Welp, it seemed she was back to being busy again. Maruki had already set aside his phone and went back to reading, his foot bouncing on the floor as he counted the minutes with each tick of the clock and the easy papery sighs of the book. Usually one would think barely reading one chapter in a span of a 30 minutes was already too damn slow but it was in those moments that he found himself going slowly to savour each aspect of a book. Annotating it. Analysing it. Reviewing it. It helped him pass the time.
When he heard her ping again this time it was a more at ease. Just 5 minutes after-! Totally normal.
Though her text itself...
Cute.
Huh.
A breath hitched in his throat, and he exhaled through his nose, pressing his fist lightly against his lips, as though physically stopping himself from entertaining whatever that feeling was. He was at least a decade older than her—so how did she find him remotely cute?
...Well. That was something to shove deep into the back of his mind and never think about again.
He cleared his throat, shaking his head and focusing instead on the actual contents of her message. A hang-out. A casual day out with her, a chance to make her stay just a little longer.
The movies sounded like a safe option.
It had been a while since he last went to one, but there was a kind of escapism in it that suited him. To sit in the dark, lose himself in a world someone else had crafted—yes, that was something he could work with.
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When he heard her ping again this time it was a more at ease. Just 5 minutes after-! Totally normal.
Though her text itself...
Cute.
Huh.
A breath hitched in his throat, and he exhaled through his nose, pressing his fist lightly against his lips, as though physically stopping himself from entertaining whatever that feeling was. He was at least a decade older than her—so how did she find him remotely cute?
...Well. That was something to shove deep into the back of his mind and never think about again.
He cleared his throat, shaking his head and focusing instead on the actual contents of her message. A hang-out. A casual day out with her, a chance to make her stay just a little longer.
The movies sounded like a safe option.
It had been a while since he last went to one, but there was a kind of escapism in it that suited him. To sit in the dark, lose himself in a world someone else had crafted—yes, that was something he could work with.