talk about it?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[There's the "Crap: caught" face.]

There's nothing to talk about. I just miss him.

[She might be starting to sound just a little irritated.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

And that don't sound like nothing, Aya, what's going on? Who'd you miss?

[Blunt and persistent.]

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

I don't miss anybody!

[Irritable and contradictory. Nice work, Aya.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

But you just said you did! Aya, what's gotten into you, who's 'he'? You mean that Ariel guy?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[Aya hesitates. She might be sorry for snapping at you, but she's not really in a mindset to apologize.]

...His name's Irial.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Irial, then. What happened, did you guys have a fight or something?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

No... I just don't like being away from him. It hurts, okay?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Well, that's standard. Ken knows this. It hurt like Hell when Yuriko left... Something about the way Aya is acting, though, is not standard. It bugs him and he can't really think of why--]

Well, maybe you just need to take your mind off it. Go hang out with someone else for a while, or - or go watch a movie or something? When did you last see him?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

I don't want to see anybody else-- I mean.

[Based on the catch in her voice at the end, and the uncomfortable, guilty look to hit her expression, she knows that hadn't sounded good.]

Ken...

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... okay, wow.

[Wouldn't that get really boring? Just being with one person all the time? It doesn't sound like a sentiment Ken can really understand and it doesn't sound like anything Aya should be saying, either. He... well, he guesses he's heard about girls going crazy over guys like this, but mostly it's come hand in hand with a catchy refrain and a cute PV. Normal girls didn't do that. Well, girls like Aya didn't, anyway. Did they?]