❛ i can stay and help you finish this if you want. ❜ ( no pressure to answer all of these btw! just wanted to give you options <3 )
( platonic sentence starters. accepting. )
to be honest, she doesn't even remember how she ended up volunteering to make paper lanterns for this year's spring festival, but here she was. in her apartment. making paper lanterns. it likely had something to do with the fact that she didn't know how to tell people no, and upon being asked, enthusiastically jumped up to answer the call. at least they were pretty, the paper inlaid with flowers - cherry blossoms, hibiscus, water lilies, lotuses - with a small ignition source hooked into the middle of the wire structure. a long sigh leaves her, and she weighs her options: sit in her apartment by herself and make all these damn lanterns, or sit in her apartment with chiyo, and make these damn lanterns.
the choice was kind of obvious.
" it's, like, half past midnight as it is . . . you might as well spend the night if you're adamant in helping me. i could order a pizza , or something else that's open this late . . . " a little smile plays on her features, and she stretches out into the floor. " we're like, halfway done. surely it won't take that much longer. i'd be done by now, if these damn things didn't take forever to put together. i'm going to break a nail by the time we're done here, for sure. . . "