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"I'm sorry," Joe said regretfully. "This wasn't how it was supposed to happen."Francoise gave the officially ruined ballet slippers a critical glance as she went over what Joe had told her: her birthday was coming up, and he wanted to do something special, so he'd had professional quality slippers imported all the way from France... which had gotten mangled beyond repair on the way to Japan.
Joe sighed heavily as he pushed his hair out of his eyes (and it promptly fell back). "I really am sorry, and I'll make it up to you, I promise, I just--"
She looked at what was left of the slippers, and then Joe's mournful face... and she wanted to laugh. Did he really think she cared more about the slippers than everything he went through to even try to get them for her in the first place?
Francoise wanted to laugh. But considering how bad Joe was feeling, she thought that it would be in bad taste.
So she decided to kiss him instead.