5. Text, PSA | Not even bothered to be locked from Minato

[greatseal]

Attn: Ladies especially

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My brother Minato is recovering from mono! That means he's still contagious. So if he takes you out somewhere, don't kiss him, even though he's cute. Or share straws or chopsticks. (And it might be good to wash your hands if you touch him but try to do it quietly because he's sensitive.)

But he is getting better and he's been sleeping all month, so if you see him you should say hello and get to know him! He's a really nice guy when he isn't full of germs. ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ He likes music and listening to people talk to him, and he'd really love to make some new friends.

[This post comes with only the best of sisterly intentions. Minato may love to sleep, but she'd seen how grumpy he'd gotten with almost a month of enforced bed rest. It was time for him to get out and meet new people, and what better way than to give him a not-so-gentle push?

Whatever her purpose was though, it got a reaction. Minako didn't bother to wait until her brother was asleep again to post, so not too long after her PSA goes up, another message quickly follows from a somewhat embarrassed and rather annoyed Minato.]

Please disregard most of what my sister has posted here! Except the part about mono.

But I'm not sensitive, and I'm not looking for anyone to kiss right now. [He has a kind of sort of girlfriend here, after all.]

Though I guess if anyone knows much about playing the violin or likes running, it would be nice to find someone to run with a few times a week when I'm better.

[It feels kind of weird asking about that, but... without Akihiko, running and keeping in shape is going to get lonely, and he doesn't know if the school has a track team. So, even if he is annoyed with his sister for starting all this, he... is kind of slightly grateful. And he might as well take advantage of it to ask about a running partner, right?

Besides, maybe there's someone else out there who plays the violin or something, too. He missed the concert due to illness, and he regrets the chance not to find some more people who play music.]

Comments

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[pastalishe]

Consider it forewarning.

I'm afraid I cannot take you at your word for that. I've found that, in regards to that subject, boys are entirely incorrigible. Besides, I hold your sister's opinion in very high esteem.

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[fools_journey]

I'm pretty sure she was just teasing. (^_^;)

Anyway, do you really not trust guys that much?

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[pastalishe]

She wouldn't make such jokes if they couldn't be substantiated in fact. (I think there is an error in your message--all I'm seeing is a bunch of symbols between your parentheses.)

I don't trust anyone unless they give me a reason to.

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[fools_journey]

You'd be surprised...

Oh. That's no error. It's an emoticon. It's supposed to represent a facial expression.

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[pastalishe]

That's so strange. Why would you try and convey a facial expression through text instead of just switching the feed to video?

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[fools_journey]

Just habit, I guess. Back home, we mostly used just text to communicate with each other on our equivalent of the comp network. Because for the most part no one used any sort of video communication, we came up with other ways to convey tone and mood.