Voicing a concern

Shir by this point had gotten to a point where he sort of had a handle on how to read his girlfriend. He could interpret her little ticks and cues about as well as anyone he was close to. He kind of figured whatever was getting to her, it had to do with her family. Maybe that would subside, but then her cousin went missing. Of course she was pretty freaked out about that. Who wouldn't be concerned about the only blood relative they had left going missing?

Still, maybe it was too much? Lately things seemed to be intensifying steadily. The mood swings were pretty noticeable. Then there was her crying over that sword guy at the center. Shir was in the process of trying to bring it up. He figured now would be as good a time as any, he said he was coming over to her place to hang out. Serious talks always made him nervous, especially when he was the one opting to voice concerns.

Shir stood at her door and knocked in his usual way. "Hey it's me," he called.

@Kait

Oh no she was in a good mood...

A really good mood, she was ready like this was just another normal date night. Maybe he could salvage it? Of course, none of this changed the fact that he was happy to see her. It just made it that much harder to bring up the what he wanted to bring up. Shir gave her a hug and a kiss after she let him in.

"So, how're you doing?" he asked, trying to sound normal. Was he being too awkward? If he was then she was probably picking up the vibes.

"I'm doing fine. We bought that giant lego Millennium Falcon, So I guess that's the next big thing I'll be helping with at home. Um... I'm just kinda worried about you. I dunno, you've been having those headaches and there was that thing in the community center the other day. Like... I dunno you'd tell me if something was off right?" he looked at her with genuine concern. Shir didn't think whatever it was, was life threatening. He just figured it was a demon thing... maybe.

"I didn't mean to dump like that but... I just... yeah..."

"I dunno...I just wasn't sure if you'd even noticed or what..." Shir wasn't a medical professional of any kind so he had no idea what he could even suggest. Hormones made sense, maybe this was some kind of envy demon thing or something.

"Think it might be stress? You've been dealing with a lot lately too you know," he offered. "Er or maybe we could talk to the school nurse and see what they have to say about it."

Shir blinked slowly as he went about processing this new information. On one hand, sure he was thinking maybe somehow they weren't as careful as he'd thought. On the other hand he was pretty damn sure they were as careful as he thought. He wasn't really mad, that wasn't the word for this. Surprised didn't quite cover it either.

"Well that's good, that's off the table. I was... kinda avoiding that idea. Still wish you'd told me," Shir admitted awkwardly. "I'm not mad or anything this is just a lot to process, y'know?"