The more time that you spend with people, the easier they become to read. Meeting somebody new is like trying to read a book in a language that you don’t know. Bits and pieces, words that are familiar, things that you’ve heard before stick out to you and make a little sense, but for the most part you’re completely lost.
Of course, you can study a language. You can study and study all the time until it makes sense to you, and then you open the book back up and suddenly the story is there and in front of you as plain as day.
Iwaizumi thinks this is probably give-and-take also. This means there’s three people who he understands well—three people who he can be honest with and three people who he can text whenever and three people who can read him just as well, probably. But there’s three people who are also living in Real Life, where there’s no perfect solutions. Real people with real problems. Real life with no real solutions.
And as hard as Iwaizumi tries his best to cling to good things, he’s left scrabbling sometimes.
He’s left scrabbling when Oikawa’s dad comes back for a month and Oikawa’s angry for the entire month and acts angry for a month after (when his dad’s left again without a word) but they can all tell that he’s hurt. And Iwaizumi’s left scrabbling when Matsukawa’s dog dies and he’s upset for weeks, and then his grandpa dies and Iwaizumi really doesn’t know what to say about either of those situations. He’s left scrabbling because those happy cartoons never told him what to do when your friends are hurting and when dogs and people die.
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