Sparkle was so not paying attention to the shrug. The highlight of his week - sad or not - was doing that humming and kissing thing, and that was exactly the sort of thing that drove Sparkle nuts in all the right ways. All of them. Every last one.

Go on, Tony. Tell him that this was sad. But you'd have to reclaim your mouth for that, and Sparkle was way more interested in what your tongue could do when you weren't using it to speak, right now.