The sky was really pretty here.

She had seen the colors every time the sun had gone down. Greens, mostly, in the blackness of the night. She hadn't ever seen these in person before, nothing in Claw was this far north. Nothing that she knew about, anyway, she knew that dad had safe houses all over the world in case things when bad when the day came. She didn't think that things could possibly have gone wrong on the day that dad took over the world. Claw had the most espers so of course they would win. Hopefully the countries wouldn't do anything dumb like try to fight. Claw would win, of course, and anyway she didn't like fighting anyway. Even if it meant that she could have stayed in a safe house that might have had giant windows like this.

Maybe she could put windows like this in their house.

When they got a permanent one, of course. Dad used to talk about it all the time, the kind of house that they would live in once he was done ruling the world. He had even had a giant dollhouse made for her that was supposed to be like the house that they would live in. It was in storage, now, since it was way too big and she hardly played dolls anymore. She was too old to play dolls, now, she was twelve. She did stuff…all the stuff…and she was way too old for dolls. Minori had said so and unless she was playing with Mukai dolls just…weren't that much fun anymore. She liked doing other things now, to relax and have fun, like switching between looking out the window at the sky and looking down at her phone.

That was a nice dress.

She hit the like button and saved the picture. She would get that dress later for when it got hotter out. Shopping was fun, and not just when she was with Minori. Minori was a lot nicer when they went shopping, maybe because it was so fun. It was like you didn't have to worry about anything but what you were going to buy next. You didn't worry about your dad or your brother or your best friend or who you loved or who loved you or what you did or what mistakes you made…Mob kept on scrolling. Shopping was fun on her own too. Or pre-shopping in her case. She didn't know what her next address would be or how long she would be there. She had to go back to Tokyo to go to Minori's party but after that she didn't know. Hopefully somewhere fun, like this, with good views and stuff. Somewhere where she could just relax….all on her own.

Well not totally.

Sho was home, he was just asleep. He needed more sleep than she did. She was like dad and he was like mom. She'd go to sleep later, of course, once she got more tired. Christmas was over so she didn't have to worry about that anymore. New Year's Eve was next, that was always fun. Then it was Minori's birthday and then Valentine's Day and Mukai's birthday and then Dad's and then hers…wow. The whole next year was suddenly so…short. Like she could see everything that was coming before it came. Sort of like flying over the ocean. Both long but also short since it was just blue, blue, and more blue….birthdays, holidays, and then more birthdays. Thirteen. She was going to be thirteen. She hoped that being thirteen was better than being twelve.

Being twelve kind of really f-wording sucked.

Or maybe she just really f-wording sucked at being twelve. Minori had been twelve for longer than she had and she was doing great. Sure her dad was kind of strict and all of her friends were b-words but at least she…well she knew what she was doing when it came to being twelve. Mob didn't know anything. She dressed like a first grader but acted like an adult. She had been in love like an adult and she'd done….all the things, like an adult. Minegishi said that this didn't make her an adult, she was just a twelve year old who knew what sex was like, but if this didn't make you an adult then what did? She could have had a baby. She could have made a whole baby all of her own. That had to make you an adult since kids couldn't be parents…right?

It made sense.

She didn't know if she was going to have a baby or not. Her stomach hurt but that could have just either been too much glöggi, or too much glöggi with whiskey in it, or just too much worry. She didn't know which but she knew that having her stomach hurt wasn't proof that she was going to have a baby. She had seen enough TV to know how you knew when you were pregnant. You had a big baby bump and you threw up all the time and ate weird things. She had been drinking glöggi all, she didn't know what currants were but she sure did like their juice, but that wasn't so weird. It was just weird to her. Something weird would have been like salmon eggs and peanut butter, or strawberry milk and steamed cabbage, or anything that dad liked to eat. She didn't feel like eating weird things and she hadn't thrown up since she took the medicine….so maybe Shoko wasn't going to be born after all….

She didn't know how she felt about that.

She knew that if she had a daughter then she would have been a good mom, a better mom than her own mom had been. She wasn't going to run away from her daughter, for one thing, and she was going to tell her all the things that girls were supposed to know, too. Like how sometimes you had your period and it didn't mean that you were dying or how sometimes you thought that you were in love with a boy but then he poked you with his thing and made you all slimy and then he kicked you out of his house so instead of being in love with him when you thought about him it was like there was a big hole in your chest where your heart used to be and you sometimes just wanted to cry but you couldn't cry so you accidentally liked a dress you would never wear but you were too sad to fix it and then-

-someone laid down on you.

"Shima-Ryou? What are you doing here?" asked Mob. One minute she had been trying not to cry, if she lost control then all of these big windows would shatter and that would have been very bad since this was a hotel, and then the next Shimazaki had teleported into her living room and laid his head right in her lap! Like…why!?

"I come bearing glöggi!" said Shimazaki. He held up his arm as carefully as he could. This was for Mob and if he spilled it then he'd have to go back and get her more and then that would have been boring and right now the last thing he wanted to be was boring! It was still Christmas somewhere in the world, maybe not here but somewhere, and on Christmas it was illegal to be boring!

"Careful, Ryou." said Mob as she caught the cup with her powers. Her eyes and her aura darted over to the bedroom. Mukai wasn't there, she was thankfully sleeping with Tsuchiya, but Sho was and he needed his sleep. He was just going to be grumpy if he woke up now. Also he'd had enough to drink as it was. It would have been nice if Shimazaki had come here to see Sho…but it sure was nice of him to bring her another drink. She smelled it. There was whiskey in this. It was so good it almost made up for the lack of eggnog in this county. Shibata's hadn't turned out so good this year so this was the best they had…and their best was pretty good.

She took a sip. More than pretty good.

"I'm not going to spill it, you can trust me." Said Shimazaki

"I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about you waking Sho." said Mob. She put the empty cup on the table with her powers. Shimazaki's aura brushed against hers and she pulled her telekinetic grip back. It had felt weird…sort of nice but mostly weird. Not that she would ever say something like that to him. She knew what it was like to have someone hurt your heart and she knew that she could never do anything like that, especially to her friend.

"I'm not going to do that either. I love Sho like a son, I really do, but he can be kind of a downer and right now the last thing I need is a downer. I need an upper, like you. Or coke maybe. Like if you were made of coke." Said Shimazaki

"Coke is nice." Said Mob. She sat up a little bit straighter.

"Well I do not come bearing coke. I came bearing glöggi and that is what I bore. So either accept this or chop my head off and marry someone who can give you a son made out of coke." Said Shimazaki

"Huh?" asked Mob

"Nothing. Anyway do you want to know what else I come bearing?" asked Shimazaki as he reached into his pocket.

"If you have a joint don't smoke it here, it's a hotel. We can smoke my pen, though, it might be charged by now." Said Mob

"No I don't, well actually yes I come bearing many joints, but also I come bearing this." said Shimazaki as he fished a piece of mistletoe out of his jacket pocket. Toshi made the best mistletoe, you could eat the berries on this without dying. Of course he had eaten all the berries anyway just to put Tsuchiya's mind at ease. Those had been good berries, maybe Mob knew how to make them too. He'd ask her when they were done making out. It had been too fucking long.

"Oh…ok." Said Mob. Shimazaki sat up. She kind of wished that he had gone back to using her as a pillow. She had done her best to avoid all the mistletoe this year for this very reason. She didn't really want to kiss Shimazaki. She would, of course, since it wasn't so bad and she didn't want to hurt his feelings but she just…felt weird. She knew that he was in an open relationship with Minegishi but they were still her best friend and his was still their boyfriend. She knew that sharing was important but this was maybe too much sharing….

But she didn't say anything.

She didn't know how she could have said anything without hurting him in some way. This wasn't so bad. He smelled good, which was nice, and he didn't do the tongue stab thing that Teru had done. He touched her face a lot, though, which felt weird. Feeling weird was normal for this…was this a relationship? She didn't know. This was maybe just a kissing thing. He had said that this wasn't a sex thing, which was good, because she didn't know if she wanted to do that ever again. It had been boring and awkward and weird and slimy…and also afterwards Teru was mean to her. He had thrown her out…well she had been thinking about leaving but thinking about leaving didn't mean that getting kicked out hadn't hurt. She didn't know why. Teru thought that Claw was evil and that dad was a bad person even though she had said that dad made a mistake and she had fixed it. Teru and anyone else who wasn't an adult was still off the asset acquisition list and nobody in Seasoning City was allowed to bother him or any of his friends. He had still kicked her out….

Kissing Shimazaki may have felt weird but at least he didn't stab her with his thing and then kick her out.

"You alright?" asked Shimazaki between kisses. She had started off enthusiastic but now she was kind of…distant? If that was the word. She was right there but she had stopped kissing him back and her aura sounded like someone was swinging an oven door opened and shut really fast. He kissed the corner of her mouth and pulled away from her.

"I…I'm fine. I was just thinking." Said Mob as Shimazaki stopped kissing her. His hand was still touching her face, though, he was twisting one of her hime bangs between his fingers. She felt his fingers touch her cheek over and over again. It felt weird.

"About?" asked Shimazaki as he played with a lock of her hair. Her hair used to be so soft…but he still liked it. It was hers, wasn't it? Her hair felt sort of like Toshi's now and he liked, loved, Toshi. God, now he was thinking….a lot of shit. Mostly around the subjects of Mob and Toshi together…well later. Much later. This was the speed that Mob wanted to go at so this was the speed that they would go.

"Someone else, that's all. Someone who was mean to me." Said Mob

"Someone was mean to you? Who? You want me to kick their ass?" asked Shimazaki

"No! No, please don't hit him or worse. He-he didn't…I mean he was kind of mean to me but I'm not mad anymore. I don't think that I ever was. I was just sad…but I'm ok now so you don't have to do anything." Said Mob. What was it with boys and wanting to beat people up? Sho had been offering to beat up boys for her since they'd been little, dad wanted to beat up boys who he thought liked her, and now this. Boys!

"Some guy made you sad? I think that's a beat up-able offense if there ever was one. Ok, what's his name and where's he live? And what'd he do to you?" asked Shimazaki. That was weird. Mob's whole body just chimed to life like Mob's phone when she turned the volume on.

"I-I-I don't want to talk about it…" said Mob. It had been hard enough to talk about it with Minegishi, there was no way that she was talking about this with Shimazaki! He was a boy! And he liked her. If she told him about how she did all the things with another boy then he would have been hurt. He might have been heartbroken and…and maybe he wouldn't have liked her anymore. That would have been…it would have been bad if she broke his heart but if he didn't like her anymore then…well then things would have been weird between her and him and her and Minegishi anymore.

"You sure? You're, uh, being kind of cryptic here. Kind of like I have to kick someone's ass until there's no ass left to kick." Said Shimazaki. Ok, if this guy broke Mob's heart then Shimazaki was going to beat his ass into the ground. If this guy had done something to hurt her then, well, there wouldn't be enough of him left to identify his body. Mob could have defended herself but that wasn't how she was. That was fine, that was what he was for.

"No! I mean, no, don't beat anyone up. There was just…um…this boy who I thought I loved but he kicked me out of his house after…um...we did all the stuff…and then I was sad but now I have red hair and I feel better!" said Mob. She hoped that he turned this into one of those times when he wanted her explain color to him. She hoped that he thought of something else to talk about, even something weird, or maybe even that they got back to kissing. Anything other than talking about what she had done. She had thought that it would have been fast, she said what happened and then he told her that he didn't like her anymore and teleported away. She hadn't thought that he would have just sat right there and played with her hair…

Quietly.

He was being quietly. She didn't know if he was mad or sad or hurt or if he didn't even care at all. Minegishi had said that Shimazaki was a jealous person even though he tried not to be. He was jealous of people who Minegishi liked, he was jealous of people who were happy, and he was jealous of people for no real reason at all. Minegishi had said so and they knew him better than she did, they had done all the things with him before, so she trusted them. Even though Shimazaki wasn't acting very jealous right now.

No, he was thinking…that was worse.

"So…what you're saying is that you hooked up with some guy and he kicked you out right afterwards?" asked Shimazaki slowly. He knew what she had said, he just had to figure out why she was saying this to him now. He knew her, she wasn't a forward person at all. She liked it better when the other person initiated…was this her trying to initiate? But this was Mob. He had figured it would have been a year or two before she wanted to do anything besides what they'd been doing. Plus the age gap was still a weird thing for Toshi.

He didn't get it.

Mob was an amazing person. She was pretty much the whole package and she was going to be the whole package so what did the date on the calendar have to do it with? She wasn't a kid anymore, now that was weird, he could sense the basic shape of her and she was in no way a kid anymore. Physically and emotionally she wasn't a kid anymore. She was really fucking mature, a hell of a lot more mature than he was, and if he wanted to get really technical about the Claw hierarchy thing then she was his boss, technically. So what did it matter if she was twelve? He had been the same person since he'd been twelve, he just got taller. What did it matter how old she was or how tall she was?

She was Mob and she was the third most amazing person he had ever met in his life.

"Um…he took a nap first. I mean when he was done he laid down and went to sleep and then I got dressed and just sort of…waited, I guess…and then he kicked me out." Said Mob. She didn't know what had been unclear about what she had said. Why did he need the whole story? She didn't want to tell the whole story. She swallowed and held onto her hair. It was red now. It was a new day, she was a new Mob, and…and the past was in the past. Like Elsa had said, the past was in the past, and…well she had come back from the mountain and all….but…but the past was still in the past!

"Uh, so what you're saying is that this guy not only kicked you out right afterwards but he also made zero move to do anything for you. He just rolled over and went to sleep?" asked Shimazaki. He was still figuring her out. Her aura got kind of…upset, there? Annoyed. With him? Because he hadn't picked up on whatever this was yet. He could have asked her outright but then she might have been embarrassed and she got all closed off when she was embarrassed. She didn't have to be, though. He wasn't going to sleep with her, Toshi had said not until she got to an age where it wasn't weird for them, and he wasn't about to go and piss Toshi off about this. Still though, some asshole had not only kicked her out but left her unsatisfied too? Who the fuck did that? That was some messed up shit, and he knew a lot about messed up shit.

"….yes?" said Mob. She didn't know what there was to think about. She had told him all that there was to know. What else could he have possibly had to ask her?

"Well then, Mob, I am so sorry that happened to you." Said Shimazaki with a sigh. That really did suck for her. He was assuming that it had been her first time. People said that first times always sucked. Those people had just been with other people who either didn't know what they were doing or were downright selfish, like Mob's guy had been. Shimazaki prayed that this guy never ran into him on the street, for his sake. Poor Mob. He needed to do something for her…but Toshi had said no sleeping with her…but he didn't have to sleep with her. Well…where was the line, exactly? Toshi had been really unclear about that and they were passed out so no way to ask them without them getting pissed at him….ok, he was going to figure this out somehow.

"That's…that's all?" asked Mob. Wait, so he wasn't jealous and his heart wasn't broken? But then…how did that even work? She knew that he and Minegishi didn't care what the other one did but Minegishi had said that he was a really jealous person…but that wasn't at all what a jealous person would have said….

"I'll kick his ass if you want me to." Said Shimazaki. That was something that he could do…wait….she had said that she didn't want that…then what was he supposed to do? How was he supposed to make this better for her?

"No, no, no. I meant…um…you're not jealous that I did all the things with someone else? You still want me to be your girlfriend?" asked Mob

"Girlfriend?" asked Shimazaki. His voice had almost broken there. He couldn't help it. That was...wow. He was learning new things about her all the time. Mob didn't really act, no, she reacted. He had never pictured her just coming out and asking him for this. Not that he was complaining! Hell no! This was great and she was great and…and this whole thing was just really fucking great!

"Um….yeah? You want me to be your girlfriend, right? I'm sorry if I was wrong. I know that I can be kind of clueless sometimes and-" said Mob. She had been about to tell him that she was sorry if she had done something wrong or said something wrong but he hadn't given her a chance to finish. He just teleported out of the room. Maybe now he was jealous or…or maybe he was so hurt that he didn't want to be around her. She wouldn't have blamed him for running away because she had hurt his feelings. She had wanted to run away, too, when Teru broke her heart….oh…she was a heartbreaker too. Next time she was Shimazaki she would apologize.

Or right now.

He teleported back into the room and kissed her. A really big, kind of went, and a little bit tongue stabby kiss. That had been…she wiped her mouth. She had no idea what that had been. He'd never kissed her like that before and…and he shouldn't have even been kissing her like that now. She had broken his heart, right? Shimazaki was so weird sometimes. Maybe there was no point in trying to predict him. He just kind of did things…she had known this about him for years….

He got bored easily, though, so maybe he wouldn't stay around for very long.

"Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean to do that….it's cold as fuck out there…anyway, yes, of course I want that. Wow. This is…wow. You're great, you know that? You're great and just…wow." Said Shimazaki as he brushed the snow off of himself. She had said…she had actually asked if she could be his girlfriend! No one had ever asked him, not that he'd had that many partners, but aside from….well she was gone so it didn't matter, Toshi had been the only person so ever want this with him. Mob was the first person who had ever asked him. It was…wow. The feeling of being picked was like…like she…like she wanted him and she needed him and…wow….just…wow….

Really fucking wow.

"Um…are you ok?" asked Mob. He did that sometimes, teleported when he didn't mean to, but only when he was really drunk or really high…or whatever he had been that one time she and Minegishi had been up all night listening to him say mean things to himself….that hadn't been fun. He had been sad then but now he looked all red and…and he was smiling a lot, too. That was good, right? She'd made him happy? That was…that was good….even though she had to be his girlfriend now…but she had made someone happy and that was what mattered the most.

"I-I'm fine, great, way more than ok. That was…I feel good, you know? I feel really fucking good. I feel really fucking good right now…and you know what, you should feel good too." Said Shimazaki. He'd figured out what Toshi meant, where the line was. The line was sleeping with her because if he slept with her then he'd get something out of it. So anything that was strictly for Mob was ok. Good. Toshi wouldn't want Mob to feel like shit and neither did he. She deserved to be as happy as she had made him.

"I'm fine." Said Mob. Shimazaki kissed her again, this time less stabby. He kissed her on the mouth a couple of times. This wasn't so bad, not like how he had been kissing her before. This was…something that she could live with…something that she would have to live with since she was his girlfriend now…girlfriend…she didn't…she didn't know if she wanted that. To be called that. She had always imagined…this was not how she had seen her first relationship going….but none of her firsts had been how she had wanted them to be….so why did it matter? And why did she feel like this? Like...like she was all slimy like before even though she hadn't done that with Shimazaki?

Maybe because he was kissing her a lot right now.

"Shimazaki?" asked Mob as he kissed the spot on the corner of her mouth that he was always kissing. She didn't get it…she didn't get a lot of things. She needed to get a clue already but it didn't look like that was going to happen any time soon.

"What's up?" asked Shimazaki. He stopped, of course, in case next words out of her mouth were some variation of 'get off of my, you're acting like a Labrador' or something else that Toshi might have said.

"Can you….can you…" said Mob

"I can do whatever you want me to. I'm yours, Mob, your wish is my command." Said Shimazaki

"Can you maybe not tell people that I'm your girlfriend….um…because my dad might find out and I don't want him to. I know that he's going to beat you up and then I know that he's going to be upset and when he's upset he takes it out on other people, like Sho, and I just got him to stop being mean to Sho about being gay so…um…please keep it to yourself?" said Mob. She knew Shimazaki and she knew that he didn't know how to keep things to himself….but maybe since he liked her so much then he would try really hard? That seemed like something a boyfriend would do, not that she knew anything about boyfriends. The last boy she liked turned out to be, well, Teru….at least Shimazaki liked her even though she didn't like him like that….

"I…sure, Mob, whatever makes your life easier." Said Shimazaki. He hated secrets, they took up too much space in his head, but he wanted to make Mob's life just a little bit easier. She was right about Suzuki. He was one of those 'nobody's fucking my daughter but me' types. The last thing that Shimazaki wanted to do was make her life, or Sho's, any harder than it had to be…and if that meant putting the best news that he'd gotten all year in the vault then so be it.

"Thank you, Shimazaki." Said Mob. She hoped that he kept his promise. He liked her and when someone liked you they kept their promises, well that was a friend thing too. So maybe then he would double keep his promise. She didn't know, she couldn't think. She'd had a lot of glöggi, the kind with whiskey, and it was late…and also Shimazaki was doing that thing where he kissed her neck now. That was weird too, this whole thing was weird, but it was less weird than when he kissed her on the mouth. He was kissing her and moving now too. Maybe he was planning on using her as a pillow again….

Or maybe he was planning on kneeling on the floor.

One minute he was kissing her and then the next he was kneeling on the floor in front of her. She had never seen him teleport such a short distance before. She had never seen him from this angle before, either. So that was what the top of his head looked like. She had never thought about it before but now that she had seen it, well, that was something. Interesting. This was…alright. He was kissing her, now, down her neck and over her heart. His hands were at her sides. This was…new…weird….good and weird at the same time….

Warm, though, very warm.

"Ryou? What are…what are you doing?" asked Mob

"You made me feel good so I should make you feel good, especially after how that guy treated you. I mean, really, that wasn't right. Sex is like Chinese food, remember that it's not over until everyone gets their cryptic cookie." Said Shimazaki

"W-what? You want to have sex with me?!" said Mob. She covered her mouth. That had been too loud. Sho was…she could sense his aura. He was still sleeping. She could have woken him and then…well she didn't want to think about what would have happened next. She also had been about to lose control of her powers and that would have sent sharp glass down onto them and Fukuda wasn't around….actually, Sho walking in on this was a lot worse than death by shards of glass.

"No, well of course, but no. It a boundary thing for Toshi, the age thing weirds them out for some reason. The way I see it is, though, it's not ok to them if I get something out of it so this is going to be all for you, alright? And feel free to tell me to get the fuck off of you, too. I know you and I know that this kind of thing means a lot to you." Said Shimazaki

"I…I don't…I mean….um….I don't even know what you're doing." Said Mob. She didn't want to hurt his feelings…she didn't want to have sex with him but she didn't want to hurt his feelings…but he had just said that they weren't going to be doing that…so that was ok. Even though his hand was on her leg now and it was close to….um…this was ok. She was ok. Everything was ok.

"Whatever you want me to do. I was planning on getting you off and then we could go outside and smoke or we could make some more currant…whiskey….thing or we could cuddle and listen to music or we could watch Frozen or whatever movie you feel like or we could just go to sleep or-"said Shimazaki as he moved his hand down her leg.

"I…um…I…" said Mob as his hand made it's way higher and higher and….and she had wanted…not with him but she had wanted this. It was….this was happening. This was real and it was happening and-and….and she just….she needed to breathe. In for four and out for four. She needed…she didn't want to be walked in on but she needed a distraction. Some kind of reason for kicking him out…or….or something that would make him want to leave. Yes, she couldn't kick him out. She knew what that felt like and she was never going to make another person feel like that. Ever.

"Tell me what to do and it'll happen. I'm yours, Mob, I'm all for you." Said Shimazaki before he kissed the side of her knee. She jumped. He could sense her, he couldn't sense much else besides her. It was like the whole world had shrunk to encompass just her and him, her aura and his. She sounded so good and she felt so good and this felt so good. He hadn't felt this good in a long time.

"I…um….oh! My phone…um…it's important. Really important. It's…um…Minori needs me." Said Mob. Her phone had woken up, briefly, to tell her that Minori had posted something. She had no idea if Minori really needed her but since she was usually in a bad mood Mob figured that she probably did. She hadn't lied, then, to her friend…her friend who wanted her to be his girlfriend and who had been about to do some of the things with her…things that she just…she didn't know if she wanted to do with him or not.

She wasn't in love with him.

She wasn't in love with him at all and kissing him felt weird. He was Minegishi's boyfriend. If she forgot, made herself ignore, the part where he was her best friend's boyfriend then maybe…maybe if she just thought of him as a boy then it wasn't so bad. She may not have liked him back but he liked her and he was nice to her…but this whole thing was really weird so maybe it was ok for her to fake being needed to get out of it.

She hadn't broken his heart, that was what mattered.

"You sure? I can take care of that for you if you want. No need to leave you high and dry, or I guess high and-" said Shimazaki. He reached his hand higher. She sat up straighter and looked down at her phone. Whatever that was must have been quite the crisis. Well when wasn't it a crisis with that other girl? Mob was actually putting her above him…no she wasn't. This was just how Mob was. She cared about people a lot. He got up off the ground. Damn. That could have been fun. Oh well, shit didn't always work out. Ce'st la life or whatever.

"I'm fine! Really, Ryou, I'm fine and…and this is going to take a while. I mean I don't know the future but I do know Minori and I know that this is going to take a while." Said Mob as she looked down at her phone. She knew that she was being rude but…um…this was kind of a crisis. Maybe. Minori had posted about how unfair her Christmas had been and…and maybe she needed someone to listen. Mob could do that. She could do that all night and for the whole of tomorrow if she had to.

"Sure, whatever you want." Said Shimazaki. He wasn't going to fuck this up like he had with Toshi. Even though Mob put literally everyone else ahead of him. Even her really annoying friend…but that was alright. Mob loved all of her friends and she was always there for the people she cared about. Being with her meant that he was going to have to share her with everyone else and that was fine. He could share. She wanted to be with him, that was what mattered. He wished that he could have told Toshi but they were asleep and anyway he figured that Mob wanted to tell them so she could swear them to secrecy herself. A good move on her part, really, she was smart like that. Smart and nice and…well he liked her a lot.

Even if she didn't put him first, or second, or even third.

"R-Right. Whatever I want." Said Mob as he teleported away. Sure he said that it was whatever she wanted but…but she didn't even know what she wanted. She didn't want to hurt him but…there was no but. She didn't want to hurt him and that was what mattered. She didn't want him to feel the way she had so…so she didn't know. She leaned back, some of her hair flopped down into her eyes. Red. She had red hair now. This was a new day, she was a new Mob, and she was in a new place with a new sky…a really pretty one. She took one more look at the sky before getting back to her phone.

She had been right, Minori had needed her…and she needed a distraction from everything and the sky just wasn't enough right now.