He didn’t want to lose her in the crowd, that was why he had suggested holding hands. He had nothing against holding hands with her, in fact he found that he liked it, it just wasn’t a natural action to him yet and so he didn’t always reach out for her hand when they went out. He was getting better, getting used to it and learning new things, but it truly was a learning curve for someone who had never even dated before.
“Yeah” he agreed, returning her bright smile with a softer one of his own. He wasn’t hugely tall, though a little above the average, meaning that he was able to guide them through the crowds easily enough. He could see a little more, while Haneul had no chance with her smaller size, he doubted she could see much more than people’s backs and the occaisional glimpse of christmas displays “People are rushing to get christmas gifts, it’s only a week away now” speaking of which he still needed to get Haneul a gift…what could he get her?
Haneul would sometimes reach for his hand to walk with him holding hands, but she also was learning to let him take the lead sometimes. Since he still seemed a bit uncomfortable in some of the times she reached first, she had learned a lot about him up to that moment and it was still doing so.
Walking with him she was being careful to not bump into anyone that was walking busy on their sides with bags of the shopping they went on. She had to jump to the side to avoid a kid that almost hit her hip. Haneul did like new experiences, but depending on how crowded the place was it seemed to be a little problem, her system would have to register way too many things sometimes. Blinking a couple of times she then nodded. “Oh right... Christmas... Gifts, christimas tree... santa!” She said the things she knew about it and nodded, and then it came to her system that she might need to give him something. But she wasn’t working (yet) so she was still a bit lost on that. She knew she shouldn’t ask him for money for that like she did when buying stuff for the house. Suddenly she got quiet while thinking of that matter and still walking on his side.