[ Ah, headpat. It's enough to make her expression soften a little bit. ]
Maybe not. It's probably a little silly, thinking back on it now but... but I was only thirteen. Maybe fourteen. Once you get something into your head at that age it's hard to make it unstick.
[ She's softening things a bit. She's not talking about the phone calls, the apologies for their absence, the sighs and "I'm sorry things are so busy, but it can't really be helped. You'll be a good, grown-up girl and keep yourself out of trouble, won't you?" the few times she'd bothered asking if either of them would be home on time. Because in her eyes, it really isn't something that needs mentioning. It was just the way things were.
That and... for all the time that's passed and the distance there'd been, they'd still been her parents. Even talking this frankly about them feels a little disrespectful. ]
That's why I always did my best to make sure Ruu-chan never felt like that. Not with me, at least. And I... I hope it worked.
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Maybe not. It's probably a little silly, thinking back on it now but... but I was only thirteen. Maybe fourteen. Once you get something into your head at that age it's hard to make it unstick.
[ She's softening things a bit. She's not talking about the phone calls, the apologies for their absence, the sighs and "I'm sorry things are so busy, but it can't really be helped. You'll be a good, grown-up girl and keep yourself out of trouble, won't you?" the few times she'd bothered asking if either of them would be home on time. Because in her eyes, it really isn't something that needs mentioning. It was just the way things were.
That and... for all the time that's passed and the distance there'd been, they'd still been her parents. Even talking this frankly about them feels a little disrespectful. ]
That's why I always did my best to make sure Ruu-chan never felt like that. Not with me, at least. And I... I hope it worked.