Calm had just sat down, and laid his head back, when he felt the familiar buzz of his phone. He groaned, closed his eyes, and groped blindly for his pocket. "I told them what to do." He mumbled and slipped his hand into his pocket. After a few second of groping around in the pocket -and disregarding the other things he had in there- he produced the sleek black devise. "They don't need me there. Why do they keep calli-" He opened his eyes, and stopped.
Nina, seated beside him, shrugged, but said nothing. She didn't take her eyes off of her own phone held in front of her, but did pucker her lips and wink in its general direction.
The two fell into silence as Calm looked at his phone, and then shook his head.
"I don't think he's adjusting." Calm finally stated, not taking his eyes off of his phone. Beside him, Nina's phone flashed. She then quickly pulled the phone closer to her face for inspection. She smiled at the image she'd taken, looked at it in thought for a few seconds, then looked over at Calm.
"What?"
"Inaho." Calm stated. He looked over at her, and she looked back at him innocently. He tried not to scowl. "I think Inaho's struggling."
Nina nodded her head. "Of course he is." She stated plainly. He continued to frown in her general direction and she shifted her eyes to something else within the airport. A food stand, he noted. "That's why Inko's there. She likes Inaho best, so she'd know."
He looked at her for a few more seconds, before he shifted his gaze away too. It was a bustling day at the air port. He checked the time on his phone, and tried to ignore the message. Two hours till their connecting flight. "There are some things a woman can't help with. Especially one that only gets to visit."
Nina looked back at him for that, and smiled sweetly. "Like porn?"
Calm looked over at her incredulously. Cute girls were the scariest, he thought, as he tried to fight the blush on his face. "Porn isn't the only thing! Guys have other things to worry about too!"
She giggled at him. She brought her hand up to cover her mouth as she did it, but she definitely giggled at him. It was infuriating. He shoved his phone back into his pocket, and folded his arms in front of him. Calm was determined not to look at her again, reminding himself just why he didn't interact with Nina too much.
Nina stopped laughing at some point, and the two fell into silence again. But he didn't like silence, so instead of watching the chattering people around him, he looked at his phone again. The last message he'd received still blinked in front of him.
"What other things?" The question was undeniably innocent, but he had a hard time accepting that. Nina just looked cute, she always made jokes. He looked up at her, his eyes crinkled at the corner, and his eyebrows uneven.
"What?"
Her smile was less cheeky. He couldn't tell if that was a good sign or a bad one. "What other things is Inaho worried about?"
Calm looked at her, then back at his phone. He knew he shouldn't. It wasn't any of her business. He shouldn't have said anything, but it was Nina, what harm could it do? Besides, maybe Inaho really should be asking a girl about this sort of thing. Even if it was nice that Inaho had sent him a message out of nowhere, he didn't have any idea what to tell him. He thought about it for a few seconds, before he sighed, and read the message.
"'In a hypothetical situation where someone isn't able to make friends, has limitless time, and has reasonable fund to do what he pleases, how should someone spend his time?'" He looked up from his phone with his mouth held in a firm line. "That's what he sent me. He's never been good at making friends but if it's that bad, of course I'm going to worry. And if I mention a girlfriend, he'll probably just think about the Princess-"
"Empress" Nina interrupted him.
"Empress." He thought about giving Nina a dirty look for interrupting him, but he decided to frown down at his phone instead. "Yuki said he really liked her. That she'd never seen him so happy before. I didn't see it, but with messages like that, maybe she's right." He leaned forward in his seat, placing his elbows on his knees, and the phone dangling in one of his hands. "Maybe he really has got it bad for her."
Nina shrugged. "Inko says he does, but she gets a faraway look when she says it. Since she like Inaho best, that sort of thing is painful."
Calm gave her a sideways look, before looking back down at the floor for a few seconds. He let his neck go limp, and his head hang for a little while, then pushed himself back up into a proper sitting position. He stretched out his arms before sitting normally. "It's not like I'm any good at advice."
"Cause you're a virgin!" Nina chimed in cheerfully. He about gagged, but she didn't give him the chance to respond. "But, I think you're being very unCalm, and thinking too much." She pointed at her own head, put a cute expression on her face, and tilted her head for extra effect. "This is Inaho, think about what he is asking, not what he isn't. He's a straightforward guy."
Ignoring the heat in his cheeks, Calm looked at his phone. "Is that any easier? What would someone without friends, without work, and with money do? I mean, I think we all imagine things like that, but no one lives that way."
"I'd get a pet." Nina answered, tapping her chin in thought. Then, a glimmer came to her eyes, and in one fell swoop, she grabbed Calm's phone from him. "I've got the right answer!" She chimed, and started typing away.
He wasn't about to fight a girl to get his phone back, even if there were a few things on there he didn't want her to see, so he leaned over, and peered at what she was doing. Thankfully, she was just harmlessly typing out a response.
"Is that something girls like?" He asked almost inquisitively. He thought that was more of a boy thing, or young boys, or boys that didn't really grow up, but he could be wrong.
For once, Nina looked up at him, and was noticeably disgruntled. She stuck out her tongue. "It's totally a thing that BOTH girls and boys enjoy! And it's complicated! Inaho would love it, and so will the hypothetical person he's talking about."
Calm rolled his eyes. "You just mean Inaho then."
In a flash, her smile was back, and this time, it was playful. "Are you sure?"
