"No," Asher says.

"— kay. Sorry. I can get home on my own, it's fine." 

"But you can stay in my spare bedroom," he says. "In a bed."

"You're the best." 

"Yep!"

He hugs Asher again when he steps out of the Iron Man suit, and again before Sasha goes to bed. 

He sleeps with the suit off and his head under the blankets. 

He vaguely wonders if it was intended to be the euphemistic sense of 'sleep on my couch', but doesn't push. 

It was not intended to be a euphemistic sense of anything, no.

He wakes up early and leaves a note that says "Thank you for everything —S" in the kitchen before he swings home in the morning. 

Asher finds the note, grins, and tucks in into a desk drawer where he'll be sure to find it again.

He catches up on sleep for the rest of the weekend and sees Lev again on Monday. 

Lev looks thinner than usual but he smiles at Sasha like Sasha is the most wonderful person in the world. 

"Hi, Sasha."

— Lev being thinner than usual is a feat. 

"Hi, Lev," and he smiles at him. 

"What did you think about the Sun Also Rises? Personally, I hated it."

"I was mostly confused by it." 

"The book we're reading in English class" is a totally normal, non-gay conversation topic!

(He's so happy to get to talk to Sasha.)

At some point during the class he finds an excuse to say, "I should text you a link to this thing I found, what's your phone number?" 

Lev gives it!

(It's not the same as the fansite guy's phone number. Lev is any good at information security.)

When Sasha texts him a link to an article on Hemingway, his phone number is different from his signal number. Sasha is also any good at information security. 

Lev's phone is set up so that if he uses one password, it logs in to a completely innocent set of accounts, and if he uses another password, it logs into his actual accounts.

you're really hot

I wanted to say that all class

you're *so cute* 

I think that every time I look at you 

I loved kissing you 

we should kiss more!!!!!!!!

uh I mean if you want to

of course I want to!!! 

💜💜💜

also I've noticed that you often don't do homework and I can like

do your homework for you

if you want

and then we would have more time for kissing

I feel bad about the extent to which you do my classwork but we would in fact have more time for kissing 

assuming more emergencies don't come up which they might 

I really am sorry about Friday 

I don't mind

it doesn't take that much more time 

I guess if you actually want to learn the material it would be a problem but in that case you not doing your homework is a problem either way 

so you might as well get better grades out of it

Friday was fine, I know you're busy