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Edamura Makoto ([personal profile] ordimame) wrote in [community profile] perfectmatch 2025-06-17 08:25 pm (UTC)

[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. . .]

[he has never been one at all]

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