#@shicri

[ficryfingcrs]

“Do you want me to pretend we’re just friends?”

"No."

There was no hesitation in it, though he wasn't quite so sure what he really did want, he knew it wasn't that.

"No, I don't want that. I want you know that you have me here without feeling like you have to hide... And that means hiding from me as well. There won't be a need for that."

[lcckfcrthelight]

❛ before you do anything, try this and tell me what you think. ❜

“If it’s that mud water stuff everyone always talks about, I think I’ll pass.”

Regardless of dismissing it however, she’d caught a slight sniff of it and glanced at the contents of the cup being offered to her, beginning to reconsider her decision. She was still wary of it, but had given it this much of her attention already.

“What is it?”

Taking the cup into her hands, she brought it closer to give it a much better whiff.

[ficryfingcrs]

"Please tell me you're going to eat that." The shorter male's gaze is stuck on a piece of waffle that had been sitting on the other's plate the entire time they had been talking. Their food had been delivered eons before; yet that small piece of the meal remained untouched. "It looks so sad."

“Well, you can’t blame me for forgetting I had food in front of me, I was invested in the conversation.”

He’d eyed the last couple bites of his delicious Belgium Waffle and only now remembered just how hungry he was, sort of taken aback that he was truly that involved in the topic at hand to forget to eat such a treat.

“Did you want the last bit? I didn’t think it was like you to notice, perhaps you wanted bite for yourself.”

A cocky little grin crossed his lips as he raised the glass of water to meet them, thinking maybe, just somehow, Shiori had grown a little bolder.