Ginger tea was good for when your stomach got all crampy.
Well, Mob knew that it wasn't actually the stomach that got all crampy. That was just what she had told Serizawa. As far as he knew she was making tea because Minegishi had stomach cramps and nothing more. Lying was wrong, of course, but she didn't want to tell Serizawa what was really going on. He was a boy and boys weren't supposed to know about this stuff. Also Minegishi didn't like it when people talked about them behind their back…and Mob didn't want to make them any madder than they already were.
She knew that it wasn't just cramps, she knew that they were avoiding her.
"What do you think?" asked Mob as she stirred the ginger tea. Minegishi liked real tea, not from tea bags. They liked ginger tea made from fresh ginger. Normally they made the ginger, they were good at making food plants, but Mob could do it too…at least she thought that she could.
It smelled a little too gingery…maybe.
Serizawa leaned over her shoulder. She made room for him. She was kind of trying to tea him how to make tea, too. He didn't really know how to, not that well. He microwaved water and then put the tea bag into it. That made the tea taste weird and no friend of hers should have had to drink weird tea. If Dad had been around then he would have been upset, too, since he liked loose tea best…not that it mattered much anymore. He hadn't so much as said 'Happy Halloween' or 'Happy Universal Studios Claw Outing Day' or even 'Stop spending so much money'. He hadn't said anything to her since leaving….
She stirred the tea again.
"Um…is it tea yet?" asked Serizawa as he leaned over and looked into the cooking pot. He had never seen anyone make tea in a pot before, Mom had made it on the stove, and he had never seen anyone make tea from ginger either. Mom had mostly made green tea from the pouches…she really knew how to make a good cup of tea. Not too hot, not too cold, not burnt at all…
Miss Suzuki made good tea too.
"That's what I asked you." said Mob
"Sorry! Sorry, I've just…never seen anyone make tea like this." Said Serizawa
"You don't have to apologize, you didn't do anything wrong." Said Mob. She let go of the spoon and let her powers stir it. She used her free hand to squeeze Serizawa's. He squeezed her hand back.
"I know I shouldn't apologize. I just-oh no! I did it again!" said Serizawa. Miss Suzuki put her hand over her mouth and laughed. He reached for her hand even though he knew that it was gone. She had let go of him because she….she was making fun of him…no. Because she was right handed. That was all.
He wished that he believed himself.
"You did…but it's ok, and I didn't mean to laugh. It's just that when I say sorry for saying sorry Minegishi always rolls their eyes and…and I've never been on the other end of that, that's all. I wasn't laughing at you. You're my friend and friends don't laugh at friends…well Shimazaki laughs at people but he kind of has trouble being a friend…um…" Said Mob. She felt around with her aura…she didn't know what she was feeling for. She knew that Shimazaki was far away in Osaka…maybe she had been looking for Minegishi. She hadn't meant to mention him, he had just come to mind, and if Minegishi heard her talking about Shimazaki then maybe they would have been mad at her-
She stirred the tea too hard.
"Miss Suzuki!" said Serizawa. He pushed her out of the way…too hard. She stumbled back and nearly fell to the ground! She caught herself and the pot and…and he'd just messed everything up! He'd probably hurt her like he hurt everyone and-and-and now all the cabinets were opened and-
-and there was a hand in his.
"I'm here, Serizawa, I'm here and I'm ok." Said Mob. She shushed him, too, like she used to do for Mukai when she was a baby. Serizawa had just been scared, that was all. She was fine…her side actually kind of hurt from where he pushed her…but she was fine.
He hadn't meant to hurt her, so she was fine then.
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you-" said Serizawa
"You didn't hurt me, not at all!" said Mob. Being sore was not the same as being hurt…and she wasn't even that sore. She had gotten worse from Sho back when they had been little.
"But-but I pushed you…and I'm sorry! I just didn't want you to get burned…I mean scalded! Scalded. I didn't want you to get scalded and…and it was like you were going to be and then I just saw you….hurt or…or worse and then I got scared and then-" said Serizawa as the world turned under him. That was what it felt like, like he could feel the world turning. Serizawa knew that it went fast, he didn't know how fast, but he didn't need to know how fast…he could feel it. He wanted to sink down to the floor, his legs were shaky. Miss Suzuki wouldn't let him.
She propped him up.
"I know, I know, I know. You're ok. You're ok, Serizawa, it's all ok." Said Mob as she held Serizawa up. She hugged him from the side and kept him from falling down to the floor. She hated it when he got like this, when he got this scared. It hurt to see her friends feeling like that. She just wanted her friends to be happy…what was so bad about that? It shouldn't have been this…this hard. They all loved each other and they all should have been happy….
But maybe that wasn't enough to be happy….
"It…it is?" asked Serizawa. Miss Suzuki nodded, her head still pressed against his side.
"It is. We're going to be ok. I'm not mad at you, I'm happy that you were looking out for me." said Mob, still hugging Serizawa. He squeezed her back and then, slowly, let her go. She didn't pull away from him. She didn't tell him that the tea was going to burn…she could always make more tea. She only had one of him.
"I'm…I'm better now…and I am sorry." Said Serizawa. Miss Suzuki smiled as she let go of him.
"You don't have to apologize, Serizawa, that's what got us into this mess in the first place." Said Mob. She didn't laugh that time, she just smiled. That seemed to be the right thing to do, he smiled right back at her. Good. She had at least managed to fix one thing that had gone wrong…just a hundred more things to go.
She could do this.
"I-I know and I'm….um…do you want me to get a mug down for you? Because you're so short? I mean you aren't short, you're normal sized for a girl, I'm just really tall and…and I guess that you could always used your powers…I wasn't thinking." Said Serizawa
"You can get a mug down for me if you want...actually one for Minegishi and then two for us too." Said Mob. She could have gotten that down herself, he was right, but…it was nice to have someone think of her…do something for her. Even if it was something that she could do herself.
"S-Sure!" said Serizawa. He reached upwards and…and he could use his powers, too. He could try. He had already messed up once…and she said that she wasn't upset with him, but he had still messed up. He had to try and show her that he could do things right, that he wasn't all…that he wasn't just…himself. That he could be better than himself. That he could be…that he could be someone other than…than this.
It went well.
From the start it went well. He reached up and pulled down one mug, and then two, and then three. He pulled them off the shelf and made sure that he held onto them…this was hard. He kept on wanting to let go, his grip was so shaky, much harder than holding something in his hand. He kept on holding on either too tight or too loose and at any moment he could mess up…his grip got shakier…one of the mugs came loose…
It didn't fall.
"Serizawa! That's amazing! I didn't know that you could do that!" said Mob. She knew that for other espers it took real effort to be able to hold onto anything at all with telekinesis. Shimazaki could push things and pull things but picking things up was too hard, too much fine movement. Mukai couldn't do much more than push and pull things either. Neither could Sho when he'd been little. The true test of an esper, the best show of power, was to be able to use your telekinesis better than you could use your hands. Dad had said so back when she had been little. Back when he'd still had to teach her things, like how to tie her shoes with her powers, or how to comb her hair, or how to pick up a marble without it breaking. Dad had said that she was amazing…that she was a prodigy. Even though Sho had been standing right there…he had called Sho unimpressive. He had just…just told Sho not to even both trying because he was unimpressive…
Mob wasn't Dad. She didn't even know how to be that mean to someone. She didn't want to be.
"Really, Serizawa, I mean. That's amazing." said Mob. For Serizawa it was amazing and that was what mattered. He stood a little taller, there. His powers gave up after a moment but she didn't say anything. She just caught the mugs before they could fall and break, put them on the counter, and poured them some tea. Serizawa had never been able to control his powers that well. She wasn't going to compare him to other espers, she wasn't going to act like Dad and tell him that he should have been able to do more, she was just going to tell him that he did a good job so he could be happy.
She wanted nothing more than for him to be happy.
"Um…thank-thank you." said Serizawa as he was handed a mug of hot tea. He didn't think that it had been so amazing, he had seen her lift up entire rooms just to find her phone, and part of him felt like she was just telling him things…but he knew that he was wrong. She was Miss Suzuki. She always meant what she said. She was nice like that.
She was the nicest person that he'd ever met in his life…and she thought that he was amazing.
"You're welcome. Do you think it turned out ok?" asked Mob before she took a sip of her tea. He still wasn't all the way calm. Drinking something would help, it always helped Sho when he got too upset…and her, too, though she didn't really drink plain tea that often.
"I dropped them at the end but-" said Serizawa
"No, I meant the tea. Do you think that the tea turned out ok?" asked Mob
"Oh, right! I love it. It's very…very gingery." Said Serizawa before taking a sip. It had smelled gingery and tasted…even more gingery…and he wound up with a piece of ginger in his mouth. There was a lot of ginger still in the pot…but for all he knew it was supposed to be like that. Maybe it was like the President and how he liked really old videogames. Serizawa couldn't say or think that Pong or Space Invaders or Asteroids was boring because those games were supposed to go on forever, not have any story, and no characters either. Complaining because something was exactly the way it was supposed to be wouldn't have accomplished anything.
"It is…I forgot to strain it…but more gingery is good, right? The more gingery it is then the better it'll work?" asked Mob. She tried not to make a face as she drank. That was strong…but she had seen Minegishi drink vodka straight from the bottle before. The really burny kind that they liked…so maybe this would be ok…
"I think that's how it works…but I'm not sure. I don't really know how to make tea that well." Said Serizawa
"It's ok if you don't remember all the steps, I can show you how to do it again later." Said Mob
"But I should remember…you just showed me how to…" said Serizawa softly. He put her mug down and took his hand in hers. She held it between both of her hands like a hand sandwich. She didn't mind that his aura was showing again, or that he had panicked before and pushed her. She didn't even mind that he hadn't remembered a single thing she'd said about making tea. She was just happy to be with him…happy to be there for him.
"It's ok, I took a long time to learn how to make tea, too." Said Mob, holding his hand between hers. His hand was a lot bigger than hers, she could have fit her whole hand inside of his, and she didn't fully know how this worked…but it did, that was what mattered. His aura calmed down and he stopped looking down at his feet. He was looking right at her now. She smiled at him.
He smiled back.
"I didn't know that. I thought that you just…knew how. I mean that's how it feels sometimes, like everyone just knows how to do things automatically. It's like…like I skipped the tutorial or…or something." Said Serizawa softly.
"You kind of did, skip the tutorial I mean. You didn't have any way of learning all the things that I learned because you were in your room. That's ok, it's not like it's a race or anything. You're learning and that's what matters most." Said Mob. She squeezed his hand once before letting go. He was still smiling. Good.
She'd gotten this right.
"You…you're right. Thank you, Miss Suzuki." Said Serizawa
"You're welcome. You don't have to get upset like this, ok? You're doing good." said Mob
"I just wish that I was doing better. I just wish that I was more like…" said Serizawa. He wished that he was more like everyone else. That he knew exactly who he was and who he wanted to be. That he could be a better friend to her, that he would have known what to do. Even if it was just hanging out with her and talking about things…he wished that he had been better at talking. He wished that he could have just sat back and enjoyed his time with her or just…just been able to sit down and relax. Just like…
"More like who?" asked Mob
"Everyone else." Said Serizawa
"My Dad says that being like everyone else isn't going to be very important after he takes over the world. He says that once he becomes president of the world then we won't have to worry about irrelevant things like fitting in anymore." Said Mob. Dad had always made it sound like it was a bad thing to fit in. Like fitting in was this great big waste of time or something. It wasn't, when you fit in then it was easier to make friends…but it wasn't the most important thing, either. It was also important to just be yourself. If you spent all of your time pretending to be someone that you weren't then what was even the point since all the friends that you'd made wouldn't have been real friends at all?
It was kind of complicated when she thought about it.
But she had to make it simple. Serizawa was starting to get sad again. She wished that she knew how to fix that. He was so worried about what he should have been doing that he couldn't focus on all of the things that he already knew how to do. He was really good at listening, incredibly helpful, and also he knew how to make every single kind of chao in the chao garden. He was good at Nintendogs too, his dogs were always the most well behaved. He was good at a lot of things and being good at talking or using your powers…those weren't the most important things that a person could be.
Despite what Dad thought.
"He…he said that?" asked Serizawa
"He did. He promised that things are going to be a lot better when he takes over the world…but I think that I can make things better now. We both can, I mean, if you want to help. I think that you'd be good at helping. I think that you're great the way you are. It's important to fit in but…but I think that you're great." Said Mob
"Thank you…thank you so much, Miss Suzuki." Said Serizawa. He wiped his eyes. She really felt that way…of course she did, she didn't tell lies. She really thought that he was great the way he was. Nobody had ever said that to him before, nobody but Mom, but Mom was a mom and moms had to tell you things like that. Nice things. Friends didn't have to be nice to one another. His friends fought with each other all the time. Miss Suzuki didn't have to be nice to him, but she was. She was such a good friend to him.
He knew that he couldn't have asked for a better friend.
"You're welcome, Serizawa. I'm going to bring some of this to Minegishi but afterwards we can hang out if you want to. Maybe Sho will want to hang out too, if he's still up. He locked himself in our room as soon as he came home so he might have gone to bed…sometimes he wants to sleep alone." Said Mob. Sho had come home, told her that he was going to their room to draw, and then he locked the door. She could have unlocked it with her powers but that would have been rude….ruder than locking the door to the room they shared. He could have warned her so she had time to get some pajamas and her phone charger…but she loved him so she wasn't mad at him.
She could never be mad, stay mad, at the people she loved.
How could a person stay mad at someone they loved? Did it even still count as love at that point? She had never been mad at anyone she loved before…aside from her parents, and Fukuda of course….but she didn't really love Fukuda that much anymore. Or at all. He was…he used to be a friend but now he was just someone who was mean to her…she wasn't sure if she loved mom anymore either…but she did love Dad! She loved him and…and she had been mad at him…and when she thought about what he said and did then she was mad at him…but she wasn't mad at him all the time.
So, of course, you couldn't stay mad at the people you loved.
She just had to tell her friends that. So far the only one who believed her about anything was Serizawa. He was the only one who listened. Well Joseph listened too, that seemed to be his favorite thing to do sometimes, but they weren't very good friends. Not like her and Serizawa…or her and Minegishi…or even her and Tsuchiya used to be. So far the only friend who listened to her about anything was Serizawa…
But they were all still friends.
They were all friends and they still loved each other and…and nobody was going to go. She expanded her aura out as she walked to Minegishi's room. Everyone was where they were supposed to be. Tsuchiya and Mukai were in their room, Shibata was in the living room, Serizawa was in the kitchen…freaking out a little, and Minegishi was in their room. Awake. If she really focused on them…yes, they were awake, and they were happy.
Also they were all curled up.
She walked a little faster. Not so fast that she spilled the tea, that would have been bad, just fast enough that she made it to Minegishi's bedroom before they passed out or fell asleep. Mob actually wasn't sure of what the difference between the two of them was when it came to Minegishi. It was worrying, actually, just a bit. How much they slept. How every time she tried to come and see them they were laying down in bed sound asleep…day or night. How they slept a lot when they were tired or stressed or sad…how Mob had made them tired or stressed or sad. There was so much going on and she had no idea how to fix any of it…how to fix what she had done…
She had tea. That was a start.
"Minegishi? Can I come in?" asked Mob as she knocked on the door. Minegishi hated it when she just let herself into their room. She had to make sure not to make them mad…even though she hated asking. Asking meant that she could get a 'no'. A real 'no'. Not 'come back later' or 'I'm sleeping' or 'this had better not be about Frozen again'. A real 'no' like 'go away forever, I wish I had never met you, I hope you drink sour milk and die for stealing my boyfriend' sort of 'no'. Not that Minegishi had ever said anything so mean.
To her, anyway.
They could be so mean…and she had given them so much reason to be mean. She knew what she had done was wrong and she just wished that Minegishi would come out and say it already. She wished that Minegishi would just come out and tell her how mad they were. How they were avoiding her. How they couldn't stand to even look at her. How they wished that they had never even met her. She wished that they just would have come out and said it already.
But they didn't say anything.
They didn't come out, either. The door just swung opened. Mob saw a vine slither back into it's stem on a houseplant. It probably had a fancy plant name, Minegishi knew all of them. Mob kind of wanted to ask them…but she knew better. They were on their phone, now. They were sitting down all curled up with their phone pressed to their ear.
And they were smiling.
"I've got to go, Mob's here…hang on, I'll ask." Said Minegishi, pulling their phone away from their ear. They looked up. Mob was just hovering in the middle of their bedroom holding what smelled like a hot cup of boiled ginger. She usually sat down beside them on the bed…but these were not usual times…
Minegishi sat up and patted the side of the bed. Their internal organs did not thank them for that.
"Mob, two things. One, sit down and stop hovering. Two, do you like 3D, Sailor Moon, stickers?" asked Minegishi
"Stickers?" asked Mob
"Yeah, stickers. Those things you covered your phone case in? Matsuo found some stickers he thought I'd like and he wants to know if you want some…also he says 'hi'." Said Minegishi. They scooted over and made room for Mob…not the smartest move. They winced as their internal organs tried to become their external organs. It happened again as Mob hopped up onto the bed…and once more as she reached over and handed them the warm cup of ginger water.
Matsuo asked them what was wrong.
They ignored him, there. They knew that they were being a bastard but right now they did not have the energy to get into all that was wrong with them in that moment. Their body was betraying them, they hadn't slept through the night in days, and they strongly suspected that they were anemic now. All of that mixed in with the mess Mob had gotten herself into and, yeah, he would have been wincing too. That was too much to think about let alone talk about.
Let alone live through.
"Um…maybe? I mean if it's not too much trouble…and tell Matsuo happy Halloween for me. Please." Said Mob as she sat down. She was shaking. She didn't know why. She didn't know what she was so scared of. Maybe she was just scared. Maybe she was just afraid that she was going to make them mad…madder than they already were. She could feel it. She had never been good at reading the atmosphere, true, but she knew when someone was mad at her.
She knew when her best friend was mad at her.
"He heard you, he says happy Halloween back. He wants to know, too, if you've noticed any weird spirits around. He says that they're going to get worse as it goes on…do you just want to talk to her?" asked Minegishi. They weren't a go between. He could have talked to Mob if he wanted to. It wasn't like they didn't trust him.
Or her.
They trusted him. They trusted her. They had no reason not to trust anyone in this situation. There was no reason to think that they would make the same mistake that they had…they weren't going to be making any mistakes because there weren't any to make. Ryou….he hadn't lied, not once, just a lie by omission…but it had been on them to take care of Mob. To watch after her. To make sure that she didn't make the same mistakes they had…to make sure that nobody ever put her in that position. They should have known better than to hope for the best. They should have known better than…well they knew better now.
They knew better than to get weird and paranoid about this. That was the last thing that Mob needed.
"I-I'm ok!" said Mob. The last thing that she wanted to do was talk to another one of their boyfriends. She didn't like Matsuo, not like that, but she hadn't liked Shimazaki like that either. She didn't really like anyone like that right now…maybe not ever…but it didn't matter how she felt. Sometimes people liked you and they wanted to kiss you and do other stuff with you and then you were stuck. If you said 'no' then you wound up hurting their feelings and if you said 'yes' then…well it felt good…but then everything changed afterwards! They changed and then got weird and your friends didn't really like you that much anymore….if at all…
Mob was through talking to Minegishi's boyfriends. She wasn't going to go through this ever again.
"Alright then. I'll call you back later, or tomorrow." Said Minegishi before they hung up. Mob looked at them like they'd grown another head. What? Hadn't she ever seen someone hang up the phone before? They shook their head. Just Mob being Mob…they had missed this so much. They had missed a lot of things…
But mostly her.
"You-you didn't have to do that! I could have left-" said Mob
"You say that like you think I can't wait to get rid of you." said Minegishi
"….I didn't know if you wanted me to stay. You've been avoiding me for a while." Said Mob softly.
"No, I've been in incredible amounts of pain. There's a difference." Said Minegishi, trying their best not to lose their temper. The next words out of her mouth would be 'are you mad at me' even though they had told her at least a hundred times now that they weren't…and then it was going to go on and on and on like this…just never ending-
They had to stay calm, for her sake.
"I know that…that you're all…that your stomach hurts. I made you ginger tea. I just thought that you were avoiding me too….like it was an excuse or…or something." Said Mob
"For the love of…I was not avoiding you, I was avoiding a hell of a lot of pain and embarrassment. It's not always about you." said Minegishi. That came out wrong. What they had meant to say, had they been in their right state of mind and not about to dig their uterus out with a pair of gardening sheers, was that what they were going through had nothing to do with her. Very little. Of course they had fucked it up, though. It had taken no more than two minutes for them to fuck everything up worse than it had been before.
"I…I never meant that it was. I didn't mean to be selfish." Said Mob. She really hadn't meant it like that…but of course they thought that she was selfish. She kind of was. She had done so much and…and she hadn't even thought of them…and then when she had it hadn't been for long and…and she just wished that there was a way to tell them how sorry she was, a way to make things better, a way to make things go back to normal.
She had been wishing for those things for so long…but wishes never came true.
"No, you're not selfish. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that….I'm sorry." Said Minegishi, looking down at their ginger water. Bits of ginger floating at the top…good for a stomachache, if they'd had one. Mob had done her best…which was a hell of a lot more than they deserved. She was always thinking of them….
Even though, really, it should have been the other way around.
"I shouldn't have…I don't know. I'm sorry too." Said Mob. Minegishi shrugged and took a sip of their tea.
"Don't be sorry. This is a pretty damn good cup of tea." Said Minegishi. It really was. Strong. Like it should have been…maybe a little too strong…but they'd had worse. They took another sip. Mob…well she didn't start crying. Progress.
"Do you think so? I didn't strain it…sorry." Said Mob
"Don't be, I like it this way. I need it strong." Said Minegishi before they downed their mug. Mob took it from them with her powers and put it down onto their nightstand.
"Do you want me to get you more? I can. I can get you some Midol, too, and also…um…we can smoke, too, if that'll help. I think coke helps when things hurt but I can't find mine-" said Mob
"That's because I hid it from you." said Minegishi
"Wait…are you the one who's been taking my pens and stuff too?" asked Mob. She would have shared if they had asked…but she had stolen their boyfriend and ruined their relationship and made them sad…and probably made them have bad cramps somehow too…so maybe the least she could do was let them have whatever they wanted from her stash of stuff.
"No, I left you those. Out of everything Ryou gave you those are the only things you can be trusted with. I took the coke from you because it's dangerous, so don't try to take it back." Said Minegishi
"I know, I know, moderation. I remember what you said, and I am careful. I know…I know what happens when you have too much coke. How you do dumb stuff, I know." Said Mob. The coke definitely hadn't helped. She had felt like she could have done anything that she had wanted to do, that anything would have been a good idea, that everything would have worked out…and then she had made the biggest mistake of her life…
And now she had to live with it. She was living with it right now.
"It's less about moderation and more about you not going into heart failure at thirteen because you overdid it." Said Minegishi. THAT was what happened when you overdid it. You died. Mob was not dying at thirteen, not on their watch. They weren't going to let anything else bad happen to her. Keeping her alive…the bare minimum.
"I won't overdo it again, I know my limits…but you can have all of it if you need it." Said Mob. She wasn't a little kid anymore, she knew her limits, but she wasn't going to fight with Minegishi about this. She could see the way that they were sitting, she could see their aura, and their eyes were doing that thing where they got all pinched at the corners. They were hurting and there was nothing that she could do about it. She didn't have healing powers…and the person who did had left…and was also a jerk.
"I don't need it but I'll be keeping it." Said Minegishi. Mob and piles of coke…not going to happen.
"But…why are you keeping it if you don't need it?" asked Mob
"Because I want you to live to see fourteen." Said Minegishi
"I won't die. I mean not soon…I mean people mostly shoot at Dad so I'll be fine. You don't have to worry about me dying. I'm the one who should be worried about you! I mean you're not going to die but…but I don't like it when you're hurting." Said Mob
"It's not exactly a walk in the park for me either, Mob." Said Minegishi
"I know…I'm sorry…um…do you want me to get Fukuda? Maybe he can help. I mean I don't know how his powers work exactly but…but he might be able to help. I think Hatori could find him, too. I just have to wake up Hatori…if it's nighttime where he is." Said Mob
"Nothing about that appeals to me. Don't call Fukuda." Said Minegishi. They would rather have gone through this for an entire year than spent even a minute in that man's presence. What could he even do? Show up with paper towels and band aids.
"But maybe he could-" said Mob
"Don't call Fukuda. This is just something that happens to me, there's no way around it. Honestly I'd rather take my chances with the coke pile than involve that asshole." Said Minegishi
"I don't mind if you keep it, I mean if you need it or not. Just…just so long as you're not mad at me. Are you-" said Mob. She just wanted them…she didn't know. To say no and mean it…or to say yes and then they could talk about it. They could be honest with her and then…and then they'd yell at her…but at least then they could move forward. It was important to keep moving, Dad had said that. Stopping lead to stagnation, which led to ruin.
"I'm going to get mad if you don't come off of this, ok?" said Minegishi
"I know but…but I just get the feeling that-" said Mob
"How about you go and get me another cup of tea?" asked Minegishi
"Sure, whatever you need. I'll get you some Midol, too, and crush them up. Shima-I heard that pills can get to your brain faster that way and…and I don't want you to be hurting. I just…I want you to be ok." Said Mob. That was all she ever wanted, not just for Minegishi but for all of her friends. She just wanted everyone to be ok. To be happy. To feel better….but wanting wasn't enough. She had to actually do something…but she didn't know what to do.
She was going to get Minegishi a cup of tea.
She didn't know what to do about them being mad at her all the time. She didn't know what to do about Tsuchiya wanting to leave. She didn't know what to do about Tsuchiya and Shibata fighting. She didn't know what to do about Sho locking himself in his room. She just…she didn't know what to do…so she would stick to the things she did know how to do.
Like making tea.