The Gym, Sunday Early Morning

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Ino, despite her best attempts, was still drowsy and half-asleep from the sleepover at Lana's when she slipped into the gym and started her stretches. She blinked, somewhat bemused, she'd beaten Liir. Ha.

She let herself dwell on that rather than anything that might be waiting for her to wear in her room--at least she could console herself with the fact that, no matter what he picked, she'd picked it out to buy, so it couldn't be that bad.

Right, then. No fretting allowed.

Well. Minimal flailing was permitted, seriously.

[Ino is here for Liir, but totally open for any of your Gym-ish or Ino-ish needs.]

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[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"It's Something, though."

He could tell that much.

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She flushed. "Who knows?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Well, as you know, radio isn't that helpful sometimes. But I also know you."

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People were being confusing lately, geez.

"...what's that supposed to mean?" she asked warily.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"You're not foolish enough to let your pride get in the way of how you feel.

"Eventually."

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...

...

Yeah. That was getting an arms-crossed frowny Ino. "...excuse me?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He raised an eyebrow back.

"You care about him. And no matter what 'decision' you made, you're not going to turn down having someone you care about in your life again over it."

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"It's just fooling around."

And if she kept telling herself that, it might make it true.

"He's not going to stick around, said it himself before."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"And that won't change a whit of how you feel."

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"And maybe," she said. "Maybe I don't want to feel. It's just fooling around."

So she wouldn't have to cry when he went.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"That won't change it either," he pointed out gently.

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"It's going to have to," Ino said mutinously. "It's nothing but a bit of fun."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I won't argue," he said with a shrug. "You know what you're doing."

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No, she really didn't.

"Good," Ino said somewhat helplessly, her argument robbed of its momentum.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He'd be there if he had to be, for either of them.

"I haven't gotten to see Michael yet. I'll try to do it this week," he said with a shrug.

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"Have you been talking to other people?" Ino asked, making this totally a subject change. Yes.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I've tried," he said.

Really. He had.

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She gave him a Look.

"That'd be a 'no', then?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I've been out in public for days! It's not my fault no one's spoken to me."

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"Try harder," she said, "and give me a hug."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

The hug was given immediately, firm and warm.

The other one, however...

"I haven't been in the mood, honestly. I don't suppose you heard about things blowing up with Amber, have you?"

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She hugged him back, resting her head against him. "I heard something about you and Amber fighting?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"She said that she didn't think I cared about her," he said quietly, "and that I didn't leave myself much room for friends."

He shook his head.

"It's... I haven't much wanted to leave room for anyone after that. It seems whatever I do is always misunderstood. So why even try? I'll just hurt people in the process."

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"Why did she say that, Liir?" Ino asked, ignoring the rest for now.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Because I was a bit awkward?"

He shrugged.

"I don't know. I told her we'd had an argument, that you were important to me, that it'd put me a bit off my base."