3rd Broken Illusion

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ Phone ]
Whoever messed with the punch at the dance? Good going, idiot. Maybe you thought you were making things "fun", but all you managed to do was ruin an evening that could have passed without incident otherwise.

This town's bad enough. Why would you do something like that? Gah. [ U MAD, TOUMA?

Seriously, he didn't even want to be there, but it messed Misaka up badly, and thus subsequently cut something short that Mikoto was looking forward to. Even if the vomiting saved his ass. That's what has him all pissed off. ]

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[ Action : 840 Hastings : Open ]
[ Now that he's gotten that bit of frustration out, Touma was back to being restless. He's currently milling about the house, trying to find something to do. The drones are off doing whatever it is that drones do out of the house. He is used to living (mostly) alone, so he's doing stuff just to have something to do.

This includes but is not limited to:
a) Cleaning his room, or organizing all the books in the house.
b) Raking the yard and bagging up the leaves.
c) Washing the car -- and contemplating getting driving lessons. ]

(ooc: Back-dated to Sunday, and action is open to anyone passing by the house, or stopping in to visit himself or Morgiana. o/ )

Comments

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

...if I do, are you going to yell at me again? [ You know, he could have just gone over on the assumption that the rest of the evening's events pre-vomit had been forgotten, but NOPE. ]

[1-21jigawatts.livejournal.com]

I'll yell at you if you say no.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Your argument has convinced me. Your house, right?

[1-21jigawatts.livejournal.com]

That's right. My house.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Alright, I'll be there in a little while. [ Action? ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

[Oh. Well at least it wasn't poisoned or anything.]

You're seriously this worked up over that?

...I guess it's to be expected. [Oh you heroes.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

If we weren't there who knows what she could have done to herself. Of course I'm worked up!

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

I did not know it was a common thing. Is someone being targeted? [boy some of these books are thick. can someone actually read the whole thing?]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Common or not, it seems irresponsible. [ He pauses. ] ... I don't know. Seems awfully rash to contaminate the whole bowl just to get at one person. What if they didn't even get thirsty? Then they're being stupid AND ignoring the collateral damage.

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

[she doesn't really get half of this, and is kind of imagining a sneaky hooded figure putting some poison in glasses or something.

tentatively, to possibly make him feel better about this:] Perhaps they were found by these adults eventually.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Hope so. They're lucky I didn't catch them. [ Angrily shoves the next book in place. ]

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

Um. These books. Have you read any of them? [look at this stealthy change of subject!]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ So sneaky. Touma pauses and blinks to look at the cover of the next one. ] --oh. No. Not yet.

You?

action

[1-21jigawatts.livejournal.com]

[Misaka is already waiting at the door. No need for knocking Touma. Though imouto may appear at some point.]

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

[she carefully brings over the next stack and sets them down.]

I see. No, I do not think I could.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ He looks at the book that he can understand even though he doubts that all houses in this day and age carried Japanese copies of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", so it can't be a language problem. ]

Why not?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ That makes it easy. He sort of waves before he steps in and takes his shoes off at the door. ] Hey.

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

[she could play it off as saying it was too long for her- but it would not feel right.]

I am still learning.

[1-21jigawatts.livejournal.com]

Yo. Why don't you just take a seat. I'm sure imouto already knows you're here so she'll be down.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ ...wow. Way to put two and two together, Touma.

Not. ] Oh...

Sorry. I didn't think about that. [ Furrowing his brow. ] What grade did they put you in, again?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Should she be up and around? [ He doesn't really know how sick someone can be the next day, still. Maybe she's hungover?

Still, he takes a seat on the couch, near the end. ]

[1-21jigawatts.livejournal.com]

She only got drunk. It's not like she caught the flu or something.

[She, unfortunately, has plenty of experience due to her mom. But she grabs a seat on the other end of the couch.]

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

Fresh-year. [she means first year/freshman...]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ He gets her meaning. ] They put me in as a... sophomore. [ Touma at least knew what the school system years were like, beforehand, but it was still weird to refer to it like that. ]

Are the teachers helping you with your reading at all, or are they expecting you to be able to keep up already?

[abovelions.livejournal.com]

[since some students don't really take fake!school that seriously already, it gets hard to tell whether she is struggling or just not doing it. some have noticed, at least.]

Some help. I do not ask. [she pauses, not really proud of this, before speaking again.] I can 'sound it out'.