[ But did Kaveh want anything else? He supposes he must have, he knows he did— and yet all of that seems so far away from them now, like a bad dream.

(And he knows he's being stupid, that he's caught up in the romanticism of the moment and mentally erasing the bad in favor of the good, but he doesn't really care.)

Besides, none of that matters right now when Alhaitham has succeeded in his goal, making Kaveh laugh— and then roll his eyes, hands bracing against the younger's chest as if to push him, when really all he wants to do is keep him close. ]

I know you're trying to say I'm loud, but I'm just going to take "difficult to ignore" as me being so devastatingly attractive that you can't take your eyes off me.

[ He finishes it with a brilliant smile, sly, as if daring Alhaitham to disagree. ]