Dorm Roof, Tuesday Night

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Edward is sitting out on the roof, a cup of coffee close at hand and a notebook on his lap. The notebook is closed, and the pen is still tucked in the spiral. The sky's far more interesting than his notebook anyway.

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"Yeah." Edward looked at the notebook, finding it the safest place TO look. "He's sent me a couple since the last one I sent ... before the new semester." Before an Al found him here. "I... haven't written him back yet."

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Sakura suddenly felt really bad for waving his notebook around like it was nothing. That certainly explained what was bothering him.

Without much in the way of warning other than stepping up to him, Sakura fidgeted for a brief moment before brushing his bangs away from his face and touching her lips to his forehead. She meant it as more of a comforting gesture than anything else, really. "I'm sorry," she said, and kept one hand resting in his hair.

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Edward closed his eyes and hugged his notebook to his chest. "What am I supposed to tell him, Sakura?" His voice was quiet. "How do I explain this to him? 'Oh, there's a new student, it's you, but you've been fixed!' I'm a fucking idiot."

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Sakura sighed against the knot growing in the pit of her stomach. She had no idea what to tell him, and that was probably harder than the fact that she'd almost blown his cover. She hushed him, leaning away from him just slightly and framing his face with both her hands. "Shh. You're not an idiot," She shook her head at him and absently ran one thumb over his face. "And you're doing a hell of a lot better in this situation than I would be." She tapped her forehead against his, closing her own eyes. She honestly had no idea what to say.

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Edward laughed cynically to himself. "I get myself into the worst messes," he muttered. "I guess I'll find a solution. There's got to be one."

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"I'm sorry," Sakura repeated, shaking her head.

She couldn't believe she'd nearly breached his privacy without his permission that way. What if she'd started reading one of them out loud without realizing what she was reading?

She sighed again and stepped back from him, keeping her hands on his shoulders. "Next time, let me know something's up so I don't pull something stupid like that?"

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Edward smiled softly, still holding tightly to his notebook. "Yeah, I guess." He didn't say that he had been. Even if it was more of a roundabout way.

Anyway, he figures Sakura would have realized that the letters were from Al on the second word.