[ thank you, luke, for not actually calling him out on the fistpump; he'd be forever embarrassed about that (or rather, embarrassed about it until he forgot about it, then remembered it a week later half-asleep and beat himself up over it).
teenage life is a hard one, okay? but this is a crisis that has been averted. he swings his head towards luke and smiles - it is not often that he gets noticed for things, and even less often that it's things that aren't music. the smile is almost painfully enthusiastic, really. ]
A few weeks. [ he is either lying, in which case he is an incredible actor, or he's making much more progress than most people would be - maybe he has some sort of innate talent for that. ]
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teenage life is a hard one, okay? but this is a crisis that has been averted. he swings his head towards luke and smiles - it is not often that he gets noticed for things, and even less often that it's things that aren't music. the smile is almost painfully enthusiastic, really. ]
A few weeks. [ he is either lying, in which case he is an incredible actor, or he's making much more progress than most people would be - maybe he has some sort of innate talent for that. ]