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Wanna hang out?

Sure! You wanna come over here?

It might be implied that Theo wouldn't want to go out again, not just yet.

Yeah, sure. Be there in a bit.

Who knows what Theo's doing in the meantime.

Probably nothing.

So Sadde arrives!

And Theo goes to greet him.

"Hey!"

"Hello," he greets cautiously.

"Done anything interesting since I last saw you?"

"...school. Work. Flew around the block at night. The usual. You?"

They go upstairs and to his room.

"School, too. Other than that, nah, not really."

Moping around. Not crying. That's totally not interesting, right?

Kero appears from nowhere and says, "He's sad all the time he doesn't even give me food anymore!"

"...do you even need food?"

"No but it's the principle."

He looks at Theo again. "...are you alright?"

"Yeah? Kero's just being weird; I've been fine!" he says, all cheerily.

"Theo," he sighs. "Look, just—talk to me? Please? I'm sorry. What did I do wrong?"

"Oh, no, it's fine, don't worry!" he says, smiling, then throwing a quick glare at Kero, then smiling again.

"I need to know, so I won't do it again in the future! I can stop with the masculinity thing, maybe I went a bit far. Or was it the kiss? I could promise to—well, that would suck, I guess, but I could promise never to kiss you, either. Just tell me."

Theo mumbles a little, stopping with the ridiculous smiling.

"What?"

"It wasn't the kiss, okay?" he says, more audible.

"Well then what was it?"

Another mumble.

"Unfortunately we haven't captured the super-hearing card yet."

"There's a super hearing card?"

He might be trying to avoid the subject.