"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.

"Theo."

"It was the lack."

"The la—oh. Oh. Well why didn't you just say so?" he asks, and his arms are around Theo's neck and oop they're kissing now.

Whoa, no, not what he meant. He starts trying to pull away for maybe half a second.

Then he realises that it's pretty much what he asked for and wants, so why the hell is he resisting.

'They're kissing now' indeed.

That's not what Kero wanted. That's not at all what Kero wanted. Kero will float off somewhere and not be around the teenagers kissing.

Kissing.

Lots and lots of kissing.