Day 3 - watching a movie

Mary knew now why he'd been so reluctant to watch the movie. Seto stared at the screen, large wet tears rolling down his cheeks. She'd thought it was just a cute animal movie! How was she supposed to know the dog died at the end?

"H-hey, are you okay?" she asked, reaching over and tugging on his sleeve. He hiccuped a sob, not looking away from the last few minutes of the movie. Mary bit her lip. This was all her fault.

She took a deep breath and then hopped off the couch, padding over to the tv and turning it off. Then she turned around, leaning against the screen as she figured out what to do next. She'd never seen Seto so upset.

He caught her watching him and struggled to smile, but as she watched a tear dripped off his chin and onto his shirt. She had to do something.

Mary marched over to the couch and shouldered his arms aside, clambering onto his lap with determination.

"M-mary?" he blinked, taken by surprise, but didn't try to push her away as she perched on his knees and reached up to wipe a tear off his cheek.

"You can't be sad," she instructed, and he tried to banish the tears immediately, his lower lip pushing up and his eyes crinkling at the corners. She had to admit it was a good try.

"We'll watch something happy now, okay?" she added, holding his face between her hands until he made eye contact with her, and this time he did smile, leaning his cheek into one of her hands.

"Okay," he answered, and she beamed back at him, relieved it had worked.