I am going to do my best to explain in little sentences with the right punctuation and stuff so this is clearer. Please don't reply until I say I'm done?
[The rest of it comes slowly with a lot of '...' between messages. Usually she types the way she thinks, but this is important and she probably owes it to Yosuke to make it easier for him to read.]
So first of all, there is a reason I have said a couple times that my brain is broken and that's because it is. And that does explain part of why I do and say awful things like that. Not all of it but part of it.
A lot of the time my bad feelings are very overwhelming and I feel either lost or trapped by them. Sometimes when I feel hurt the only thing I can think of to do is make other people hurt too. And I know that's not what good people do, but I still do it.
I think that's probably why I would find bullies and pick fights with them back home. I think the idea was that it wasn't as bad if I only did it to bad people. That's probably also why I kicked you some of the time. You weren't really a bad person but you were kind of pervy and I guess I thought that made it okay. But it really didn't and I know that now.
Some of what I said on the beach was because I felt trapped in the pit of bad feelings and was flailing around and trying to hurt you. Part of it is related to things I actually feel. And maybe not everything I feel is really how things are but that doesn't stop me from feeling it.
I have a hard time trusting my friends. I keep thinking you're all going to go away and leave me alone again. Part of me is very sure that the only thing that is keeping us together is the mystery and Souji and we solved the mystery. I know it doesn't make sense, but I keep feeling like that.
Kanji says we did drift apart in the future so maybe it does make sense, but he also thinks we can change that. So maybe it doesn't. I talked to him after the beach.
I guess I have the hardest time trusting you. Out of everyone you're the one I am most sure is only friends with me because of the mystery and Souji. People have pointed out that it doesn't make sense because we were friends before Souji happened and I guess we were, but it didn't feel like we were sometimes. It felt like you were shutting me out with everyone else in town and deliberately ignoring me.
I think maybe the kicking was also about that. Sometimes it was about what I said before, but sometimes it was because it felt like it was the only way to get you to listen. I know the first time I kicked you WAS because you were ignoring me on purpose.
I was mad a lot back then because I knew I was messed up about Yukiko but not how to stop being that way. I think I hoped having another friend would fix me. I think I also maybe got mad that you being around didn't fix anything with me. And after a while it felt like the only thing you cared about was Saki-sempai and that being friends with me and Yukiko was an afterthought.
But also maybe I'm just not very good at having friends. Maybe you have to like yourself before you can like other people. I still don't like myself much. I found something good about me, but I also found things about me that were even worse than I knew.
I don't know if this makes sense to you. It makes sense to me, but I'm the one with the broken brain. I think yours is mostly normal. But this is the only way I know how to explain it right now.
[There's some more '...' for a little while longer, then they disappear.]
[ sorry chie, yosuke takes a few hours himself to answer because he’s frustrated at the stalling. he left his phone at home and decided to take a walk between parts 1 and 2. eventually he does answer. ]
I guess it’s good you realized you weren’t fair to me sometimes, but it sounds like you still don’t trust me. I don’t know how to answer this.
This doesn’t sound like you’re sorry for what you’ve said and did. It’s good to know why, but it means nothing if you’re not actually sorry for it. Just sounds a lot like what you’ve been saying during your walls of text, that it’s all how your brain is broken or whatever. You’re placing the blame on your issues, on other things. I mean, you’ve just been getting defensive instead of just... doing what you say you’re gonna do.
Are you actually sorry for what you said to me on the beach? For making me question our friendship that I thought was strong this whole time? For.
For anything?
[ a sigh and then: ]
For the record, I don’t know what you’re talking about, I never deliberately ignored you and I didn’t choose Saki over you. I just connected with her a bit better, we were dealing with the same stuff. If I made it seem that way I’m sorry, I never intended to.
[ oh. he didn't expect that question, at all. but he supposed he wasn't super surprised either, he wasn't the only one making this sort of revelation it seemed. ]
um, it was... kind of a lot of things? i mean, firstly i think i liked both for a long time but i was in like
super deep denial and i needed to get over that first. growin up, ur told its not rite and stuff, u know? but like... well i cant go into detail since itd be prying into kanji's shadow stuff but he was kinda goin thru the same crisis but he was gettin shit on it a lot becuz he liked knitting and stuff
and i was one of those ppl givin him shit for it, sorry 2 say (i've apologized to him!!)
so like, that was the hurdle i had to get through to even accept that i was... well, that i was like that, u know? that i could see that guys weren't just good lookin but like, that i was attracted to them.
[ a pause and then. ]
ugh sry i didnt mean to write a novel! it was basically just... well, as Rise said. "Are they cute or are they *cute*?" and struggling to figure out if it was the latter since, y'know, we got eyeballs. we can see when someone's good-lookin lol once i realized it was yeah, they're just as hot and attractive as girls then it was just... accepting it.
ha a novel is totally fine it helps seeing your whole thought process
[ the dots bounce for several minutes. yukari types, erases, types, erases. finally: ]
i'd never considered it before, really. it's like you said, growing up you only ever hear guys like girls and girls like guys and that's it. but it never bothered me that there were girls in my classes who were into other girls. like that's just who they were, you know? nothing wrong with that. but that wasn't me. to be honest, i don't think i paid enough attention to people to find anyone attractive. it took all my energy to get through each day to notice if someone was cute. it wasn't until my second year at gekkoukan that i even thought about trying to find a boyfriend, but i put that off so i could spend as much time with minako as i could. ...looking back, that probably should have been a clue. duh.
but there's enough time here to figure out what you like with no judgement. like i still think guys are cute, but there's been girls too and i keep... jeez. now i'm writing you a novel.
LOL yeah these kinda thoughts tend to bring that outta u
honestly, the breaking point was here in this place but i think it woulda happened either way back home, just at a slower pace. there was a triple moon where these side effects from that fox festival (idr if u were here for that or not) sorta happened to me. it wasnt a bad thing tho? just kinda made me more confident and less... weird about what ppl think about me.
and then i kissed ren and i liked it and i worried that it was just the moons but even when it was over i realized i still liked it so it was just a matter of accepting it and moving forward.
i still dont know how to handle some of it but its nice not holding myself back on at least letting myself look if u know what i mean ;)
[There's the '...' of typing in reply almost immediately... but then no actual reply. The dots go away almost immediately.
There's probably at least an hour before he does get a reply during which she certainly does not flail at Hifumi oh wait yes she does please thank Hifumi for whatever coherency this will have.
When he does get a reply it's three messages right on top of each other.]
Of course I'm sorry about what I said on the beach!!! I said the worst thing I could to you of course I'm sorry!!! And before that I hurt you to make myself feel less terrible when you didn't deserve it!!!
But you said you didn't want me to apologize unless I explained and then when I explained you said I wasn't apologizing so I'm not sure what you want from me???
I told you the stuff about the doctor and my brain and bad patterns because I don't want to do that stuff again and knowing what I'm doing is the first step to learning how not to do it???
[ the reply is actually almost immediate, because while it took some time for him to figure out exactly what it is he wanted to hear, he also realized exactly why her explanations didn't feel like explanations to him. ]
because you said i had to let you explain first but then you started stalling, it's in your first text chie. because that isn't the apology or the explanation i was looking for. i wanted to know why you thought i wasn't your friend, or that i only acted friendly when i was bored and not with saki. why you even felt the need to bring saki into this when she's been dead for over a year and what she even has to do with this. you didn't even tell me how i had been ignoring you because i haven't. apparently i ignored you deliberately the "first time" you kicked me? what, you get to decide what i was doing? i have no idea what you're talking about and how any of that makes me believe you're at all sorry for what you did and said to me.
[ she did say she was sorry now for what she said on the beach, he can acknowledge that. but it felt so hollow now with all that stuff she said before. ]
i don't want to hear how sorry you are for having mental issues. that's all you've been doing. you're telling me you're sorry for being an angry and spiteful person, because you have these... these issues or whatever? because you wanted to feel less terrible so you took it out on me?
that you placed this expectation on me and i disappointed you? well whoop-de-friggin-do Chie, i'm always a disappointment. thank you for reminding me.
yeah, sure, you say you're sorry for hurting me physically and for what you said, but you have been telling me since the very beginning of the this text chain that it's all because of your issues and what some doctor is telling you?
like
[ the audio comes on, because he needs her to understand how serious he's being, text just doesn't convey that and he feels like they're just going in circles. his voice is quiet and shaking as he takes a careful breath. ]
...look.
Chie I don't care about what your doctor is telling you or what your bad patterns are or whatever.
All I care about is that you actually believe I'm your friend, that you don't believe I'm only friendly to you when I want something out of it. Nowhere in your gigantic novel of texts did you say "I'm sorry for hurting your feelings and making you feel like we aren't friends."
[ his voice breaks a little here and there's a slight sniffle and the sound of cloth swiping over his face. ]
You haven't even reassured me that we're still friends.
[ he takes a deep breath, cursing slightly because dammit, he was trying to not get so emotional but whoops, that failed. he cuts the audio. ]
oh yeah, the foxes with the whole cordis cult. i didn't know triple moon stuff happened after that. ren-kun seems like the kinda guy who'd start those kinda thoughts. all he does is seem to flirt. still, if you have to fall for anyone, ren-kun's a good pick. he's cute.
[ another pause with bouncing dots. ]
accepting feels like the hardest part. i feel...unsure, does that make sense? like, there's someone i've been seeing since i got here and that felt easy. we've known each other forever. i think i always felt that way about her.
but i kissed someone during iris and it was really nice. i keep thinking about it and kinda want to do it again, but what if it was just the moon? but there's been other girls that i thought were cute outside of iris so.... idk. i think this is the new me or i'm realizing this is who i always was. i just have to know for sure, you know?
and jeez yosuke-san, you sound like such a boy lol
ok 1, i didn't fall for ren. but yeah, he's cute... you should see him w/o his glasses too and 2 DUH becuz i am a boy and don't lie, u girls look just as much as we boys do. u just hide it better :P
[ a pause as well as he thinks through the next words. ]
if it ONLY happened during the moons, i'd feel like you'd have a better case of it just bein a moon thing. but it hasnt so, and this is just because it's kinda the same with me, it may have been somethin that you always were but just didnt realize it until now.
but yeah, it makes total sense to be unsure about accepting it. i just cant do much to help you in that regard, its kinda up to you to face yourself and accept it or deny it. but ill def be here for you anyway! :)
without glasses huh? alright challenge accepted i still gotta get him to take me shopping and ykw, yeah, yeah we totally do. (´ヮ`)
maybe...? its something to think about i guess. as much as i dont wanna think about it ugh but youre right, you cant run away from who you are. it wouldnt be fair and thanks. that...really means a lot? like a whole lot. not that prismals would think twice about someone being bisexual was out of the ordinary but having people from home say that helps
i wonder if its actually a challenge, i didn't have to ask for him to take em off. he just sorta did. ┐( ̄ヮ ̄)┌
oooh, shopping for what?
dont think too hard on it, really. like you'll just start overthinking if u do and trust me i know overthinking. its a pain in the ass. not that it stopped me from doing that so i mean, if ur able to keep yourself from overthinking pls do it and just try to go with the flow or somethin instead
ur welcome! im glad i could help \(^▽^)/
yeah i def hear u there, thats what helps keep me grounded about it all. knowing my friends have my back while i figure all this out too.
i only know him through other but that sounds totally like him and we're shopping for clothes! eventually. he offered to help me out during my first iris to find stuff that will fit over horns and tails but we took a rain check since a lot of people offered to help maybe i could get him to model?
i am so bad with going with the flow but im gonna try just do what feels right and explore
yeah! i know mine will god minako is going to laugh at me forever once i tell her ill never hear the end of it
I don't understand either. We're still friends, after the case ended. Maybe we didn't spend every day together the next year like before, but I had to leave for my career, and everyone else had time to just be normal kids, right? But after that, you and Souji graduate... I think it's kind of unrealistic to think we'll still talk every day.
[ She fades away, playing with Yosuke's fingers. ]
But that doesn't mean we aren't still friends, either. That's just part of growing up, you don't hang around doing nothing with friends anymore. And, you're right, it's not fair.
Yeah, you did leave. Naoto did too as did Souji. It's just... even if we didn't talk everyday, the connection was still there. At least, I thought it was.
[ he hoped they would but if nothing else that they'd keep frequent enough contact.
her playing with his fingers drew his attention back to her and he pulled them to his lips, not necessarily kissing her knuckles but letting the touch linger a bit. ]
It sucks being told you don't understand something when you totally do. Or that you're worried and they just basically tell you off. My bad for worrying I guess, right?
[ She mulls that over, letting him pull her hand in closer. She extends a finger to gently brush against his nose. A tiny, playful gesture. ]
I know I'd think about you guys every single day, even if I couldn't get to a phone to call. or it'd come across as weird if I'm calling too many boys or something stupid like that. Maybe Chie needs more of a hobby, I don't know. We all have responsibilities outside of school and the investigation, except for her... Maybe that would have been good for her, I don't know.
[ A sigh. ]
If she doesn't want her friends to worry then she shouldn't act crazy.
[ He closed his eyes when she kissed his forehead and he couldn't help but adjust himself so his face was pressed against her shoulder and neck, his other arm coming around to hold her. ]
Thanks for checking on me. Sorry if it makes things awkward for you at home, though.
thats the impression i got. long as the both of you are having fun hes kinda up for anything if he does any good poses ill grab some pictures for you (・ω<)☆
youre right yosuke san she'll laugh for two forevers
[ Someone, somewhere pays, but she isn't particularly keen upon pressing it. That statement of his says quite a bit about him by her reckoning. Not everyone lives so keenly aware either. ]
So, what have you got planned for the rest of the day?
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