I'd stumbled to the lowest of lows ---- And now, I'm standing here alone.
The rail that I could see that's opposite me ---- It's right there I long to be.
But...
The things of tomorrow, I do not understand.---- Things of the past are hard to remember offhand
At least let me have this-
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Deborah Xantos
Ηη
I won't shake hands with you, but at least we know who we are now.
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Out of the three- no, now four- that showed up behind her, it was Sueng-Hyo that showed up and helped her pull out her hands. He was laughing at her dilemma- it wasn't very funny to her, honestly. Was this what they called sche-...sche...schadidentenfruitem? They felt so numb from the cold that Deborah had wondered if that this was they called 'frostbite'....Well, she could still move her figures, so perhaps not.
"What were you doing that you got your arms stuck in the snow?" He had asked. Deborah gave him a confused look, as though she hadn't 100% entirely understood it herself."...I guess when I stopped, the upper part of me sort of...was unbalanced? Traveling at the speed of sound does that, I guess. Its sort of like being in one of those really old vans and then suddenly the driver does a 'break check' that would have launched you from your seat if you hadn't been wearing a seat belt, you know? But it still hurts because the seatbelt isn't all that comfortable."
She watched Dimitri try to escape Akane's grasp and succeed when she did this over dramatic point-of-the-finger at her. He...transformed into a snake. In front of her no less. And no one seemed bothered by this. She thought back to the cheetah. So perhaps maybe the kid was...a shapeshifter? So then...he may not even be a child. He might be older, like 16...or 80. It would make a lot more sense if he were 80, since 80 years have this 'I wanna be young and cute again. Like when I was ten!' vibe going. At least he wasn't dating a hot 27 year old or something- that'd be wrong on two levels. Or maybe he was and she just didn't know. Probably not- no rightminded 27 year old would think to date an 80 going on 10 year old, because then they'd get arrested of...Wait, would that count if he's 80?
She should ask him later.
"How did you get there so quickly?" Akane had asked, looking back and forth furiously. Deborah blinked and wanted to explain but...If this kept up, would she break Akane? She wasn't sure anymore- Akane was as hard to follow as that one anime where there's just a person sleeping the whole time. "Whatever you did...IT'S SO AWESOME." ...So no explanation needed? Hum. She tried speaking up but-
"Y...Y'know, I think I should probably go...study. Yeah...study. You three can...make the snowman. He laughed meekly. "It's been a blast meeting you guys! Yeah. really! Man...I really wanted to make the abominable snowman.
...Okay That was probably something she should be doing right now. She lifted her hand to wave him good-bye, but Akane spoke up. "But I thought the abominable snowman was your idea! IT WAS GOING TO BE AN ADVENTUUURE!" She had sung...in way that kinda made Deborah want to sing with her. The way she spun looked kinda dangerous- because snow was technically like frozen water, wouldn't it be reasonable to think that she would slip or something. "Careful, Akane. You might slip and hit the..." She looked down at the beginnings of the snowman. What could it be called? "You might hit the feet of the abominable snowman, or something like that. And then you would have to apologize to the snowman. And because its an abominable snowman, there's a good chance it might even eat you."
What.
Okay, she was kidding. It was her attempt of teasing someone. Sort of. If she hadn't said it in that same lazy tone that one would say, "Evening guuuuuuuyssss."
"Studying's boring, anyway." As the captain of 'That'd be too boring,' she'd agree.
In the end, Dimitri ended up tripping over his own foot and falling into the snow. He picked himself up, declining Akane's 'help', which lead to...that. OTL. Mumbling. A spark that would lead to any mafia man who'd back Akane up to teach Dimitri a lesson using a club.
But Deborah wasn't the Godfather, you know? Years of action flicks have taught her that the good guy never strikes first, and should only react with violence when the burning passion of a thousand souls possessed them and made them either a vengeful agent of Justice or a defender of all that was good and light. That's probably why she crouched down next to Akane and gave her a pat on the head.
"<...Fight...Fight on,> Akane-nee-chan," She had said the first part of that in english. Calling her nee-chan though was... on the spur of the moment. At that moment, her heat felt very....light? Like it was ready to pop out at any moment, like it was being pulled but at the same time squeezed. She felt as though she could cry even though she felt no pain. She felt that she could smile without having any reason too. Was this what it was like to become driven Socially insane? Or was it simply empathy? It was a really rather...strange feeling.
-And then, minutes later:
O~i! What're you doing, all the way over there? Come build an abominable snowman with us!"
Deborah looked up. Akane shouted and ran over to...Momoko?
"Momo-chan! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN SO LONG HOW ARE YOU?!" The way they had held hands like that was...no fair?
"U-Uh...fine?" Yup. Totally unfair. She lived with Momoko for a month and all she got out of her was a name. The unfairness of this was at its maximum. It seemed the IF YOU SPEAK VERY LOUDLY LIKE THIS, Momoko would answer.
...She should try that.
"Aww, I guess we have to start all over again. Oh well. Everybody start gathering snow!"
She used her abilities to plow snow into the pile, as the whole bending down and scooping seemed slow. When she was near Momoko, she attempted to converse with her with the loud approach. She took a deep breath, and a moment to think before actually speaking. For your convenience the narrator has provided a rather good comparison as to how she said this to given you a visual as to how ridiculously loud she sounded:
"HEY MOMOKO I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU BUT COULD YOU TEACH ME HOW TO BAKE A CAKE?"
"THIS. IS. SPARTA!"
...Her throat hurt.
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I won't say "See you tomorrow" because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
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I don't understand what it is I wanna do --- I don't understand what I am able to do
Lowered my head and gave myself a smile --- Moving alongside the railway awhile.
The things of tomorrow, I do not understand --- Things of the past are hard to remember offhand
I only have today --- All we have is this moment of this day
Mood: WEIRD.
Location: Blockaded school entrence.
Problem Deborah? With: Dimitri, Akane, Momoko, Sueng Hyo
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