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

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

What happened? I've been trying to find that out and all anybody'll tell me is everyone thought they lived here or something and - well, I remember some of it but I kinda thought I was dreaming.

[popstar]

That pretty much sums it up actually. And it wasn't a dream, Ken-san. I remember seeing you last week.

Actually, that uniform of yours suited you. [And she winks to top that sentence off.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone told me that but... well, it kinda doesn't feel real, you know. That wasn't really any of us, right?

[And Ken might have been going somewhere with that, but that comment - and the wink - throws him completely off-balance. He manages a small, awkward smile, though.]

I... well. Felt like a bit of an idiot in it, actually. Like I was playing dress up or something.

[popstar]

It kinda felt going back to work for me but some parts of it were still really weird. I mean, I may have been something I did before but I've never had... a boyfriend. [She blushes a little towards the end of her sentence.]

[1/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm surprised.

[2/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I-- I mean! Um... that is I kinda thought a girl like you'd - I didn't think you'd have a problem-- Oh, geez...

[Yeah, this would be Ken subsiding into complete and total humiliated incoherence.]

[OKAY I LIED 3/3]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh man Rise that sounded really bad I'm really sorry.

I kinda meant I thought you'd... you know. I think lots of guys would like you.

[And now I have said that I am going to go outside, catch a bus, climb to the top of that mountain and jump off of it.]

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[popstar]

[Despite his mess-up, she still smiles at him. She knows someone who's had worse slip-ups.]

It's okay, Ken-san. I'm flattered you think that way.

[popstar]

And just to set things straight I've actually dated a couple guys before, but it never got too serious. It almost did this one time. [She laughs a little but it didn't have her usual spunk in it.] Looks like it was just me.

orz forgive lateness. Stuff happened.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm... Well, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have dragged it up.

[He means it. He looks, and sounds, genuinely apologetic.]

Did you like him? The guy you were seeing last week, I mean.

[popstar]

Don't worry about it. It's not like it's a bother or anything. [At least that's what she tells herself.]

You mean Akihiko-kun? I did, you can't exactly say it was real. Don't get me wrong though, I still think he's kinda cute.