>>6099639“You gonna fess up to having my stuff?”
“First, I’d have to have it. Sorry.” The sarcasm is dripping on that faux apology.
“Then just go home.” A dismissal colder than usual. Real smooth blowing that chance to know her better. Here she was offering her back and you just passed up a prime backstab opportunity.
She probably thinks you and Ken were closer friends than she thought. Guess he has his own skeletons in his closet, and not himself.
“Look, do you really think it’s anything to worry about? Besides, what makes you a better arbiter on what he should do over himself? I don’t know anything suspicious about Ken, so what would you want me to do about it, Mayumi?”
Gritting her teeth and closing her eyes, she has no immediate counter from your words. She grips the gate to a house, her own, you presume.
Her back turned to you still, she addressed you once more.
“Hino Yakamura. When I find that you’ve lied, I will know about it.”
“That is if-” A tone this serious, you’d think you’d know better than to try your usual.
“When. Not if. In the case that you did deceive me, what occurred is enough for me to get you suspended. But do this for me, and I won’t press it further when it does come to that.”
“Ken’s nothing to worry about? Fine. Prove it to me. Find out what’s going on with him. That’s it, all I want. Deal?”
Blackmail. All for his sake. Chatterbox was onto something, and apparently, it’s ok when she does it.
>”You’re bluffing. If you had the means to know what I did, you’d know what Ken was up to.”>”So you’re threatening me. Cool. What would everyone else think about it?”>”You know, if you asked nicely, I’d do it, but now I need a little something for me.”>”How dare you ask me to do this to a friend of mine. It’s frankly insulting that you’d think I’d consider this.”>Walk away.>Write-in 