Rather than wait behind near the door, he trails after Sadie at a slower pace to stand about half the distance to the vehicle. He cannot quite make out what the exchange is about, aside from Sadie passing the flowers off for transport. While waiting, he fidgets a little with his vest. The nervous tugs don’t delay him from catching that first or second wave from Raquel, however, and he cheerfully returns the waves, interpreting them as a ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ respectively.

As the vehicle pulls away from Sadie, he smiles in anticipation of her turning to come back, but the expression fades when she lingers. Tilting his head off to the side slightly with confusion, he quickly reads her when she turns around, and frowns faintly. Maybe skipping flowers would have been better…

Stepping back and turning in the same motion, he falls in step beside her to join the line waiting to get inside the Hive. It’s easy to sneak a glance at him as he appears to be preoccupied with his feet. Then, with a mild shrug he offers a soft, “Sorry.” Whether the flowers were related to the cause of her embarrassment or not, he had given her a reason to catch her mother one more time.