Masumi Usui/Amethyst Palette

The Feelings I Want to Write Down

Backstage Stories

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Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	…Masumi?
Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	Oi, Masumi.
Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	Don’t ignore me!
Masumi	…What?
Tsuzuru	Ack… I was a little worried so I called out to you.
	I’m relieved you’re operating as normal though, in a way.
Masumi	Worried? Why though?
Tsuzuru	You’ve been silently lost in thought for a while, so I was wondering if something was wrong.
Masumi	I was just thinking about the most important thing in this world after Director. …But I was interrupted by you.
Tsuzuru	Oh, sorry for interrupting.
	But by the looks of it, you weren’t thinking about anything worth mentioning anyways.
Masumi	I was thinking about a White Day present for Director.
Tsuzuru	…Well, it'll be that time of the year in a few days, huh?
	No, don’t tell me you’re gonna wrap up and give yourself to Director like before?
Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	Is that silence a yes!
Masumi	I won’t make the same mistake as last time.
	I’ll do it better this year.
Tsuzuru	Let’s say you do a good job with the wrapping, do you think Director would be happy to receive that?
Masumi	She will.
Tsuzuru	An immediate answer! *Sigh*, if you don’t choose with more consideration towards the recipient’s side, you’ll be disliked instead.
Masumi	…Then tell me what kind of thing she would like.
Tsuzuru	That’s…
	Ummm, something simpler, I guess?
Masumi	…What do you mean?
Tsuzuru	For example… a letter or something.
Masumi	…*Sigh*.
	What the heck, that’s way too cliché.
Tsuzuru	Uh… I can’t deny that it’s cliché.
	But you’re putting your feelings into words and writing them down so they’ll be conveyed to your partner in a way that’s easy to understand.
	When you read the letters you get from the audience, you feel the other person’s emotions and you also feel happier, don’t you?
Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	If you write your honest feeling down into a letter, then I think Director would accept them too, wouldn’t she?
Masumi	...I'll add that as a possible option.

Tsuzuru	(Hm…? What’s Masumi doing…?)
Masumi	…
Tsuzuru	Um, hold on a minute, Masumi!
Masumi	…What?
Tsuzuru	What’s with that mountain of paper!
Masumi	I’m writing my letter to Director right now so don’t get in the way.
	You’re the one who said a letter was a good idea, weren't you?
Tsuzuru	I mean, it’s true I said that, but that’s way too much no matter how you look at it!
Masumi	When I wrote my honest feelings for Director down, it ended up like this.
	Or rather, it’s still not enough at all.
Tsuzuru	Ehhh…
	What are you writing so much about?
Masumi	In the morning, she tripped over nothing. Her clumsy side is adorable too…
	For breakfast, she spread butter on her toast. That was homely and cute…
Tsuzuru	Are you going to write everything from morning ‘til night like that?
	Geez… Um, Masumi. Letters are written by carefully choosing the things really you want to convey.
Masumi	But I want her to know all of my feelings.
Tsuzuru	That might be so, but think about Director who’s going to receive all of that.
	It’d be hard for her to read if it’s too long, you know?
Masumi	Then what length would work?
Tsuzuru	Eh? Ummm, let’s see…
	I guess around 5 pages at most?
Masumi	5 pages…
Tsuzuru	(Mm… what time is it right now?)
	(What the, it’s still nighttime, huh? Let’s go back to sleep.)
Masumi	…And, …so—.
	*Mutter, mutter*…
Tsuzuru	(Masumi, that guy, he’s staring a hole into his paper…
	Is he still writing his letter to Director?)
Masumi	From the moment we first met… Wait, no.
	From our past life, Director and I are definitely… This won’t do either.
	5 pages is too short, *sigh*…
	But I have to do this, for her.
Tsuzuru	(He's finally taking my advice seriously, huh?
	In that case, Director will have no trouble accepting his letter.)
Masumi	Director’s smiling face is… *mutter, mutter*.
	Our destiny is… *grumble, grumble*.
Tsuzuru	…
	(I can’t sleep at all since I’m bothered by Masumi’s voice revising his letter…!)
Masumi	Director.
Izumi	Masumi-kun? What’s up?
Masumi	Here…
Izumi	This letter.. is for me?
Masumi	It’s packed to the max with my feelings…
	So I want you to accept it.
Izumi	Masumi-kun… Fufu, thank you.
	I’ll read it when I go back to my room later, ok?
Masumi	…Yeah.
	*door opens*
Tsuzuru	…
Izumi	Huh, you look totally exhausted, Tsuzuru-kun—are you alright…!?
	Were you writing a script or something just now?
Tsuzuru	Masumi… this is… your… fault.
	*faints*
Izumi	EH, hold on, Tsuzuru-kun!?
	Are you ok!?

Anna