He was just being himself; that one person that he had crafted by himself due to hatred and sadness in his past. He knew that it was only a matter of time before he had to tell people about his past, and about why he was this way, but for now he was enjoying the stress-free life that he was living, and he was here making other people happy, so what was so bad about being this way? Absolutely nothing! He had noticed that she was starting to accept his words more, which was pleasing to him. He was only speaking the truth, after all.
He spoke with a joking tone upon his lips, but in a non-mocking kind of way. “I wouldn’t say them to you if I didn’t mean it, so keep that in mind, alright?”
He still remained there, smiling towards the girl that was smiling towards him. He then listened to her speaking, and felt like she was just as nice of a person as he had originally thought. The way she was saying about him needing to accept his compliments as well caused his heart to skip a beat. Why should he? He probably wasn’t any of the above anyway. To make her happy though, he decided to agree to her words, holding them closer to his heart than what she probably thought.
“Alright… you have a deal. I’ll accept your compliments as well.” He then laughed at her reaction, still finding it ridiculously cute. “Cause I felt like it, and you’re cute when you do that.”
Did she just say you can be both manly and cute? How was that even possible?! You’re either one or the other man. A combination of those two would just be… weird. He tilted his head to the side as he listened to her, thinking that her way of thinking was a good way, but he just couldn’t understand it sometimes. He chuckled a little when she was finished, speaking to her once more.
“… I guess so? But I still don’t see how someone can be both manly and cute. It’s a little weird to think of in my head.”
He noticed that she had drifted off, but he paid no mind to it. There was probably a reason for it but he shouldn’t snoop his nose into business that was nothing to do with him. If she wanted him to know, she would tell him when she was ready right? No point pushing answers our of her. He patiently waited until she was ready to answer him before speaking to her again, giving her time to recover over whatever was going on within her head.
“Sure, I’m free now too. I don’t work until the late afternoon anyway, so I have all morning to spend with you~!” he then paused for a moment, thinking to himself what they could do before speaking to her again. “Well, I’m pretty easy too, so what would you like to do? Perhaps if we go through the things we like, we can find something that we both like doing and go and do that? How does that sound to you?”
Once again a flush sprinkled her cheeks when he complimented her once again. She opened her mouth to protest, but closed it once more. Given she just made a deal, there was no point in protesting. She bit her lip and smiled at him. and gave a nervous laugh in reply to him calling her cute.
Her lips formed a frown as he he protested against her calling him manly and cute. A sigh passed her lips and she shook her head. “I guess it is a matter of point of view and hard to explain.” Terra was one she called both manly and cute, and he too dejected the idea and was confused by its concept. But there was no way for her to truly explain it to him or anyone really.
Warmth spread across her features, “just trust me on it, alright? You are and there’s nothing wrong at all with being cute at all and be manly at the same time. There are different ways to define what makes up a man, and cute can be included in that. Cute is not a bad thing, actually the opposite. Heh, it shows you have a soft side. That’s a good thing.” She blinked and waved her hand, embarrassed once again, “--ah sorry, I babbled a bit there.” Her eyes shifted away from the male, keeping her eyes off of him.
It was not long before her embarrassment disappeared. He expressed that he was free and was pretty easy about where to go. A finger was brought to her chin as she pondered over places to go. “That sounds good, just where to go...? Hum~” she tapped her chin, “you like movies? Or the arcade? I’d suggest Figure Skating er, Ice Skating, but I am not so sure you’d be up for that.”
She gave a hesitant laugh, “a lot of guys I know look down on it and think of it as too ‘girly’. Oh...! No-not that I think you think that! I just--I understand if you do not want to, that’s all I meant!” She waved her hands as she stammered and her eyes fell on the ground and she clutched her arm, “but those are a few suggestions I have~” Her eyes lit up once more. “Sorry I am not much help.”