double jeopardy

“Nice to meet you!” Bachira says energetically. “Reo’s girlfriend, right?”Kazumi nods once. Reo was worried that she would be unnerved by Bachira’s enthusiasm, but she seems relatively unfazed. Tentatively, Reo wonders if tonight might not be as bad as he’d originally thought—“Wow, you seem super different from Nagi,” Bachira continues, before his eyes widen and he slaps a hand over his mouth. “Oh, uh… sorry. I didn’t mean to…”“It’s fine,” Reo dismisses before the situation can blow anymore out of proportion. In any case, it wasn’t like Reo could discount what Bachira was saying. Kazumi’s short stature and long, dark hair were sharp contrasts to Nagi’s—Reo cuts off his line of thought. He was here to prove that he was over Nagi, not that he was still wallowing in a cesspool of his own misery.---or, Reo is handling his breakup well. really, he is.