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[eatsyourscience]

[Because I didn't have enough entries in which Souji is cooking Souji has come to the realization that most of the people living in Wonderland is either incapable of cooking or incapable of cooking anything that doesn't have instructions.

Thus he is keeping himself busy in the food prep area, preparing curry and rice in the biggest and least questionably clean pots he could find, because this event somehow knows. He will share with anyone.

It smells delicious, btw.]

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[eatsyourscience]

What about?

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[jivitadana]

Her job, problems at work. What she wanted to do with her life.

[A beat, a pause, and some more silence.]

... She asked me out.

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[eatsyourscience]

Really?

...Did you do it?

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[jivitadana]

[Minato shook his head. Ah, he had run out of time before that could happen. But hm. He didn't know if he would have or not had he had the chance.]

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji nods a little. When he speaks, he's teasing, in his deadpan, Souji way.]

You had it worse than me. At least the female teachers left me alone. [Kashiwagi doesn't count forever.]

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[jivitadana]

[Minato smiled at that, also teasing him right back, but perhaps challenging him a bit.]

... Don't tell me you didn't have a similar situation.

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[eatsyourscience]

[...Well in the interest of fairness....]

There was a nurse at the hospital....

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[jivitadana]

And?

[Go on, Souji. So. Little girls with pigtails and then now middle-aged women. Uh huh. Parallels.]

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[eatsyourscience]

She wanted to give me "anatomy lessons".

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[jivitadana]

[Wow, this sounds kind of familiar. Like getting hit on at the beach.]

... And you said I had it worse than you.

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[eatsyourscience]

She wasn't my teacher.

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[jivitadana]

... And a nurse is any better?

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[eatsyourscience]

....I only had to see her two or three times a week?

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[jivitadana]

... What for? ["Anatomy lessons"? Really, Souji? Dot dot do--Or actually for something more serious?]

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[eatsyourscience]

[Minato, your brain is broken.]

I worked part time at the hospital.

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[jivitadana]

[It is not! This is because Souji doesn't tell or give him enough information? XD]

Did you like it? [Besides the nurse being there.]

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[eatsyourscience]

[A nod.]

I met another friend while I worked there. And it was something to do.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded too, thinking about it again.]

What did you do there?

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[eatsyourscience]

Janitorial work. I cleaned up the rooms after people were discharged and the hallways and stuff.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato smiled a little.]

It still sounds nice. [Just working at a hospital should've been nice.]

Did you have other jobs? [Besides tutoring, he was told that before.]

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[eatsyourscience]

I worked at a day care. And there were a couple jobs I did from home.

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[jivitadana]

You think you'll do something like that again when you go back? [This said while keeping in mind the last long conversation they had.]

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[eatsyourscience]

I don't really need to if I'm living with my parents. But it's something to do.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato considered that. Souji's said that twice already.]

... You don't do things just because it's "something to do", do you?

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji looks up and pauses.]

...Not always.