[He blurts out that lie and doesn't really know why. Maybe it's because if he'd said yes, Toshinori would have asked him when, and he'd have to remind him that the last time they saw each other he'd been a short little fourteen year old with a voice that hadn't cracked and a crush so obvious it could be seen by someone in space.
It's still obvious. And just as he had last time, he glares with suspicion up at the frankly enormous boy, because it's easier to pretend he's angry than do something so humiliating as flirt.]
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[He blurts out that lie and doesn't really know why. Maybe it's because if he'd said yes, Toshinori would have asked him when, and he'd have to remind him that the last time they saw each other he'd been a short little fourteen year old with a voice that hadn't cracked and a crush so obvious it could be seen by someone in space.
It's still obvious. And just as he had last time, he glares with suspicion up at the frankly enormous boy, because it's easier to pretend he's angry than do something so humiliating as flirt.]
Observing what?