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Souji only answered the phone for one person these days.
He hadn't been the type to assign personalized ringtones for each of his contacts, but now it was a necessity, to differentiate the important calls and texts from the unimportant ones. Some days he would turn off the sound alerts for the unimportant ones entirely; some days were worse than others. The important calls were regular, generally on the same days at the same time of day. They were predictable. What Souji couldn't deal with was how some days, out of nowhere, he'd receive four phone calls and fifteen texts and they were all from the wrong person. Usually, all from the same wrong person.
It had been one of those days, and after the sixth text notification Souji had silenced the unimportant sounds and put the phone under his pillow. It was distracting, more than anything else, and not just on a superficial level; he kept almost all of his Personas pushed away into the back of his mind nowadays, but those damned unimportant messages made them flutter around like butterflies.
Souji almost didn't hear the phone ring — the important ring — at 8:15pm, as expected. "Ah, there you are!" Adachi's tone was friendly as always, but Souji could hear the edge of irritation just behind it. "Listen, you know we can't keep her waiting much longer. When can you come back?"
The phone buzzed against Souji's ear and he bit the inside of his mouth to keep from cursing. "Exams are next week," he said, trying to maintain a flat affect. "Maybe afterward."
"I'll call again." The line went dead.
He didn't usually check the unimportant messages, but he couldn't keep from seeing this one.
Hanamura Yosuke 20:16
y won't u just talk 2 me? im ur friend partner