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Lev is sitting at a coffeeshop, eating a cookie, studying electrical engineering, and absently contemplating suicide in the manner of someone who is not actually going to kill himself but is not quite ready to give up all hope.
He sips at his iced tea. It's weird. It tastes a little fruitier than usual. Maybe they're trying a new recipe? It's good, though, and it doesn't take long before he finishes it.
She shrugs. "Some of them did, some were fine and I just couldn't ever get my homework done or my papers in."
"That happens sometimes when I teach. I try to help as much as I can-- point people to ADHD accommodations, give them alternate assignments, that kind of thing. But it's hard, the system isn't designed to let you teach all your students in the way they learn best."
Her hand is so warm.
She thinks he's a good teacher!!!!!! He bounces.
"I try. Mostly you have to actually care about people learning things."
Awww.
"And you do!"
Is it weird to kiss his cheek probably it is but that is not going to stop her.
He touches the place where she kissed his cheek and then kisses her cheek.
Maybe once they get to the library and find a place to sit she can kiss him for real this time.
What an excellent idea. She tastes nice.
Maybe he can pull her into his lap and touch her hair and kiss her.
Probably they shouldn't make out here but once she's in his lap there can be cuddles. (It's been so long since she got cuddles.)
"I like sci fi and alternate fantasy a lot? Pretty much anything with created worlds."
"Me too!" They have so much in common, which is probably because Sasha is literally the best person in the world. "I was reading a book about a world where potions don't exist."
Ah. Yes. Sasha's least favorite subject. "Did it do anything interesting with the premise, or —?"
"Lots of weird stuff." Sasha's hair is so soft. "Balding guys were considered the hottest because there weren't any hair regrowth potions so it was considered a sign of wealth and status to be balding? Sex work was legal because you didn't have to worry about people dosing trafficking victims with sex pollen to make them enthusiastic, and you could tell who really wanted to be there. People left bad relationships more quickly because they couldn't just dose themselves with raspberry sweet and start loving and trusting their partner no matter what. --It was mostly a romance."
"Sounds cool." Lev's hair is soft too. "Maybe I should read it sometime."
"I could lend it to you. --Man, the world would be a better place without love potions. Or at least if you could notice that you were on love potions if someone covertly dosed you."
"God, same — if you could think about it then maybe it'd be different, but —"
"But as it is you can never really be sure about whether your feelings for someone are real or because they slipped something into your food. And-- most of the time it's fine, right, most people aren't abusive, but-- it's still pretty fucked up."
"...yeah. It's really good that most people aren't like that."
She gets a handle on what her face is doing as quickly as she can. "Yeah, I'm fine." Stuff like this is definitely weird to talk about on a first date at the library.
Lev is so warm and so soft.
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