"Ah!" Had she suggested that? Sayu held her hands out in front of her, fingers spread wide wearing an apologetic smile. "It's not like that! A friend of my brother's is my friend too."

She gave a confident nod after her declaration. Light never brought his friends home, and her own curiosity was rapidly overruling her shyness around boys. Even if this one in particular seemed rather like a stick. What was with Light's choices in friends anyway? She would remember to pester him about this later. But she realized she had been staring. Her mother would probably have chastised her for it.

She looked away hastily, a little too obviously to cover her tracks entirely, but thinking about her mother was not without its benefits. Sayu now had a brilliant conversation changer!

"Ne, do you want to eat a snack?"