[Anyone would smile after seeing Mary. It's impossible to do anything but smile, even as these photos fill Hiyori's heart with longing and trigger a worried pang. Where is Mary right now? In Ibara and Nagisa's care, or frozen in time somewhere? Will he ever see her again? These are questions he's pointedly trying hard not to think about. He wants to keep that pleasant mood up, for his sake but also for Leo's. Leo, after all, confided in him that his suit makes him more depressed.
He has plenty more photos of Mary to share. But while he's scrolling to another one, he feels that hand suddenly grab his knee, and his eyes dart up from his phone and his dog and then he sees Leo. Not smiling but looking wild-eyed. His own eyes widen and his brows shoot up.]
Huh—?
[He shifts underneath that hand, tensing beneath Leo's grip, but he doesn't shove him off, even though he's kind of scaring him. At first he doesn't get it—Leo's just saying the name of his circles and his shuffle unit. Are those requests? For photos? But then he thinks about it for a second—what those things have in common—and then he does get it, all too horribly well.
"I keep forgetting how lonely you must be," he'd typed earlier. It's not because he lacks empathy, for all that his words can be mean. It's because Leo always seems so carefree, like he's off on his own little planet.
Hiyori nods, his throat feeling tight, and announces:]
Right, Pretty 5 first!
[And then he starts scrolling fast, the pictures blurring together.
Getto Spectacle was recent and he would've come upon those photos first if he'd kept going back in order, but there are more Pretty 5 pictures. So many. They all love taking pictures of their clothes and accessories and fancy drinks. And of themselves, too, even when they're not dressed fancy. It doesn't take long at all before he finds one where they're all posed together. Him, Tori-kun, Mika-kun...
Arashi.]
See? Look!
[He thrusts the phone more towards Leo, not that he wasn't already close enough to see anyway.]
We took this one together completely on a whim! And then we added cat ears, because Arashi-chan told me about some app that lets you add stickers! Aren't we the cutest?
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He has plenty more photos of Mary to share. But while he's scrolling to another one, he feels that hand suddenly grab his knee, and his eyes dart up from his phone and his dog and then he sees Leo. Not smiling but looking wild-eyed. His own eyes widen and his brows shoot up.]
Huh—?
[He shifts underneath that hand, tensing beneath Leo's grip, but he doesn't shove him off, even though he's kind of scaring him. At first he doesn't get it—Leo's just saying the name of his circles and his shuffle unit. Are those requests? For photos? But then he thinks about it for a second—what those things have in common—and then he does get it, all too horribly well.
"I keep forgetting how lonely you must be," he'd typed earlier. It's not because he lacks empathy, for all that his words can be mean. It's because Leo always seems so carefree, like he's off on his own little planet.
Hiyori nods, his throat feeling tight, and announces:]
Right, Pretty 5 first!
[And then he starts scrolling fast, the pictures blurring together.
Getto Spectacle was recent and he would've come upon those photos first if he'd kept going back in order, but there are more Pretty 5 pictures. So many. They all love taking pictures of their clothes and accessories and fancy drinks. And of themselves, too, even when they're not dressed fancy. It doesn't take long at all before he finds one where they're all posed together. Him, Tori-kun, Mika-kun...
Arashi.]
See? Look!
[He thrusts the phone more towards Leo, not that he wasn't already close enough to see anyway.]
We took this one together completely on a whim! And then we added cat ears, because Arashi-chan told me about some app that lets you add stickers! Aren't we the cutest?