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    December 30th, 09h52 AM

    Pavlov Home

    Red Herring Hood was not the beginning of this story. She was never the beginning of any story really, unless you could count someone's dreams as a story. Red Herring Hood was the figment of the imagination of one Ace Pavlov. She had every trait one could think of for such a being, starting right off with the obvious reference she alluded to. The cold slender fingers with sharp nails covered in white polish like chalk, twisted like a fork with the ends bent, and the rugged old woman's smile beneath the eyes shadowed by the blood-red hood had to be some kind of allusion to his mother, though like the faint traces of burnmarks, the simple, pure, white dress, woven in thick lines of transperant silk didn't really seem like it fit her. Right now the girl had long curly dark hair that descended from the hood and nearly covered her face, trickling large drops of water to the black grass on the floor (probably something to do with the drowning accident on the treatment facility he heard about on the news yesterday) as she advanced slowly but surely with the same menacing grin that hid a line of sharp teeth, like always, and though it felt half-frozen in fear, his body couldn't help trying to run from them. Those probably also had a meaning, something Freudian Alex would bet, if his consciousness was awake enough. People should be able to make bets while unconscious. The casino owners would love it. A large wolf, about thrice the size of red herring hood, emerged as if from the mist around them. Like a dog that had been dressed up by some exhibionist, the wolf wore a tie around the neck like a collar, and a rugged white shirt covered by a suit. The animal picked up Red Herring Hood by that very hood, then left with her, disappearing into the fog never to be seen again until the next dream. Maybe those casino people would love it so much, they wouldn't do that to their own son.
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    Ace Pavlov snapped out of it and continued to eat his toast. If you expected him to wake up on his bed, well, so did he. Fortunately for him, his little brother Alex was a couple of steps ahead. There were no plates nor glasses, nor anything else one could drop and break, just one long polished stone balcony so clean you could lick it, and a few napkins and two pillows with two napkins on top, so even with Ace's bad habit of falling asleep at the breakfast table, there wasn't really any danger. His gaze wandered around the kitchen, some 15 square meters of light-blue squares on the floor, and smaller dark-blue squares on the walls, partially hidden by all the usual appliances and closets. Ace's nose was drawn to the stove and the frying pan on top of it and the delicious scent of the fried egg that was once there, now dampening his toast through a bit of his drool.

    Ace blinked. He noticed the toast was surprisingly lacking in taste. Without letting it drop, he chewed a bit on the bitten-off parts. Oh! His favorite jam was missing! Alex knew for a fact he loved that jam.

    "Scho..." Ace grabbed the toast and chewed until he swallowed to release his mouth. "Did my little brother finally grow tired of preparing breakfast every morning?"

    "We just don't have time today, Ace!" A little patch of white hair peaked out of the corner of the kitchen door, well, more like "the hole in the wall", since there was no door per se. "Who would be if I wasn't, anyway? If I left you in charge, we'd be having cereals every meal for the rest of our lives!"

    "I'm sure mr.Beaumont would appreciate the business. Though I do miss having some real cereal." Ace stuffed the rest of the toast into his mouth and lept off the bench, nearly losing his balance afer landing due to its broken foot. He REALLY wanted to get that fixed. Maybe he could get a favor from mr.Acosta? The bench was made of metal, not wood, but the little spanish man was good at working with makeshifts. He could probably tie a couple of things with string or tape or something. Ace opened the fridge and pulled out a bottle of milk which he chugged down in a coupe of gulps. Old him would have forgotten they were bottles now, not packages, and thrown it somewhere, where it would shatter and he and Alex would spend the rest of the morning picking up the chunks. New him knew better. He carefully placed the bottle next to the fridge. Then he wiped his mouth with the back of my arm, turned around to leave, and jumped in place startled by the [div class="link o"]petite figure in a shirt and tie, and grey pants held up by a pair of suspenders[/div]. The boy had their mother's thin eyebrows, and their father's whitish-grey hair, though in his case it was natural born, and not the natural process of the age of time. Which, Ace supposed, was also a natural-born thing for a human to do, now that he thought about it. His eyes nervously scoutted the pose with crossed arms and direct, silently judging stares of the boy that so innocently begged him to play together until not so long ago.

    "Are you going to waste one of your new year's resolutions in 'I promise I'm going to put bottles of milk in the glass bin'?" Ah yes, Alex was so mature for his age, but he had these little quirks and things he believed in...it made Ace chuckle a little inside.

    "It's not like they go anywhere but the junkyard anyway."

    "Spare a moment for the people trying to recycle here, Ace! It's for the good of the planet!"

    Ace's bend over his little brother and gave him a smirk.

    "Maybe when you start calling me big bro again." Alex frowned.

    "You act more like a little brother. A very little brother."

    "..."

    "Aren't you going to say I act more like a mother? Even I'm aware that's how I sound sometimes."

    Ace walked past him and grabbed a coat. Yeah, Alex did act like that. Not sometimes. All the time really. It was at once a heart-warming and a really annoying thing. Aging was a natural-born thing, Ace reminded himself. And he hated that.

    Outside, there were still some vestiges of the glass decorations, balls and globes containing electrical lights and held by strings tied to windows and roofs all the way downtown. Most people around the neighbourhood took their own spin to the spirit of the occasion, and the vestiges were still there as well: The Sheperd's home still smelled like pine tree and still had small dark green patches of leaf creating a random spotted pattern on the roof, Kazuma's still had the "leave stray presents here" sign next to the door, and though the letters had fainted quite a bit with the wind and the rain, one could still read a very cheerful 'M__ry C_R_STM_S_!' above miss Sila's door. Indeed in this cultural melting pot of a town there were all kinds of different people. On the other hand, when Ace looked at their own home, he couldn't help feeling it was a bit monotonous by comparison. It was by no means a bad place, better than two teenage boys living on their own could probably get normally. [div class="link a"]Two floors, windows turned to either side, even a yard.[/div] It was located right at the corner of the street, with the little stairs and the gate facing the intersection. And yet, they couldn't afford to put there any more than a few leftover green lamps. Ace was perceptive, and he had a good memory, he knew as much. He thought it'd be easy to drown in his studies. It still wasn't easy to get motivated for those. At home it was hard to relax unless he was doing something a little more...compelling. At school there were classes, and after those that merry band of the powers club causing a ruckus wherever they went. So perhaps it was time he found a better distraction.

    He glanced at both sides, not that enough people used cars around there for that gesture to mean anything. Just an old habit. Still, it did give him a bit of time to think about where he wanted to go first for his new year's preparations.
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    Where should Ace go first?


    [div class=radius][div class=option]Go Ask Mr.Acosta If He Needs Anything.
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    [div class=radius][div class=option]Go Buy Food
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> Go Ask Mr. Acosta If He Needs Anything
If we want him to do us a favor in fixing the bench, doing a little favor for him wouldn't hurt.
 
> Go Ask Mr. Acosta If He Needs Anything

Doing favours is always nice, and I'd like to learn more about the residents of this town.
 
> Go Ask Mr. Acosta If He Needs Anything

As Epiphany stated; it's always good to have someone owe you a favour or to have them on your side if needed.
 
> Go ask Mr. Acosta if he needs anything.

For all of the reasons stated above ^;3^
 
>Go ask Mr. Acosta if he needs anything. Being nice to someone is good, and also it might unlock some important content that we might need in the future.
 
Hello there! I'd like to provide yet another vote for
>Go ask Mr.Acosta if he needs anything
I know the decision has basically been made at this point... but it never hurts to be 1000% sure, right?
 
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    December 30th, 10h03 AM

    Kamyioku Upper Streets

    In the end of the day, it seemed like Ace just couldn't get his head out of that bench. Getting a whole new one would probably be asking too much, but perhaps it would be reasonable to have it fixed? Somehow. Either way it wouldn't fix itself, and it sounded better to go check up on the one who could get that job done before someone ended up in some form of accident.

    "New years is only tomorrow, and its not like we can afford all those fancy, expensive things other people want anyway. It can wait a little trip uphill." Kamyioku was a small isolated town trapped between the sea and the mountain. The more developed area was the one closer to the sea, the former more touristic area, with the school andthe shops and in the distance two dark grey dots that were the farthest edges of the town, the Inukami factories. Yet as one headed uphill towards the mountain, technology seemed to gradually step back, transforming an urban area into a progressively more rural one, all the way to the farm past the forest and on the plain. Mr.Acosta's house was built on the other edge of that forest, the one turned to the town itself. Between that and his close relationship to the lumberjack crew, who supplied most of the material for his home and his work, he'd become the town's "middle man" between them and the lumberjacks: It was easier to get to mr.Acosta's house, and he was a far easier to talk to, with his cheerful and high-spirited attitude. His temper was equally fiery though, though only a couple of things really awakened his wrath, such as breaking his work, something that would without question anger any craftsman like him.

    Ace turn 180 degrees and marched upwards towards said craftsman's home. He wasn't particularly fond of the growing roughness of the road, especially when the asphalt began being replaced by stone, eventually rocks becoming a more suitable word, and then just plain dirt. The road up was a simple path, just keep following the same road up an you'll get to the forest, and what few homes there are there, with only one single upward split that went through a cleared path through the forest to the farm (not that that path itself was in any way ridden of weeds and the occasional passing animal from the woods). When one went back down, however, it was easier to get lost, as the path trifurcated a couple of times then. Ace found himself spotting in front of one of those downward splits, gazing upon a two-story home, much larger than his own and exuding the aroma of fresh white paint. He himself had gotten lost once before, he recalled, right there. The girl who used to live here was the one to help him out back then, and now all he needed was one gaze upon this home to know exactly where he was headed. His own personal landmark, even if she wasn't in it anymore.

    He continued onward.

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    [/div] Ace climbed the stairs and placed his ear on mr. Acosta's door, taking a listen to the pumped up music coming from the inside. His shoulder and foot were as if alive and raising on their own with the rhythm, which no doubt would leave the man working inside jumping with joy to hear about. It also meant there was no point in asking to come in, much less hoping for a answer. Just in case, Ace knocked on the door, then pushed it open.

    The short spanish man with a curled greying ponytail despite the receded front of his hair was sitting with his legs crossed and back to the door, surrounded by splinters of wood and tiny broken limbs of the same material. He bobbed side to side to the tune of the song, singing along to certain parts such as the "Que quiero sentir tus labios" and "Besame, besame", as more splinters flew off his knife with each cut.

    "Mr.Acosta? Mr.Acosta!" Ace greeted. There was no response. He looked through the wooden furniture and totem-like dolls, trinkets and other souvenirs for a hypothetical tourist or last-minute gift, in search of the CD player the music was coming from. For a moment, he pondered just turning it off- no, bad idea. That was one of the other things that got to mr. Acosta: messing with his music, one of the few mementos he had from the home he'd left. Disrupting his concentration with some sort of surprise right now wouldn't be the best call to make either. He was here for a favor, after all. Should he even attempt to get the man's attention? Earlier he noticed a few empty chairs, so even if the man were to not notice him just walking past, he at least had a more comfortable place to sit that way, if he had to wait. Then again, Ace didn't have all the time in the world, as he still needed to get that new year's shopping done...

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    Should Ace attempt to get mr.Acosta's attention? If so, how?


    [div class=radius][div class=option]No, he ought to just sit in the chair and wait
    [/div][/div] [div class=radius][div class=option]No, let's leave, the man is clearly busy
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    [div class=radius][div class=option]Actually, lets turn off the music
    [/div][/div] [div class=radius][div class=option]Yes, tap his shoulder
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    [div class=radius][div class=option]Yes, just get in front of him and hope he'll notice us
    [/div][/div][div class=radius][div class=option]Yes (write in how)
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>Yes, Shout as loud as you can while using your hands to shout. Shout as if your life depended on it. Disturbing him might only make him irritated with you, so by shouting more than the sound of the music would finally make him notice that someone is here.
 
>Yes, just get in front of him and hope he'll notice us
Less disruptive, gets the job done. Waiting for him will take forever and we've got a Quest to do!
 
>No, he ought to just sit in the chair and wait

If he doesn't notice us walking past, maybe we can move the chair into his line of sight.
 
>Yes, just get in front of him and hope he'll notice us.

Surprising him in any way while he's focused on his task might be bad. If he can spot us out of the corner of his eye first, then we can get his attention in a non-intrusive way. Otherwise, he's probably just super in the zone and we should wait it out or leave him alone.
 
>Yes, just get in front of him and hope he'll notice us
This seems like the easiest way to get his attention. No need to do anything rash here, and if he's got to finish what he's doing then we can wait a little longer.
 
[No, he ought to just sit in the chair and wait.]
He probably could be angered if we disturb what he's currently doing. I think just waiting out on this one is the way to go.
 
>No, he ought to just sit in the chair and wait.

He's in the middle of something- would be more polite to just wait till he's finished and not disturb him
 
[> Actually, let's turn off the music.]

Maybe wait for the guy to get to what you think might be the chorus, as a courtesy, but definitely turn off or turn down the music. That'll let the man know that hey, someone's in here and also avoid a possible stabbing.
 
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    December 30th, 10h47 AM

    Mr.Acosta's Home

    Seeing how his goals contradicted one another, Ace ended up deciding to take the middle of the road path, to attempt to get the mr.Acosta's attention without directly or suddenly disturbing him. He figured that if he went past the man's line of sight, and stayed there for a bit, he would notice his presence. And it's not like Ace would be doing anything to directly disturb his work, so mr. Acosta woudn't get that mad...hopefully.

    Ace thus tiptoed past the man towards a bit of empty space in the counter's direction, slithering between the woodsmith and the various shelves, slowly and doing his best to keep his balance and any shaking to a minimum. He looked down, trying his best to avoid coming into contact with mr. Acosta, eyes intently fixed on the skinny late-middle-aged man with a somewhat tanned skin and a slightly hairy chest exposed by his half-open white shirt. Despite how rough his hands were, they handled that wooden doll with a massive barrel-like head and the comparatively much smaller body of elipses doing a t-pose, with extreme delicacy, slowly turning each bit over as the knife shaved and carved into the wood bit by bit. The man's already impressive chin, like a light-bulb strapped underneath one's mouth, was somehow even more pronounced the more his eyebrows furrowed with focus. Suddenly, mr Acosta's knife stopped, and his lips bent into a smug grin.

    "Breaking into people's homes now, are we?" Inquired mr. Acosta the moment that Ace placed a single foot past him. Ace froze in place and a gave him a nervous smile from the awkward position of being squeezed between mr.Acosta and the wall of sculptures and trinkets, with his legs open like an arch and towering above an old spanish man sitting with his legs crossed.

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    [/div] "Well, it is a shop. And I did knock." Ace sirked a little at his own joke, which dissipated with mr.Acosta's persistant glare. They just stood there with eyes locked for a moment. Ace could feel his muscles urging to move, and swallowed. Then, mr. Acosta cracked a smile, and his laughter would have been heard from all the way outside the shop, if there was anyone there to listen to it. Eventually even Ace ended up following along with a slightly nervous chuckle.

    "So Ace, how can I help you?"

    "Funny, I came to ask the same thing." Ace chuckled a bit.

    Mr. Acosta didn't like that. He put on a mischievious smile and flicked Ace's leg.

    "I ain't got time to make you furniture Ace. I'll have you know I'm actually quite busy. I mean, look at this crap!" The old man grabbed a handful of twigs and splinters from a nearby mound, leftovers from his work probably, and showed them to Ace. Barely touched, some of the twigs broke to bits on Mr. Acosta's palm, while another one, with slight traces of light green stripes, was as if limp, bent. When Ace looked back to mr. Acosta's face, the woodworker was barely containing a chuckle. "Looks like a certain thing, doesn't it Ace? Hahahaha! But it's actually a pretty big problem for me. Just look at this!"

    Mr. Acosta dropped most of the contents of his hands, leaving only the slightly green twig, then he pressed his knife against it with a peeling motion. The twig bent smoothly with the pressure of the knife, and returned to almost the original shape when the knife was pulled away. Mr. Acosta raised both his eyebrows at this, but Ace could only raise one.

    "I hire those two lumberjacks to get me healthy wood from a matured tree. This..." mr. Acosta shook the the twig in front of Ace. "This can barely be called a sapling. It's not even fully wooden. Not only is it useless they wasted a growing tree. But, somehow, they also managed the opposite, they brought me wood so old it breaks when I touch it. I'm surprised they even managed to carry it here, or miss the fact it was grey, but both kinds are just as useless. If I have to clean any more dust I'm going to become a housekeeper! Hahaha."

    Ace went along with the chuckling.

    "That certainly sounds pretty busy. Are you sure there's nothing I could do to relieve you a bit though? Maybe long enough to fix a chair..?" Ace eyed the man. Maybe it was naive of him, but mr. Acosta had already figured out he wanted something anyway. If he said no, Ace would just try another time, when there was a better chance. "Like, maybe I could do deliveries for you like before..."[/color]

    Mr. Acosta sighed, but smiled nonetheless.

    "New Year's is almost upon us. You can think bribing me later. Celebrate! Play! Enjoy your youth! Listen to some nice music. Like this one." Mr. Acosta nodded his head along with the still playing music a little bit, then started snapping his fingers to the rhythym too, and Ace gave him a minute to come back to his senses. "Ah, right, sorry. It's just so catchy. A real masterpiece. Anyway, point is, you're young, you should be thinking of having fun at times like holidays. Shouldn't you be spending your time with your fam- with your brother?"

    Ace looked away, it was a little too late to hide what he was going to say. Mr. Acosta rubbed the back of his head.

    "Aaah, crap, I dug myself into that one didn't I? Alright, you know what kid, you win this round. I'll look into it later. If you insist on doing me a favor though...let's see...." Mr. Acosta looked around the room, until he spotted a couple of emptied paint buckets on a threshold, to which he pointed. "Maybe you can take those to the recycling office? If you could get me some new ones, I'd also be grateful. Maybe white, red and blue. Or you now, helping me deliver some of these last-minute requests from people who didn't start preparing for the festivities until the last minute. Like that replacement table base for the Catnip Express."

    Ace couldn't help feeling a little bit guilty at those last few words.
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    Which should Ace do?


    [div class=radius][div class=option]Go back to his new year's preparations.
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    [div class=radius][div class=option]Deliver the replacement table base to the Catnip Express.
    (A restaurant on the beach)
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> Deliver the paint buckets to the recycling office.

That was the first thing he mentioned, so it's probably the thing he wants most. And let's be sure to get those replacements he wanted, too!
 
>Deliver the replacement table base to the Catnip Express.

Kaerri's reasoning is totally solid, but going with Acosta gives us the chance to build a relationship with him, more than we have already. It'll probably take about the same time but it gives us more time to make a good impression and hopefully prioritize our repair!
 
>Deliver the replacement table base to the Catnip Express.

"Last-minute requests" sound pretty urgent, so I think delivering the table piece to the restaurant takes priority. Also, really curious as to what kind of place it would be, with such a strange name. If there are cats, then... we gotta go.
 
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>>>>>Deliver the replacement table base to the Catnip Express.<<<<<<<


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    December 30th, 10h58 AM

    Mr.Acosta's Home

    New years was just around the corner, so hearing how there were still last-minute requests that Mr. Acosta still had to take care of made Ace feel a little guilty for comign to ask for favors during such a time. He knew the people of his town, how much they looked foward to events like this. His little brother was no exception either.

    "Well then, how about we carry that table together? It's gotta be a lot of work, bringing it all the way down to the beach by foot and alone." Ace grinned at the woodworked, who just scoffed in response.

    "Pff, I could do it for another hundred hears! Damn shame we can't use cars or something though. Maybe that way I could actually rest a bit on days like these."

    "As they say, you get what you sow. Everyone here does in fact, since for some reason you all agreed to ban cars and such. Cause if we don't stop the polluton, whose going to save the polar bears?" Ace chuckled a bit at his own remark.

    "Weren't you here to get a favor Ace? Is that really how you talk to someone you're trying to get a favor from? Haha." Mr. Acosta patted Ace's back. Even though it was a joke, Ace still fell silent. "Ah, laughter's relieving me from the stress a bit. How about we bring them that table right now then?"

    Ace nodded, and Mr. Acosta went to the back room and brought out a simple white plank under his arm. It was about the man's height and was a bit thicker than your usual table base, plus it had four holes in the corners. After getting it through the threshold, the two each grabbed a side and carried it down the street towards the beach.

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    December 30th, 12h48 AM


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    [/div] "Easy...easy..." Ace and mr. Acosta gradually lowered the plank on top of the legs. They were fixed on the ground, and the table base was simply placed on top of it. Ace couldn't help feeling like he hadn't been all that useful here, but at the same time, he also felt he couldn't complain: He was the one that imposed himself on mr. Acosta after all. Ms. Fisher started clapping behind them.

    "Well done boys! Oof, that must have been HA-ARD! It was like watching a surgeon operating." Teased the owner of the Catnip Express. The middle-aged woman in her usual sea-blue apron blended like mist with the view of the beach. A line of sand that curved only in the distance by the groin. On the opposite side to the sea were the shops set up along the shore, including the Catnip Express with it's wooden carved sign with cat paw shapes and a hook which they appeared to reach for. There was also the lifeguard's home, allowing to also perform pseudo night-guard duties for the beach as well. He would only sleep in the early morning, shortly before the shop owners began to arrive, but before anyone was allowed to swim.

    All things considered, the west side of Sakana beach wasn't that long, being more contained by the mountainous terrain of the city, but in return it always gave this fuzzy and familiar feeling. Like returning to an old home and noting how the place never changed. The east side was a lot longer, passing the mountain ranges and going all the way to the factories in the distance. Because of those, that side of the beach was restricted from public access.

    "Ace here just had a little too much time in his hands and decided to help out. Haha." Mr. Acosta interrupted the silence with a grin. "He said he'd help me out with this, but maybe he just wanted to take a peek at your little princess, haha. Speaking of which, where is she? Conversation felt a little empty without some snarky response at your little playing earlier."

    Ms. Fisher sighed, taking her fingers like a ring on her forehead.

    "She's sulking in her room."

    "Why is that?"

    Fisher gave Acosta a stare. Ace felt like smoke would erupt from her nostrils at any second.

    "Ah, that. Can't blame her then. Nor you."

    Ace looked at one of them, then the other, and back. Ms. Fisher's smile returned a bit, but warmer this time, not so much a grin.

    "So Ace, you were offering help, eh? Maybe you could go talk to her. I'm sure she'd love it."

    "That sounds like a great idea, haha!" Ace nearly got thrown at the ground with Mr. Acosta's newest pat on the back. His lips twisted with the awkwardness, but he doubted either of them would let him refuse at this point, and he couldn't deny his concern for Nichole's situation. Nor his curiosity.

    ........​

    December 30th, 12h54 AM


    There was a knock on Nichole's door, then it opened. [div class="link a"]She was just sitting there, hugging her knees on with her back against the wall[/div] with the a couple of pictures of the two of them making a sandcastle when they were young and in a playpen when they were younger than that. Nichole was holding her glasses in one hand, and though her face was dry, her reddened eyes were a harder indicator to erase. One other thing about her current state caught Ace's eye though. Nichole was homeschooled by her "somewhat" paranoid parents. Well, she used to go to school, but over time it had gotten worse and worse, and by now he barely got to see her outside the restaurant. And yet, she was wearing a school uniform and a bag hanging from her shoulder. No doubt she had borrowed it from a friend, but he couldn't quite help wondering why. On the other hand, Ace also knew this wasn't the best time, but it could provide a clue into what was wrong.

    Nichole's silent surprised stare clued Ace in that he would have to take the innitiative in this conversation.

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    How should Ace begin the conversation?


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    [/div][/div] [div class=radius][div class=option]Ask her why she is wearing a school uniform.
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    [div class=radius][div class=option]Try to make a joke to lighten the mood.
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> Ask her what's wrong.

It might be sudden, but then she might just need someone to come out and ask.
 

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