Kids weren't allowed in the coffee shops in Amsterdam.
That was a dumb rule so it was ok for Mob to break it. That rule was there because they let you smoke at the coffee shops here and kids weren't supposed to smoke. That was a dumb rule because there was no reason for Mob not to smoke just because she was a kid. She was eleven, almost twelve, and yes she knew that she was young but that didn't mean that she couldn't make her own choices. She had to smoke to control her powers and also because she liked it…and also she knew hew limits and she knew not to overdo it in public either. So there was nothing wrong with Mob being here right now.
But just to be safe she had to sit in the corner by the wall behind Serizawa.
"Serizawa, you have to pass it." Said Mob. She loved this country. She didn't know why they were here, some dad stuff that he didn't need her help with, and she had no idea when they were leaving…but she was going to make the most of it while they were here. She wasn't used to smoking out in public, well not fully in public because she had to hide in the corner, but it was nice. It was really nice.
"What?" asked Serizawa. This was…not bad. He didn't like being outside in public in a country where he couldn't understand what was being said around him….and also he had strangers all around...but also his friends. He had his friends on every single side of him. Miss Suzuki to the left, Hatori to the right, and then Shibata and Shimazaki and Minegishi were on the other side of him. So if he closed his eyes then he could pretend that he was back at the house or…something…..
He needed to stop closing his eyes.
Because they sort of got stuck that way. Not like an eye infection but more like…he forgot to open them? Or maybe he just didn't want to. It was so nice behind his eyes. Dark. Dark and calm and…well it wasn't calm in here but there was sort of an inner calm to him…and the inner calm was like an outer calm. He could see his aura and he could tell that it looked…well just lie everyone else's. Everything was just so…calm….
He could see why Miss Suzuki did this all the time.
"Mob, just let him have it. For everyone's sake." Said Minegishi. They had come here to read. That had been the plan. Home was…well they were in close proximity to Suzuki again and whenever he was near his aura fixated on them…really, somebody needed to point him towards the red light district….and they just…hadn't been able to take it anymore. So they had come here to read….and then Mob had asked to come with because she liked to come with…and then Serizawa had asked to come with because he was Mob's shadow…and then when they brought up the fact that kids were not allowed at the coffee shops, the kind they went to, here Ryou had helpfully offered to teleport her inside…and then Shibata had been drafted into this because he was big enough that nobody would notice Mob with him at the table…and then Hatori had joined them because apparently Suzuki shipped him and Shibata….
So, yay, group outing.
"Oh no it's ok, I can pass it." Said Serizawa. Right….now where did he have to pass it to. Miss Suzuki reached over and took it from him. She had saved him from making the choice. She had saved him from getting himself all upset like usual. She was such a good friend like that. He would have hugged her if he could have, but he couldn't, because he was supposed to keep other people from noticing her. She was too young to be there…he had no idea how old she really was…and it didn't seem polite to ask…
Nor did it seem polite to ask how she got all of that glitter in her hair…it was so nice…and sparkly….like she had caught an invulnerability star…not that it didn't always seem like she had an invulnerability star, because it did.
It really did.
"W-What's going on?" asked Hatori as he looked up from his phone. He had been…he couldn't remember what he'd been doing. He had way too many apps on his phone. Why did he have so many apps? There were so many things that he could do and it was like….the paradox of choice…and why had he been wanting to do something anyway? He was out with his friends and he should have been present in the moment and….and he needed to work on that. He needed to work on being present in the moment and-
-and a hand reached over and stole his entire cup of coffee.
Now he remembered why he had been buried in his phone. He had to sit on the same side as Shimazaki….and he hated it. Shimazaki…why did he have to be such an asshole all the time?! Well his abusive childhood, the drugs he did, and probably some shit he picked up as an adult….so maybe Hatori was being an asshole for thinking that Shimazaki was an asshole…but people who'd had sad lives could be assholes too! Like Suzuki. From what he'd heard from the man himself his life had sucked and now he was trying to take over the world because of that….and yeah that was an asshole move…so if Suzuki could be an asshole then anyone could be and…hey! Now he remembered what he had been trying to do….and he put his phone away.
Not a good idea at all.
Suzuki never came to group shit when he was invited to it…and this was not at all his thing anyway…but he was lonely since his best friend was an ocean away….poor Suzuki…and poor Shimazaki for his terrible life…and poor him for his terrible life….and….and poor coffee for being drank by Shimazaki…and poor Mob for having to sit in the corner….and poor Shibata for being shipped with him…and poor him for being shipped with Shibata and….and poor…..and poor Sho for being stuck with Fukuda…and poor Fukuda for not being able to admit his feelings for Suzuki….and poor Suzuki for never being able to admit his feelings for Fukuda…and poor each of them for having feelings for each other…and poor…well….
Poor pretty much everyone in Claw.
"They figured out that Mob is a kid and now we're getting kicked out." Said Shimazaki as he put Hatori's coffee cup back down on the saucer….way too hard. Porcelain on porcelain, he hated that sound, and he wished that he could have deleted that sound from life. That and the sound of windbreakers and zippers being undone and also whatever the hell was playing over the speakers here. He had no idea why Toshi had wanted to come here. They hated noise and crowds and group outings….but he loved them and he wasn't going to question them, just accept them, and he could do that.
He could do the hell out of that.
"What?!" asked Hatori. He knocked his empty cup off the table on accident….but it didn't fall. No, Shibata had caught it for him. He was a good friend…just a friend…despite what Suzuki thought.
"Careful." Said Shibata as he put Hatori's coffee cup back down in front of him. He put his own coffee cup down in front of Hatori too. Shimazaki had stolen his coffee again…and he had one in front of him…but he wasn't going to start with him. The last thing that he wanted to do was draw more attention to them than was necessary. Mob wasn't supposed to be here. She wasn't anywhere near being old enough for this place and the last thing she needed was to get kicked out. It would have been so upsetting for her…and there was enough happening to upset her.
Sho being gone, mostly, his absence left a hole in their group but Mob felt it the most being his older sister and all.
"Announce that a little louder why don't you, Ryou?" asked Minegishi not looking up from their book.
"I'm speaking Japanese." Said Shimazaki with a shrug. He didn't think that anyone was listening and even if they were then they were the ones being eavesdroppers and that was wrong. Besides, what was Toshi so worried about? Mob was getting older, she could pass as an adult….right? Well she was short as all else but height didn't mean anything…but Toshi didn't even like to press these things and he didn't like pissing off Toshi.
"Amazingly enough we aren't the only Japanese people who travel…and I think you would have known that well." Said Minegishi
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember what happened." Said Shimazaki
"Something happened?" asked Mob. That was….well that wasn't good. When Shimazaki said that something happened hen that meant that something crazy had happened to him. Crazy by her standards but normal by his…but what had happened? The craziest things happened when Sho was there but he was away now…he was way too far away….so Mob had no idea what kind of trouble Shimazaki could have gotten himself into.
"What happened?" asked Serizawa. He wondered if he was allowed to ask…Shimazaki was his friend and it was alright to talk to your friends….and he just…he was….he wanted to know. He wanted to know and he asked and…and if it wasn't alight then Miss Suzuki would have stopped him. She was smoking, now, and….well she was still paying attention.
"With me and Sho? Well we were just having a normal conversation, he was kind of upset because Mob's friend came onto him-" said Shimazaki
"What happened to Sho?" asked Mob with a cough. Sho? People were talking about Sho? Was he ok? Did he need her? Was Fukuda taking care of him? Mob almost got up but Minegishi reached out with their aura and gave hers a tap. Right. She had to stay hidden…and…and if something had been wrong with Sho then he would have told her….and he was a big kid now and he could be on his own…and this was for his own good, anyway. Dad had said so.
Dad had said that he was doing something nice for Sho….and dad never did nice things for Sho so this was big.
"Back in New York after the play your friend, the bitchy one-" said Shimazaki. God, that night. That fucking night….he missed Sho like hell but…well maybe they needed some space again. He was getting worse, like Toshi had warned.
"Hey, be nice. I'm sure that Mob's friend is just as sweet and nice as she is." Said Shibata. Minegishi snorted. They didn't have to. He knew that little girls weren't always sweet and adorable…but he also knew not to call them names like 'bitchy'. No kid could be bitchy. Adults on the other hand….
"Shibata, whatever you're smoking I think you could use a break." Said Minegishi with a shake of their head. Mob had the worst taste in friends. Friends her own age. Maybe this was some kind of Benjamin Button situation and Mob was secretly in her twenties or something…they were just about high enough to believe that. Heh.
"Gimme a break, gimme a break-" laughed Hatori. He knew that song…he had loved that song…and now he really….God, he was hungry. He needed something sugary and…and he needed to eat something or he was going to die….or just….be hungry…or…whatever. Maybe this was why he wasn't supposed to smoke…and drink…well that was for a whole different reason….
Did they sell candy here? Because he really could have gone for a KitKat…dipped in cheese…with a blue Monster…or maybe red…green?
"I'm not anything right now, actually." Said Shibata with a sigh. The curse, well one of the curses, of being his size.
"Oh no! I'm sorry, here!" said Mob. She leaned over past Serizawa to hand the joint to Shibata…and then she was pushed back into her seat.
"Mob, come on, you know better…and give me that joint. If you're high enough to do something like that then you are way too high right now." Said Minegishi as they held their hand out. They saw, out of the corner of their eye, a member of staff pointing right at them.
They hadn't been thrown out of anywhere in a while….wonderful.
"I'm fine…my socks are only a little soft. Serizawa's robe is much softer." Said Mob. She had brushed past it when she'd been leaning over him. How had she not noticed how soft this was? Even the loose threads were soft. It was like wearing a cloud, maybe, or maybe like wearing suede…like those shoes she had ruined when she'd walked through those puddles…like…would this have gotten ruined in the water? But then how did it get washed…actually she hadn't done his laundry for him in a while…
"It is…it really is…" said Serizawa as he felt the fabric of his robe. That was soft…not real silk but still soft…wow. How had he never noticed how soft his robe had been? She was so good at noticing thing…she was so good at everything. He was so happy that he could have been her friend.
"Your hair is soft too….wow. It's soft and fluffy like…head clouds…" said Mob as she sat up higher in her chair and felt his hair. This was alright, right? Dad felt her hair all the time…so feeling people's hair was alright…and Serizawa had really nice hair. It felt nice, like he'd washed it. Nice and soft and fluffy and great! It stood up on it's own but it wasn't spiky like Sho's was….
Sho…she wondered if he'd been washing his hair…and taking baths…and maybe she should have asked him if he'd been taking care of himself….he needed her….
"I've never thought about it like that…actually I've never liked my hair…" said Serizawa. When he'd been a kid people had always made fun of his hair. That it stood up the way he did and…and he just…well now he didn't hate it and…and she made him not hate it. She was so nice like that.
"Sho what happened between Sho and the little pink haired monster?" asked Minegishi as they reached over and pulled Mob back down into her seat. God. Mob's tolerance had been better, before, and…and what had happened in their life that they had gotten to the point where they were upset that Mob's tolerance was too low?
Oh. Right. The past twenty eight, almost twenty nine, years.
"Huh? Oh, right, so she tried to shove her tongue down his throat and he was all freaked out and shit so we got pizza….fuck. Your hair is soft…" said Shimazaki as he reached over and felt Serizawa's hair. He had to see what all the excitement was about…and…wow. How was his hair that soft? Huh. He had to get back into touching people's hair and pretending that it was something that he had to do. Invading people's personal space was always fun…and he needed to get back into that….maybe. He didn't know. Shit wasn't as fun when Sho was around…but maybe Sho needed to not be around for a while…
Maybe he'd come back having met the boy of his dreams and then everything would be back to normal and they could get back to raising hell together.
"Wait…what did Minori do to Sho?" asked Mob. If she had been drinking her coffee she would have spat it all over the table. If she hadn't been smoking as much as she had been then she would have flipped the table. All she did was shake it a little…and some of Minegishi's coffee had sloshed out of their cup and onto their shirt…and that was their shirt that said that they hated everyone….and…and she would fix that later…
She had enough problems right now.
"I'm sure Shimazaki is exaggerating. People your age don't do that." Said Shibata
"Oh you poor soul." Said Shimazaki. He reached over and patted Shibata on the arm. As he did that his other hand made it's way across the table. Shibata was smarter then he looked. He picked Hatori's coffee, really Shibata's coffee but Shimazaki didn't care about sharing germs, and held it up high in the air out of Shimazaki's reach.
"What? People their age don't do that stuff…or at least they didn't when I was that age." Said Hatori as Shimazaki practically leaned over into his lap. He wanted to push him away but that would have just devolved into a shoving contest…and he didn't think that he had even a chance of winning a shoving contest with Shimazaki…and also that would have drawn more attention to them…
And enough people were already looking as it was.
"Minori does that kind of stuff….well at least she did. She used to have a friend with benefits and they kissed all the time and she let him feel her up and she even saw his….yeah…and I guess she wants to be with Sho like that….but….that's so gross! She's my friend and Sho is my little brother and…and she kissed him like that a couple years ago at the Christmas party….and….and….and Sho has a girlfriend! He has a girlfriend and he loves her and he can't do things like that!" said Mob. She was in love with Emmy! Sho was marrying Emmy! Sho….he was back in England with Fukuda so he could be with Emmy! Sho had a girlfriend who he loved and planned to marry and he had to spend time with her. He had to be there for her because he loved her and love….well there was nothing better than love. Mob had never been in love, the thing with Hatori didn't count and the less said about that the better, and she would never be in love anyway since she didn't know any boys who liked her…but she still knew that love was a beautiful and perfect thing. There was nothing better than love. All you needed was love. The Beatles said that and Shimazaki said that all the knowledge and wisdom in the world could be found in the Beatles body of work. So if all you needed was love then that meant that Sho didn't need her anymore….but that was how it worked since he was getting older and this was even the part of the year when they were the same age…and….
And she wiped her eyes. Sho was so far away….and she was all the way over here…..
"Wait….what? How….what?" asked Serizawa. Miss Suzuki was young, he knew that she was the youngest next to her brother, but…she was as young as that other girl? Also kids did….things like that? That didn't seem right…because they were so young. That was adult stuff. He didn't even do that stuff and he was an adult…well he didn't know any girls…but still! They seemed, especially Miss Suzuki's little brother, to be way too young for all of that….but he wasn't going to say anything. What did he know? Maybe all of that was normal and he was just the weird one.
"Yeah….I agree? How old is this girl again?" asked Hatori. Well he was too high…any amount was too much for him…but this was really too much. Seriously? Poor Sho….or lucky Sho? No, poor Sho. Hatori had no idea what he was but it probably wasn't interested in that girl.
"Eleven…well she was eleven then but she's twelve now…and she's mad that I didn't come back to Japan for her birthday….but I'm kind of…unhappy…that she tried to kiss my brother again. Like…what the h-word? He has a girlfriend and he's my brother and…gross!" said Mob. The table jumped again…and she needed to smoke more? Who had it? She needed it. She just…how was she supposed to talk to Minori now? Kissing…well she had kissed Sho before….but now she and Mob were friends, supposedly best friends, but she just went and…and….and…
Why?!
She knew that Sho had a girlfriend, right? And…and why hadn't Sho said a word about it to her? Well maybe he just didn't want to talk about kissing with his big sister. That made sense, it made a lot of sense, since if she had been kissing anyone she wouldn't have wanted to discuss it with her little brother…but still! Just…she would have told Minori to stop. She would have been there for Sho. She loved her little brother and she would have done anything for him…anything at all…
Even told Minori to…well to keep her tongue in her mouth where it belonged.
"Mob, we're all just as disturbed as you are but, please, try not to get us kicked out. We're Japanese and we tend to age slowly but I doubt that anyone's going to mistake you for an adult. Especially in that getup." Said Minegishi motioning to the mess of tulle and glitter that Mob was wearing. Maybe next time they should have lent her some of their clothes…or maybe just a trench coat, top hat, and stilts.
"What's wrong with my dress?" asked Mob. No, not Minegishi too. She got enough of this from Minori…and also…well she trusted Minori about that but Minegishi wore boy's clothes so what did they know? No, no, that was just her being mean because she was sad that Sho was gone and also upset about how Minori had kissed him. That was all. She wasn't going to take it out on Minegishi.
"Nothing!" said Serizawa a little too loudly. Now people were looking….the lights above them flickered. Right…people were there and…and where had that thing that they'd been smoking gone to? He needed….he needed a lot more of it.
"Yeah, you look great. Your clothes are very….green? Red? Orange? Tangerine?" asked Shimazaki
"That last one wasn't a color." Said Hatori before he could stop himself and remember who he was talking to.
"Fruits can be colors." Said Shibata. He knew where Shimazaki was going with this and he was going to stop it before it got there. Hatori didn't need to be stressed out. If he went to hide then the staff might have seen Mob. They were already looking this way and had been for a while…though that might have been because he was two and a half meters tall. He got a lot of stares…but better him than Mob.
"Yeah, just keep on making me feel different." Said Shimazaki. He didn't feel bad but Hatori didn't need to know that.
"Tangerine can be a color. I mean if an orange can be a food and a color than so can a tangerine. Like Shibata said." Said Mob. She didn't know if he actually felt bad or if he was just saying things…but she wasn't going to take her chances.
"Mob's dress is blue and there's nothing wrong with it. There's something wrong with her friend, someone really needs to teach her the meaning of the word 'no', but there's nothing wrong with Mob or the way she's dressed. I was just saying that there is no way in hell that anyone would mistake Mob for an adult." Said Minegishi
"There's nothing wrong with Minori…well she can be kind of a b-word sometimes…but….I just have to talk to her and tell her that Sho has a girlfriend and he loves her." said Mob. There. She would just talk to Minori and then everything would be ok and then when they were old people feeding koi in the park they would look back on this and laugh…or just never talk about it again. That worked too.
"And he's in love with Shimazaki too…if….that would help…I mean you telling her….I'll stop talking now." Said Serizawa. Miss Suzuki was staring at him. Everyone was staring at him. Maybe he just needed to stop talking. Maybe he just, for the good of everyone, needed to stop talking all together forever. He had just…it hadn't seemed like a secret!
"We…don't really talk about that." Said Hatori
"Because don't want to embarrass him. There's nothing wrong with the way he feels about Shimazaki but…well he gets embarrassed really easily." Said Shibata
"Well maybe we should talk about it….and when Sho's here. We need to stage some kind of intervention or…something…because this is only going to get worse the older he gets." Said Minegishi. Good. They were finally going to address the lovesick elephant in the room. Someone needed to talk to Sho…and they got the feeling that it was going to end up being them. Ryou didn't like having hard conversations, Hatori was too skittish, Shibata enabled anything and everything, these sorts of things weren't in Serizawa's wheelhouse, asking Suzuki to get up off his ass and do some parenting was too much, and Fukuda…well Minegishi got the feeling that he was the cause of Sho's…Sho-ness.
Another bit of parenting left up to them. Joy of joys.
"Um….maybe we shouldn't talk about it. I don't know how Sho can be in love with Shimazaki and still have a girlfriend…and also he knows that Shimazaki is in love with Minegishi and they're going to get married and have a bunch of babies….and…well we shouldn't talk about what's happening in his heart. It's private." Said Mob as she played with the tulle of her dress. Sho…would not have liked them to have an intervention like in the intervention having show. No, not at all. Besides, he had a girlfriend and they were in love…so maybe it wouldn't get any worse…not that there even was a worse when it came to love.
Things didn't get worse when you were in love, no, they got better.
"You and I have a lot to talk about." Said Minegishi. They wanted to bang their head against the wall. That was another intervention that they needed to plan. Mob and love…and living vicariously through them. They had told her that marriage and children were not in their future….but of course it went in one ear and out the other with her. Love…this love thing would only get worse…and it had already been pretty bad. That thing with Hatori….yeah. That was not something that anyone wanted to or needed to revisit.
"How about we don't talk about anything. I know how Sho feels about me and, yeah, it's not getting any better but he'll get over me eventually. Maybe he'll get over me by the time he gets back…or maybe he'll meet the guy of his dreams. I don't fucking know. I just know that whatever Sho feels it doesn't change the outcome. He's still my little bestie." Said Shimazaki. Now everyone was looking at him, he could feel it, and they…well they needed to get back to smoking or…or something. Something other than talking about this.
It was heavy…and heavy shit was boring…and he did not do boring.
"That's beautiful." Said Serizawa. Wow. Now that was friendship…they were so lucky, Shimazaki and Sho, to have each other. He knew that if someone had been in love with him then he would have been…scared….if anything. If his best friend…but he didn't have a best friend…well he had Miss Suzuki but she was best friends with Minegishi….but if Miss Suzuki had been in love with him then he would have been terrified.
He didn't know how to deal with someone loving him who he didn't love back….she was a nice person but way too young….and he would end up hurting her if he said no but he would never have been able to live with himself if he lied and said yes….
"It's ok, Serizawa, you'll have a best friend of your own soon." Said Mob as she patted him on the hand. She could tell by his aura that he was sad about something….probably not having a friend who was as close to him as Shimazaki and Sho were. He'd find someone and if he didn't then she could be as close to him as Shimazaki and Sho were. Without the love. He was nice…and tall…and he had been listening to her about skin care it seemed….and he was really good at Animal Crossing and playing dolls….and he was REALLY tall….but she wasn't in love with him.
She was never falling in love with one of her friends again. There was no chance of it ending well.
"And hopefully you won't end up in the same boat as Ryou." Said Minegishi. That was directed more at Mob than anything. They knew her, they knew her type, and they knew that she didn't always think things through. She liked tall nerds that she had to take care of…so pretty much her dad. Well they were not going to go through another Hatori situation. No way. That hadn't been fun for anyone.
"Can we please get off this Sho thing? Ok, so he has a crush on me and he's confessed to me a couple of times and he keeps on trying to watch me sleep and hug me and….yeah….he's a stage ten clinger but I'm handling it. He's going to figure himself out and then he'll get over me and then it'll all be over, ok?! So can we please talk about something else?!" asked Shimazaki
"We should go." Said Hatori as he motioned behind him. He didn't speak Dutch and his English was crap but he knew that nothing good would come from having that many staff members staring at them.
"I didn't say that we should go, I just said that we should talk about something else. Like who keeps on messing up the kitchen. Why are you guys going through the trouble, well why are Toshi and Mob going through the trouble, of labeling everything if you're all going to mess it up?" asked Shimazaki
"No, I mean we should go now. A bunch of people are looking…don't make eye contact!" said Hatori
"Sorry!" said Shibata. Well now he'd messed up. He'd made eye contact and now someone was coming over…and….and Mob could maybe pass for an adult….right? No, she couldn't. She was too small and adorable.
"Great. Well looks like it's time to start running." Said Minegishi. They were the only one who spoke Dutch. They didn't speak good Dutch but they knew what the staff had been talking about. Great. They're barely in here and now it's time to run….
"Come on, Mob, here's the part where we pretend to walk to the bathrooms but really I take you God knows where." Said Shimazaki as he got up. God, he could not wait for Mob to get old enough so they didn't have to go through this every time they felt like going somewhere fun. She was…twelve-ish, right? Well at least she was getting older. He had no idea what she looked like but he knew that she was going to be able to pass for an adult soon.
And then they could have worry free fun!
"Ok….Serizawa, don't freak out. I have to go now but we'll be together in a minute." Said Mob as she got up. She patted Serizawa on the hand and handed him is umbrella before Shimazaki put his hand on her back and led her around the corner. Someone said something to her in Dutch, which she did not speak, and English, which she did…but Shimazaki walked her past so fast that she didn't even have time to say anything. He walked around a corner and then the world fell away.
She was never going to get used to that.
The world fell away and she found herself outside. She…well she got the feeling that it just wasn't fair. She knew that it wasn't but she also…well there was so much that was unfair…she didn't know what she was even calling unfair. She wanted…she wanted to say that it was unfair that she couldn't smoke because of her age even though she knew her limits and had been doing this since she was eight. She wished that her brother had been back even though he was way too young for all of this….and also he had to be in England to be with his girlfriend who he was in love with. She wanted to say that it wasn't fair that her friend had tried to kiss him…and also it wasn't fair that Sho hadn't told her anything so she could fix it for him. She wanted to say that it wasn't fair that he had someone to love and she didn't…and also it wasn't fair that he was in love with someone who didn't like him back….and….and it was just unfair. She wanted to say it, shout it even, but she didn't.
That wouldn't have been very nice at all.
Also it would have done nothing. Her saying that things weren't fair wouldn't have made Sho love Shimazaki any less. Her saying that things weren't fair wouldn't have undone what Minori had done to Sho or made Sho tell her what had happened when it had happened. Her saying that things were unfair wouldn't have made someone love her….someone who was tall and nice and loved her more than anyone else in the world. Saying that things were unfair wouldn't have made her any older, either, she was still not even twelve yet….and saying that things were unfair wouldn't put her back in that coffee shop….
Because kids weren't allowed in the coffee shops in Amsterdam.