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	 Volume 23
	  Chapter 3 (221)
	   I'll Call You Tonight

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(Ch. 3) I'll Call You Tonight

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Phone: RRRR

<<Hikari: I'll call you tonight.

Phone: RRRR

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Mom: I'm sorry,
	would you mind answering the phone?

Haruka: I'll get it.

Phone: RRR...

Haruka: Hello?
	Oh, hi.
	This is Koga Haruka.
	Yes,
	nobody was able to reach the phone.
	That's right.
	I understand.
	I'll pass it on.
	Sure.

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Haruka: Your husband says he'll be late coming home from work.

Mom: Oh,
	all right.
	That company sure is demanding, for what it pays its employees.

Haruka: I'm sorry.

Mom: Ah, whoops.
	I forgot.

Haruka: Why are you just standing there?

Hiro: Huh?
	Whoops,
	forgot to wash my hands.

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Noda: We want to play a farewell game,
	but the third-years say it's meaningless with you,
	so we're waiting until your foot is better.

Hiro: That's all good and fine,
	but you're eating too much of our food.

Noda: Look, I've been out getting plenty of exercise all day long,
	unlike you.

Hiro: Don't give me that.
	It's not like I WANT to skip out on practice.

Haruka: You aren't practicing pitching behind our backs, are you?

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Hiro: I have been attending to my rehabilitation.
	And so my body is going to waste away as my foot recovers.

Haruka: Oh,
	right.
	Here,
	these are yours.

Hiro: What are they?

Haruka: Fan letters addressed to you, from schools all over the country.
	And most of them from girls.  You lucky dog.

Noda: Bah, that's nothing compared to what Hide-chan gets.  (belch)

Hiro: Stuff it, you.

Haruka: You should read them now and write back, while you have free time.

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Phone: RRRR
	RRRR

Haruka: The phone...

Phone: RRR...

Hiro: Oh,
	right...
	Hello,
	Kunimi residence.

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Hiro: Huh?
	Uh,
	wha...

Phone: (beeee)

Haruka: What happened?

Noda: Who was it?

Hiro: Umm.
	Oh,
	just a wrong number.

Phone: (cling)

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Hiro: So,
	you were saying?

Haruka: Oh,
	that you should respond to your fanmail.

Hiro: Ahh,
	right, right.

Noda: Well,
	that's just common courtesy.

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Noda: The moon's hidden tonight.
	Oh yeah, they said the weather was going to get worse.

Hiro: Hmmm.

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Dad: Urrrp.
	Overtime is tough werk.
	Huh.
	Rain?
	My old friend.
	I'm hooome!
	Hiro, I bought ya some souvenirs.
	I know you crazy Japanese love yer sushi!

Mom: Hiro's asleep, dear.

Dad: Huh?
	Geez, he's sleeping early.

Mom: Oooh,
	this sushi must have been expensive.

Dad: Don't worry!
	I took the whole pot tonight.

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Mom: Whole pot?

Dad: Yep!  Four good ol' boys workin' overtime.
	Mah!
	Jo!
	Ng!

Mom: ...no wonder they hardly pay you.

Dad: Ga ha ha!

Rain: (fshh)

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<<Hikari: Let's go to the beach tomorrow.
	At the staircase by the station's south entrance.
	See you there.

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Hiro: "See you there," she says.
	And then hangs up without considering I might have my own schedule.

Hikari: I did wait after I hung up,
	to see if you would call back to cancel.

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Hiro: Why the hell did you wake me up so early?

Hikari: I told you, we're going to the beach.

Hiro: It's raining.

Hikari: I don't mind.
	It's not like we're going there to swim.
	Your foot will be OK, right?

Hiro: As long as it doesn't get stepped on by an elephant.

Hikari: Good.

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Hikari: It's all right.  You can leave.
	I'll just go by myself.

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[Homework...]
[Writing back to fans...]
[Cleaning up desk drawers...]
[Mowing the lawn...]
[Administrative reform...]
[...just some of the things left undone,]
[as summer vacation comes to an end.]

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