The exact thing Aoba had been afraid of, happened. Declan didn’t believe him.
Of course, ‘believe’ was a much different thing from ‘understand’, but that was how Aoba couldn’t help but take it and his entire body language wilted. Shoulders hunching in, gaze wounded, knuckles blanching as his gripped his mug.
Told you. Still not blunt enough.
Aoba swallowed hard. That was the cue to give up, he wanted to say, except it was really only a part of a part of him that thought that. But it was still enough for him to hesitate and balk again, another long silence drawing out as heat crawled up his face and left him red practically to his ears.
It wasn’t Declan’s fault for misunderstanding. It was his own, for being so incomprehensible.
“You said you just wanted to be loved,” he finally blurted softly, grasping at the Titan’s once-used words instead of his own. “That’s the partner that…I want to be to you.”
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Of course, ‘believe’ was a much different thing from ‘understand’, but that was how Aoba couldn’t help but take it and his entire body language wilted. Shoulders hunching in, gaze wounded, knuckles blanching as his gripped his mug.
Told you. Still not blunt enough.
Aoba swallowed hard. That was the cue to give up, he wanted to say, except it was really only a part of a part of him that thought that. But it was still enough for him to hesitate and balk again, another long silence drawing out as heat crawled up his face and left him red practically to his ears.
It wasn’t Declan’s fault for misunderstanding. It was his own, for being so incomprehensible.
“You said you just wanted to be loved,” he finally blurted softly, grasping at the Titan’s once-used words instead of his own. “That’s the partner that…I want to be to you.”