Looks more barley tea than tea tea though.

There’s a pretty fine balance in the way Sumika addresses Ushio imho. Her use of ‘Kazama’ has an element of formality (using the surname) but also familiarity (lack of honorific). WRT crying and figuring it out, it seemed to me that Ushio was desperately struggling to find an explanation, *any* explanation other than her being shattered by the thought of Sumika being FRIENDLY with another girl. As to what girls really think, only Mel Gibson really knows.

Also, tea stains never really do get out.

I agree with you though that Ushio secretly likes Sumika. It’s interesting though how Sumiks calls her Kazame instead of Ushio though, I wonder if there’s more to that, or if Kazame just rolls off the tongue more. One aspect I appreciated was how Ushio spent the better part of the day figuring out why she was crying, and was pretty happy when she figured out *something* (whether or not it was correct is irrelevant). I appreciated this because it seems like that is how some girls really do think: cry for seemingly no reason, spend the rest of the day wondering why.