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MIS ch.8, p.245 - On Edge
You can also find this page (and all the ones before it) on these sites: Comic Fury Tapas DeviantArt Last time, we got mostly Fumiko's perspective. Today, we have Kenta, Aika, and Honoka weighing in as well. While the girls are concerned, it's perhaps more for Fumiko's well-being than Chiaki's, as they know she must be taking it very hard. Kenta, meanwhile, is beating himself up over the whole thing, insisting he should've been able to prevent it.
Fumiko and Kenta briefly snap at each other, before Ai tries to deescalate. And then Fumiko just storms off towards the hospital.
No one's really in a good way right now. Understandably so, I would think.
Monday mornings
I’m not really a great example for anything other than literally living on the edge 🌄
I hate that my poppy and his girlfriend never tell us precisely when they're gonna be coming down for Christmas. They use us like a fucking hotel, I swear to the gods. They know I don't like surprises, but they still love to just arrive unexpectedly and make it all our problem. If we didn't call them, I'm pretty sure he'd just always surprise us. He basically always leaves me and my dad in suspense, which means we can't do anything the week of Christmas.
My parents always hated this more than me, because I was too young to really notice it as a pattern years ago. As I've aged it's gotten more infuriating though. I still like my poppy, don't get me wrong. But it is true that he never really thinks before he acts, and that's reflective in his behaviour. He'll do things without any approval sometimes, just because he assumes he already has it. If we didn't call him to ask him things, he'd probably just come down and surprise us. I wish he wouldn't do this. I hate having to open my presents when him and his girlfriend are here, since they make such a big deal out of it. If we seriously don't know when he's coming, I think we're gonna have to open almost all my Christmas gifts tomorrow.
Another thing that's really rough about things like this: my poppy has a bad attention span. There's only a few movies he'll be pretty quiet for. Love Actually is one of the few that seems to keep him and his girlfriend both engaged, oddly. So now we basically have to just play that one movie every time they're here. We can't try any new films, because I don't trust they'll pay any attention to it. And I know I shouldn't care about them paying attention, but I feel horribly awkward if they're here and me and my dad ignore them to do the stuff we want to do. I should be able to just embrace doing our own thing, but I can't. I constantly feel guilty if I can't get everyone engaged. I also can't focus unless everyone is slightly engaged. And they're usually never engaged with anything.
Even if I do manage to get my poppy engaged, he needs the TV at super loud volumes. He can't hear very well, but he isn't deaf either. So he simply turns TVs really loud, and that's another adjustment we have to make when he's here.
I hate company, especially since my poppy and his girlfriend force us to change our whole routine. You'd think that company would adapt to the hosts rules, but that's not true here. No, here it's always been much the opposite. Here it's the hosts who have to change and bend to accommodate the company. I do like my poppy a lot. I don't always open up to him as much as I could do, but I still care about him. Just because he doesn't really know many of my hobbies or many of the shows and games and books I like doesn't mean I don't like him. It's just that it's really rough having to accomodate him. It's always quite rough.
Here's basically how their visits work, though: they stay for three days at maximum. Half of their second day is dedicated to them spending time with poppy's girlfriends family. And by the time they leave, I'm only just starting to get used to their presence. It feels like 50 days but it's really always much closer to 50 hours.
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