(for Utena) who needs friends when you can win?

[daddyissuesjnr]

One of the things Melou hates most about the Mansion is how boring it is. Now that he's been here for a while and had a chance to get settled in, and to get over the initial angst of his arrival, he finds the days are less a haze of depression and more just plain boring. Today he's outside, near the edge of the woods, but deep enough in the trees

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[pinkduelist]

In comes a Utena, she stops a while to stare at Melou.

“What are you doing?” It isn't judgemental at all.

[daddyissuesjnr]

Melou's still embarrassed, though. He quickly drops the stone he was preparing to throw, and turns to face Utena, looking a bit startled and almost guilty.

"Nothing," he says. He definitely wasn't throwing stones at a tree, because that would be silly and childish.

[pinkduelist]

Meta!Utena says there's nothing wrong with childish, it's a prviledge denied to some.

“You had a stone in your hand.”

[daddyissuesjnr]

"...I did not," Melou says, though it's something of a weak protest, because he's aware that it probably sounds ridiculous and totally unconvincing.