He's uh, not getting the hint as quickly as I'd like though. Or maybe he's already gotten it and he's just waiting to see if I'll do anything about it. That wouldn't surprise me.
[HE'S REALLY HOPING THAT'S NOT IT look he's weird about this when there are actual feelings involved]
Yeah, I know... I guess I don't want to screw things up though. He's really important to me and if he isn't interested, that'd probably make things weird.
Um... I'm not really sure? I'm not sure if he's like this with everyone else or if I'm just special. He definitely trusts me a lot and I did help him out when he was in a pretty bad place. Though uh, that wasn't specifically so I could you know. Date him. Or anything like that. I'm not that mercenary!
[It's late in the evening when Tsukiyama contacts Ryuunosuke over the crystal; he'd needed some time to decompress from the weekend, and perhaps more importantly, to figure out what he was going to say in general regarding everything. So it's closer to midnight when he contacts him; he figures Ryuunosuke is still awake, given that he almost always is at this hour.]
Do you have some time tonight, Uryuu-san? I'd like to speak to you, if that's all right.
Ah...do you think we could meet at the tree, actually?
[There's not going to be anyone around at this time of night; he's usually still avoiding it unless there's something important going on there, but for the time being he doesn't want to be inside.]
[Ryuunosuke doesn't take long to get prepared. He's out at the tree soon enough and it looks like he's switched back to his normal clothes. No Lisa Frunk this late at night, thank god.]
Heeey, Tsukiyama!
[He's not very loud even if there is no one around, but the greeting is accompanied by way too many sparkles anyway.]
[...thankfully Tsukiyama is not in the technicolor either right now; he's got on one of his nicer outfits, and it's very definitely Verens fashion, but it's decidedly more toned-down.]
It's good of you to come out here; I was feeling restless and didn't really want to be indoors for now.
[He's quiet for a moment at that.]
I said I had some things to discuss with you before we made any decisions about where to go from here. Is it all right if we talk about that for a while?
[Of course not; either way, they've done this before - it involves an arm around Ryuunosuke's waist and a fair amount of quick movements, but the jumps up are fairly effortless, all things considered, and when he sets Ryuunosuke down next to him the motion is an easy one.
He remains standing once he's done it, though, seeming unbothered by the height and the relative unsteadiness of the branches compared to the ground.]
...I really do still like it up here, despite everything that happened a couple of months ago.
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