Kurumi's eyes never left his face as she carefully watched every small change that occurred there. She also noticed that he was not looking at her, which just made her breathing even more constricted and her stomach tie in knots. It wasn't fair that he was looking away like that. Eye contact and communication was something that they relied on in a lot of situations. They were just able to read each other and express thoughts and feelings when words could not.

And he wasn't letting her see those thoughts and feelings right now.

Frowning even more, she was just about to let go of his hand and take a small step back when she saw something unexpected. Instead of taking a step back, she took a tiny step forward almost out of disbelief when she saw a smile grace his lips. His eyes seemed a bit calmer now, sort of, but she felt like her heart was about to go leaping out of her chest as she struggled to ease her breathing.

She responded to the gentle tug on her hand by dropping the box containing the Romanian cake on the ground and closing the gap between the two of them. Her arms wrapped around his waist and she leaned her head against his chest for a moment. Was it alright that she do this? She was a little, no, a lot confused on what was going on right now. But he DID say that he was fine...

"So....we're alright then?" she asked as she slowly peeked her head up to look at him. Hearing his heartbeat had somewhat calmed her down some more, but there was still panic in her slightly watery eyes.