#in his mind he is throwing the proudest thumbs up at Hilda like “it's going great!!!”

[viitlumi]

@kerothi answered here:

Jean's response turned the frown on his lips into a rather mischievous grin, widening as Vito bent towards him, his eyes glinting with mirth and jocularity.

“Hey, Jean, don't take this the wrong way, please,” Vito began, nodding at the seat.

"Hilda has been spending the whole day in this seat, working on important things. Look…” the brunet replied, pointing a finger at a piece of paper with lettering in a language that ascribed to the three siblings sprawled on the hardwood table's surface.

“She didn't mean to be discourteous when she would have asked you to move. Didn't you, Hilda? You like Jean so much, you don't intend him to be aghast at you! You're too nice for this world!” he called over to his sister, who was waiting in the doorway, observing the gathering crowd.

Hilda's ordinarily placid and indifferent gaze dilated in horror and her hand darted up to cover her face as she was visibly bewildered by Vito's blunt proclamation. Vito laughed uproariously instead and once again focused his attention on Jean.

“She's got all her paraphernalia there,” Vito continued with a casual wave.

"I'm sure you didn't deliberately overlook it. We don't want to get in her way, do we?"

Hilda, still partially concealed behind her hand, gave Jean an apologetic stare, manifestly dismayed at the limelight and the very flagrant effort by Vito to 'explicate' her request she was too apprehensive for.

Vito flashed Jean a discreet smile, hoping that his declaration would make it easier for Jean to move without him taking an issue with it.