[It's been an adjustment, not going to the same school as Haruhi. They've been in the same class since first grade, a little accommodation the school made out of fondness for their resident well-behaved soulmate pair. But Haruhi has big dreams that Shinji wants to see her reach, and Shinji is reluctantly aware that he can't ride through life in Haruhi's pocket. He has another soulmate left to find, after all.]
[Walking home together was a good compromise, at least until last week, when Shinji's gender-and-fashion-indifferent, overwhelmingly practical best friend suddenly got abducted by a teenaged host club. Shinji watched a drama about girls getting taken advantage of by hosts once, but from the stories he's heard already, these guys seem too childish and front-facing to be organizing some kind of sex trafficking scheme.]
[Still, he's a little worried, more about Haruhi's mental state than her physical one. She seems exhausted ever since this started. So he waits for her after school, ignoring how out of place he feels in the courtyard of Ouran in the uniform from his easy-acceptance high school, holding a lukewarm can of juice for something to do with his hands.]
platonic soulmates lets gooooo
[Walking home together was a good compromise, at least until last week, when Shinji's gender-and-fashion-indifferent, overwhelmingly practical best friend suddenly got abducted by a teenaged host club. Shinji watched a drama about girls getting taken advantage of by hosts once, but from the stories he's heard already, these guys seem too childish and front-facing to be organizing some kind of sex trafficking scheme.]
[Still, he's a little worried, more about Haruhi's mental state than her physical one. She seems exhausted ever since this started. So he waits for her after school, ignoring how out of place he feels in the courtyard of Ouran in the uniform from his easy-acceptance high school, holding a lukewarm can of juice for something to do with his hands.]