mineo.

[enfangs]

Comments

[sengokus]

It's a pretty standard question from friends to other friends who are in new relationships?

[enfangs]

[he wouldn't know because he didn't have friends while alive]

Is this from your romcoms.

[sengokus]

Kind of, yeah. I'm supposed to give Molly a talk like - "If you ever hurt him, you'll regret it...!"

[ . . . . ]

But you seem happy and it doesn't seem like there's any arguments on the horizon, so I haven't bothered.

[enfangs]

[there's something embarrassingly warm about mineo's protectiveness, but then he gets a response so white forgets about it. he shoots his phone a smile, before he looks up in mineo's general direction and scratches his cheek.]

Yeah, uh. I don't think you need to do that.

[because molly is great, clearly???]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . .

it's so cuuuuuuute. and it's so complicated because white is cursed to hell and back, and mineo knows that white has feelings for him, but he pretty much has to just utterly ignore that this week in favor of being able to take care of this situation.

but -

how can he not love love? how can he think that the general gestures of shooting texts back and forth is anything but insanely cute? he wonders how bad this'll be on monday but for right now...]

... mm! I didn't think I would have to. You really are two of my favorite people.

[and he loves how much they care about each other]

[enfangs]

[monday will be fine, probably]

... Heh. And how many people are we competing with on that list?

[sengokus]

Hmm... A couple...? At least of everybody here, I like just about everyone, but even I've got my preferences.

[mineo's very loving and a good friend but he's still drawn to some more than others, that's just human]

[enfangs]

Has your list of people you trust expanded, then?

[sengokus]

[he looks thoughtful but will go back to making tea]

... depends on what I'm trusting them with.

But in some ways, yeah.

[enfangs]

[white just hums in response, since he's not sure if this is a subject he should press for details on.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . he just snorts quietly]

.... I can trust people with cases here, and on working together. That's expanded a bit.

I think trusting people with me and my well-being is still hard though. We're racing and competing, technically? I don't want to be blind to that.

[enfangs]

Well, I'm not judging you for that.

[white's hardly an advocate for believing in people.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . he nods.]

Yeah.

Most people wouldn't. It's just different for me, I guess. I used to just blindly believe in things and people...

[enfangs]

... We all have things we stop believing in, sooner or later.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

But hopefully we can find new things to believe in too, right?

[enfangs]

[...]

I guess, yeah.

[sengokus]

[he just laughs a bit - and the tea is done brewing so he'll move to pour two cups, holding one out to white]

... then I guess that's what I'm banking on.

Finding new people and things to believe in.

[enfangs]

[he takes it, making a bit of a face because why... tea... but he takes a sip anyway.]

... You will, eventually. I can believe in that, at least.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . . . ]

Do you not like tea? Dude. You watched me make a pot.

[enfangs]

I don't hate it.

[sengokus]

You just need something warm for your throat, even if the dream wasn't what you actually went through. What, you want hot cocoa or coffee instead? Just say so!

[enfangs]

[JUST TO PROVE A POINT HE IMMEDIATELY TAKES A GULP

and then looks like he regrets that decision a lot because hot but

he's doing his best]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . . . he's just going to pat white's shoulders and then go to the vending machine to get him a bag of chips and a bottle of water

and hand both out to him]

You need ice for your mouth?

[enfangs]

[he swallows, but takes what mineo's offering.]

I-I'm fine!

[sengokus]

[he's just

going to get a cup with ice in it and then]

Open.

[so he can toss a cube of ice into white's mouth]