[ cute dumb children ]

[hasaringonit]

[ Someone--not naming any names because it could've been staff or rich boys or maybe even a very tiny lady--has stuffed a giant and super classy tree strung with fairy lights and little bits of tinsel right smack in the middle of some big giant room in Casa de Kureshima.

Another someone--this one absolutely a very tiny lady--is trotting around its base carefully arranging perfectly wrapped gifts beneath it. A little bell in her hair jingles every time she moves, and overall she seems to be getting into the holiday spirit extremely well.

If anyone should need her, that's where they might find her. ]

Comments

[hasaringonit]

Mm. I know. Troublesome boys seem to always appear before me.

[ They way she says it seems nothing but affectionate, at least [

[grapesofyan]

How unfortunate.

[hasaringonit]

Fortunately, they tend to listen to reason when pressed between a rock and a hard place.

[ The rock in this case being her. ]

[grapesofyan]

*laughs*

Not much of a choice when you've been cornered.

[hasaringonit]

There is always a choice. They simply choose to do what might be considered best.

[grapesofyan]

I think we have that covered in this case.

[hasaringonit]

[ Someone's gonna get a hug. Two guesses as to who and the first one doesn't count ]

[grapesofyan]

*That still startles him sometimes but he hugs back*

[hasaringonit]

[ She is huggy with her people get used to it ]

Everything will work out.

[grapesofyan]

I know. It usually does.

[hasaringonit]

Magic helps.

[grapesofyan]

Just sometimes.

[hasaringonit]

It is what enables me to be together with Kureshima-san, and as such it is enough for me.

[grapesofyan]

You could've stayed somewhere else.

[hasaringonit]

I chose to be where I was most needed.

[grapesofyan]

Mm. For that we're grateful.

[hasaringonit]

It is the least I could have done.

[grapesofyan]

It means a lot to us.

[hasaringonit]

I believe the phrasing is "the feeling is mutual".

[grapesofyan]

Right.

[hasaringonit]

Kureshima-san is important to me, after all.

[grapesofyan]

Definitely the feeling is mutual.

[hasaringonit]

That is all that is really necessary.

[grapesofyan]

It sounds so simple.

[hasaringonit]

Sometimes the simplest answer is the more correct answer.