me too

He smiles at his phone for a minute. 

I should probably do a work, but friend

go work, I'll still be here tomorrow

you will! 

He keeps smiling down at his phone while he does homework. 

As promised, Asher texts Sasha random thoughts, sometimes but not always at 2am.

He solicits Sasha's opinions on Iron Man suit redesigns. He takes pictures of flowers he sees growing through cracks in the sidewalk. He has passionate and detailed opinions about the proper kind of New York pizza. He complains about supervillains' terrible sense of aesthetics. He sends Sasha links to melancholy indie rock he likes. At 4am one morning he texts, "I really miss my dad."

Asher flirts, but only occasionally and jokingly. He always calls Sasha 'Ungoliant.'

The fansite guy is apparently having a hell of a time unravelling Kingpin's plans, but he does warn him about no fewer than two assassins Kingpin had hired to kill him.

That Guy gets in trouble for eating in class. He always seems to be doing the thing with the circles and the lines and the cryptic letters. He blushes whenever Sasha smiles at him.

Sasha gets an A on the group project. In the process of getting graded he finds out that That Guy's name is Lev Aarons.

He has strong opinions about Iron Man suit designs and supervillain aesthetics; he sends pictures of cool birds and pet-store fish and links to music he likes, flirts back when he's flirted with but doesn't initiate; the morning after Asher says I miss my dad he doesn't mention it if Asher doesn't, but makes a point of sending him pictures of random small things that day. He listens to more melancholy indie rock than he ever thought he would enjoy. He dodges assassins and thanks the fansite guy. He smiles at Lev whenever he gets a chance and shares his food with him when it makes sense to do that. 

He flirts less and doesn't bring up his dad again, but he has good taste in random beautiful things. 

Lev looks very grateful every time Sasha shares some food with him. 

A while after the food-sharing starts, he says mid-apple-bite "wouldyouliketogotoamoviewithme."

He blinks. "Sure! Do you have a particular movie in mind, or," and he doesn't know why he set that sentence up to need a second clause but he doesn't have one. 

"Uh. I didn't actually get that far in the planning process."

He tries to remember what's in theaters at the moment. "I have heard good things about Into The Woods?" he tries.

"I like musicals. Friday night work?"

"Friday night works!" Assuming nothing comes up with being Spiderman but if he added that caveat every time he made a plan he could never schedule anything. 

"Great! See you then."

Lev spends the next two days alternately panicking about all the stupid things he said in the conversation ("I didn't actually get that far in the planning process", really?), reminding himself that Alexander probably isn't gay and it is probably just a friend thing and that's fine, and speculating about what would happen if it was a gay thing though. 

He can't really dress up but on Friday he makes more of an effort than usual before he meets Lev. 

He's rewarded by Lev staring at him and having to physically resist the urge to say "you look nice."

Lev himself tried on every outfit he owned, realized he had no taste in fashion, and wound up wearing blue jeans and a baggy Star Wars T-shirt.

Awwww. 

"Hi! I already have candy but we can get popcorn inside if you want." 

"Uh yeah I'm probably going to get. A lot of things. Because of the medical condition."

"Makes sense!" How does Lev feel about Sasha taking his hand? 

He blushes, glances around to check that he doesn't know anyone there, and then smiles like Alexander is the most wonderful person in the world.

Unfortunately, they have to stop holding hands, because Lev has ordered two large popcorns, nachos, cinnabon bites, and an ice cream.

Yeah, that's par for the course with Lev. Sasha helps him carry all of his everything and finds them seats in the middle towards the back. 

Lev screws up his courage and puts his head on Alexander's shoulder.

He's so cute. Sasha puts an arm around Lev's shoulders. (He is well aware of how much food Lev is getting but it's still kind of worrying how bony he is.)