[color=ffe150][b][u]Toshi[/u][/b][/color]

[quote=@Xaltwind][color=lemonchiffon]"O'eavens... Aren' you a charmer~"[/color] She said, with a very quiet, stifled snort of quick laughter. She then took a small step forward, stared right into Toshi's eyes with her own, half-closed, cat-like peepers. [color=lemonchiffon]"'At's dangerous, y'know'? [i]A girl could ge'used to 'at sorta trea'ment~[/i]"[/color] She said this last part in a lowered, hush and particularly more sultry voice, before giving Toshi's right ear a quick, sudden blown jet of air. Then she returned to taking a step back and smiling at him, wryly and mischievously like the little purrloin she was.[/quote]
Everything was going according to script. Some playful flirting - he's pretty sure she even made an innuendo, but it was the kind of double entendre that lent her plausible deniability that Toshi wasn't going to arrogantly insist on, and pretending he didn't get it was the polite thing to do. Or, at least, he thought it was. Apparently he was acting too oblivious, spurring Tilly to make it [i]abundantly[/i] clear that she wasn't just flirting with Toshi. She was [i][b]flirting[/b][/i] flirting. His face heated up at the sudden prolonged proximity, but he kept his smile intact until she blew into his ear. It was so viscerally unexpected and intimately tactile that it ended up hitting him like a bucket of cold water and caused his smile to collapse like a house of cards. His train of thought looped back around on itself and crashed like his mind was playing a game of Ekans, and he let out an undignified splutter even as she was stepping back.

[quote][color=lemonchiffon]"Nice'n all t'mee'cha, Tooshi.  Maybe we'll run in'o each other on tha' walk later, ye?"[/color] She said, giving him a little dainty wave[/quote]
As Tilly walked away and his mind caught up to what just happened, Something clicked into place in Toshi's mind and Tilly's previous mannerisms recontextualized themselves as definitely intentional rather than just a natural limitation of her chosen wardrobe. She was [i]probably[/i] into him from the start.

He mentally screamed. [color=ffe150][i]How was I supposed to know she was [b]flirting[/b] flirting with me? Arceus, I feel like such an idiot. It's not like normal flirting means anything! I do it all the time! It's never that... whatever that was! And I just-[/i][/color]

At this point his mental monologue devolves into an anguished groan for a bit as he physically covers whatever expression he's making with both of his hands before mentally continuing.

[color=ffe150][i]A plausibly deniable double entendre just means you're winning at flirting! It doesn't mean you literally want to fuck someone! Probably![/i][/color]

The mental groans continue as the thought that Tilly was genuinely interested in trying out a relationship with his dumb ass occurs to him, as well as the thought that she probably isn't anymore. Ugh. He wasn't even looking for a relationship per se, but he'd be an idiot to not want to see where it went with a girl as charismatic, confident, and overall chill as Tilly. The fact that she happened to be hot as hell was, like, also pretty cool.

Arceus, she didn't even remember his name. Or, if she was initially into him, maybe she did, and intentionally said it wrong to hint that she never wanted him to talk to her ever again. Yeah, Arceus, that's probably it.

He lets out a quiet exhale that he imagines being much louder in his head and fixes his face into perfect neutrality, dragging his hands down his face as if washing it clean. He then grabs another of the lollipops he had taken from the lounge, unwraps it, and pops it into his mouth so as to keep himself from sticking his foot in there. He smirks, because people are watching, and he's [i]definitely[/i] just too cool of a dude to let this bother him, then walks off to lean against the wall as he had been before those who arrived by boat entered the lab.