“I…” Higuchi started out, halfway through their lunch. “I’m sorry I wasn’t clear enough in my email.”
Gin shook their head in negation, temporarily putting the chopsticks down so they could properly sign their response; speaking up in front of her wasn’t a problem anymore, but that was more practical given how the two of them were surrounded by noise.
‘It’s fine. Should’ve supposed you’d sent more details if it was about a job.’
Upon that, Higuhi let out a nervous laugh.
“Well! I guess so, but…” She took a deep breath, and right after that the speed of her speaking increased significantly. “I wasn’t sure about how to ask you to come by, because I know things have been… tense?” That was one way to say it, sure, but Gin wasn’t really mad at her anymore; hadn’t been in long. Sure, they hadn’t been exactly thrilled about being chased around the city because Higuchi’s jealousy had acted up and prompted her to come up with a movie-plot-for-a-boring-day kind of explanation, but… it was difficult to stay mad at her. “So-- I didn’t want to act like nothing happened, but I also didn’t know how to bring up the subject so…”
She went on, doubling down on both reasoning and apologies, and as intently as Gin intended to listen (and was listening, really), they couldn’t help but dedicate a thought or two about how pretty she looked. Because she was, truly.
Whether capable of seeing it or not, Higuchi was gorgeous, highly capable and bestowed with a heart that might not always be suited for the mafia work but had contributed in saving Ryûnosuke when that enemy organization took advantage of him being incapacitated to kidnap him.
If only she could drop her tunnel vision towards making goggly eyes at him, who would never reciprocate anyway for a myriad of reasons…
… and looked elsewhere, like in Gin’s direction…
Little did they know yet, though, that such a wish was bound to not only come true but it had been kickstarted already too.
higugin + one nervously rambles while the other simply observes, finding it endearing
#bsd #higugin