#I’ve really been rolling out the treats over there 🍬

[iam93percentstardust]

treat! 🍬

Treat! Thanks for playing, fren! You get a snippet from the pop star Tony au <3

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“Woah, hey,” Tony says, alarmed. He really isn’t good with crying people. After a second of worried flailing, he scoots closer and puts his arm around Rumiko’s shoulders, hoping that that’s what she wants.

Fortunately, Rumiko just leans into him, sobbing harder. He lets her cry, lets her lean on him, her tears wetting his shirt. It seems like the best thing he can do for her at the moment. Just as it did before, it takes a while for her tears to peter out, and when they finally do, she fishes the napkin out from earlier and blows her nose again.

“Thanks,” she says eventually, voice stuffy and a little nasally.

“Anytime,” he says again. He drops his arm from her shoulders and turns to face her. He’s had a while to think about what he was going to say while she was crying, and he hopes that this does the trick. At the very least, he hopes it’ll make her laugh. “Ru, look, you are really someone, just ask anyone. You’re beautiful, every little piece of you, just absolutely incredible. And you’re so talented and charismatic. I love that you take pictures at every one of your stops and put them up above you bunk, I love that you know everything about your band members, I love that you scheduled a stop on this tour just so that your drummer could have that destination wedding she wanted. And you know, my mom used to tell me this thing back when I was younger and wondering if I was ever going to find everything I was looking for.”

“What?” Rumiko asks, wiping her nose on the napkin again.

“Stay beautiful,” he says.

Just as he’d been hoping, Rumiko lets out a helpless little giggle that turns into a full-bellied laugh. Rumiko has always been beautiful, Tony thinks—she’d been his first celebrity crush, after all—but there’s something special about the way she laughs with her whole body, nearly falling off the bus in her mirth. He catches her before she rolls all the way off, grinning back at her as she flaps her hand at him.

“What does that even mean?” Rumiko asks him through her laughter, tears streaming down her cheeks for an entirely different reason now.

He shrugs, admitting, “I have no idea. I’ve always been too afraid to ask.”

“Oh, that’s great,” she laughs. “Stay beautiful. I’m going to remember that one forever.” She collapses back into Tony, giggling uncontrollably all over again.

#alle writes #alle answers #rutony #verse: this life is sweeter than fiction