Kengo didn't even look up from his work, though when he noticed Ryusei wasn't coming in to the control room, he flipped it back open and scratched down a few more things with a pencil. He couldn't push the uncomfortable feeling aside. It always seemed to end up like this when he didn't want to talk about how he was feeling. Burying his thoughts and feelings was what had gotten him in trouble with Ryusei and Gentarou in the first place, back when they had worked on developing the magnet switches. It never got any easier...

"I already had my break." Not that it should have counted, considering his condition and how little he'd been sleeping with the school work Kengo had been working on. "I'll eat whatever you don't want once I'm done."