@apostaste. Mayoi-san, you're looking more beautiful than usual today, which is quite the feat because you're always stunning :)
mayoi blinks, &. then, when he finally registers the compliment, he ducks his head, brows knit in a troubled, disbelieving frown. oh no. why does tatsumi always tell him such good-natured, kindhearted things when he should know by now that he isn't deserving of them ? &. why does he feel like he's being put on the spot with this ? react well, react better, &. maybe others won't all have their eyes on you whenever you go out ! it's an impossible feat, to hold such arrogance in him.
❝ m-me ? beautiful … ? tatsumi-san, i'm only a bug that you should squash under your feet and throw out with the trash ! ❞ yet tatsumi has a way of speaking that seems to fill him with warmth. it makes him tighten his arms across himself, as if holding in the impurities that threaten to sneak out &. consume such a holy presence whole. ah, he would never forgive himself if he ever ruined any of them ! besides, he could never allow himself to believe those words were actually true. they're just to wipe the worry from his face, to quell his own unsettling presence for the moment. ❝ please … don't let what you think you see mislead you. ❞
* . ゜ unprompted ! 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗.













