2026-02-09: Cracks in the Mirror
- Log: 2026-02-09 Cracks in the Mirror
- Cast: Ren Amamiya, Minako Arisato
- Where: N/A
- OOC Date: February 09, 2026
- IC Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012
- Summary: Ren texts Minako about getting more serious in their romance. Unfortunately, Minako is busy having an awful night in Mementos, and doesn't respond until hours later
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
A couple days after their movie date, after a lot of thinking, Ren texts Minako.
@> Hey. I've been thinking...
@> I was really happy after I told you I was X-gender and you accepted me without question.
@> I care about you a lot, and now that that's out in the open, I want to get more serious.
@> When we go on that double date tomorrow... is it okay if we kiss?
It's about 7 PM--after practicing saxophone all afternoon at Inokashira Park for a future surprise for Minako, and before heading to Shinjuku for an evening shift at Bar Crossroads. They keep their phone in their hand during the train ride over, watching for a response with bated breath.
<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
Hours go by.
More and more hours. Minako doesn't get the text until very late that evening -- after she and the others get back, and she plugs her now battery-dead phone in. Blearily, in the dark, she stares at it. She laughs at herself.
@> God I'm so sorry. I had terrible reception and my phone ran out of battery.
@> That would be great. :)
It feels... feels so inadequate, Minako thinks, dimly.
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
Hours go by.
Ren finishes their shift and is paid quite well; it is a bar, after all. They check their phone; nothing.
Ren goes home and hits up the bathhouse for their nightly bath. Afterwards, they check their phone; nothing.
Ren heads to their room and decides to knock their homework out of the way early so they don't have to think about it tomorrow during the aforementioned double date.
They check their phone.
Nothing.
It's very late by now, well after when they would normally go to sleep. Morgana chided them for that a little, but for once didn't push. He's snoozing on the bed right now. Ren is staring at their phone, wondering if they should walk it back, if they were too pushy, if...
A return text pops up. They smile as they breathe a sigh of relief. Right, of course it was just something like that. She wouldn't just ignore a text like that for no reason. It's their fault, anyway; they should've called to discuss something this important, or waited until tomorrow when they could see her in person, not texted like an idiot. If they'd called, they could've told right away that her phone was dead instead of fretting needlessly about it all evening.
@> Great! Looking forward to tomorrow, then. :)
It is inadequate--for both of them. Ren won't blame Minako for that. She can't help that her phone was dead.
<Pose Tracker> Minako Arisato has posed.
Minako looks at the text for just a moment. Her eyes blink, still bleary. After being stuck in Mementos for hours -- the stress and anxiety of nearly dying, the fear of losing everyone, the long conversation with Fuuka, and the escape -- it feels like her mind and emotions are swimming through molasses.
She types, slowly.
'Me too. Sorry... it was a rough day. I almost die'
She backspaces that. She can't tell them that. She lifts the phone to her forehead and exhales.
Then, she tries again.
@> Me too. <3 Can't wait. Night, Ren.
<Pose Tracker> Ren Amamiya has posed.
She doesn't say what happened, and so they can't know. Why would she have to say anything, anyway? She's a normal girl who had a normal person problem.
The two of them are dating so they /don't/ have to think about the things that go bump in the night and how easily they might get killed by them. Even if Ren had an inkling, they wouldn't ask.
@> <3
@> Night, Minako. See you in the daytime.
Ren smiles at their phone's screen, then rubs their eyes. It is /very/ late. Covering a yawn, they turn off the lights--they changed into their night clothes ages ago--and slip into bed.
Lucky for them that it's so easy for them to fall asleep, at least.