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tallulahgs[Title] Perseverance
[Fandom] Azumanga Daioh
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Set post-series. Osaka and Chiyo are both learning to drive.
“Guess what?” Chiyo-chan's voice is kind of crackled and static from the long-distance call but Osaka can pretty much hear how excited she is: “I passed my driving test!”
“Hey, dat's awesome! It's like you're a real grown-up!”
“Well... the instructor did say he wondered if my legs would be long enough to reach the pedals... but they were. So it was okay!”
“You passed first time, right?” Osaka pictures Chiyo driving through, like, New York or something at the wheel of one of those big four-by-four American cars. Maybe wearing a cowboy hat, and with an American flag on the roof.
“Uh-huh.” Chiyo sounds modest as always. “But I studied super-hard! And my host mother helped, she let me practise with her.”
“Amazing.” Osaka sighs happily. “One day I'm gonna pass my test too.”
A nervous pause before Chiyo says, “You're, uh, learning to drive, Osaka?”
“You betcha! I've taken the test seven times now!” Osaka's still very proud of this. The only person who's signed up to take it more times than her is Tomo, and that's only because two of the times she overslept and missed it.
“Wow!” Chiyo says. “Um... how did... how has it gone?”
“Oh, pretty good, you know. I didn't hit anyone.” Silence from the other end of the phone, so Osaka carries on, “The last time I thought I might pull it off, but you know how clouds sometimes are shaped like rabbits? Or cars?”
“Yes...”
“Well, I saw one, and that made me remember I needed to get a new rice cooker so I figured, like, the instructor wouldn't mind if we stopped. Only I forgot about those, ya know, turny-things?”
“Uh... junctions? Intersections?”
“Dat's the one! I knew you'd know. I forgot about how you need ta be goin' into one of them before you turn, you can't just go across the road.” Another nervous silence. “But no one died.” More silence. “And the car was okay.” No, it wasn't right to lie to Chiyo-chan. “Sorta.”
“I... see,” Chiyo said at last.
“I figured I gotta be better than Miss Yukari, right? And she never had anything bad happen. Well, not dat bad. I mean I hear those cyclists was all fine in the end.”
She thought she could hear Chiyo-chan hyperventilating, but it was probably just the static.
[Fandom] Azumanga Daioh
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Set post-series. Osaka and Chiyo are both learning to drive.
“Guess what?” Chiyo-chan's voice is kind of crackled and static from the long-distance call but Osaka can pretty much hear how excited she is: “I passed my driving test!”
“Hey, dat's awesome! It's like you're a real grown-up!”
“Well... the instructor did say he wondered if my legs would be long enough to reach the pedals... but they were. So it was okay!”
“You passed first time, right?” Osaka pictures Chiyo driving through, like, New York or something at the wheel of one of those big four-by-four American cars. Maybe wearing a cowboy hat, and with an American flag on the roof.
“Uh-huh.” Chiyo sounds modest as always. “But I studied super-hard! And my host mother helped, she let me practise with her.”
“Amazing.” Osaka sighs happily. “One day I'm gonna pass my test too.”
A nervous pause before Chiyo says, “You're, uh, learning to drive, Osaka?”
“You betcha! I've taken the test seven times now!” Osaka's still very proud of this. The only person who's signed up to take it more times than her is Tomo, and that's only because two of the times she overslept and missed it.
“Wow!” Chiyo says. “Um... how did... how has it gone?”
“Oh, pretty good, you know. I didn't hit anyone.” Silence from the other end of the phone, so Osaka carries on, “The last time I thought I might pull it off, but you know how clouds sometimes are shaped like rabbits? Or cars?”
“Yes...”
“Well, I saw one, and that made me remember I needed to get a new rice cooker so I figured, like, the instructor wouldn't mind if we stopped. Only I forgot about those, ya know, turny-things?”
“Uh... junctions? Intersections?”
“Dat's the one! I knew you'd know. I forgot about how you need ta be goin' into one of them before you turn, you can't just go across the road.” Another nervous silence. “But no one died.” More silence. “And the car was okay.” No, it wasn't right to lie to Chiyo-chan. “Sorta.”
“I... see,” Chiyo said at last.
“I figured I gotta be better than Miss Yukari, right? And she never had anything bad happen. Well, not dat bad. I mean I hear those cyclists was all fine in the end.”
She thought she could hear Chiyo-chan hyperventilating, but it was probably just the static.
