"But alas, we probably don't have enough time."

He opens his mouth again, then smirks and asks, "Don't we?"

She glances at the clock again, then asks, "Do we?"

"I mean. We could always try."

She boops his nose. "I remember you saying that you didn't want to do something we'd regret," she shrugs.

"Well, I mean, I don't think we'd regret it."

He looks at the clock. "Okay, no, maybe we'd regret it."

"We could always go to your room..."

"Yeaaaah... And Kero can just fly away somewhere?"

Why is he even arguing this? He has no idea.

"He'll be annoyed with us."

"That... does not motivate me to stop this."

"I know."

"I guess he'll just have to be annoyed," Theo says, giving Sadde a look.

"Would you do that to the poor thing?" She leans back and folds her arms, half-smiling.

Theo raises an eyebrow and leans in to kiss her.

That doesn't actually answer her question but it's not like she minds because: kiss!

Kiss indeed!

And then, in a pause, he says, "Yes. I would."

"Weeeell, you'll have to be the one to kick him out of the room, I couldn't break his heart so."

"Fine," he says, possibly too cheerily.

She giggles.

Theo leads her upstairs, goes into his room, and says, "Sorry, Kero. We're kicking you out."

Kero is 3/4 through his cake. "What? Why?"

"You're a smart toy, I'm sure you can guess."

And then, to make the point even further, he kisses Sadde.

She giggles and returns the kiss.

"Ew!" he says, and floats his cake out the window.

And so they are actually risking it.

... Well, it's not much of a risk unless his dad comes straight up to his room to see him.