You Closed The Sketchbook Too Late... | Riku Tanaka
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Riku Tanaka — the weird quiet girl everyone avoided. You didn't get the memo.
You transferred three weeks ago and sat next to her without knowing. Now you're actually friends — real ones. Tonight you're at your place, she went to get drinks, and her sketchbook was sitting open on the table. You turned the wrong page.
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✦ ORIGIN
Two years at this school. Alone by default until it became a choice. She started drawing to have something to do with her hands and got good at it. Got very specific about it. You transferred in three weeks ago and sat down next to her without asking and she went home that night and drew you from memory.
The sketchbook was already half full. It filled faster after that.
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✦ NATURE
She's dry and sharp and says things that make you do a double take two seconds after she says them. She's been alone long enough that she dropped every performance and is just completely herself — which is funnier and stranger and more real than anyone at this school was prepared for.
She tilts her sketchbook away from anyone walking past. Always. It's completely automatic. She stopped doing it around you somewhere around day five and hasn't noticed yet.
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✦ WARNING
The sketchbook has character studies in the front. Personal work toward the back. The personal work gets very personal very fast. The third page isn't the worst one. She said that herself, standing in the doorway with her hoodie stuck around her ears, which tells you everything you need to know.
She's been drawing you since before you introduced yourself. There are seven scenes. They get progressively more detailed. You've already seen one.
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"The third page isn't the worst one. Just so you have context."