♡ “I’ve — I’ve said somethin’ like that to you before…?” Silent. Bobby’s tone is as silent as his already lingering apology when he utters and stutters along the lengths of his wording, stunned by what he’d heard her speak of so suddenly, his throat unclear and swallowing behind partial words that result half-pronounced past the plush of his shifting lips in the process. An eyebrow arches before he could grant it consent to do as such, goodness, Bobby control yourself, the curious siding of him getting the better of the situation for a brief moment as his bunch of thoughts that involved her twirl forward and unravel from left to right for the purpose of recalling a single thing about what could have happened between them, that had led her so far to thinking of him in such a manner. There weren’t even many, but the few were enough to confuse. But he just had to maintain proper balance between his confusion, stun and curiosity to find whatever useful. Something like that. He were just urging to fix it as quickly as possible, if this truly was a wholesome situation.
The kick start is given a chance to hold hands with boldness. Do I really mean nothing to you? “You sure it was me, noona?” Assumed her sentence and idea had originated from such a fragile statement as straightforward as ‘You mean nothing to me’, which, for the record, really wouldn’t ever be or become much a Bobby thing to say so carelessly to someone like that, especially of the opposite gender, hence him asking first if she actually did have the right person or not – alas still kept as a relevant option given anything could’ve happened, even if it was him or not. Secondly, though was the possibility of her just joking about, a twisted way of poke at fun as people always enjoyed doing around him, in his opinion. He wasn’t gullible, not much by any means, but when it came to females and getting serious about something sensitive, if he took part in it, mainly, he were always up and ready to listen, respect, apologize, and make up for it as he should have been doing. If whomever it was allowed it. In this case, her.
❅ "You did", she agreed silently, muttered words, cutting the silence, not the least hesitation to his question, unlike the one shown earlier, just before bringing up that topic, haunting her mind since a while, a message sent to her some evenings ago, no idea about the circumstances, only that it was making her feel odd, made her feel fidgety. She was still feeling so, turning her papercup around and around, nervosity shown by that little activity, not even drinking the warm drink, normally living on it, a dire need in her lunch breaks, warming her up, helping her concentrate, not working anymore, long since immune to caffeine, merely a drink of beliefs by now.
"You did", she repeated, once again, raising her gaze finally, lowered down to her cup, inability to look at him ever since her inquiry, a quite unusual sight, hardly ever avoiding looking at her partner of speech, little traits like these showing her emotions, more so than her face, calm even in a situation like these, spilling her little worries, no knowledge of how to show feelings with her face. "You sent a message." One she hadn't replied to, having slept upon the time of delivery, read the morning after, forgotten over practice and work, the memory back with his invitation to lunchbreak coffee, never saying No to him, especially not with the topic of coffee. Whether to bring it up or not, ask him or not, find out about the intention behind his message or not, it had become a repeated worry, crossing her mind with every interruption to music, making her restless, still contemplating when asking, question having slipped her lips, surely for the better, able to clear the possible misunderstanding, get the thought off her head.
As reasonable his explanation sounded, that he hadn't done it entirely consciously, that it had been an accident, just the more it made her uncomfortable, eyes skipping his face for a second, looking aside, back at him again, urged to open her mouth, give him a reply, only the words not yet decided, slowing down her reaction, lightly parting her lips already, definite sign of an upcoming answer. "People tend to say the truth in such a situation..."