He shudders. "That sounds like it would be pretty unpleasant."

"Oh, certainly." Doesn't seem to put him off his food to imagine though.

Jaeha is perhaps blessed by his inability to properly imagine 4D space and his unwillingness to force it to render something in 3D anyway. And now that his coffee's done he can go back to the table to eat the pancakes Haru made him and make sappy faces at him because HARU who is HIS BOYFRIEND made him PANCAKES and if anything's ever deserved sappy faces this has.

"Is that a yes on maple syrup?"

"Yes. It's nice." But the NICEST THING is that HIS HARU made them FOR HIM.

"You're cute."

"It's probably a side effect of you telling me you like me. Those might last a while, I fear."

"A while, huh?"

"Mmhmm. I don't see them getting better in the foreseeable future."

"Well, I hope you are prepared to live with this chronic condition. It sounds like such a burden."

"I haven't found it so! Maybe in ten years I'll change my mind." Jaeha's known Haru for less than two months. He is being ridiculous. But it's fine to be ridiculous because Haru is his BOYFRIEND.

Maple kiss.

He sure hopes Cricket is not going to hold this amount of being sappy against him because he will not actually budge on it.

Cricket makes a barely audible dismissive sniff, that's all.

Good enough.

"Since we're doing a picnic, would you rather have a late lunch or something closer to the early evening?" It's still only just getting into spring so the evenings are a bit chilly but nothing being warmly dressed won't fix.

"Hmmm, what time is sunset today..." Phone, answer him this question. "Sunset dinner?"

"Sounds good to me, we can do that."

"Hmm, what to bring. I think sandwiches are standard, and maybe some kind of, like, pasta salad kind of thing..."

"I know we had tteokbokki just the other day but that's traditional, too. Maybe I could just make a different kind."

"In a picnic? Is it good cold?"

"Some kinds are!"

"Sounds good. We might need to go grocery shopping."

They can go grocery shopping TOGETHER because they are BOYFRIENDS.

"Yeah, let's do that."

Haru normally has groceries delivered every day but they are mostly small amounts of raw fish because Cricket doesn't want it day-old and eats a fairly narrow range. They can go in person for human food. Sandwich bread and little cake things and pasta salad fixings.

And while they're doing their perfectly mundane things together, "So I wanted to pick your brains about something."