Fifth

[akapeanut]

[Considering the whole non-permanence of death thing, not to mention the closets, George isn't too worried about her track record with pets. And after all, she kept her frog for a long time! Like, two years!

It might be that overconfidence that made fate decide to fuck with her, though.]

Hey. Uh, if anybody finds a yellowish-orangeish frog about [She gestures.] this big? That's, uh, mine. So if you can just put him in a box or something, I'll come get him.

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[second-first.livejournal.com]

I will look.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Rei. You don't have to touch him if you don't want to.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I don't mind.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Just figured I'd say. Some people get grossed out.

[Not that Rei really seems like...that type.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She nods slightly.]

...Why a frog?

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

He hopped into my life. I dunno.

[Shrug.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[That makes so much sense to Rei.]

...I have never had a pet.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

You could get one now if you wanted.

[Rei seems like she'd have small rodents or something.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.] I think I shouldn't.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

I think you'd be good with animals. You're quiet.

[She means that in the best possible way.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei is quiet for a minute. She doesn't think she could take care of a pet, since she's learned that she really doesn't even take good care of herself. But she doesn't know how to express that.]

...Maybe.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[But George knows what "maybe" means in Apathetic.]

What? What's wrong?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

...It's a lot of responsibility.

[Never having had parents, that isn't just Rei repeating what she's heard. She really means it.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but eventually they're just part of the family, or whatever.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei is quiet a moment, then turns the device to pan the camera around her room (http://karyx.spectrumvoid.net/images/room.jpg). Maybe that will speak for itself.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[...]

Dogs don't mind if it's messy.

[Okay she knows that was lame.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I don't mind either.

[A pause.]

But it's not good for them. [Or for her, being the implication.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

You could...work on it.

[She's a little worried now.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

And I can help you clean up, I guess.

[Not that she was ever the neat one in her family. She just let her mom take care of that crap.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Though her neutral expression doesn't change, Rei does redden slightly.]

...It's okay.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know you uh...had a lot of shit to deal with back home. Don't worry about it.

[Read: don't be embarrassed, I didn't mean it that way.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She nods slightly.

....]

I didn't have parents.

[Which is meant more to explain why she doesn't clean up after herself than anything else.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[She looks away, awkward. She only realized how much her parents meant once she died, but she still doesn't know what it'd be like to not have them at all.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei kind of notices she made it awkward so she attempts a save.]

I have only been alive for two years.

[...Didn't really help did it?]