[Text | Smartphone]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Bakura's been sending texts to this number for quite a while since he first had it in his head. He's never really expected a response, but as his notebook started writing back, he's going to try it again]]

Did you get this? If so, please reply.

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[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. A couple someones from the look of it.

[dorkytracksuit]

I can't believe this.

[shiromadoushi]

Can't believe what?

[dorkytracksuit]

Computers don't work this way. There's no way we should be talking.


I've lost it. I've gone crazy.

[shiromadoushi]

If you have, you're not the only one. I had an argument with my math notebook earlier, that's far crazier than anything a computer could do.

[dorkytracksuit]

You're right.
You're crazy too.


This has to be a hallucination.

[shiromadoushi]

A shared one? Do those things happen?

[[outside of video games and movies]]

[dorkytracksuit]

I don't know.

[shiromadoushi]

So don't worry about it. Even if it's crazy, it's something amazing, right? Like something out of a TV show or something like that.

Maybe we're all secretly superheroes or something. Or are about to become them!

[[They could be super sentai warriors! He calls dibs on Blue if so!]]

after a brief pause.

[dorkytracksuit]

You really are crazy.

[shiromadoushi]

Could be. Not worth worrying about if I am or not, though.

[[as long as his grand parents and therapist didn't think he was crazy, anyone else could think whatever they wanted, he really didn't care.]]

[dorkytracksuit]

How is that not worth worrying about?

[shiromadoushi]

Can't do anything about it if you are, right? Except to hide it.

[dorkytracksuit]

That's not true. There are doctors for that kind of thing. And medicine.

[shiromadoushi]

Not for something this harmless.

[dorkytracksuit]

For something this detrimental to your own health, I think so.

How old are you?

[shiromadoushi]

16.

You?

[dorkytracksuit]

25

Mental illness isn't any kind of burden you have to carry by yourself you know.

[shiromadoushi]

I have a therapist. One in school too.

[[Not that they really helped with the main issue. But whatever]]

[dorkytracksuit]

Do they just help you hide it?

[shiromadoushi]

[[a slight pause]]

Mostly, yeah. They help with some stuff. Not much though.

[dorkytracksuit]

Some therapists really suck. It can take a while to find the right one. Do your guardians pay for it?

[shiromadoushi]

[[The use of "guardians" instead of "parents" gives him a moment's pause]]

Yeah.

[dorkytracksuit]

[He works in the foster care system. He's careful about making assumptions.]

Tell them you'd prefer someone else. There's plenty of doctors out there. Some of them might even be able to actually help you. For real.

I have some phone numbers if you want.

[shiromadoushi]

[[For the best, really. Even 4 years after being violently orphaned, he still has twitches when people mention his parents.

A longer pause this time]]

It's fine. Grandma's friends with this one.