Ren had been gathering willpower for hours to deliver the gifts. Initially he had considered the cowardly option of simply sending them with a note, but he had realized in time that this wouldn't fulfill the real purpose. As Jessy had explained, it was about the personal gesture as much as the gift itself. An apology had to be face to face, or it wasn't really an apology.
The problem was that when he finally worked up the courage to look for Luna and Liora, they weren't in their room.
This forced him to do something he had hoped to avoid: wandering all over the school uncomfortably asking about their whereabouts. Each conversation was a small torture.
"Excuse me, have you seen Luna or Liora?"
"Are you looking for them for any special matter? I can tell them if I see them," invariably asked whoever responded, with that smile that now seemed more obvious than ever, suggesting that everyone had decided there were obvious romantic interests between him and the girls.
