A defeated sigh left Rayne as listened to her talk. First, she denied that she was crying and now she was speaking in the proper suffixes to him. As she examined his face with her fingers, he kept his arms around her holding her close. She seemed surprised to see him while her brother showed him pictures of her during some of their social media chats that way he could spot her in a crowd. Apparently her brother did not give her that same courtesy.

“Lily.” He said as he pulled his arms from around her and placing his large hands gently against her cheeks. “It’s Rayne. Not Rayne-san, Rayne-kun or any other suffixes. It’s just Rayne. We’ve known each other for too long to be formal. Please stop.” His tone was a strange mix of assertiveness and sadness. Something he used quite often to get his way and was something he had worked hard to figure out how to do. 

A small laugh left him as he ran his thumbs along her face, “And stop lying, you know I can see straight through it. But enough about that,” He pulled himself to his feet and slung his bag over his shoulder before offering her a large hand. “Let’s go get some food.”

Pulling her to her feet, he laced his fingers into hers and pulled her back to the front of the school and to the parking lot to his car. “Alright, settle in.” He said as he locked the door with his key fob from his pocket and opened the passenger’s side door of his [url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5a/ab/ab/5aabab19bcc5a05dab9398388e373084.jpg]red Maserati[/url] with a cheesy and typical Rayne grin.