p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"As Kaito rounded the corner he was met with a crackling beneath his foot. He had just stepped on what ... looked to be painted glass... which looked a lot like a planet... one he was pretty sure anyways. He suddenly heard a hard sniffle as someone seemed to be picking up the pieces. His eyes suddenly set on a red-headed girl, glasses, small frame and figure, wouldn't call her especially attractive, just average and pleading brown eyes especially as she gazed her eyes upon him. The tears falling down her face were enough to make his blood boil. So he marched on over there picking up the pieces of this girls seemingly destroyed project. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh... no, I don't need help..." she said through her sorrow. He could hear it waver through her delicate voice. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I want to." he replied sternly as he picked up the glass. Slowly it was all in one pile until one ball remained unharmed. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It was the world. Our world. Its painting job wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it was easy to tell what she was going to try and do. He smiled at it softly before holding it out, on one knee and deciding to make another bold claim, like he usually did, "I'm Kaito." He said, she looked up at him, those dreadful eyes piercing into his soul. She nodded and shakily wiped more tears from her face, /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā Kidō... astrologist..." she responded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No way!" He said with a big smile, "I'm an astronaut!" his tone dropped the happiness and went back to serious, which he could see in her face, scared her, "and I'm gonna help ya build this back." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh no please-" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Space buddies gotta stick together ya know?" He said with a smile coming back, "I'll be in your orbit." He said as he pulled both her hand over the world, urging her to take it before her other hand took it from him with all delicacy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If... if you'd like Kaito-sama... but... I'm fine just doing it alone."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Nah. Together." He said as he stood up and held his hand out to have her take it. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Her hand was unreasonably soft in his own, so much that he was worried about hurting her hand with his own as he pulled her up as she kept the world safe. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Let's rebuild this universe together." He said with determination in his voice as she blushed softly at him as she stared, her eyes softened from their sorrow into some form of excitement. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You ... knew it was the universe?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. Could tell." He said as he stared at the world in her hands, "at least we don't gonna redo our world." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I... uh..." she trailed off and held the world out to him, "you hold onto this until we meet again... hopefully I'll have the other glass pieces fired up!" She said as he took it and stared at it with some type of fascination. He looked up to say something to her but he saw her running from the scene. Her light brown and red trench coat flapping behind her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"And then he realized... she left all the mess... to him. Whatever. She was a scared girl. She must have just gotten overwhelmed by his big ego and explosive personality. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"'She was a little too formal...' He thought as he kept the world around him for the remainder of the day. At home, he luckily had a stand that was around a good enough size to keep it in a perfect place on his desk. He softly smiles at it thinking of that girl's soft sorrowful eyes. He had to find Sutā again. He had to make things better for this poor girl who looks destroyed. His thoughts continued as he cleaned up the glass, he watched Kokichi laugh at him as he cleaned up, even saying something he didn't pay attention to. The more you pay attention to that guy the worst it gets. It suddenly hit him, with glass in his hands, that he didn't have any way to contact her other than just finding her! God damn it! /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"For a couple of weeks, he didn't see her and he was definitely looking. Shuichi and Kaede said they didn't even know of her. He sighed hard with a half glare. Kaede gave him a soft smile, "I'm sure we can find her if we really try!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I've been looking for her for like a week and a half now!" Kaito said with a sigh as he scratched the back of his neck. Kaede Softly touched his arm, making a feeling bubble up in his stomach again. Fuck. If he was being honest he was jealous of how Shuichi and Kaede got together so fast. He started to have a thing for Kaede. She was smart and fun- no now wasn't the time for that. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Where did you last see her? Did she say what class she was in? How old she was?" Shuichi said as he adjusted his hat, Kaede held his hand as if to tell him to stop touching his hat. He gave her a mild smile of understanding. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I told you, man, I only got her name... ahhhh girls are so hard to find." Kaito gave a hard shrug and left them as Shuichi looked at Kaede once more before deciding he was coming to help. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Mamota-san. How can I help?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh heck yeah!" He said enthused, "her name is Sutā Kidō and she's an astrologist~ I'll let you handle the details of this investigation sidekick. I'm gonna go get some lunch." He said as he left before Shuichi could even put in another word. Though he could feel Shuichi staring at him like he just burdened him. Maki ignored him as he tried to wave at her while passing. Well. That's fine. He's just gonna embarrass her instead, "Hiiiii Maki roll!" He said as he left. Her aura got a little brighter but her expression refused to change. That was pretty cool. He's getting pretty good at that. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He stood there in line for lunch. He just kept thinking about that little globe she made... she just wanted to make a little universe, an extensive universe and it hyped him up so much. He could paint and make a whole universe and show exactly how far he'll get into it-/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What do you want?" The lunch lady asked and snapped him from his thoughts. Oh. Right. He's been standing here for maybe a minute entirely... spaced out if you will. He ordered and almost immediately sat down. Maybe if he stayed here long enough she'd just stumble across him and be all like 'omg Kaito-sama I was looking all over for you! I'm so glad I found you! Tell me all about how cool of a spaceman you are!' And of course, he'd answer with, 'the coolest spaceman you've ever seen' and she'd faint because he's too awesome. Oh, wait. Her fainting is bad. Especially with those glass balls. So... maybe he'll tone it down a notch or two. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Shuichi came back to him a little later while he was playing with the globe, he smiled at Kaito softly and slid him a piece of paper. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh shit!" He said with a giant smile appearing on his face./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Her student ID was on the ground. I managed to go return it to her and was able to get a ton of information from her as a thank you." He moved his hat slightly as he looked to the side, "I said you were looking for her." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why would you do that man?" He said with his expression getting a bit darker and biting his lip. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""So I could get you this." He said pointing to her phone number on the paper, Kaito blushed slightly and awkward. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I thought ya just found it the detective way! Anyways! Good job sidekick!" He said as he pats Shuichi's back with all the information in the other hand. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It read /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Sutā Kidō/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Japanese/Korean /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Lives at 1234 starry lane /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Class 13-B/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Age 16 /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"5'2/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Birthday: Aug 24/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Likes: Astrology, painting, glow in the dark items, textures./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Dislikes: Rudeness, binge eating, crying, sadness, being alone/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Let me thank you, man." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh don't worry-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ice cream it is!" He said grabbing Shuichi's hand, going back to class. It was uneventful. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"But after Kaede, Shuichi, Maki and he went out for ice cream... Kaito was paying. He gave up the money half-heartedly and walked outside of the shop sitting down on the benches. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I heard you're looking for someone," Maki stated bluntly. Kaito Blushes a bit and scratches the back of his neck, "nothing gets past you, Makiroll." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Don't call me that. Why?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah! Momota-san! Do you have a crush?" Kaede said enthused, "Wait- now you have all that personal information about her! I sure hope you don't!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No! No no no!" Kaito said defensively, "I don't have a crush on Sutā!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Calling her by her first name already?" Shuichi chimed in trying to tease. Kaito held up his fist and Shuichi laughed awkwardly as he tried to melt into the chair. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Maki rolled her eyes, "why didn't you ask for my help?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Cause you're so busy Maki! You need to chill out sometimes." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't chill." She said coldly... as she licked ice cream. Almost...like a liar. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sure," Kaito responded with a smile towards her, she stared at him coldly... but her eyes were getting softer towards him the more she stared at him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Well, then why?" Kaede asked once more. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She was cryin'. Someone broke her whole universe..." he paused as he licked his mint chip ice cream, "she made a whole little diagram of the universe and I guess it broke. I said we'd work on it together. She kept saying no and eventually relented..." he swallowed hard, trying to think about her, "I just wanna help people, man... and space is so large... and I need a new project to work on anyways." He said just trying to find more and more excuses to say why he and Sutā were going to hang out. The 3 others just nodded alone. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't know the whole situation. I'm not a detective but she seems like a scared girl with a broken project she really wanted to show. I just wanna make a difference to people now before I go to space so I can mean something." He said before looking back at his friends. Kaede smiles softly at him and stroked Shuichi's cheek. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" "That's so cute." She said happily. Kaito felt like he was sick and looked away. Maki awkwardly pat his shoulder before he just kinda got up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I gotta go," Kaito said before starting to walk off rather quickly, this was really hard to him. He knew... that they were new as a couple and... that this stuff would be happening a lot more because they're new. But it didn't stop it from hurting. He liked them to be happy! Hell, he was glad his boy Shuichi was getting the girl he wanted! That's great! But... it didn't make it hurt any less. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It wasn't long before he came home and stared at a globe on his desk. He was gonna see the world this size one day. He knew it. He knew he could do it! Yes! It filled him full of determination and he whipped out his phone deciding instead of texting the girl he'd be classy and call her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Hello!" He practically screamed as he heard her pick up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah! K-Kaito-Sama! Hello. This is Sutā." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I know. I can tell just by the way you answered!" Wait that sounded creepy but if he points it out it'll get worse. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I suppose my voice is a little easy to tell." She said softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Are they done?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Pardon?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The balls!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The balls- OH THE BALLS!" She responded as she remembered, he laughed softly as her softer voice getting substantially louder, "yes I have them... but uh-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'll be right over." He said assuredly/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Huh?!" She sounded shocked. He swore he could hear her fumble the phone. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't have your address where do you live?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh goodness, K-Kaito-Sama I don't even know your first name..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Kaito is my first name." He said with a laugh, "I guess I never gave you my last name! Too excited!" He said with a lot of volume. She audibly gasped before he respond, "Momota". /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Momota-sama-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā, just call me Kaito~ c'mon we're gonna be the best of friends." He said cutting her off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You're so... brass calling me Sutā... we've talked once..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Anyways! Where are ya?" He said before she softly responded with her address, he nodded and gave an excited response before starting to walk over. She was no more than a 15-minute walk away. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"His thoughts started to catch up with him. He was being far too impulsive. Far more than he was used to being. His body wrenched for a second, 'you met this girl and you're going over to her place. Why do you always decide to help the weak?' He thought, 'this is dangerous. It's just because your friends are running off and dating.' 'No' he responded to himself, 'I just want to help a girl out. She's obviously got some kinda problem. It's best to try and help.' He fought with himself before seeing Sutā out in the front lawn awaiting his arrival. Her place was nice from the front and she looked cute outside of school like this. Her trench coat was off and you could see her universe skirt in full bloom. Her shirt had that ruffle neck thing attached to it and her hair was cute with the bows in it. It was a nice change. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sorry, but my parents aren't home. You didn't pick up your phone, I messaged you to say it was a bad idea-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""That's fine with me. As long as you're okay with it." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I just... don't want people to think..." she drifted off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I promise I'm not that kind of guy!" He said defensively. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I-I trust you!" She said raising her hands in a protective stance. He gave her a cool smile and she slowly lowered her arms, awkwardly walking to the door and opening it for him. He slid inside and took off his shoes as she closed the door. She smiled softly at him and he smiled back at her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"She had a bunch of paints and reference images on the table. The correct balls were laid out in front of the images and paints you'd need. Everything they could have ever needed was out there on the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Wow. You set this all up in 15 minutes?" He asked as he stared at them. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No. I was going to do this tonight myself. You just called at the right time..." she said with a bit of a smile. He shot her a smile with an arm out towards a couple of bigger planets. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Then let's get started!" He said as he pulled out his phone and after getting hooked up to her wifi, putting on a chill playlist to kind of go with their mood. They were happily painting the planets but it was in silence. Kaito doesn't like silence. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why astrology?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Pardon?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why astrology?" He repeated as he continued to paint the giant ball into a planet. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I just... uh..." she trailed off as she continued to paint, he looked over and she put her paintbrush down after wiping it off, "you want to hear my origin story?" She said jokingly and he gave back a big smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Hell yes, I do."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Then you can tell me yours after?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I wanna know more about you. I already know about me." He said with a bigger smile as he continued to paint. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Okay... uh... back when my dad had a lot more time on his hands, he, my mom and I would look at the stars and I told him... I wanna be a star... he said I can be one... and after a few nights in a row of doing it I just fell in love with space." She said as she held up her ball, which its surface had died with the first layer of acrylic paint./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He gave a smile and nodded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I ... space is always there for you when everyone else is gone... the sky is still there." She said as if he asked her to keep going, but she stopped there. He smiled at her once more as he held up his globe of another planet./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I agree with you." He said sweetly, it made her blush softly and she smiled at his planet, "I always thought of it like that... I like it. I like how you think Sutā." He said with a bigger smile, she gave a thumbs up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The planet is looking good." She said sweetly and encouraging. He nodded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Momota Kaito! The luminary of the stars! And a good painter! That's what I always say!" His grin was seeming infectious and she started giggling. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He moved closer to her with his paints, reference images and his planet. She blushed slightly and gave a smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""How do you even paint this stuff so well?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't paint it well... but you're giving it too thin of a paint job... I have a lot of paint so don't be shy about it." She said as she poured more paint into his pallet, showing him how to gather more paint as she shows him how she paints her glass orbs. He smiles and nods as he tries to pay attention but he's not paying any attention. He gets distracted by the image on the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""This..." he trailed off, she looked at him with a questioning look, "this is the farthest planet in the galaxy, isn't it?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah." She said with a soft smile, "I-" she was cut off/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm going to go there." He said determinedly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You're... going to the end of our known universe?" She said as she looked at the planet, "I discovered this planet you know..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Did you name or after yourself?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No..." she trailed off, "I wanted to name it something nicer than that." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Well, I'm gonna go here." He said with a smile towards her, she gave a soft smile back towards him and he went back to painting. "What did you name it?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh, I haven't yet." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No? You're supposed to." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I know. It's just hard to think of names... but I'll tell you what?" She flashed a smile, "if you can reach it then you can name it with me." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Thanks! I totally will so I'll keep you to that!" He said as he pounded both his fists together in determination. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's forever away... I... your body would be dead..." she said as she thought about it, "but... I support you." She said with a smile. Kaito could feel his face slowly heat, just a little bit. He's never heard someone just... unconditionally support him on an idea that would inevitably end in death because science hasn't caught up to his brain yet. He leaned forward and stared at her again. She blushed at him and blinked a couple of times. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What is it?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why were you crying that day? You're so cute, Sutā." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah!" She blushed hard and pressed her glasses up slightly, "I get bullied easily. So... things happened and they intentionally smashed it..." she said with a saddened tone. He got all sorts of mad and huffy. He stood from the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Who did it?" His voice vibrated with anger she put her hands defensively, sinking further into her chair. He stared at her for a second before sitting back down. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's really nothing." She muttered. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If they do it again... you text me." He said sternly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I will." She said with a soft smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He looked at the planet and kept painting before turning it towards her, she started giggling softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""A smilie face? Really?" She said with another giggle. He looked back and saw his purple brushstrokes did, in fact, form a smile on the side of the planet. He looked at her and gave a giant smile./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's just like me right now." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It is... I'm sorry I left you with the mess... I appreciate you helping me." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm glad to help you Sutā. That's what friends do." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""That... I uh..." she trailed off before she spoke loudly out of fear, "w-would you be my friend?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Kaito burst out in laughter and she stared nervously, biting her bottom lip. He slowly stopped laughing but kept a smile on his face. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā, did you just ask to be my friend?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ye-Yes..." she trailed off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'll be your friend." He said with a soft nudge into her arm. She suddenly perked up and started laughing herself. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I can't believe I just asked that after you called me your friend! Hahaha!" She laughed a little bit longer and stared at him. He stared back at her and shook his head. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"The door suddenly slid open. Kaito sat up straighter and saw a woman with dark brown hair, yellowish eyes and she also... has a small frame. She looked a little shocked as a man followed her in. He looked more similar to Sutā with the hair texture and his eyes- oh. These were her parents. They both looked a little shocked at it, shit, he may have made her break a rule. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah... hello..." her father started, looking over the boy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""A little close aren't we?" Her mother continued, putting a hand on her hip and shifting her stance to look a little more intensively at Kaito. Shiiiiit. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I was just-" Sutā said starting to try and excuse him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She was teaching me how to paint her planet." Kaito interrupted. He guessed they were laughing so loud they didn't notice them come in. He stared at her mother seeing as she was the more aggressive of the two in demeanour. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You go to hopes peak?" Her father asked with a certain softness that he could easily recognize. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yes, sir! I'm an astronaut!" He said with his bubbling enthusiasm, her mothers face softened and gave a nod, "I'm Momota Kaito! Sutā's best friend." He stated boldly. Sutā blushed softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm not surprised she likes someone who's as passionate about space as she is." Her mother said with the same softness as her husband, patting Sutā's back, "I'm assuming you're passionate considering how bold you are." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I love space more than anything," Kaito said with a smile towards Sutā, she smiled back towards him softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Kaito-sama is a good friend." Sutā tried to confirm, "if he gets to my planet we'll name it together." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If you can do that then you may as well marry him." Her father said and Sutā blushed a little more awkwardly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Dad..." she said quietly. Kaito just laughed and nodded./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sounds like a plan to me." May as well make a good impression on the parents right? /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Can we please go back to painting?" She asks her parents. They nod and leave the room but don't close the door. Probably want to hear and know what they're doing, which is fair enough. He'd probably do the same as a parent. He looked back at his new best friend and she was happily painting again. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You like this music?" He asked as he continued painting his future planet. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I do... it's very nice...do you listen to chill music much?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. But my favourite is classic rock." He replied, looking over at her once more, "you always dress so old fashioned?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Uh... yes..." she said as she looked at her attire and he smiled. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's pretty cool. You got any more outfits?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. I have a lot of them... I'll... wear something new tomorrow." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""We should meet for lunch tomorrow." He said boldly. She perked up a little bit and blushed softly with a smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Only if you want to..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I do. I want to be your friend you know! You need more confidence!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You need a little less." She said with a half-laugh, he smiled a bit before laughing himself./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. I probably do." /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"The rest of the night had gone smoothly. Sutā seemed really happy when she was in her own home. It was easier to get her to open up and get conversations going. She didn't even seem afraid to answer any questions. They couldn't stop talking together until it was dinner. He started running home realizing the time and hoping he wasn't late. He wasn't. Thank god. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Almost late." His grandfather joked. Kaito smiled and kissed his head, before heading over to the table for dinner. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You guys have to meet her," Kaito said smiling as he messaged her back and forth through the class as he's been doing for the past couple of weeks. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I have met her. She seems nice." Shuichi said with Kokichi hanging off his arm. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm not gonna meet another lame-ass star kid." He stated./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You take that back!" Kaito said gritting his teeth/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Jeeez you can't take a little lie," Kokichi said with a smirk as Kaito rolled his eyes. Oh, another message. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"[Yes! /spanspan style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"I have to go see the new section of the museum about space!] she texted so cutely. Everything about her was just absolutely adorable. Why she had no more than 2 friends was beyond him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She's not gonna meet you." He said as he texted Sutā back, Kaede smiled and leaned towards him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Whatcha typing?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Nothin' much," Kaito responded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"[Hell yes! Let's GO! Next weekend? Or maybe this weekend if you're free?] /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You type with so many question marks!" Kaede said with a bit of surprise and Kaito pulled his phone closer to him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oi!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You've been texting her all class! I had to see at least one." She teased. He frowned and put his phone away. She's probably gonna start paying attention to class again some time... he should probably do the same but he didn't want to... he just wanted to talk to her more... he's not usually like this but maybe it's just because they're in class! Yeah! That's it! He felt a buzz in his pocket. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"No Kaito don't answer it... don't... don't... you can do this... god why is he so bored- FUCK IT! He pulled his phone out and saw ... oh it's Kokichi... [Got u binch /spanspan style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"] Kaito grit his teeth and put his phone away once more. He's sure Sutā has no problem paying attention instead of messaging back. She was a good girl when it came to class at least until now. The idea that he changed her hit him hard and it made him smile to himself as he doodled on his notebook instead of paying attention to what was happening in the room at all. Even though you don't need notebooks his grandmother still made him get one and this is exactly all he used it for. Little stick figure Kaito drawings. There was a little drawing of him landing on Sutā's planet with her, Shuichi, Kaede and maki all holding hands and the planet was called Kaito Momota's planet of awesome. He's. If very creative but he's plenty happy with it./span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh... no, I don't need help..." she said through her sorrow. He could hear it waver through her delicate voice. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I want to." he replied sternly as he picked up the glass. Slowly it was all in one pile until one ball remained unharmed. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It was the world. Our world. Its painting job wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it was easy to tell what she was going to try and do. He smiled at it softly before holding it out, on one knee and deciding to make another bold claim, like he usually did, "I'm Kaito." He said, she looked up at him, those dreadful eyes piercing into his soul. She nodded and shakily wiped more tears from her face, /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā Kidō... astrologist..." she responded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No way!" He said with a big smile, "I'm an astronaut!" his tone dropped the happiness and went back to serious, which he could see in her face, scared her, "and I'm gonna help ya build this back." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh no please-" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Space buddies gotta stick together ya know?" He said with a smile coming back, "I'll be in your orbit." He said as he pulled both her hand over the world, urging her to take it before her other hand took it from him with all delicacy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If... if you'd like Kaito-sama... but... I'm fine just doing it alone."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Nah. Together." He said as he stood up and held his hand out to have her take it. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Her hand was unreasonably soft in his own, so much that he was worried about hurting her hand with his own as he pulled her up as she kept the world safe. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Let's rebuild this universe together." He said with determination in his voice as she blushed softly at him as she stared, her eyes softened from their sorrow into some form of excitement. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You ... knew it was the universe?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. Could tell." He said as he stared at the world in her hands, "at least we don't gonna redo our world." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I... uh..." she trailed off and held the world out to him, "you hold onto this until we meet again... hopefully I'll have the other glass pieces fired up!" She said as he took it and stared at it with some type of fascination. He looked up to say something to her but he saw her running from the scene. Her light brown and red trench coat flapping behind her. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"And then he realized... she left all the mess... to him. Whatever. She was a scared girl. She must have just gotten overwhelmed by his big ego and explosive personality. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"'She was a little too formal...' He thought as he kept the world around him for the remainder of the day. At home, he luckily had a stand that was around a good enough size to keep it in a perfect place on his desk. He softly smiles at it thinking of that girl's soft sorrowful eyes. He had to find Sutā again. He had to make things better for this poor girl who looks destroyed. His thoughts continued as he cleaned up the glass, he watched Kokichi laugh at him as he cleaned up, even saying something he didn't pay attention to. The more you pay attention to that guy the worst it gets. It suddenly hit him, with glass in his hands, that he didn't have any way to contact her other than just finding her! God damn it! /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"For a couple of weeks, he didn't see her and he was definitely looking. Shuichi and Kaede said they didn't even know of her. He sighed hard with a half glare. Kaede gave him a soft smile, "I'm sure we can find her if we really try!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I've been looking for her for like a week and a half now!" Kaito said with a sigh as he scratched the back of his neck. Kaede Softly touched his arm, making a feeling bubble up in his stomach again. Fuck. If he was being honest he was jealous of how Shuichi and Kaede got together so fast. He started to have a thing for Kaede. She was smart and fun- no now wasn't the time for that. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Where did you last see her? Did she say what class she was in? How old she was?" Shuichi said as he adjusted his hat, Kaede held his hand as if to tell him to stop touching his hat. He gave her a mild smile of understanding. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I told you, man, I only got her name... ahhhh girls are so hard to find." Kaito gave a hard shrug and left them as Shuichi looked at Kaede once more before deciding he was coming to help. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Mamota-san. How can I help?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh heck yeah!" He said enthused, "her name is Sutā Kidō and she's an astrologist~ I'll let you handle the details of this investigation sidekick. I'm gonna go get some lunch." He said as he left before Shuichi could even put in another word. Though he could feel Shuichi staring at him like he just burdened him. Maki ignored him as he tried to wave at her while passing. Well. That's fine. He's just gonna embarrass her instead, "Hiiiii Maki roll!" He said as he left. Her aura got a little brighter but her expression refused to change. That was pretty cool. He's getting pretty good at that. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He stood there in line for lunch. He just kept thinking about that little globe she made... she just wanted to make a little universe, an extensive universe and it hyped him up so much. He could paint and make a whole universe and show exactly how far he'll get into it-/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What do you want?" The lunch lady asked and snapped him from his thoughts. Oh. Right. He's been standing here for maybe a minute entirely... spaced out if you will. He ordered and almost immediately sat down. Maybe if he stayed here long enough she'd just stumble across him and be all like 'omg Kaito-sama I was looking all over for you! I'm so glad I found you! Tell me all about how cool of a spaceman you are!' And of course, he'd answer with, 'the coolest spaceman you've ever seen' and she'd faint because he's too awesome. Oh, wait. Her fainting is bad. Especially with those glass balls. So... maybe he'll tone it down a notch or two. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Shuichi came back to him a little later while he was playing with the globe, he smiled at Kaito softly and slid him a piece of paper. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh shit!" He said with a giant smile appearing on his face./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Her student ID was on the ground. I managed to go return it to her and was able to get a ton of information from her as a thank you." He moved his hat slightly as he looked to the side, "I said you were looking for her." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why would you do that man?" He said with his expression getting a bit darker and biting his lip. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""So I could get you this." He said pointing to her phone number on the paper, Kaito blushed slightly and awkward. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I thought ya just found it the detective way! Anyways! Good job sidekick!" He said as he pats Shuichi's back with all the information in the other hand. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It read /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Sutā Kidō/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Japanese/Korean /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Lives at 1234 starry lane /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Class 13-B/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Age 16 /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"5'2/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Birthday: Aug 24/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Likes: Astrology, painting, glow in the dark items, textures./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Dislikes: Rudeness, binge eating, crying, sadness, being alone/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Let me thank you, man." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh don't worry-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ice cream it is!" He said grabbing Shuichi's hand, going back to class. It was uneventful. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"But after Kaede, Shuichi, Maki and he went out for ice cream... Kaito was paying. He gave up the money half-heartedly and walked outside of the shop sitting down on the benches. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I heard you're looking for someone," Maki stated bluntly. Kaito Blushes a bit and scratches the back of his neck, "nothing gets past you, Makiroll." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Don't call me that. Why?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah! Momota-san! Do you have a crush?" Kaede said enthused, "Wait- now you have all that personal information about her! I sure hope you don't!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No! No no no!" Kaito said defensively, "I don't have a crush on Sutā!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Calling her by her first name already?" Shuichi chimed in trying to tease. Kaito held up his fist and Shuichi laughed awkwardly as he tried to melt into the chair. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Maki rolled her eyes, "why didn't you ask for my help?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Cause you're so busy Maki! You need to chill out sometimes." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't chill." She said coldly... as she licked ice cream. Almost...like a liar. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sure," Kaito responded with a smile towards her, she stared at him coldly... but her eyes were getting softer towards him the more she stared at him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Well, then why?" Kaede asked once more. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She was cryin'. Someone broke her whole universe..." he paused as he licked his mint chip ice cream, "she made a whole little diagram of the universe and I guess it broke. I said we'd work on it together. She kept saying no and eventually relented..." he swallowed hard, trying to think about her, "I just wanna help people, man... and space is so large... and I need a new project to work on anyways." He said just trying to find more and more excuses to say why he and Sutā were going to hang out. The 3 others just nodded alone. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't know the whole situation. I'm not a detective but she seems like a scared girl with a broken project she really wanted to show. I just wanna make a difference to people now before I go to space so I can mean something." He said before looking back at his friends. Kaede smiles softly at him and stroked Shuichi's cheek. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" "That's so cute." She said happily. Kaito felt like he was sick and looked away. Maki awkwardly pat his shoulder before he just kinda got up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I gotta go," Kaito said before starting to walk off rather quickly, this was really hard to him. He knew... that they were new as a couple and... that this stuff would be happening a lot more because they're new. But it didn't stop it from hurting. He liked them to be happy! Hell, he was glad his boy Shuichi was getting the girl he wanted! That's great! But... it didn't make it hurt any less. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"It wasn't long before he came home and stared at a globe on his desk. He was gonna see the world this size one day. He knew it. He knew he could do it! Yes! It filled him full of determination and he whipped out his phone deciding instead of texting the girl he'd be classy and call her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Hello!" He practically screamed as he heard her pick up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah! K-Kaito-Sama! Hello. This is Sutā." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I know. I can tell just by the way you answered!" Wait that sounded creepy but if he points it out it'll get worse. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I suppose my voice is a little easy to tell." She said softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Are they done?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Pardon?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The balls!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The balls- OH THE BALLS!" She responded as she remembered, he laughed softly as her softer voice getting substantially louder, "yes I have them... but uh-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'll be right over." He said assuredly/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Huh?!" She sounded shocked. He swore he could hear her fumble the phone. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't have your address where do you live?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh goodness, K-Kaito-Sama I don't even know your first name..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Kaito is my first name." He said with a laugh, "I guess I never gave you my last name! Too excited!" He said with a lot of volume. She audibly gasped before he respond, "Momota". /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Momota-sama-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā, just call me Kaito~ c'mon we're gonna be the best of friends." He said cutting her off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You're so... brass calling me Sutā... we've talked once..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Anyways! Where are ya?" He said before she softly responded with her address, he nodded and gave an excited response before starting to walk over. She was no more than a 15-minute walk away. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"His thoughts started to catch up with him. He was being far too impulsive. Far more than he was used to being. His body wrenched for a second, 'you met this girl and you're going over to her place. Why do you always decide to help the weak?' He thought, 'this is dangerous. It's just because your friends are running off and dating.' 'No' he responded to himself, 'I just want to help a girl out. She's obviously got some kinda problem. It's best to try and help.' He fought with himself before seeing Sutā out in the front lawn awaiting his arrival. Her place was nice from the front and she looked cute outside of school like this. Her trench coat was off and you could see her universe skirt in full bloom. Her shirt had that ruffle neck thing attached to it and her hair was cute with the bows in it. It was a nice change. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sorry, but my parents aren't home. You didn't pick up your phone, I messaged you to say it was a bad idea-"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""That's fine with me. As long as you're okay with it." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I just... don't want people to think..." she drifted off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I promise I'm not that kind of guy!" He said defensively. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I-I trust you!" She said raising her hands in a protective stance. He gave her a cool smile and she slowly lowered her arms, awkwardly walking to the door and opening it for him. He slid inside and took off his shoes as she closed the door. She smiled softly at him and he smiled back at her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"She had a bunch of paints and reference images on the table. The correct balls were laid out in front of the images and paints you'd need. Everything they could have ever needed was out there on the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Wow. You set this all up in 15 minutes?" He asked as he stared at them. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No. I was going to do this tonight myself. You just called at the right time..." she said with a bit of a smile. He shot her a smile with an arm out towards a couple of bigger planets. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Then let's get started!" He said as he pulled out his phone and after getting hooked up to her wifi, putting on a chill playlist to kind of go with their mood. They were happily painting the planets but it was in silence. Kaito doesn't like silence. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why astrology?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Pardon?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why astrology?" He repeated as he continued to paint the giant ball into a planet. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I just... uh..." she trailed off as she continued to paint, he looked over and she put her paintbrush down after wiping it off, "you want to hear my origin story?" She said jokingly and he gave back a big smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Hell yes, I do."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Then you can tell me yours after?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I wanna know more about you. I already know about me." He said with a bigger smile as he continued to paint. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Okay... uh... back when my dad had a lot more time on his hands, he, my mom and I would look at the stars and I told him... I wanna be a star... he said I can be one... and after a few nights in a row of doing it I just fell in love with space." She said as she held up her ball, which its surface had died with the first layer of acrylic paint./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He gave a smile and nodded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I ... space is always there for you when everyone else is gone... the sky is still there." She said as if he asked her to keep going, but she stopped there. He smiled at her once more as he held up his globe of another planet./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I agree with you." He said sweetly, it made her blush softly and she smiled at his planet, "I always thought of it like that... I like it. I like how you think Sutā." He said with a bigger smile, she gave a thumbs up. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""The planet is looking good." She said sweetly and encouraging. He nodded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Momota Kaito! The luminary of the stars! And a good painter! That's what I always say!" His grin was seeming infectious and she started giggling. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He moved closer to her with his paints, reference images and his planet. She blushed slightly and gave a smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""How do you even paint this stuff so well?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I don't paint it well... but you're giving it too thin of a paint job... I have a lot of paint so don't be shy about it." She said as she poured more paint into his pallet, showing him how to gather more paint as she shows him how she paints her glass orbs. He smiles and nods as he tries to pay attention but he's not paying any attention. He gets distracted by the image on the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""This..." he trailed off, she looked at him with a questioning look, "this is the farthest planet in the galaxy, isn't it?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah." She said with a soft smile, "I-" she was cut off/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm going to go there." He said determinedly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You're... going to the end of our known universe?" She said as she looked at the planet, "I discovered this planet you know..." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Did you name or after yourself?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No..." she trailed off, "I wanted to name it something nicer than that." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Well, I'm gonna go here." He said with a smile towards her, she gave a soft smile back towards him and he went back to painting. "What did you name it?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oh, I haven't yet." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""No? You're supposed to." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I know. It's just hard to think of names... but I'll tell you what?" She flashed a smile, "if you can reach it then you can name it with me." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Thanks! I totally will so I'll keep you to that!" He said as he pounded both his fists together in determination. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's forever away... I... your body would be dead..." she said as she thought about it, "but... I support you." She said with a smile. Kaito could feel his face slowly heat, just a little bit. He's never heard someone just... unconditionally support him on an idea that would inevitably end in death because science hasn't caught up to his brain yet. He leaned forward and stared at her again. She blushed at him and blinked a couple of times. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What is it?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Why were you crying that day? You're so cute, Sutā." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah!" She blushed hard and pressed her glasses up slightly, "I get bullied easily. So... things happened and they intentionally smashed it..." she said with a saddened tone. He got all sorts of mad and huffy. He stood from the table. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Who did it?" His voice vibrated with anger she put her hands defensively, sinking further into her chair. He stared at her for a second before sitting back down. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's really nothing." She muttered. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If they do it again... you text me." He said sternly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I will." She said with a soft smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"He looked at the planet and kept painting before turning it towards her, she started giggling softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""What?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""A smilie face? Really?" She said with another giggle. He looked back and saw his purple brushstrokes did, in fact, form a smile on the side of the planet. He looked at her and gave a giant smile./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's just like me right now." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It is... I'm sorry I left you with the mess... I appreciate you helping me." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm glad to help you Sutā. That's what friends do." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""That... I uh..." she trailed off before she spoke loudly out of fear, "w-would you be my friend?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"Kaito burst out in laughter and she stared nervously, biting her bottom lip. He slowly stopped laughing but kept a smile on his face. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sutā, did you just ask to be my friend?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ye-Yes..." she trailed off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'll be your friend." He said with a soft nudge into her arm. She suddenly perked up and started laughing herself. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I can't believe I just asked that after you called me your friend! Hahaha!" She laughed a little bit longer and stared at him. He stared back at her and shook his head. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"The door suddenly slid open. Kaito sat up straighter and saw a woman with dark brown hair, yellowish eyes and she also... has a small frame. She looked a little shocked as a man followed her in. He looked more similar to Sutā with the hair texture and his eyes- oh. These were her parents. They both looked a little shocked at it, shit, he may have made her break a rule. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Ah... hello..." her father started, looking over the boy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""A little close aren't we?" Her mother continued, putting a hand on her hip and shifting her stance to look a little more intensively at Kaito. Shiiiiit. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I was just-" Sutā said starting to try and excuse him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She was teaching me how to paint her planet." Kaito interrupted. He guessed they were laughing so loud they didn't notice them come in. He stared at her mother seeing as she was the more aggressive of the two in demeanour. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You go to hopes peak?" Her father asked with a certain softness that he could easily recognize. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yes, sir! I'm an astronaut!" He said with his bubbling enthusiasm, her mothers face softened and gave a nod, "I'm Momota Kaito! Sutā's best friend." He stated boldly. Sutā blushed softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm not surprised she likes someone who's as passionate about space as she is." Her mother said with the same softness as her husband, patting Sutā's back, "I'm assuming you're passionate considering how bold you are." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I love space more than anything," Kaito said with a smile towards Sutā, she smiled back towards him softly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Kaito-sama is a good friend." Sutā tried to confirm, "if he gets to my planet we'll name it together." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""If you can do that then you may as well marry him." Her father said and Sutā blushed a little more awkwardly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Dad..." she said quietly. Kaito just laughed and nodded./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Sounds like a plan to me." May as well make a good impression on the parents right? /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Can we please go back to painting?" She asks her parents. They nod and leave the room but don't close the door. Probably want to hear and know what they're doing, which is fair enough. He'd probably do the same as a parent. He looked back at his new best friend and she was happily painting again. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You like this music?" He asked as he continued painting his future planet. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I do... it's very nice...do you listen to chill music much?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. But my favourite is classic rock." He replied, looking over at her once more, "you always dress so old fashioned?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Uh... yes..." she said as she looked at her attire and he smiled. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""It's pretty cool. You got any more outfits?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. I have a lot of them... I'll... wear something new tomorrow." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""We should meet for lunch tomorrow." He said boldly. She perked up a little bit and blushed softly with a smile. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Only if you want to..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I do. I want to be your friend you know! You need more confidence!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You need a little less." She said with a half-laugh, he smiled a bit before laughing himself./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Yeah. I probably do." /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"The rest of the night had gone smoothly. Sutā seemed really happy when she was in her own home. It was easier to get her to open up and get conversations going. She didn't even seem afraid to answer any questions. They couldn't stop talking together until it was dinner. He started running home realizing the time and hoping he wasn't late. He wasn't. Thank god. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Almost late." His grandfather joked. Kaito smiled and kissed his head, before heading over to the table for dinner. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545; min-height: 20.3px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You guys have to meet her," Kaito said smiling as he messaged her back and forth through the class as he's been doing for the past couple of weeks. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I have met her. She seems nice." Shuichi said with Kokichi hanging off his arm. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""I'm not gonna meet another lame-ass star kid." He stated./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You take that back!" Kaito said gritting his teeth/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Jeeez you can't take a little lie," Kokichi said with a smirk as Kaito rolled his eyes. Oh, another message. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"[Yes! /spanspan style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"I have to go see the new section of the museum about space!] she texted so cutely. Everything about her was just absolutely adorable. Why she had no more than 2 friends was beyond him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""She's not gonna meet you." He said as he texted Sutā back, Kaede smiled and leaned towards him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Whatcha typing?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Nothin' much," Kaito responded. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"[Hell yes! Let's GO! Next weekend? Or maybe this weekend if you're free?] /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You type with so many question marks!" Kaede said with a bit of surprise and Kaito pulled his phone closer to him. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""Oi!"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;""You've been texting her all class! I had to see at least one." She teased. He frowned and put his phone away. She's probably gonna start paying attention to class again some time... he should probably do the same but he didn't want to... he just wanted to talk to her more... he's not usually like this but maybe it's just because they're in class! Yeah! That's it! He felt a buzz in his pocket. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: #454545;"span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"No Kaito don't answer it... don't... don't... you can do this... god why is he so bored- FUCK IT! He pulled his phone out and saw ... oh it's Kokichi... [Got u binch /spanspan style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"] Kaito grit his teeth and put his phone away once more. He's sure Sutā has no problem paying attention instead of messaging back. She was a good girl when it came to class at least until now. The idea that he changed her hit him hard and it made him smile to himself as he doodled on his notebook instead of paying attention to what was happening in the room at all. Even though you don't need notebooks his grandmother still made him get one and this is exactly all he used it for. Little stick figure Kaito drawings. There was a little drawing of him landing on Sutā's planet with her, Shuichi, Kaede and maki all holding hands and the planet was called Kaito Momota's planet of awesome. He's. If very creative but he's plenty happy with it./span/p
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