Riz knows that he's not always the best at reading other people's social cues. While one teacher had delicately suggested to Sklonda that the trauma of losing his father had stunted him in that area, he knows that he'd been bat at it his entire life. Case in point: he had spent much of freshman year wholly buying into Fabian's haughty bluster, only to discover the truer depths of what lay underneath after -- well, after that wretched day. He knows Fabian a little better now.
Which is how he knows that Fabian's kind of full of it right now. Being in a place of his own and having a perpetual, Gilear-less party initially sounded like it would be Fabian's greatest dreams come to life, but Riz is quickly realizing that Fabian normally wouldn't be quite so gung-ho about a permanent sleepover with him of all people. (They are best friends. Fabian loves him a lot. Riz is also aware that he is, as a person, a Lot.)
He blinks three times at Fabian in rapid-fire, pupils narrowed, as though he can see right through him. Then he does the merciful thing and plays along. He grins. ]
I can for sure stay awake forever. Watch me.
[ Magnanimously: ] I'll even let you have the bigger bed. If you let me set up a clue board in the living room.
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Riz knows that he's not always the best at reading other people's social cues. While one teacher had delicately suggested to Sklonda that the trauma of losing his father had stunted him in that area, he knows that he'd been bat at it his entire life. Case in point: he had spent much of freshman year wholly buying into Fabian's haughty bluster, only to discover the truer depths of what lay underneath after -- well, after that wretched day. He knows Fabian a little better now.
Which is how he knows that Fabian's kind of full of it right now. Being in a place of his own and having a perpetual, Gilear-less party initially sounded like it would be Fabian's greatest dreams come to life, but Riz is quickly realizing that Fabian normally wouldn't be quite so gung-ho about a permanent sleepover with him of all people. (They are best friends. Fabian loves him a lot. Riz is also aware that he is, as a person, a Lot.)
He blinks three times at Fabian in rapid-fire, pupils narrowed, as though he can see right through him. Then he does the merciful thing and plays along. He grins. ]
I can for sure stay awake forever. Watch me.
[ Magnanimously: ] I'll even let you have the bigger bed. If you let me set up a clue board in the living room.