Allen was completely off-guard. He yelped and jumped away from Lavi, rubbing his stinging backside.
“Ow! Lavi, what the bloody hell?”
“In this line of work anyone could get hurt Allen. Life isn’t fulfilling if you worry about things like that you know? You need to stop thinking about that.” He mumbled, looking over to stare at the white haired boy. Lavi saw a piece of hair out of place and leaned over to brush the hair behind his ear. He smiled briefly and brought his hand back to give Allen space again.
The more his friend spoke the more his own smile fell. Allen looked rather confused himself but it just got worse from there. “Want what?” Lavi asked with a small eagerness in his voice as he put a hand to Allen’s shoulder when he turned away. There was something more to this and he could clearly see it. The answer he received didn’t line up.
“But you are more to me than ink on paper…” He mumbled, dropping his hand a little to grip Allen’s arm.
Allen carefully controlled his expression and smiled at Lavi.
“Yea, I know… you did burn yourself up quite a bit to save us, then.” he said. “I guess its just a feeling that lingered from what happened.”
Allen tried to act as if Lavi’s touch wasn’t affecting him as it drifted from his hair, to his shoulder, and down his arm. Lavi casually touched him all the time, and for some reason only now was Allen really noticing it.
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