There is a certain bookstore just one street out of the way of the path between school and Terence's house. In that bookstore a certain corner has a large pile of unceremoniously stacked books labelled '25¢ each'. Terence is digging through them for science fiction. Most of it is self-improvement books, or recipe guides, or trashy romance novels. The few sci-fi pieces he finds will probably be really crappy science fiction, but he still has to try.
"I know that the great sorcerer Clow Reed created these cards out of the union of Western and Eastern magic and the guardians to protect them, and he was the most powerful sorcerer of all time." Pause. "He did kinda like pranking people with magic, though."
"I'm assuming he's dead, since we have his cards now."
He wants to smack himself now. Good job Terence, talk about death with your cute new friend, how cheerful.
Sadde does get a bit down when Terry says that. "Yeah, that's kinda disheartening, that the most powerful sorcerer of all time couldn't find a way to become immortal..."
"I'll. Just have to do it myself!"
"...Step one is probably to learn as much about existing magic as I can."
"Bwuh-" Oh. Yep, this is a thing. He returns the kiss. Then, "I take it I can count on your help?"
Eee nibblekiss!
He pulls away to ask, "Shouldn't we be making our way to a more secluded clearing for tests?"
"In not careening all over the place and possibly getting hurt using a kludge that isn't really meant for flying like The Fly."
"True... Uh, your notes said Float could control how floaty you are, though? You could use that to stop your fall if you duck up."
"But I don't really want to spend an hour going out into the middle of nowhere for something that might not even work very well, is the thing. If flying is utterly brilliant and below-the-treetops is boring maybe."
"Sweet-talker. Okay." Toss, toss, "Windy! Float! Let's try the trick I've been talking about. Make me nearly weightless then send me to that tree over there with a medium breeze."
The cards proceed to try to do that. It's fiddly, pretty much like trying to direct a balloon by using a fan.
"Saying 'you're right.' I love being right."
"Woooh. Yeah this is not proper flying is it? Making me feel a little sick honestly. Thanks for trying guys, please set me down now."
Sadde laughs. "You," he accuses, "are ridiculously adorable. And you were surprised someone wanted to kiss you?"
"Well, yes." He thinks about it for a moment. "I think I fit the category of 'nerd' pretty well and when you watch TV and cartoons the nerds do not typically get kissed. Of course it could just be bog standard teenager insecurity, I hear that happens a lot too."
"I have no idea why TV and cartoons say that, nerds are great and kissing them is great. And you're a particularly good kind of nerd."