"You're so cute." 

Maybe they can just kiss for the rest of the night.

Yeah. Yeah, they can. 

Sasha's happy to fall asleep in Lev's arms again. 

It's a lot easier to sleep with Sasha in his bed. 

When he wakes up in the middle of the night he reaches out for Sasha and then falls right back to sleep.

Good. 

When he wakes up in the morning — not quite early enough for sunrise, but early enough that it's still pinkish out his window — he gets up and makes one cup of hot chocolate for himself and one cup of hot chocolate minus liquid for when Lev wakes up. 

Lev wakes up maybe half an hour later.

"Morning."

He thinks about knowing that Sasha is going to be there in the morning and he feels sort of an electric tingly feeling on his skin.

He kisses Lev. "There's hot chocolate almost-made if you want it, I wasn't sure when you'd be up." 

Waking up in the morning and already knowing where he'll be that night is a good feeling. 

"Ooh, hot chocolate," Lev says, and finishes making it.

"What do you want to do today?"

"I was going to check out the main kitchen so I can see whether I need to make a grocery run before I start on my list of baking projects, but I don't have anything in particular I can think of other than that." 

"...I want to go grocery shopping with you. Is that weird?"

"I don't think it's weird! No judging me for the butterscotch chips, though." 

"I'm not entirely sure what a butterscotch chip is but I'm not going to judge you about it!"

Cuuuute. Sasha kisses him, then gets out of bed to get dressed. 

Can Lev just lie in bed and watch him get dressed?

He can! When Sasha notices he blushes a little bit and smiles at him. 

Then Lev is going to watch him much more openly!

Sasha's not really sure how to respond to how obviously into him Lev is with anything other than "You can touch if you want." 

(Given yesterday this is maybe not the best idea but making out is always fun, right?) 

"I dunno, if I touch you we might get distracted and not go grocery shopping."

"Plenty of time in a day." 

But he does finish getting dressed before he kisses Lev again. 

"There's plenty of time in the day but I want cake!"

Sasha doesn't know the way to the kitchen at all but presumably Lev does? 

Lev will totally take him to the kitchen!

He has no idea what is in his kitchen so he thinks this is going to be an exciting journey of discovery.

The cake is going to be from a mix, so all he needs is instant coffee and the stuff for frosting. Lemon bars and hot buttered have like five ingredients each and the only one it wouldn't be deeply weird to not have is lemons and even then he'd side-eye that kitchen; you can pretty much throw whatever you want into cookie bars and have them come out good. Do they really not have chocolate syrup? They should have chocolate syrup, hot chocolate from packets is fine but still. 

"Edith stopped having it in the house because I used to start having sugar cravings and drink it and that is apparently 'gross,'" he says, making air quotes.

"Fair enough but I like it so we're getting it anyway."