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For two hours Kou sat with Akane as he emptied his stomach and then dry heaved, knowing the pain because of past experience with eating dirt. Lemon didn’t stay around for long, and Mei gave Nene some extra clothes which were a bit big on her but they worked.
Eventually Akane felt well enough to get out of the bathroom, where he promptly got conflicted again.
On one hand he really needed to lay down, really needed to sleep or something after that. On the other hand he didn’t know who’d been on the fabric, and he had no assurance of if or how well the bed or couches have been cleaned.
“Akane, everyone else is sleeping we need to go to bed.”
Kou was concerned, because even he would be tired as hell after that but Akane still just kept standing there, shaking his head. Even he knew that at some point they’d have to sleep on the couch, Mitsuba, Nene, Hanako, and Mei taking the beds available, the other kids sleeping on the couches. There was one pull out couch left, which was in the corner farthest from the door and closest to the bathroom. He eventually convinced Akane into going to bed, the mixture of sleep deprivation and energy loss making it easy.
“The beds clean right?”
”Yup.”
”We’re leaving tomorrow right?”
”Yup.”
”I’m tired.”
“go to bed.”
He did go to bed. Everyone went to bed very quickly and was awoken very quickly by loud music from the room next to them. Fucking Katy Perry at 11:39 at night, the only person able to sleep through it Akane purely due to not being able to afford not sleeping at this point.
Most were mad and tired, some just tired and some just mad. Mei was just about ready to band on the neighbors door and scream, which none of them opposed to.
Slamming the door behind her she walked up to the door, knocked on it, and a blonde woman opened the door, annoyed and confused.
“Mam-mam look me in the FUCKING EYES and tell me you have no shame.” Mei said, pointing at the woman’s eyes.
“Where are your parents? Go back to bed, and that is no way to sp-“
“I need the music to stop so me and six other kids can sleep or else I’m gonna start banging on the door until it does stop.”
”…”
The music soon stopped, Mei went back to bed with everyone else and it was an easy night, nowhere near what a pain the morning was going to be.