Come to think of it, should he risk ruining this positivity mood? There wasn't going to be any better time to do this.... He pulled the jewelry box out of his pocket. He didn't even know if she'd like it—she probably already owned a bracelet set with blue rhinestones (girls owned that kind of thing, right?) and it was probably boring to her tastes even if the rhinestones were placed on a scorpion design. But he'd thought of her when he saw it; he'd picked it up on a whim more than a week ago and had been waiting for a good time. They weren't... They'd never quite acknowledged what they had, so gifts of jewelry had never seemed appropriate.
It was still inappropriate. They'd never dated, so what they'd done right now couldn't be called 'breaking up.' Even so. "Tomoko-chan...." He held up the box, waved it in her general direction without looking at her. This... This was not a good idea. "I wanted you to have this."
He shouldn't hold his breath. But 'should' and 'able to' were different things.
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Come to think of it, should he risk ruining this positivity mood? There wasn't going to be any better time to do this.... He pulled the jewelry box out of his pocket. He didn't even know if she'd like it—she probably already owned a bracelet set with blue rhinestones (girls owned that kind of thing, right?) and it was probably boring to her tastes even if the rhinestones were placed on a scorpion design. But he'd thought of her when he saw it; he'd picked it up on a whim more than a week ago and had been waiting for a good time. They weren't... They'd never quite acknowledged what they had, so gifts of jewelry had never seemed appropriate.
It was still inappropriate. They'd never dated, so what they'd done right now couldn't be called 'breaking up.' Even so. "Tomoko-chan...." He held up the box, waved it in her general direction without looking at her. This... This was not a good idea. "I wanted you to have this."
He shouldn't hold his breath. But 'should' and 'able to' were different things.