"Anyway. ...are you gonna stay over? It's kinda late, but Mum would be okay if you wanted to sleep here."

"Uh, nah, I should probably go home."

"Yeah, I suppose," she says, and tiptoes to plant a kiss on his lips.

Kiss!

He shouts bye to Laura, then goes to the door, and opens it. He waits for Kero to follow him, waves to Sadde, then starts walking home.

Kero follows!

It's been a few days since the incident with the Lock, and Theo's just got back from school. So what does he do?

He texts Sadde, of course.

Hey! How was school?

You have one guess.

Brrrilliant and you really wish you could go more often?

Ha.

Sooo, wanna come over? Maybe do some homework? :P

Yes, that's just what I want. To do homework.

Another text arrives a few seconds after the previous one:

Be there in thirty.

He texts back, Okay, then decides to use his computer for a bit.

Y'know, they live in a technological age. He doesn't have to ever get bored if he has time spare to do stuff.

His computer: runs on electricity. Shocking, right?

Very much so.

And in approximately thirty minutes, when the doorbell presumably goes, he'll go down and open the door, greeting Sadde.

"Hiya. Ready for homework?" he asks, planting a peck on Theo's lips.

Aww!

"Yeah!" he says cheerfully. "What do you want to do first? Maybe maths?"

"Nnnooo, let's save that for last, I want to end the day on a happy note."

Theo shows Sadde in and shuts the door, seeing as that hasn't yet been done.

"Okay, so we should do the boring stuff first? Like maybe some more of this?" He kisses Sadde.

Oh! Well, then.

A very tiny throat is cleared in the background.

And that tiny throat can be ignored, because Theo is in a mood.

(It's a mood for kissing.)

It clears its throat a little bit more loudly.

Sadde pulls away, giggling. "You know, you could've invented a better excuse to kiss me than homework. Like saying you wanted to kiss me. Hi, Kero," he adds belatedly.

"It was more a joke than an excuse," Theo responds, still totally ignoring Kero. "But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, just that I wanted to talk to you."

He realizes what he just said and how sappy it sounded, and really tries hard not to blush. He has no idea how you try hard not to blush, but he's trying to try anyway!