“Oh, come on,” she scoffs. “We used to watch anime all the time, remember? They decided to remake the original one for the twentieth anniversary, with the animation closer to the original manga … ” Summer bubbles on about it, telling Stiles all kinds of details he probably doesn’t actually care about and leading him into the house. Her bedroom is at the far end of the hall, painted a cheerful pale yellow, and she dumps her backpack on the floor to load the episode on her computer.
“We used to, but we never watched that one,” Stiles says in reply, watching her with those eyes of his. “But seriously?” he continues on in reply, smiling at her with that look on his face. “That’s totally badass!” he expresses, mainly because his friend is excited about something. There’s no reason he can’t at least pretend to be excited, right? Of course not. They wander along into her house together, dumping their backpacks on the floor together and smiling just slightly at the same time.
She pulls all the pillows off her bed to make a divan for them, flashing him a smile. “Of course we didn’t watch it then! It’s … kinda girly. Well, I mean, it’s about girls, but it’s — ” She stumbles to a halt, rolling her eyes and laughing at herself. Starting the episode, she pokes him in the side. “You know I hate it when you pretend.”
