"We did. It was a whole thing. I was trying not to be weird and pressurey about it but I was totally thinking about it." Nibble.

Squirmmmmm

"Yes, you were very-" squirm "- chivalrous."

"I was not at serious risk of a lapse of self control," nibble nibble, "but," nibble, "you were very very tempting. So cute and so compatible."

"I was determinedly not thinking about what actions I take about you being attractive," Lucien manages to say, interrupted by squirming and smiling and humming only four or five times.

"Given it any thought since then?"

"I thought about kissing you and your abs and asking you to show me what other things there are."

"There are several of them." Nibble nibble. "I am still nonzero worried about overwhelming you."

"I um.. think that could happen but I would really like to try something more than this, I think. Though this is very good."

"Well, we could wear progressively fewer clothes, for one thing. I should have known you'd go in for undershirts, they're less popular these days." Off with it.

.....

"I have abs now. Apparently."

"Awakening is like that! You have to maintain 'em if you want to keep 'em but they are there." Grope.

It turns out Lucien is even more squirmy without his undershirt! Which makes maneuvering to kiss Haru complicated but still very doable when he sets his mind to it.

Squirmy is cute and distracting. What are Lucien's thoughts on pants: the wearing thereof?

Against? Lucien can be against wearing his khakis. And the second layer of jogging pants he has on between that and his boxers.

"They didn't have any full pant underwear," he says, a bit embarrassed at the improvised set-up he ended up with.

"Also out of fashion except in the winter."

"I suppose that is reasonable if you are used to everything being... loose."

"It works fine. Like so." Observe how modern-day fashionable Haru's own pants arrangement is. Was.