[yeah! they were even kind enough to wait here in the store for them!]
. . . the truth is, I don't really know what I'm looking for!
[he says with a smile and a laugh as he turns back to the puzzle. once again not self-deprecating, but. . . painfully, hopelessly lost]
All that stuff I said before. . . about a "spark," or waiting for the right person to come along. . . it sounds nice. It's romantic and sweet and I'd like to believe in it. I'd like to think something like that exists for me.
[a breath]
But I don't.
[their puzzle is probably about halfway finished by now, with all the hard work they've been doing]
I think love is. . . in actuality, pretty messy and painful. I think it can hurt a lot more than people give it credit for. [. . .] Maybe. . .that's my problem.
[everyone else just knew. Furina and Ringo, Luka, Poppy and Shoko, Nico and Aventurine. they just knew, and here Edamura is, slowly dipping his toes into a world in which he has no experience, trying his hardest to be a romantic when. . . deep down. . .]
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. . . the truth is, I don't really know what I'm looking for!
[he says with a smile and a laugh as he turns back to the puzzle. once again not self-deprecating, but. . . painfully, hopelessly lost]
All that stuff I said before. . . about a "spark," or waiting for the right person to come along. . . it sounds nice. It's romantic and sweet and I'd like to believe in it. I'd like to think something like that exists for me.
[a breath]
But I don't.
[their puzzle is probably about halfway finished by now, with all the hard work they've been doing]
I think love is. . . in actuality, pretty messy and painful. I think it can hurt a lot more than people give it credit for. [. . .] Maybe. . .that's my problem.
[everyone else just knew. Furina and Ringo, Luka, Poppy and Shoko, Nico and Aventurine. they just knew, and here Edamura is, slowly dipping his toes into a world in which he has no experience, trying his hardest to be a romantic when. . . deep down. . .]
[he has never been one at all]