standingonmyneck | FOREST COVERED: IC CONTACT

[It was like any other day. In Koriko maybe. A dash of stupid with also what to expect around these parts. She was on her way to the room and to decompress. Riye brought over a few more books from the library.

That was when she noticed a guy by the door, looking like he was waiting for someone. Eyeballing her as she was about to go inside, also noticing that this was one of them. Though she had a hard time figuring who it was out of the siblings this time. No fake smile, or crazed smile, definitely not Larix or Yotsuba. Maybe not Levant, Levant acted a lot less...weird. Levant was still weird but not that weird.]

Uh, yes? Can I help you?

[Abies remains completely impassive as Riye stares back at him. He takes his time waiting for any kind of other remark, some sort snide comment, but there's none. Looks like she really can't tell who's who yet.

He keeps his cool as he starts;]

What are you doing regarding Yotsuba-niisan, exactly?

[Her brow suddenly flattened. That remark sent her way off. Something about it just sat inside her stomach and boiled.

How it was said. How it was thrown at her. Right off the bat. No other graces of pleasantries with it.

Immediately offended.]

What am I doing? Hanging out with him.

[So there it is, the statement goes towards 'with' and not 'to'. It's already looking where he's expecting it might be heading. Abies pursed his lips for a brief moment, if he had been ever willing at admit it, he's not entirely sure how long he could hold out before his own brows furrows and reveal more of his real thoughts -feelings- from his poker face cracking.

Despite everything, he pulls a sympathetic smile to dissuade any kind of tension he might have let slipped.]

Ah, well- he's my brother and all, it doesn't hurt to ask right? I just want to be involved with my brothers' lives.

[Enough to know the most likely outcome from this.]

[...Wait a minute. She was able to detect who this was now. THIS WAS THAT GUY. The one brother she found displeasing the most. The guy who hid behind the fake-est smile. The fake-est sincerity.

She was highly suspicious still, feeling might uncomfortable. She didn't relax.

Riye felt...cornered.]

So why come to me with that question? Unless if something bothered you?

[Abies lets out a small laugh, he continues to smile as he hides his hands behind his back. More so that he can just one with the other tightly before they could curl into fists. It's only a matter of time.]

Why not? Hey, do you have a brother or sister too?

[He keeps his words with ambiguity as much as he holds up the facade, but there's a certain hint to the answer. Yes, he's not here for light chit chat.]

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[What the hell was WRONG with this creep? He did know how this could seem like to someone, right? You don't come here and ask questions like that with a laugh and smile. It was creepy. Like he was about to pull a gun on her with that grin at any moment.

She had half a mind to punch him. There was no fake emotions from her, venom started appearing in her monotone voice.]

A little sister, but unlike some people I guess I trust her own judgment as a person. Even if I feel like there's a lack thereof, which isn't uncommon for her. If she had a problem, she'd actually come to me with half a mind. But her life relationships aren't automatically made to be my business.

Edited 2016-07-09 21:55 (UTC)

[He remains visibly unaffected from Riye's ire whilst keeping his hands linked together at all times. But right now, the dots are starting to connect and he can see what kind of shape it's actually making. ]

Oh-- you're the older sister then, I'm the youngest actually but it doesn't feel that way sometimes!

[Abies shrugs a bit while letting out another laugh, it's starting to sound just slightly strained. Just as much as he's seeing the dots connect, he's also his own for Riye to draw her own conclusion of his lines.]

But you know, sometimes it kinda works that way, right- Sometimes the youngest takes care of their older siblings too.

[The smile slowly disappears revealing back to a neutral expression.]

I suggest you be careful from now on.

[Tread carefully.]

Edited 2016-07-13 13:18 (UTC)

[Mhm, that thought again to slug him came on back. Because she felt like she was held at verbal gunpoint, with a knife about to shank her.

She was looking into the face of someone who had now successfully cheesed her off. The horses were loose, and Abies brought it on himself.]

Careful doing what? Treat him like a human being, someone who deserves to have someone listen to him every now and then? Do it to his face so he knows someone ever even remotely cared about him?

Trust that if there was a problem he had with me, he could come say it to me from his mouth?

Gee, I didn't know that could offend you so much. But apparently it did enough for you to threaten me for no good reason.

[He did brought it to himself, he very much did. And this is exactly what's he's expecting. The link between his hands tighten as his shoulders tense and his mouth pursing just as tight, the look of his face is anything but neutral at this point. He's gone pass his limit, there's nothing but an ugly expression on him.

Anything Riye's saying is falling on deaf ears- it's all the same to him. What the six of them have is unlike anyone else, not even like regular siblings, they share everything they're practically the same people much as they hate it. They hate each other, they hate themselves in a way. But that's exactly why this whole thing is the cause of concern, he doesn't know all his brothers to an exact tee but he knows how most of them tick and it took him years to figure out Yotsuba until the fact that it was broadcast to their faces. A couple of months is nothing comparing to years, and now knowing more what Yotsuba's possibly thinking, knowing more could happen...

Abies lets go of his hands, showing two of them on each of his sides, both curled into fists.]

Stay out of something you're not even involved in.

[You don't know him.]

[She noted the balled up fists, and she would be lying to herself if that didn't make her nervous. But she wouldn't let him know that. So instead, she took a step back, making sure they weren't that close. She crossed her arms more as she leaned against the wall. If he tried to attack, she could make sure he hit a WALL before he hit her. Having her bases covered never hurt, when it came to it. She was smart that way.

But stubborn.]

Who said I was involved? I know what goes on inside your family isn't any of my business. You don't think I know that?

This isn't about your family's deep dark secrets, and we're not on TV so there's no point to having that interview either.

This is about me being Yotsuba's friend, which apparently YOU don't like so you're here trying to be the tough guy and scare me. All I wanted was to be something else he felt like he could talk to that would actually talk back to him.

[She may be smarter than he is, regardless in terms of education or whatever field Riye seems to be superior in, but he knows his limits. He knows where the lines are drawn, whether those small info paints a bigger picture or to warn him where he should cross his boundaries.

It's so easy, it's so very easy to just cross those boundaries and do something that'll change everything to a complete direction. TV would love drama, wouldn't it? Those silly characters squabbling over some sort of misunderstanding and then they all suddenly were better people just because they had a talk about it once. He feels like his skin pealing itself from how much his blood is boiling.

As he speaks, he steps closer.]

What kind of reality are you even living, are you actually trying to rule over something so easily? That you're actually thinking it's all about the power of friendship? You don't know shit.

[As he goes closer, he stops before turning away. He pockets both of his fists, from behind he kind of looks like someone else with his posture uncharacteristically hunched.

He isn't going to waste his breath any further. Obviously wherever she came from, multiple siblings born are either so common that it's easy to assumed their characters or they don't exist whatsoever that she's taking presumptions she has and runs with it. Not unlike these brothers' reality and the curse they handcuff to each other.

Not unlike how they hold each other's fate so tightly.]

Edited 2016-07-25 13:28 (UTC)

[Oh, he went there. Power of friendship? What a joke, what does she take her for? Friendship was something so simple? That her feelings were something she could toss because she got threatened by a punk who thought he had the "best interests"?

There was no way she was going to let him get close to her, even with his back turned. So she was just going to check her mail box and give him no stupid excuse. But her eyes were still locked.]

Excuse me? What kind of reality are you living in? Or did you forget that I questioned you more than once on why you even have a problem with this?

I never said I knew everything about whatever kind of home life you lived in. If you asked me, from what I heard, it sounds like hell so far. I never said I knew what it was like to have six identical siblings, just that I knew what it meant to be a sibling in general.

You keep dodging the damn question and at first you smile, pretending that everything is under your fingertips and I'm something you can play with. When all I heard coming from you were different versions of the same or similar statement.

[There's really no reason to continue this, the line is clear as cut, he should keep walking away. There's no absolute reason for him to cross the boundaries and yet--]

That's why shut up and stay out!

[He shouts, there's nothing about his voice being light or anywhere near it's usual tone, it's all ugly and rough. Abies leaves, not caring who might have hear them. Heard him. No one would recognize him anyways.]

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