"Timid!?" Kozue wasn't timid, he was... not conversationally inclined. Yeah. And anyway, it looked like everyone here hadn't been expecting this many people either, so his reaction wasn't even that weird!
On top of that, almost all of the other students looked like underclassmen. Oh man. He and Yori had to step it up. They had to be Role Models, capital letters included. Kozue was so torn between sulking over being called timid and trying to straighten up so that the younger students could look up to him that he ended up just sort of convulsing and making a noise like the air being let out of a tire.
Yori seemed to have things under control, as far as anything involving a bunch of teenagers and a supposedly haunted building could be under control, so Kozue just slumped over the handlebars of his bike and pouted. At this point, he was just hoping to get through the "exploring" as quickly as possible and then maybe he could convince Yori to let him spend the night. Biking home in the dark alone after going through a creepy abandoned school wasn't very appealing.
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In the end, Kozue and Yori had decided to return at night after looking over the old building. It had seemed like a good idea at the time; the bike trails were clear at night and the almost full moon provided plenty of light to see by, and surely there wouldn't really be anything worse than maybe some creepy leftovers from whoever had last used the building before it was closed up.
Wrong. Oh so terribly, terribly wrong. There were people here. People that Kozue didn't know. People from other grades, even. This was so not what he had signed up for.
Okay so technically he could only see two people hanging around outside right now, but he didn't recognize them so that was bad enough. Kozue sighed and dismounted from his bike, walking it up the hill to the front of the old school building. Maybe they'd get lucky and the other two would be just leaving. Or maybe they were dating and they were here to have a forbidden tryst among all the cobwebs and gloom. Gross.
Oh man, he'd waited too long to say anything and now he was just standing and looking at them like some kind of creep. Say something to defuse the situation, quick.
"...Hi." Nailed it.
Wrong. Oh so terribly, terribly wrong. There were people here. People that Kozue didn't know. People from other grades, even. This was so not what he had signed up for.
Okay so technically he could only see two people hanging around outside right now, but he didn't recognize them so that was bad enough. Kozue sighed and dismounted from his bike, walking it up the hill to the front of the old school building. Maybe they'd get lucky and the other two would be just leaving. Or maybe they were dating and they were here to have a forbidden tryst among all the cobwebs and gloom. Gross.
Oh man, he'd waited too long to say anything and now he was just standing and looking at them like some kind of creep. Say something to defuse the situation, quick.
"...Hi." Nailed it.
Silence settled over them again after Akira left the classroom. Somebody needed to get that guy a map. Kozue fiddled with his phone for a little longer before nudging Yori.
"Hey, it's after three. We should get going if we want to take the trail through the south part of town before it gets crowded." The two of them had biked home together almost every day since the start of middle school, and anyway Kozue needed to get home early if he wanted to have dinner before Kohaku and his teammates got there to eat it all. He was happy that his little brother had such a healthy social life, but baseball players after a practice were pretty much human garbage disposals.
Kozue stood and stretched, expecting Yori to follow him with a bit of grumbling like he usually did. "If you really wanna stay here late, we could always check out the rumors about the old school building." He teased.
"Hey, it's after three. We should get going if we want to take the trail through the south part of town before it gets crowded." The two of them had biked home together almost every day since the start of middle school, and anyway Kozue needed to get home early if he wanted to have dinner before Kohaku and his teammates got there to eat it all. He was happy that his little brother had such a healthy social life, but baseball players after a practice were pretty much human garbage disposals.
Kozue stood and stretched, expecting Yori to follow him with a bit of grumbling like he usually did. "If you really wanna stay here late, we could always check out the rumors about the old school building." He teased.
Now on the list of things that were not okay, how close Akira was getting to Kozue was definitely not okay. He leaned back to match how Akira was leaning forward, keeping hold of his desk just in case his chair decided to start any more shenanigans.
"That... sounds like a video game quest. I don't really play video games." Kozue tried to smile disarmingly. It looked and felt forced. "I dunno, man. We're not even in the same class, why would I know?"
Actually, one of those video game features where you could just press 'X' to skip past a conversation was sounding pretty good right about now. "Yeah. I-dee-kay, as they say." Kozue didn't know anyone who actually used chatspeak in real life, other than some of the girls who liked to crowd around his brother after baseball games, but a nice vague "they" made it sound like he had people on his side, right?
"That... sounds like a video game quest. I don't really play video games." Kozue tried to smile disarmingly. It looked and felt forced. "I dunno, man. We're not even in the same class, why would I know?"
Actually, one of those video game features where you could just press 'X' to skip past a conversation was sounding pretty good right about now. "Yeah. I-dee-kay, as they say." Kozue didn't know anyone who actually used chatspeak in real life, other than some of the girls who liked to crowd around his brother after baseball games, but a nice vague "they" made it sound like he had people on his side, right?
Kozue had been deeply engrossed in the word game he'd been playing on his phone, and hadn't noticed Akira re-enter the room. He was startled when the other boy suddenly spoke and jumped a bit, causing the chair he was leaning back in to teeter for a few heart-stopping moments before it settled safely on all four legs. See, this was why he didn't normally talk to people. If you just came up to someone and started talking to them, you could potentially make them fall and die in a traumatic chair accident.
After taking a few moments to recover from his mini heart attack, Kozue turned to look properly at Akira; he'd been so concerned with not dying that he hadn't actually processed what Akira had said.
"I, uh. I didn't quite catch that. What?" He looked to Yori for help, which he did not receive, because Yori was drawing and not paying attention to Akira either. Thanks, Yori.
After taking a few moments to recover from his mini heart attack, Kozue turned to look properly at Akira; he'd been so concerned with not dying that he hadn't actually processed what Akira had said.
"I, uh. I didn't quite catch that. What?" He looked to Yori for help, which he did not receive, because Yori was drawing and not paying attention to Akira either. Thanks, Yori.
Just to clarify, is the IC thread following a set post pattern?
Name: Miyoshi, Kozue
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Class: 3-5
Appearance:
Personality: Kozue is bad at meeting new people. And small talk. And smiling without scaring people. He’s on the verge of adulthood but never got over his pre-pubescent awkwardness. It takes him a long time to get comfortable around people, but he’s a decent guy who looks out for his friends if you can get him to open up. He likes techno music and biking.
Biography: The Miyoshis have lived in Kadoguchi since the birth of their oldest child, Kozue’s older sister Kasumi. Kozue is the second of three children in the Miyoshi family, and he has often been out of his parents’ focus while they were concerned with Kasumi’s school applications and his younger brother Kohaku’s sports activities. As a result, he grew up as a mostly independent person, preferring his own company and the company of close friends to larger gatherings. Instead of joining clubs at school, he would often go for long rides on Kasumi’s hand-me-down bike while listening to music when he had nothing to do. During middle school, Kozue ended up in the same class as Yoriyoshi Kitoaji, who shared his hobby of biking and who he has been best friends with ever since. Yoriyoshi is one of the few people that Kozue can comfortably talk to all the time, and they are very close.
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Class: 3-5
Appearance:
Personality: Kozue is bad at meeting new people. And small talk. And smiling without scaring people. He’s on the verge of adulthood but never got over his pre-pubescent awkwardness. It takes him a long time to get comfortable around people, but he’s a decent guy who looks out for his friends if you can get him to open up. He likes techno music and biking.
Biography: The Miyoshis have lived in Kadoguchi since the birth of their oldest child, Kozue’s older sister Kasumi. Kozue is the second of three children in the Miyoshi family, and he has often been out of his parents’ focus while they were concerned with Kasumi’s school applications and his younger brother Kohaku’s sports activities. As a result, he grew up as a mostly independent person, preferring his own company and the company of close friends to larger gatherings. Instead of joining clubs at school, he would often go for long rides on Kasumi’s hand-me-down bike while listening to music when he had nothing to do. During middle school, Kozue ended up in the same class as Yoriyoshi Kitoaji, who shared his hobby of biking and who he has been best friends with ever since. Yoriyoshi is one of the few people that Kozue can comfortably talk to all the time, and they are very close.
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