Comic/Manga Turntable... (Dollzone Yuu and Angell Studio Kana)

This takes place two months after the previous chapter, which can be seen here...


Duke: Marjorie... you like being with me, don't you?
Marjorie (laughs): What a question! Of course I do, Duke. I wouldn't spend time with you if I didn't.
Duke: Good, I just wanted to make sure, before... (pauses)
Marjorie: Before what?


Duke: Well... I just wanted to tell you how much I've been thinking about you lately... and about us.
Marjorie: (smiles)
Duke: I mean... I think about you all the time. You make me really happy. And I want you to be happy too.
Marjorie: You DO make me happy, Duke.
Duke: I do?
Marjorie: Of course you do!


Duke: I thought I was, but... I just wanted to make sure you thought so too.
Marjorie: Duke... you sound so serious. What's going on?
Duke (hesitates): Well... I figured that if we were both happy when we were together, I thought... that maybe you'd like to spend even more time with me... like, ALL the time.
Marjorie: All the time? Duke...


Duke: Do you... do you think you might like to move in together?
Marjorie: Oh Duke... Duke, I can't.
Duke: But --
Marjorie: I just... I don't feel like we know each other well enough yet... and I'm not sure if that's what I want right now anyway.


Duke: Oh... I thought that... that maybe you would.
Marjorie: Can't we just go on as we have been? We've been seeing each other for a few months now. Isn't that enough for you? I think it's a little too soon since Bevan moved out. I'm not ready to make such a big change yet.
Duke: Marjorie... I thought... I thought you felt the same about me.


Marjorie: Felt what? Duke, I think you're a lot of fun to be with and I like you a lot, but --
Duke: LIKE me?? You only LIKE me??
Marjorie: Well, yes!
Duke: I don't want to hear that! You only LIKE me?


Duke: I don't want you to just like me. Marjorie... I think I'm in love with you.
Marjorie: Oh Duke... you're not. You can't be.
Duke: I am. No one's ever understood me like you do. Everyone in my whole life has tried to change me... everyone except you.


Marjorie: Duke... it's my life's work to help people. I've been trained to do it. Just because I understand you doesn't mean --
Duke: Who else is going to understand me if you don't?
Marjorie (sighs): Duke, you're a wonderful guy. You're talented and dedicated and sweet and funny. I'm sure that lots of people besides me see that in you.
Duke (earnestly): Nobody's ever said that to me before.
Marjorie (smiles): What am I going to do with you?


Duke: I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen to me if you don't love me too.
Marjorie: I didn't think you were going to feel this way about me. I thought you just wanted to go out and have a good time. That's what... that's the impression I got from talking to your friends and your brother... and from you, too.
Duke: Well... I thought that's what I wanted too, but... I don't. I feel like I want more.
Marjorie: I guess we just don't want the same things right now.


Duke: Does that mean you don't want to see me any more?
Marjorie: I don't know. It's not going to be the same now that I know how you feel. Maybe... we should spend a little time apart for a while, and think about things.
Duke: I thought you'd be happy when I asked you if you'd like to move in together. I didn't think you'd be breaking up with me today.
Marjorie: I'm sorry...

Linda S.
galatia9

 

Thanks, @SteamWitch! I feel sorry for him too.

Linda S.
galatia9

 

@mikki, I bet you're right! He's probably never been in the position of asking a girl to move in with him before.

Linda S.
galatia9