I’m doing about as well as can be expected.

[Which means he’s being an internalizing disaster putting on an aggressively uncaring facade, but you know. What else is he supposed to do?]

[Everyone has their own problems here. There’s a jerk in the pit of his stomach at the possibility of not seeing his mother, a bitter taste that he can’t talk with his brother anymore right when they were starting to get along again… And he’s even sort of missing the reliable schedule he’d built with school and volleyball practice before and after.]

[But so what? Yamaguchi, Akaashi, Kenma, probably Bokuto too if he’d stop to think about it seriously for once- those kind of thoughts are probably in their heads too. He can’t even begin to imagine how it’s like for anyone else from other places. He’s not special.]

[...And he doesn’t want to talk about it.]

[Kuroo can probably figure out that Tsukishima isn’t saying everything or even a fraction of it just by the way he pushes himself up to his feet a moment after.]

I’m going to talk to Ipin to see what we’ve got gathered up so far. Good luck with Akaashi-san.