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[starmark]

. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.



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AN ACTUAL, PHYSICAL LETTER - circa 9/29 of the previous year

[beatofmyblood]

[Jonathan hoped this letter would find you well. It was placed just outside Jotaro's room, wrapped around something small and rectangular. What was this, again? Well, mementos like these are often windows looking out towards the distant past. Let us remind him of a simpler time:]

5/13ish some night at shit o'clock

[lapidarius]

[Kakyoin had never exactly regretted asking to stay in the same room as Jotaro; it made a lot of things much, much easier. He slept a little better knowing someone else was there, especially taking into account who that specific someone was. Waking up from a nightmare was significantly less traumatic when he wasn't doing so in an empty room, on top of that.]

[But some less difficult nights presented another problem entirely. And that problem was that Kakyoin was 178 cm sharing space with a 195 cm brick wall, which occasionally made for a problem as far as space was concerned. Some nights--like this one in particular--featured an ineffective elbow to the larger teenager's ribs and some muttered cursing under Kakyoin's breath as he tried to reclaim more than just the edge of the mattress before he fell off.]

[starmark]

[Under typical circumstances, Jotaro could generally be relied upon not to be a massive bed hog; his preferred sleeping position, even now, involved being on his side and pressed in as close to the wall as he could, which usually made things reasonably comfortable for all parties considered. Tonight, though, was evidently not a typical evening — which arguably could've been considered a good thing, given the fact that his usual sleeping position was a direct response to an expectation of nightmares and a feeling of insecurity about letting himself sleep at all.

So, in some respects, it was good. Which indeed was all well and good, unless you were the person stuck sharing with him, which Kakyoin was.

The elbow to his ribs elicited a grunt, dragging him partway out of his slumber, and as a result he opened his eyes halfway and grumbled a mostly-asleep protest, unconsciously looking for the source of the blow while not really being coherent enough to process where it might be coming from or why.]

[lapidarius]

[Taking someone who was by nature sliiiightly crabby, making them an insomniac, and then nearly shoving them off the bed while they were trying to sleep was a recipe for disaster. Luckily, Kakyoin didn't exactly feel up to starting a fight at whatever unholy hour of the night or morning this was, so his next offensive was just to give a halfhearted shove.]

Move over--I don't have any room over here.

[starmark]

Nnnn. M'comfortable.

[He said, shifting over all of about a single inch.]

[lapidarius]

And I'm about to fall off the bed. You can stand to move just a little.

[starmark]

Nnnnnnnnnnnn. Just climb over.

[lapidarius]

Somehow I doubt you'd be all that comfortable with me just sleeping on top of you.

[...even as small as he was comparatively.]

[starmark]

...More comfortable than getting elbowed in the side.

[Appears someone had woken up more fully now, thanks to the conversation.]

[lapidarius]

I barely touched you, don't complain.

[starmark]

You woke me up. I get to complain about that.

[lapidarius]

You almost shoved me onto the floor.

[starmark]

So you get to complain too, but that doesn't mean that I don't.

[lapidarius]

[Sigh.]

I'm sorry I woke you up. Just go back to sleep, I'll find a couch or something for tonight.

[starmark]

What? No.

[lapidarius]

Why not? It's fine, I'd rather do that than end up on the floor.

[starmark]

You're not sleeping on the couch.

[lapidarius]

So what would you prefer I did, then?

[starmark]

What do you think I'd prefer?

[lapidarius]

...okay, fine. I'm too tired to argue about it.

[So he'd just abandon any hope of escape and move over into Jotaro's personal space, proceeding to use him like a particularly oddly shaped mattress.]

[congrats, jojo]

[starmark]

[Obligingly, he snaked his arms around Kakyoin, trying to help him settle in.]

That's why you can't just get up and leave.

[lapidarius]

You could've just said so.

[This was definitely better, and Kakyoin didn't take very long at all to settle against him comfortably.]

[starmark]

I'm sleepy.

[He shifted a little more, rolling to give Kakyoin more space.]

[lapidarius]

You're also perfectly capable of talking regardless. [Kakyoin's arm (with Hierophant wrapped around it, of course) was easily draped over Jotaro's waist, getting as close as possible with his head against the other Stand user's chest.]

[...Sometimes being smaller was not exactly terrible.]

[starmark]

You have a lot of faith in half-asleep me.

[Perfect. Nice and comfortable.]