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[ AOJHFUESGNS?!?!? ]

Then warn me before you-- you touch me or put something on me! I wasn't expecting to feel something there!

[ or that it feels like a bug!!!!!!! he'll keep his eyes closed but he's tense. ]

That'll ruin the surprise!

[ She's going to shrug off her hoodie and throw it over his head, there is none trust here. Once she's certain Kaname isn't going to toss her jacket onto the ground, and that his hand is still out and not tired from being held up for so long, she goes to retrieve the maybe bug gift from where it'd been flung away.

A little more tickling on his wrist and... ]

Ta-da! You can open your eyes now!

[ It's a friendship bracelet in red, like the second from the left ]

[ "open his eyes" he'd allowed the hoodie even if he'd griped about it, so he'll lift it up and...

oh. it's so simple, but startlingly adorable. kaname turns his wrist over, pressing his lips together tight as he tries to get the words lodged in his throat out. ]

... Did you make this?

[ is what he finally says, awkward and stiff. it's. the first gift he's been given by someone he considers a friend, he doesn't know how to react. ]

Yeah!

[ She looks super proud of it, too, obviously pleased with the way it turned out, and pleased with Kaname's reaction towards it. Digging into that same pocket, Ala pulls out another bracelet, this one not as neat and even, and in robin egg blue. ]

I made myself a practice one first, so I can make sure yours is nice and perfect, but I can't tie it with just one hand.

[ ... oh. it's still nice though, even if it isn't neat or even -- kaname thinks it looks nice, and he seems tentative a moment before he takes it and clumsily ties it around her wrist, so... they match now. ]

-- There. You're welcome. [ ... mmm mm... ] Thank... you, too.

[ like it's the hardest pair of words for him to say. ]

[ It probably looks more like wildflowers, the way the flowers are all shaped a little differently, wonky, with loose bits of thread sticking out here and there like branches ending in fuzz. ]

Hehe...

[ She holds her hand out at arm's length to appreciate the bracelet, the way people do when admiring a ring. ]

We're matchies! Tsukasa said you'd be embarrassed to be matchies, but he's wrong, isn't he?

[ fucking suou now he has to prove that kid wrong, because he is embarrassed to be matchies but... but more than that-- ]

I'm happy to be matching.

[ sincerely, tumbling out without warning, and kaname's cheeks warm as he mimics her, admiring the bracelet next to ala's. her's is wonky and childish, frayed and definitely someone's first go, but... he likes it. in time, he hopes his becomes the same way. ]

... Will you teach me how you made it? It looks fun.

Mm, I can, but, like, you gotta sit still for a long time and be careful about what you're doing or it'll get all messed up.

[ It's tedious!! torture for someone like Ala who can't even sit with without swinging her legs or swaying side to side to some internal tune. She made two bracelets. That's it. That's her limit.

...

Actually, if she's just teaching, then she doesn't have to be still, just Kaname does. She can run circles around him while he's braiding threads if that's what she wants to do. ]

But if you still want to, yeah! I'll teach you! How many do you need to make?

[ that's why it's even more touching that she made two of them!! and that his looks so nice... ]

... Two. I can sit still, unlike some people, so it won't be hard. You only need to teach me once -- I'll make each one perfectly after that.

[ It took her a whole month to make two of them... mostly at night when there's nobody to play with and you know how hard it is to see at night ]

Okay! Then let's go find the colors you need! Your second best friend can have the practice one, and your very best friend can have the perfect one.

[ Two's the limit, Kaname. No way anybody can sit still long enough for more than two. ]

[ not the 🥺 very best friend 🥺 he's going to have to make a third if the practice one doesn't come out to his liking but on his own time so she doesn't know he can do more than two.

anyway fine let's go to the market!!!! to steal. i mean buy. ]

What color do you think would suit Suou? I already have the other in mind, but I wouldn't like to repeat colors.

[ No, they're going to steal, Ala doesn't have any money ]

Tsukasa? Mm... red! But he can't be red, 'cause I'm red. And if both of you have red ones, you two will be matchies and I'll feel left out!

[ can't have that ]

How 'bout purple? A mix of you and me.

[ ALA WE LITERALLY DON'T USE MONEY HERE.

and

he gets it. okay. so the red means that he's "her" friend and the blue'll mean she's "his" friend. he understands the color theory now. easy. now he knows what color to do for hiiro. ]

I suppose we do share him. I'm certain he'll appreciate the sentiment too.

[ who wouldn't!!!! they're great parents to have. ]

[ She doesn't like owing people favors either!!! ]

Mmhm! That's right. Is Tsukasa your second best or your very best?

... Second. Hiiro is my very best friend.

[ which is embarrassing to say actually not because of who it is but just in general that he has like, more than a few friends, ]

What about me?

[ is she number three?? no way she's lower than like... seven or eight ]

You only asked between them. It's Hiiro, then you, then Suou.

[ it's also the order he accepted them as friends. ]

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