Pause. "… Should I do the thing?"

"...maybe try not doing it at first."

Nod. So he bites down again.

It is not difficult at all to stop after ten seconds.

He does so. "– Apparently not too difficult to pull away."

"Doesn't hurt much, either. Feels weird. Now doing the thing?"

"Okay," he says, and then tries it again.

And does the thing.

She closes her eyes and bites her lower lip and holds her breath.

After ten seconds, assuming it's not harder than last time, he pulls away.

She exhales slowly when he does.

"… You still okay?"

"Y—you could use that word to describe it, I suppose."

"… Sounds like fun," he says. "Too bad there aren't any other vampires around." Eyeroll.

"Would you go for it if there were?" she wonders.

"I might try it, yeah," he says. Then he looks over at Willow.

"Hadn't you said you didn't want anything casual?"

Willow looks back and raises her eyebrows. "What?"

"I– uh." Pause. Sigh. "I felt like I hadn't paid you enough attention."

"Oh, that." She deletes the video.

Blink. "Thanks," he says, then turns back to Sadde. "– Yeah, I had, sort of."

"Ahh so it's just me that's the exception, I see how it is," she pouts.

"Not really," he says. "I mean, it didn't help that I was confused over the gender thing but it's not like I've been hooking up with other guys from school."

"It's not that confusing."

"– Not confused like that, confused more about how it would play into things if, like, Sadde wanted to do things on days when she was a girl and if it would make it awkward if we started things when she was a guy or what."

"I didn't want to hook up with her either and even I knew the answer to that. I think half the school knows the answer to that."