Valentina turned to walk away from the bar after speaking to a client from work when she came face to face with a stranger's chest. Had her reflexes been slower she would have run smack into them but, she caught herself just in time. She was a bit tipsy by this point and instintively reached forward to rest her hands on this stranger's chest to stready herself from falling. "Oof! Sorry about that, babe. Should have watched where I was going." Val gave the stranger a warm smile as she looked up.
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Hotaru hadn’t been paying much attention to where he was going either when they collided, his attention fixated on all the colors and decorations of the event in admiration. But as soon as they were inches apart, he carefully caught her by her upper arm to steady her where she swayed. When she puts her hands on his chest though and the young man gets a better look of her, Hotaru has to take a deep breath to not lose his cool demeanor. As if he ever had any.
“Oh- Oh no, it was my bad...” he says dropping his hands as to not come off as a creep if he let his hands linger for too long, “I wasn’t watching where I was going either,” he chuckled sheepishly, raising a hand to scratch at the back of his neck. A nervous tick that only ever made itself known when he talked with attractive people. It certainly didn’t help that she still had her hands on his chest and Hotaru really hoped that his heart rate was steady to save himself some dignity.
“Are you alright?” he asks, matching her smile with a warm one of his own, though there’s concern in his eyes, “I doubt that we ran into each other hard enough to cause any damage...” he trails off not sure where he found the audacity to actually hold up a conversation with her, “But it doesn’t hurt to ask.” At the very least, he was glad that he wasn’t tongue tied. Because then he’d have a lot more to be embarrassed about.