forum Perhaps that's what makes us human. PRIVATE oxo rp with @Periwinkle_

Started August 13, 2019 by @saor_illust school

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"I've got a gerbil, nothing else." Saori's last remark made one of her eyebrows arch. Why was Saori worried about that? "Okay," she replied a bit sarcastically. "Not that I really care. Does she work or something?"

"Yeah, you might get overwhelmed by her when she gets back," Saori smiled sheepishly. "She asks a ton of questions."

She nodded once. "Ah, I get it. Honestly though, I don't really mind the questions." She cursed herself silently. Here she went again, making assumptions about people making assumptions about her. She always backed out of situations like this before she even got this far, so she had a slight victory, but she still felt bad.

"Really? A lot of people usually don't like them…" Saori replied.

“It’s fine, really,” she said as she made her way up the porch steps to the door. “Like I said I’m not exactly shy.”

"Alright then," Saori walked inside. "Come on in, then."

She ducked through the door and looked around as her eyes adjusted to the light. They had gone through the garage, so at the moment they were in a hallway. “So,” she turned to Saori. “Where to?”

"Wanna head upstairs to my room?" she asked.

She shrugged as if to say “Sure.” Then she looked around. “You want me to leave my backpack down here or?”

"Uh, either way is fine. It's up this way," she headed towards a flight of stairs and looked back.

"Ok well I'm dropping it here," she said, and plopped it down. "That thing is heavy. So is your room like, decorated and stuff, or did you not do much to it?"

"I mean, it's kinda decorated…" Saori trailed off. Her room had the occasional paper or poster or frame stuck on the wall, but other than that, it wasn't really decorated or fancy. She hadn't even thought about painting the walls, for heaven's sake.

"Huh," she replied and continued to climb the stairs. "You should decorate it. A room says a lot about a person."

(Oh super sorry I didn't see that)
"Oh? Is that so?" when they reached the top she turned a corner and down a short hallway. "Tada," she said kinda sarcastically.
"This is it"

Gwen stepped in, completely thrown off by how put together Saori's room was. She didn't think it would look that. . . sophisticated. Everything matched, and it was all in the right place. Honestly she thought it was nice, maybe not for herself, but she liked it nonetheless.

"Wow, this is really nice." She let out a short, low laugh. "Not at all anything like my room, that's for sure."

"Aha, thanks…" she replied. "So… any homework?"

“Yeah, but I’m not planning on doing it if that’s what you’re asking,” she replied as her eyes drifted around the room. “It’s in math, and I don’t need to do the homework since I already understand what we’re learning. You got any?”

"I see. Not really," she replied, her eyes not really focusing on anything in the room..

“Okay,” she replied as she sat down on the bed. “Do you have any Japanese stuff in here?”

"I mean, I have this workbook from when I was learning how to write hiragana, katakana, and kanji…" Saori picked up a weathered yellow workbook covered in hiragana and flipped through the pages.

"What are those, like different styles of writing or something? Like I said, I don't know much about Japanese at all."

"Aha, yeah! Hiragana is the regular alphabet, katakana is for writing foreign words, and kanji is for writing fancy words I think? It's made of characters borrowed from china aha," she explained.

"Cool," she leaned back and scrunched up her shoulders to stretch. "You know, when my mom told me I was adopted, she said the only thing that came with me was this piece of paper with the words Sekai no hashi de atte and a heart drawn on it. That's the only thing I know how to say in Japanese," she remembered fondly. She was partially talking to Saori, and partially talking to no one. "I've always wondered what it meant, since it made no sense at the time."