"Well im not sure id call it a tune but i gotta admit, that was on hell of a chord he struck." responds steven absently as he backs away from the window.
"No shit! Man, am I glad I came over here," your friend says, sitting on the floor. "That was so cool!"
Selina starts at the word intimate, floundering for words for a moment before taking a deep breath and looking down.
"I...I guess... I h-have to be h-h-honest..." She gulps, knowing this would likely be her finally being honest with herself.
"I... I'm a-an extremely d-d-damaged girl who... wh-who was b-bullied in school... I've n-never had fr-friends before, n-never been social... a-and n-never gone on a d-date before... I tr-try to be k-kind a-and caring... b-but I'm shy... and afraid o-of a lot of stuff n-now... Y-you said t-to impress? I d-don't... I can't i-impress you... I r-read, and write, and r-read manga wh-while being... being in the closet I g-guess. Th-thats m-m-me..." Selina looks down at the table, ready to run out of the shop right then and there and curl up somewhere if things went bad now.
Rita pauses for a moment, looking thoughtful, nodding along as you give a rather grim rundown of your being.
"I might be missing something, but what's manga? Sounds kind of exotic," she asks.
"Eh, it was worth a try. Try not to make mustard gas okay?"
Kyle says as he turns towards the door.
He laughs.
"No, no, see, I'm trying to get the rats
high," he merely says, smiling and nodding excitedly. You give him a grim nod of acknowledgement, then promptly leave.
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