Brainy still didn't always expect these things. Which was somewhat hilarious given that he was a 12th-level intellect and all it required was basic pattern recognition.
It was hard, you see, to fully accept certain ideas when you'd spent most of your life thinking them impossible, like the idea that you were attractive to someone. Like the idea that said someone would consistently be acting on that attraction by finding ways to make your heart skip a beat or two (or three).
Even when he teased Lyle back (or first) he wasn't always able to guess how he might react or to what extremes he'd take things. But then creativity had never really been Brainy's forte. So in a situation where he'd expected maybe Lyle's hands buttoning up his shirt and touching his chest and sides and arms, and maybe some nuzzling, he got just...a little bit more than he'd expected, with that little bite to the ear.
And that was why he made that little noise that was somewhere between a gasp and a squeak.
"We... we are perilously close to being late for dinner," Brainy gasped out with a shuddering little breath
And also dangerously close to making the fact he was getting dressed completely counterproductive.
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It was hard, you see, to fully accept certain ideas when you'd spent most of your life thinking them impossible, like the idea that you were attractive to someone. Like the idea that said someone would consistently be acting on that attraction by finding ways to make your heart skip a beat or two (or three).
Even when he teased Lyle back (or first) he wasn't always able to guess how he might react or to what extremes he'd take things. But then creativity had never really been Brainy's forte. So in a situation where he'd expected maybe Lyle's hands buttoning up his shirt and touching his chest and sides and arms, and maybe some nuzzling, he got just...a little bit more than he'd expected, with that little bite to the ear.
And that was why he made that little noise that was somewhere between a gasp and a squeak.
"We... we are perilously close to being late for dinner," Brainy gasped out with a shuddering little breath
And also dangerously close to making the fact he was getting dressed completely counterproductive.