[Azul shows up at Leona's place here a little before noon. It's an unannounced arrival, since his goal is to surprise Leona with a gift for his birthday... then again, it would probably have been a surprise even if Azul had called ahead, as Leona would likely immediately question when and how Azul found out about Leona's birthday, let alone getting him anything. Hell, Azul isn't even obligated to get him anything, considering that Leona did not really get Azul anything for his own birthday months ago and Azul was the one who had ended up treating them both with a meal.
Still, he had ended up getting something for Leona anyway... but now he feels a little awkward about actually handing it over, at least in person that is. Because it suddenly occurs to him while standing on Leona's doorstep, hand raised and about to knock before halting, that there's a chance of Khalid being inside too. Or that Leona isn't even home at all and is spending the night at Khalid's place. And while he's spent the last two weeks making peace with the fact that the other man is Leona's boyfriend now, the idea of interrupting whatever private time Leona might be spending with him on his birthday today makes Azul feel... weird.
... Granted, given the time, it's also entirely possible that Leona is just sleeping in today and Azul is overthinking this way too much. You know, that's also a possibility as always.
Still, after a moment of his hand hovering in the air in front of the door for far too long, he ends up dropping it back down without knocking and makes to set down the box on Leona's doorstep instead, in a spot that he hopes isn't going to get ignored or stepped on. Azul's already gotten him plenty of meals before, so this time he went with an actual item that he thought Leona might enjoy having: his own personal chess set to play with, with lion decals around the edges. Even the king and queen pieces have been shaped to look like lions to go along with the aesthetic, something he commissioned to have made here. A simple card that just says, "Happy Birthday Leona Kingscholar", after deciding that Azul didn't need to be thinking so hard about whether he should add anything else aside from that and his signature at the bottom.]
forward dated to Leona's birthday at the end of July
Still, he had ended up getting something for Leona anyway... but now he feels a little awkward about actually handing it over, at least in person that is. Because it suddenly occurs to him while standing on Leona's doorstep, hand raised and about to knock before halting, that there's a chance of Khalid being inside too. Or that Leona isn't even home at all and is spending the night at Khalid's place. And while he's spent the last two weeks making peace with the fact that the other man is Leona's boyfriend now, the idea of interrupting whatever private time Leona might be spending with him on his birthday today makes Azul feel... weird.
... Granted, given the time, it's also entirely possible that Leona is just sleeping in today and Azul is overthinking this way too much. You know, that's also a possibility as always.
Still, after a moment of his hand hovering in the air in front of the door for far too long, he ends up dropping it back down without knocking and makes to set down the box on Leona's doorstep instead, in a spot that he hopes isn't going to get ignored or stepped on. Azul's already gotten him plenty of meals before, so this time he went with an actual item that he thought Leona might enjoy having: his own personal chess set to play with, with lion decals around the edges. Even the king and queen pieces have been shaped to look like lions to go along with the aesthetic, something he commissioned to have made here. A simple card that just says, "Happy Birthday Leona Kingscholar", after deciding that Azul didn't need to be thinking so hard about whether he should add anything else aside from that and his signature at the bottom.]