[ makes a sound somewhere between a huff and blowing a raspberry ]

Sounds stupid and made up. Sounds like they just dropped your body down the stairs bringing you over here and are just covering for it now.

[ hmph. the fact that jiaoqiu is leaning into it might normally make him immediately stop, because god forbid he do anything that someone else likes, but right now he's satisfied to just keep petting. and add some scritching into the mix. ]

But I didn't. And it's not like you're doing anything about it.