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“Girl, that is embarrassing! Stop crying over him! He's not worth it!”
Hanta laughs as he watches his wife yell at the poor woman on their TV screen.
Hitomi turns to him, waving her hand up and down. “Hanta, be real. Would you have married me if I threw a tantrum for a ring like that?! Where is her self-respect?”
He bites his lip to keep his automatic response down, reaching for his drink.
She claps as she goes on. “She is literally bawling over this man who clearly does. not. Want. Her.” Hitomi looks incredulous. “Am I wrong? Hanta, you may have spoiled my standards for men. Hold on, let me call Mina.”
Hanta chuckles into his cup as she whips out her phone.
Mina picked on the second ring.
“Mina, you're on speaker,” Hitomi prefaces before going in. “Kiri is the nicest man on earth, is he not?”
“Undeniably,” Mina answers in a nodding tone.
“Did he bring up marriage first or you?”
“I did.”
Hitomi nods. “Ok. Now. If you had cried and screamed for a ring, would he have given it to you.”
Mina gasps sharply. “You're watching this stupidness, too?! This woman is shameful!”
Hanta hides his laughter as the women go back and forth, looking down as his cell phone vibrates under his thigh. A swipe unlocks the screen to reveal a text from “Red Riot Hood”:
“The guy really is unmanly, though… should’ve just turned her down from the beginning.”
Hanta replies with a laughing emoji:
“For sure, but that doesn't make for good TV, apparently. Manly men don't keep our wives watching and yelling at the screen every weekend.”
Red: “This is true.” With a popcorn emoji.
Hanta looks over at Hitomi, still animatedly going on with Mina - now about a different couple on the screen. This time an older man is receiving her ire. "Sir. Sir. You deserve better than this. She is using you! Listen to your sister and escape with what's left of your dignity!"
He texts: “Double binge-watching date next week?”
Red: “Totally! The girls would love it. Your place or ours?”
“Ours. ‘Tomi’s working late so I can set up everything and surprise her.”
Red: “Solid. We'll bring food.”
Hanta ends that conversation with a thumbs up emoji, looking over at his wife.
Hitomi is now settled down against the corner of the couch with her legs folded under her, phone settled on the arm of the chair as she compliments a couples’ hairstyles, nodding at Mina's commentary.
He puts his phone away before flopping on his side, laying his head in her lap.
Hitomi barely glances down before she has a hand on his head, carding through the black strands at a leisurely pace.
He closes his eyes, drifting off to her softening conversation. This was his last episode for the night.