[ it's no pants time ]

[powerisyours]

[ continued from here ]

Anything Shan Shan wants.

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[powerisyours]

[ No this is awful I broke it and IDK how ]

Don't. Come back. Please.

[ridestherider]

Why, is there a longer, more itemized list of people you kiss you want to go over with me sitting naked in your lap?

[powerisyours]

No. And if you'd rather I didn't do it anymore, I won't. Just tell me.

[ridestherider]

We both know I'm not in a position to do that.

[powerisyours]

That's part of why I didn't think it would bother you. I'm not going out and doing--things--with anyone, I'm just being affectionate with people I care a great deal about.

[ridestherider]

I don't come home and tell you all about it, do I?

[powerisyours]

No, but I don't, either.

[ a pause ]

Do I?

[ridestherider]

[Exasperated.]

You just did.

[powerisyours]

... Oh.

[ Definitely still has lots to learn ]

... I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out that way. You asked me about kissing girls, so ...

[ridestherider]

Just forget it, Jiu Wu.

[powerisyours]

It bothers you, though.

[ridestherider]

It's not supposed to. It's not supposed to be that serious.

[powerisyours]

You're my girlfriend, though. Aren't you supposed to want to keep me for yourself?

[ that is what books lead me to believe anyway.

he also very much sounds as if it's an honest question ]

[ridestherider]

Only when that's how you agree it should go. Probably. I don't know.

I don't know if you noticed this but my other relationships went straight to hell, so I'm not the best person to ask.

[powerisyours]

[ dragging himself out of the tub and shuffling over to drape himself over her back

possibly awkward when one is wet and naked but them's the breaks ]

I already want to, though.

[ridestherider]

I'll just get hurt again when you leave if we let it get serious.

[powerisyours]

I meant it when I said I wasn't letting you go. That I was keeping you forever.

[ridestherider]

Keeping me and dating me aren't necessarily the same thing.

[powerisyours]

[ Resting his chin on her shoulder ]

Natsumi? Can I ask you a question? A serious one.

[ridestherider]

What?

[powerisyours]

How serious is too serious for this?

[ridestherider]

I can't say. I don't know. Taking it a little at a time and not getting carried away just seems like it'd be less painful when you left, because you will. You have a reason to have to go home eventually.

I just ... I can't do what happened before a second time.

[powerisyours]

... I could say the same thing to you, honestly. And before you say it, you do have reasons. A handful, at least.

[ridestherider]

They don't need me. They do need you where you're from.

[powerisyours]

Your family's there, too. He needs you.