forum Perhaps that's what makes us human. PRIVATE oxo rp with @Periwinkle_

Started August 13, 2019 by @saor_illust school

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"Ok well I'm dropping it here," she said, and plopped it down. "That thing is heavy. So is your room like, decorated and stuff, or did you not do much to it?"

"I mean, it's kinda decorated…" Saori trailed off. Her room had the occasional paper or poster or frame stuck on the wall, but other than that, it wasn't really decorated or fancy. She hadn't even thought about painting the walls, for heaven's sake.

"Huh," she replied and continued to climb the stairs. "You should decorate it. A room says a lot about a person."

(Oh super sorry I didn't see that)
"Oh? Is that so?" when they reached the top she turned a corner and down a short hallway. "Tada," she said kinda sarcastically.
"This is it"

Gwen stepped in, completely thrown off by how put together Saori's room was. She didn't think it would look that. . . sophisticated. Everything matched, and it was all in the right place. Honestly she thought it was nice, maybe not for herself, but she liked it nonetheless.

"Wow, this is really nice." She let out a short, low laugh. "Not at all anything like my room, that's for sure."

"Aha, thanks…" she replied. "So… any homework?"

“Yeah, but I’m not planning on doing it if that’s what you’re asking,” she replied as her eyes drifted around the room. “It’s in math, and I don’t need to do the homework since I already understand what we’re learning. You got any?”

"I see. Not really," she replied, her eyes not really focusing on anything in the room..

“Okay,” she replied as she sat down on the bed. “Do you have any Japanese stuff in here?”

"I mean, I have this workbook from when I was learning how to write hiragana, katakana, and kanji…" Saori picked up a weathered yellow workbook covered in hiragana and flipped through the pages.

"What are those, like different styles of writing or something? Like I said, I don't know much about Japanese at all."

"Aha, yeah! Hiragana is the regular alphabet, katakana is for writing foreign words, and kanji is for writing fancy words I think? It's made of characters borrowed from china aha," she explained.

"Cool," she leaned back and scrunched up her shoulders to stretch. "You know, when my mom told me I was adopted, she said the only thing that came with me was this piece of paper with the words Sekai no hashi de atte and a heart drawn on it. That's the only thing I know how to say in Japanese," she remembered fondly. She was partially talking to Saori, and partially talking to no one. "I've always wondered what it meant, since it made no sense at the time."

Saori sat down on her bed, thinking. "Sekai no hashi…" she muttered. After a few seconds, she said "Meet me at the edge of the world," with no other context suddenly, breaking the short silence that had developed.

"I actually still have the paper," she mused. "It's in a box in my room. I could show it to you."

"I mean, if you want," she replied, not really sure what they were talking about anymore.

"I guess I could show it to you tomorrow then," she settled, worried about the look on Saori's face. Maybe she didn't care as much as Gwen thought she would.