[He steps out of the bathroom and stands there for a long time, looking over the cafe and specifically the door. Outside of these circumstances, he would have been using Akira's trust in him to flee by now, if he hadn't already. Outside of these circumstances he wouldn't still be here at all, he thinks.]
[He climbs the stairs slowly, testing his weight on each step to find where they creak, making a note to avoid those areas, and pauses at the top of them to look over his things organized like they belong there. He struggles with it a moment, but sets the bag of toiletries from Sae on the shelf and pulls away from it quickly, as if he could pretend he'd never done it. That leaves him with trying to decide where to go next-- Akira, who had already informed him he'd be making him sleep in bed with him again because it was cold, or the couch to keep some semblance of distance.]
[A brief chill skims his skin, either from a drafty window or the general reminder that he wasn't allowed to keep his distance, and he winds up flopping longways beside Akira and rolling into his side from the dip his weight makes in the thin mattress.] ...would Sakura be offended if I replaced this terrible mattress?
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[He climbs the stairs slowly, testing his weight on each step to find where they creak, making a note to avoid those areas, and pauses at the top of them to look over his things organized like they belong there. He struggles with it a moment, but sets the bag of toiletries from Sae on the shelf and pulls away from it quickly, as if he could pretend he'd never done it. That leaves him with trying to decide where to go next-- Akira, who had already informed him he'd be making him sleep in bed with him again because it was cold, or the couch to keep some semblance of distance.]
[A brief chill skims his skin, either from a drafty window or the general reminder that he wasn't allowed to keep his distance, and he winds up flopping longways beside Akira and rolling into his side from the dip his weight makes in the thin mattress.] ...would Sakura be offended if I replaced this terrible mattress?