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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

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"Yeah, you can take a hint after it's been bludgeoned into your head about fifty million times," Cal muttered. "And maybe he just thought it would be rude to just stop talking to you. I mean, come on. I had to practically refuse to have anything to do with you to get you to drop the dancing thing and how many times did Worf scratch and bite you? When he stuck as a kitten, no less, barely a position to really voice his objection."

Not that she'd listen to it even if he could.

Okay, now Ino was looking cross.

"He told me he hated me after I said hi. You can't hate someone just for saying hello," she tugged, rather viciously at her bangs. "I can't help the way I am."

"Probably not really," Cal agreed on that point, "but something tells me that if he said that, bothering the shit out of him isn't going to make him like you any more. Unless, of course, apparently, if you call him hot, in which case, I wonder why you're so interested in being friends with someone that petty. Just to make a friend for the sake of claiming a friend? Just to prove you're right? What's so bad about being wrong every once in a while?"

Ino took a deep breath.

"I hate being wrong." More than anything almost.

Really? He hadn't noticed. So he just proposed his question again.

"Why?"

He gave it a moment's pause before adding, "Don't have to answer. It's rhetorical. Just something to think about."

Even if he did wonder how much of it had to do with a drive to perfection. And if Ino thought she had to be perfect, did she expect perfection in those she associated with? If that was the case, he was screwed, and Ino was setting herself up for a whole lifetime of disappointment, really.

She laughed, though it wasn't funny.

"You think I haven't thought 'bout it before? Seriously? I know I'm not the most introspective person ever, but I do know myself that well at least. I know why, Cal. And it's not going to just... go away."

"And shoving it down people's throats is helping any more?"

Or maybe that was just it. Ino needed people that, when she shoved, got pushed. And maybe Cal had spent too much of his life being one of those people.

That got a shrug, a jerky sort of uncomfortable shrug.

"If I'm wrong," she said, finally. "Then I'm useless. Okay? Happy now? I know it's messed up, whatever."

"I said you didn't have to answer," Cal reminded her, frowning slightly, because he did. So why was she? She didn't need to tell him any of this stuff.

"And, you know that if you're right, then someone else is wrong, right? So does that mean anyone who's wrong is useless?"

Because he'd asked. Because he wasn't like Liir who'd bend over backwards to try and make things right when there wasn't anything to make right and it was just the way her head worked.

"No," she said, looking frustrated. "I just can't be wrong. That's all. It doesn't matter if anyone else is wrong. They're still useful, whatever."

"But, if you're wrong, you're not," Cal repeated with a nod.

"Well. That makes sense."

"You're laughing at me," she said, looking away. "But I can't help it."

"I'm not laughing; I'm just...thinking outloud, okay."

He seemed to be two for two in ruining girl's good moods today. This was why he shouldn't go to things like this, he suppose.

"Okay," Ino said. "Just... I know it is, a bit... but don't call it ridiculous? Because it is, but... it's really not at the same time."

It is, but...it's really not at the same time.

Yeah, it was official in Cal's mind. Ino was kind of crazy.

"I should probably go," he decided, because, if they kept at it, and considering how he'd been doing with things like this today, he probably was going to end up calling it ridiculous.

"I... yeah," she looked down. "I'm sorry."

She so hated apologizing. Hated. It.

Cal shrugged a little. "I'm the jerk who brought it up," he said, then lifted his chin in a gesture of departure. "See ya, Ino..."

"Yeah," she said, making herself smile, training letting her make it look real. "I'll see you around."

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