video.

[inthejunk]

[Anyone familiar with Souji Seta's apartment will recognize where Yosuke is immediately. He's sitting on the bed, which is unmade in a way it never would be if Souji had anything to say about it. There are cups of tea sitting around too, abandoned and forgotten. For all of that, Yosuke doesn't seem relaxed or well-rested. He just looks a little mussed and out of it.]

I'unno 'f anyone. Uh. Who needsta know. But somebody...he had a job. So-so, 'f you worked with him he's not playin' hooky, alright? I waited t' make sure. A while. Long time. 'Cause he wasn't answering, so I-um.

Anyway, 'm doin' this wrong. I just mean-um. Mean that Souji Seta is gone. Is all. So, please excuse him from work.

[Sorry, Portians. He's usually friendler, really. It's just been a bad month. Wake him up when September ends?]

(OoC: For people who don't know, Souji Seta is Yosuke's canon best friend and was his sole cast mate. Who also made the mistake of giving him a bottle of vodka to celebrate his 17th birthday. Whoops.)

Comments

[asano_san]

There are still enough people around from last year to remember it.

[inthejunk]

[What a weird way to kick him when he's down. He frowns at that a little, but doesn't have much to say in his own defense. Okay, yeah. He totally did ralph on camera once, and it definitely sucked. Keigo's not wrong about that much, anyway.]

'M fine.

[asano_san]

[Keigo doesn't even know anymore. He would never admit it, but sometimes these things spiral out of control and he forgets what he was even upset about in the first place.

Keigo sighs.]

It's just-

You're going to feel like shit in the morning and he's still going to be gone. They'll always leave us. We don't get to have our friends and keep them. We're not that lucky. [He doesn't like to bring up old!Yosuke, but...] It's not like we were that close, but even you were a friend who left me once.

[inthejunk]

Sorry.

[It's the clearest and most sincere thing he's had to say so far. He knows that feeling, and it definitely sucks. But there's no good way to explain that the goal here is to feel like shit. A hangover is way better than some sort of emotional breakdown, right? He'll take it.]

[asano_san]

Don't apologize. Concentrate on not doing something stupid you'll regret in the morning instead.

[Maaaybe speaking from experience.]</small.

[inthejunk]

Mm.

[What's there to regret? Looking stupid, yet again? He doesn't care. Souji is gone. What even matters, aside from that? Not much that he can think of.]