[ Taichi makes a little confused sound after Hikaru speaks. He's.. not.. He didn't hear him right, did he? The amount of hope the actor puts forward differs with his expectations for reality. If Hikaru was playing a prank on him right now, he doesn't know if his heart could take it. Goodbye was hard enough without this feeling in his stomach turning from butterflies to a boulder too heavy to push up a mountain. Not only was it his first real confession (even if it wasn't a girl, which he didn't really expect) but it was someone he genuinely cared about. It was someone he relied on and wanted to be around. Hikaru was cute, and funny, and amazing, and talented, and rich, and so far out of his league. He wasn't someone who should ever have feelings toward someone like him, who'd been here for months and hadn't even managed to get more than a background part with no roles. It feels like a lie. It feels like it has to be because Taichi would have to be the luckiest person in the world for this not to be a prank, and if he were then they wouldn't be on their way to separate planets.
But Hikaru isn't looking away. Despite Taichi's shock and silence, he's looking right at him. There's no laughing. If there's one person here he trusts above everyone else, it's Hikaru.
And anyway, weren't they both straight?! Taichi's brain is focusing in on this little bit because otherwise it's going to flashback to the times he felt excited, felt warm, felt happy, felt wanted and it's making his heart ache because he's never going to experience that again with Hikaru. He's never going to see him again, and all he wants to do is say that he likes him back, and if Hikaru's telling the truth, then his heart is going to break too. So Taichi focuses on the fact that he likes girls. The fact that Hikaru literally caters to women back home as his school club, willingly. And Taichi likes... ]
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[ Taichi makes a little confused sound after Hikaru speaks. He's.. not.. He didn't hear him right, did he? The amount of hope the actor puts forward differs with his expectations for reality. If Hikaru was playing a prank on him right now, he doesn't know if his heart could take it. Goodbye was hard enough without this feeling in his stomach turning from butterflies to a boulder too heavy to push up a mountain. Not only was it his first real confession (even if it wasn't a girl, which he didn't really expect) but it was someone he genuinely cared about. It was someone he relied on and wanted to be around. Hikaru was cute, and funny, and amazing, and talented, and rich, and so far out of his league. He wasn't someone who should ever have feelings toward someone like him, who'd been here for months and hadn't even managed to get more than a background part with no roles. It feels like a lie. It feels like it has to be because Taichi would have to be the luckiest person in the world for this not to be a prank, and if he were then they wouldn't be on their way to separate planets.
But Hikaru isn't looking away. Despite Taichi's shock and silence, he's looking right at him. There's no laughing. If there's one person here he trusts above everyone else, it's Hikaru.
And anyway, weren't they both straight?! Taichi's brain is focusing in on this little bit because otherwise it's going to flashback to the times he felt excited, felt warm, felt happy, felt wanted and it's making his heart ache because he's never going to experience that again with Hikaru. He's never going to see him again, and all he wants to do is say that he likes him back, and if Hikaru's telling the truth, then his heart is going to break too. So Taichi focuses on the fact that he likes girls. The fact that Hikaru literally caters to women back home as his school club, willingly. And Taichi likes... ]