"I can do that," Sasha says, and touches his dick and talks about Carlos who liked when you talked like you owned him and Nico who liked holding him down and liked to bite and Legion who was only sometimes a boy but liked to tie his wrists with zip ties. 

His Sasha is so very very good and he loves him likes him a lot.

His Kaleva is very very good and Sasha likes him a whole lot. What a coincidence.

He has trouble sleeping because he keeps thinking about Chen coming to New Orleans. Eventually he gives up and spends the entire morning worldbuilding Sasha's science fiction novel.

Chen tries to sleep on the train, only sort of succeeds, and arrives in New Orleans on Saturday morning. 

Google Maps knows where the LaBouff mansion is — he isn't sure which part of the trolley to sit in so he picks the back — he arrives at around noon. 

"Hello darling!" Charlotte says. "Are you another one of Sasha's friends?"

"Hello. I'm looking for Kaleva, actually." 

"Oh, yes! He's been around a lot lately! He and Sasha are such good friends, it's really very nice to see. Sometimes I worry about where his parents are-- shouldn't he be in school, you know?-- but he says they're fine with him being here and it is not my place to question other people's parenting. At least not where their children can hear me! I am glad that my Sasha doesn't cause nearly that much trouble. He and Kaleva are always up in their rooms studying. I expect I'm going to see very good grades at the end of the semester!"

Studying, huh. 

"Of course. — I'm sorry, may I come in?" 

"Oh, of course! I'll call down Kaleva right away. Kaleva! There's a person here to see you! --What did you say your name was again?"

"Li Chen," he says, instead of 'I didn't.' 

"Some person named Lee is here to see you!"

Kaleva walks down the stairs with an extremely stressed expression on his face.

Oh thank goodness you're okay, he doesn't say, and physically restrains himself from hugging Kaleva. 

"Upstairs?" he says instead. 

"That sounds okay."

"I'll leave you two to it! Maybe I'll get the cook to send up some beignets, what do you think? That sounds exciting!"

"...maybe," he says instead of engaging. 

He lets Kaleva pick a room, shuts the door behind them. 

Kaleva goes into Sasha's bedroom.

"So, uh. Hi."

Chen hugs him. 

Oh. 

It's not as nice as it would have been when he was desperately touch-starved and hopelessly pining for Chen, but it's still really really nice.

"I'm really glad you're okay," he says, quiet. Doesn't stop hugging him. 

"Thanks," he says. "I'm sorry I scared you. I didn't-- expect you to care where I went."

"I'm sorry," still very quiet. "That I made you think that." 

"It's okay."

"No, it isn't."