[10:48am] “Dojin, the turtles!”
“Huh?”
“Look at the turtles!”
Dojin snapped his gaze back to the direction you were pointing in and saw a small family of baby turtles, gingerly but excitedly crawling across the sand.
“Oh- yeah, they’re really cute,” he said.
“You said they were your favorite and you’re not even looking at them?” you teased. “I thought they were the best part of this whole aquarium trip.”
“I’m looking at them,” he protested, quickly returning his gaze to the exhibit. It wasn’t long, however, before he couldn’t help but look at you out of the corner of his eye again, finding the joy on your face more captivating than the turtles that were causing it, and hoping that one day he could tell you that you were his real favorite instead.