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[laughitoff]

If he wants to punish me for stealing he can do it later!

[rootsforyou]

But what do you need to keep it for?

[laughitoff]

I don't know! What did he have to go and make me milkshakes for!

[rootsforyou]

[no, no, let's logic this out]

Why do you think people make milkshakes for each other?

[laughitoff]

[WAILS]

Why didn't he just say?!

[rootsforyou]

Does he ever say? You asked if you should tell him "I don't think you like me because you don't show that you like me."

He does show. In his own way. But he doesn't tell you. Isn't that it?

[laughitoff]

[flops facedown on Lan Wangji's bed and makes distressed fox noises]

[rootsforyou]

[sits on the edge of the bed]

Was my evidence irrefutable?

[laughitoff]

Yes but I don't have to like it!

[rootsforyou]

...You don't like it?

[laughitoff]

[wails again, very stupid and wordless]

[rootsforyou]

[waits patiently for him to get it out of his system]

[laughitoff]

[just goes almost fully limp on Lan Wangji's nice clean sheets after that one. like five more tails have appeared on him but they look like smoke, unreal and half-formed, thrashing in distress along with the real one]

...what am I going to do...

[rootsforyou]

[.....pets the tip of the real tail]

What do you want to do?

[laughitoff]

[it whisks out of her hand but it also keeps whisking back into it, so that's all right]

...apologize...?!

[rootsforyou]

[touches it softly every time it comes back in reach, just quietly there]

Mm. Shall I go and get him for you? Or do you need time to think on what to say?

[laughitoff]

I need time.

[rootsforyou]

[nods]

Take your time. I admit that I didn't think it would be this much of a shock to you. He made the milkshake right in front of you without looking at a recipe.

[laughitoff]

You make things without looking at recipes all the time...

[rootsforyou]

Because I know the recipe by heart. It's easy after you've made something so many times.

[laughitoff]

[guilty wiggle]

...well, I didn't know.

[rootsforyou]

It can't be helped if you weren't aware of that before. Now that you are aware, though, you can keep it in mind.

[laughitoff]

Shijie. Shijie he was making them even after I yelled at him.

[rootsforyou]

[nods!]

Yes. I'm not surprised to hear that.

[laughitoff]

[makes an 'aaaaaaaaaaa' noise into the bedspread]