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        her eyes fall, chest deflating as eager excitement dissipates. she’d been so happy to see him ! she’d just chattered her little heart away, fingers pulled around stuffed kitten & & eyes focused on him.   “ d-dumb ?  “ the biggest thing to an actual INSULT the little ghouling will take to heart.    everyone calls her dumb, or at least … thinks she is.   even HIM, her friend has come out & & said it.     ( are you DUMB or something ? )  

       she picks at her hand,   not looking at him.  “ n-no … not dumb. s-seiji very smart, oppas say.”

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such a strange vocabulary she had - michael wouldn’t even try to guess what an OPPAS was. nonetheless, he noticed the decline in her demeanor. deflated and sad, he knew he had said something WRONG though was having difficulty pinpointing what it was.

whats wrong ?? ” looks at her with an appalled expression, leans forward and squints his eyes in confusion. “ don’t look all sad, what’cha got to look SAD for? all i said was that you was actin’ dumb - if you ain’t dumb then you ain’t dumb. ” a sad excuse for an apology, words getting jumbled as they left his lips on the defense. always struggled with words, though it tended to become more prevalent when he was WORKED UP.

he didn’t mean to HURT HER FEELINGS, didn’t know she was going to be so sensitive. “c’mon, you know i wouldn’t make you all sad like that on purpose. im your BESTEST friend in the whole world aren’t i? ”

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