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Okay, last time I really didn't explain myself well. This is for any kids that feel they want someone around to help out; like fixing things, cooking, for any reason. This isn't any kind of...I don't know, like collection thing. Child services. What it would be is anybody who doesn't mind moving into the apartments on the far east of the village, you guys would all take rooms over there. So you can still live with whoever you want. And then there would be some adults moving into apartments in the same building, so you'd have somebody close who's there to do stuff like get groceries and help you with anything you need. Again, if you don't want to do this, you're definitely in no way obligated to, nobody's coming after you, etc. Just for those who want to.

Raine...not the Raine I know. Other Raine. Married Raine. ...and her daughter. Wow, I didn't get anybody's names, I suck. Leonardo, No-ah Joo, Oswald and anybody else would wouldn't mind moving to the apartments near the shopping center and would like to help look after anyone who feels they need it, I'd like to talk with each of you. Off the journals, if that's fine; I'll come to you.

If there's any suggestions you want to make or anything, by all means. Definitely my first time doing something like this, so I've got no idea whether or not this is how you go about it.

...oh yeah; anybody who can help with the playground needs to contact Molly. She's running the show.

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[Somewhere down the line Cloud realizes that the hair slipping through his fingers is blond, and that the woman he's kissing is Stella. Stella Coolidge. He doesn't want to stop -hell, it felt like he'd been waiting for this forever but he knows if he doesn't then things will get a lot (better?) worse.

So he takes her shoulders and yanks his had back, glancing down.

At Sophie.

...oh no. What did he just do?]

[By this time, they're chest to chest, and Stella's running her fingers through his hair - wild and spiky like his - with her other hand on his cheek; that is, until he pulls away. Sophie's sleeping behind her, so she figures he just needs some air. She tries to lean forward again, but his hands are on her shoulders, and that delay causes her to clear her mind a little and take another look.

It's Cloud. It's Cloud. She's kissing Cloud and she can see her wedding band in plain sight against his cheek, and Nerifes, what has she done?]

C-Cloud-

[Cloud very calmly stands up and leaves the room, disappearing into the adjoining kitchen.

Then he puts his back to the wall and presses his hands to his face. OH GOD HE JUST MADE THE WORST MISTAKE EVER.]

[Stella barely notices him leave, as she seems more content with staring at the ring on her left hand and clenching her other fist and relaxing it. The vows she made - Stella's never broken a promise that she had the ability to keep. And now she willingly just...

The worst part is that a side of her is scorning the fact that she's thinking of this, telling her to go in the kitchen and pick up where they left off, because Senel is far away right now both in terms of physical and emotional distance. Besides, she had made that vow before she grew close to Cloud.

But the other, more logical side knows that this isn't right. Why was she married to Senel for almost two years if it wasn't? What is going on? Why is she feeling this now?

... And it hits her. An experiment. Like the ones that made everyone fall in love. It's late, and it caught everyone off guard. And she tried so hard...

Stella wants to go in the kitchen, one side telling her to kiss Cloud again and the other to apologize. But she doesn't listen to either of them. Instead, she picks up Sophie - Nerifes, Sophie, she was there the whole time - and makes a beeline for the door. She had to get out of there, now.]

[Cloud slowly slides down the wall to sit, hands still over his face. He hears her get up, and hears the door open and shut. It takes every ounce of willpower he has to keep from running after her.

Damn.]

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