"Lev, of course I'm still dating you." Hugs. "I love you." 

"But Asher's-- Asher."

"And you're you. And I love you and I don't want to not be dating you." 

"I am, yeah, slightly insecure about the hot older billionaire with a robot suit!"

"...that's fair. But, like, if I wanted to be dating Asher instead of you, I'd be dating Asher instead of you, there is no reason for me to act like I want to date you unless I actually do want to date you." 

"Not... making me sad?" he tries.

"I think it would make you a lot more sad to have me pretend than it would to be broken up with." 

"You're going to realize," he says all in a rush, "that Asher is better than me because he's a-- genius billionaire philanthropist superhero-- and I'm just some kid-- and then you're going to have to leave me-- and now I'm going to have to be scared until then about you realizing."

"Or maybe I'll realize that he has no idea how the world works if you aren't a child genius who went to MIT at fourteen and you know how to relate to me, or maybe I'll realize that actually I want to be dating someone my own age, or maybe I'll realize something else, there are any number of things I could realize." 

"He has any idea of how the world works if you aren't a child genius. Like, at least ten percent of an idea."

"I'm glad he has ten percent of an idea! It would suck if he did not have ten percent of an idea. — he thought it was a  good idea for me to go to MIT and I literally cannot think of anything worse, in terms of school anyway there are worse things that could happen, but at least he didn't push, I was kind of expecting him to." 

"Yeah, it'd be hard to balance that with being Spiderman, and schools are kind of crappy about disability accommodations, and I don't think you want to anyway."

"...I'm, like, the opposite of disabled, I have superpowers, but really I was thinking of like — 'Asher Stark told the admissions people you were smart, because for some reason Asher Stark thinks you're smart and you didn't think it was a good idea to argue with him about it, and they trusted him so they let you in, and now you're at MIT where geniuses go and you're expected to be smart and Asher trusted you and they trusted Asher —' and I am pretty sure that literally any other college-related life plan would be better than that one." He flops on Lev. 

"No, I mean"-- he gestures-- "they should teach you things differently because your brain works differently but they don't because everyone is bad at teaching. That kind of disability accommodations."

"...that's a really sweet way to describe 'I suck at school but I like reading and listening to my boyfriend talk.' You're sweet." 

"--I could talk about things in a way that would bore and confuse you and you wouldn't like listening to me talk, I like-- pay attention and say things to you in a way you get and there isn't any reason to think that schools couldn't do that they just. Don't. --Also you're tired all the time from being Spiderman, that doesn't help."

"...I sucked at school before I was Spiderman and it feels really weird to call 'you talk about things in an interesting way' a disability accommodation?" 

"It's things like-- you like to read but you can't get anything out of a textbook when you read it, you really can't get anything out of an audiobook, you do better with essay prompts that are vaguer rather than ones that are like 'how does this character address the theme of that,' even if you can understand what's going on you usually can't manage to do the homework--"

"— I mean, yeah? Most people are better at some things than at other things? 'I'm opinionated but I don't want to do my homework' is not a disability." 

"I think-- schools should be places where you learn things, and you're bad at learning things at school because they keep making you do things you're bad at instead of letting you build on things you're good at, and sometimes you can fix that by getting a diagnosis and a disability accommodation? And you're smart in the sense that-- I think you could keep up at MIT if they taught you in ways that work with how your brain works, and that's what Asher is noticing, and they probably won't do that and you don't want to anyway, so it's kind of a moot point. Uh. But I could be wrong I guess."

"I guess." 

How about instead of arguing about this more he cuddles Lev, that sounds like a better use of time. 

It does!

Lev does not have to try to convince his boyfriend he's smart. (Even though he is.)

Lev is very good and Sasha likes cuddling with him very much and possibly Sasha should just skip school today and cuddle Lev instead. 

Lev will allow this but only if he gets to explain chemistry to Sasha while petting Sasha's hair.

Lev absolutely gets to explain chemistry to Sasha while petting Sasha's hair, that is the best way to learn chemistry.