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“Stop trying so hard to be something you’re not.” (from Makoto or Haru to Akira!)
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Lips thinned almost to nothing as Akira suddenly tensed at Haru's words, the accusation slicing through his heart with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. What could he say to that? He'd only been something he was not for the last several months, a person he didn't want to be with a label he didn't chose for himself. A part of him desperately wanted to return to a nobody, to the face no one cared to pay attention to, that was just a nobody.
But after that night, after the trial, he could never go back--a larger part of him didn't want to go back. That didn't mean he knew who he was now, especially as he tried to hide himself for a different reason. Keep his head down as much as he could so he could just survive.
He'd clenched his fists though, knuckles cracking slightly as he released his fingers from around the handle of the watering can, setting it down on the ground before he over-watered a plant or something. A slow sigh darted out of his mouth, swallowing back and million thoughts and words. "It's been a hard year."