( shocking spoiler alert: he probably will still think she's pretty spectacular. if he could just turn off thinking that, trust that he would have already, because caring about something is a real problem when life has so thoroughly shown him caring is just asking to get hurt. he's a graduate of the Emma Swan school of emotional entanglements and he graduated with honors. literally the only thing he ever succeeded at.
if his lazy typing annoyed her, the fact he doesn't even respond to the inquiry will only be worse. that ugly read notification with no other information provided. still, she doesn't have to worry long, though he doesn't exactly fly out his window — as he sees it, this is the conversation he doesn't want to have. he's not sure how she can call it quits when they don't actually have anything to quit...
yet he's invested enough he doesn't want to hear it.
he opens her door without pretense, dropping into the seat awkwardly. he never seems to know what to do with himself in a car. ) I'm guessing you're not picking me up to be your wingman on your first B&E, so what's up with the secrecy? ( that's great. play it cool. make dumb jokes. she can't tell you that the thing that never even happened isn't real that way, right? Ben pushes glasses up his nose and inwardly curses that he forgot he was wearing them. surprise, he's even more of a nerd than she initially thought. )
scratches at your door while whimpering
if his lazy typing annoyed her, the fact he doesn't even respond to the inquiry will only be worse. that ugly read notification with no other information provided. still, she doesn't have to worry long, though he doesn't exactly fly out his window — as he sees it, this is the conversation he doesn't want to have. he's not sure how she can call it quits when they don't actually have anything to quit...
yet he's invested enough he doesn't want to hear it.
he opens her door without pretense, dropping into the seat awkwardly. he never seems to know what to do with himself in a car. ) I'm guessing you're not picking me up to be your wingman on your first B&E, so what's up with the secrecy? ( that's great. play it cool. make dumb jokes. she can't tell you that the thing that never even happened isn't real that way, right? Ben pushes glasses up his nose and inwardly curses that he forgot he was wearing them. surprise, he's even more of a nerd than she initially thought. )