[ With her eyes full of Shoji's earnest face, Rin finds it's harder than usual to avert her gaze. It's her instinctive response when shyness takes over her, and though she can feel the heat of a blush colouring her cheeks, she also can't quite make herself look away. ]
I've still got a long way to go, you know. You can say that again when they offer me a spot.
[ She doesn't really think it'll happen. She's a soft-spoken girl, maybe not plain but a bit too timid to really shine under the spotlight. But she keeps that to herself. It's hard to be down on herself like that in the face of Shoji's earnest support, but most of all... she wants Shoji to be proud of her. And when he grins at her like that and tells her he knows she'll do it...
It kind of really feels like she might just be able to.
It's a relief to be able to step onto the train and break away from his gaze, though. She still has the chocolate clutched tightly in her bag, and it feels like when he looks so directly at her like that, he might be able to peek past her eyes and see the chocolate bouncing around in her brain. It's so much easier to keep it on lock when they aren't face to face.
So it's with a little sigh to herself that she settles into her set beside Shoji. It seems funny for her to be so comfortable with physical closeness like this when just having him meet her gaze sends her into such a tizzy but it's... well, just that. Comfortable for her. When you spend seven years alone in space, you learn to appreciate all the little nudges of contact you can get.
Which is why her mouth softens into a little smile when she feels Shoji's elbow nudge against hers. Without giving any indication that she's noticed what he's doing, Rin carefully reaches over with her opposite hand and gives him a little poke in the side. Two can play at that game. ]
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I've still got a long way to go, you know. You can say that again when they offer me a spot.
[ She doesn't really think it'll happen. She's a soft-spoken girl, maybe not plain but a bit too timid to really shine under the spotlight. But she keeps that to herself. It's hard to be down on herself like that in the face of Shoji's earnest support, but most of all... she wants Shoji to be proud of her. And when he grins at her like that and tells her he knows she'll do it...
It kind of really feels like she might just be able to.
It's a relief to be able to step onto the train and break away from his gaze, though. She still has the chocolate clutched tightly in her bag, and it feels like when he looks so directly at her like that, he might be able to peek past her eyes and see the chocolate bouncing around in her brain. It's so much easier to keep it on lock when they aren't face to face.
So it's with a little sigh to herself that she settles into her set beside Shoji. It seems funny for her to be so comfortable with physical closeness like this when just having him meet her gaze sends her into such a tizzy but it's... well, just that. Comfortable for her. When you spend seven years alone in space, you learn to appreciate all the little nudges of contact you can get.
Which is why her mouth softens into a little smile when she feels Shoji's elbow nudge against hers. Without giving any indication that she's noticed what he's doing, Rin carefully reaches over with her opposite hand and gives him a little poke in the side. Two can play at that game. ]