ayano's theory of bruises - 9/19, 4:15PM

[kagepuro]

Ummmm

Is there anyone on here who’s like...good at make up that can help me...Like one of those instagram models or something...

I was clumsy enough to give myself a black eye, and I need to hide it from my parents so they don’t freak out or get the wrong idea…

[A picture of Ayano follows, purple and black underline her left eye--thankfully not particularly swollen. Even so, whatever she smashed into must have smashed into her pretty hard. She wears a weak, sheepish smile on her face despite the heavy bruise. If it weren't there, this would be a perfectly good Facebook profile picture, in fact.]

It’s not that bad, right? Silly me...
Maybe I should just do the emo hair thing...?

Comments

private;

[godshand]

[Having inflicted shiners in her life, and been the receiver of them during bouts, she's certain that isn't the sort of injury caused from an accident.]

Hey, sweetheart!

You've gotten a lot of comments so far, but I wanted to check up on you, see if you're ok

[and a little later, she sends this:]

Are you safe where you are? Do you need me to pick you up?

Re: private;

[kagepuro]

I'm okay, I just had a bit of an accident...I'm safe, so you don't have to worry about me or anything, I promise, Tiffany...

Re: private;

[godshand]

Are you comfortable telling me about the accident?

It's ok if you aren't

[kagepuro]

i dont know...

It's not a big deal, i just was being really stupid and made a stupid thing happen and now i have a black eye...

It's my fault, but hopefully things will just work themselves out and go back to normal

[godshand]

What things?

[kagepuro]

me and...the guy who hit me




Please don't tell anyone, okay?

[godshand]

[Ah, she thought so.]

Ayano, who hit you?

[kagepuro]

i dont wanna say...

It was my fault, i was asking for it...

If he gets in trouble and really bad stuff happens because of it it's all gonna be because of me and i dont want that at all i really don't I'm so dumb and stupid

[godshand]

Hold it right there. I don't know what happened, but unless you were threatening him, he shouldn't have hit you.

[All serious now.]

If he hit you, he deserves to get in trouble. What happened?

[kagepuro]

i told him to do it, i challenged him to hit me if he was so bad...

And then he hit me really, really hard...I didn't think that he would, i thought i was proving a point but i made him do something awful instead and now i have this shameful mark on my face and everyone stares at me and keeps asking me what happened and i wanna be alone and cry

[godshand]

You didn't "make him" do anything.

Is there somewhere you can go to be away from people for a while? Are you at school?

If you can find somewhere quiet, ice the bruise.

[kagepuro]

just hiding in the girls bathroom...

I got some more ice from the nurse after school ended...

It happened yesterday, but i was able to hide it from my parents by going to bed before they got home...

[godshand]

If you don't tell your parents, which,
you totally should, you need to tell *someone*

If he's that quick to fly off the handle, he could be a danger to you,
or himself, or someone else

I know you want to help. And that's great! You should always try to help people, but this is the sort of thing you shouldn't have to handle on your own

[kagepuro]

...who's the right person to tell though, Tiffany?

My Mom and Dad? A teacher? I'm scared that I'll make the wrong decision...

[godshand]

It's not a wrong decision to tell someone. Don't worry.

Tell your parents, or a teacher. Or both! Anyone you feel safe around.

[kagepuro]

okay...

If things go really bad can I blame you.......

[godshand]

I'll take the blame, but I don't think it will be as bad as you think