[But she's teasing, of course, and her eyes light up at the sight of the cake and the present, even if nothing has been unwrapped yet. Her birthdays have always been enjoyable for the most part, nice dinners out with friends or volunteering at a particularly fun event-- but having Ryoji here for her twenty-first feels like a particularly big handful of happiness and luck that she wants to keep cupped between her hands for the rest of the day, to enjoy it all the longer.]
I'm going to tell you you didn't have to give me anything more anyways, since you expected it from me.
[A wink and then she's reaching for the bag. The moment she realizes what he's given her, her bright smile softens at the corners, gentle and vulnerable but still just as happy as the first. She hardly knows what to say at first, and so she lets her fingers carefully trace the gold lines of the bowls in wonder until she sighs with content.]
You really do spoil me. Thank you so much. These are...this is an amazing present, Ryoji. Of course you can come over to use them with me. I'd like that.
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[But she's teasing, of course, and her eyes light up at the sight of the cake and the present, even if nothing has been unwrapped yet. Her birthdays have always been enjoyable for the most part, nice dinners out with friends or volunteering at a particularly fun event-- but having Ryoji here for her twenty-first feels like a particularly big handful of happiness and luck that she wants to keep cupped between her hands for the rest of the day, to enjoy it all the longer.]
I'm going to tell you you didn't have to give me anything more anyways, since you expected it from me.
[A wink and then she's reaching for the bag. The moment she realizes what he's given her, her bright smile softens at the corners, gentle and vulnerable but still just as happy as the first. She hardly knows what to say at first, and so she lets her fingers carefully trace the gold lines of the bowls in wonder until she sighs with content.]
You really do spoil me. Thank you so much. These are...this is an amazing present, Ryoji. Of course you can come over to use them with me. I'd like that.