As he stood and turned away to find the medicine, she watched him a moment. It was both a look of admiration and… unsurity? Was he feeling a awkward about this as well? That thought actually made her feel a little better and she smiled softly at his back before standing and reaching for the robe.
She didn’t know why but she always felt like Hakuba was too cool or sophisticated to be bothered by such things. She always thought he was something she, as a detective, ought to inspire to be more like in demeanor. It definitely seemed more preferable then her own off putting sort of manor. But this shared awkwardness seemed to sort of put them on the same level some how.
As he chanced a glance at her he’d find she wasn’t paying attention and was just in the process of sliding the robe on. A chance to look while she was lost in thought.
Of course his speaking up seemed to interrupt that thinking, her head turning to look at him as the robe closed up and her hands moved for the belt. She’d been expecting some sort of conversation about the night previous but his worry for her wasn’t how she imagined the start of it. Then again she hadn’t really been sure how it would start.
“No, Hakuba-kun. In fact, from what I remember, you did everything in your power to make sure you didn’t hurt me.” There was a shy but fond smile on her face at that. “It was… Well, I don’t think I ever thought about how my first time would be, but I’m certain if I had it would have been something like that.”
Hakuba gulped at that, then let out a quiet, relieved sigh as his smile returned, lop-sided and pleased under rosy cheeks. “I’m… quite glad to hear that, actually,” he said, and laughed at himself as he pulled away from the closet to approach her.
“Though, this sort of opens up a whole lot of, ah, questions as to what to do now… at least we got that out of the way.” The comment came with another embarrassed flush, holding his hand out to offer the pills to her. “Not that, ah, I was… I mean, it’s not something to simply ‘get out of the way,’ by any means, but I mean, it’s… well, the… ice… broken… so you see, the… ah…”
So much for that calm, cool, collected facade. Oops.