He thought her pinkening cheeks were very becoming, and he shrugged in defeat about her point on dating while being a Scythe. She was open. He liked that. His elbow rested on the table so he in turn could rest his chin in that held up hand. It still had the faint scent of her. Those silver eyes kept examining their newest fixation. He laughed into the fingers that courted his lips when she joined in on his offered dance, their beginning love story. His eyebrows lifted once to underline his interest.<br/><br/>"I'm only cute when I'm not devastatingly handsome." he exhaled, like it was a curse. He felt as though he'd caught a string from her courage, and he intended to pull it toward him, and make her blossom. "I am glad to have broken your streak, then." He tossed his head to the side shortly, and leaned back from his comfortable slouch forward, to let the waitress get between them with a menu. He shot her a polite smile before continuing tanning Juniper in his silver attention.<br/><br/>"It wasn't like that for me, since Breaking is-- was my family business." he said and sucked on the inside of a cheek. It might be because he was contemplating the food items, or because he was briefly reminded of his lonely domestic situation. A star glittered in the silver, sent there from a reflection in the resultant, before he put the menu down. "I was always expected to excel, since there's the matter of disproving nepotism - bloodlines aren't encouraged in Breaking - but I never needed to keep my activities with Beasts a secret." He took a sip of water and gestured with his other hand while swallowing. "At least not with my family."<br/><br/>His head tilted, and his lips swelled like he'd thought of something clever or funny. "As for girls, I wouldn't know. You're the first one I've ever had the courage to talk to." He leaned in closer again, silver screens growing. "I felt an instant connection with you, Juniper." his voice was low and smooth. "You did something to me when I saw you in the perfect daylight." He blinked slowly and held on tightly to the intimacy the confession conjured between them.<br/><br/>And then he chuckled under his breath and leaned back. "Honestly," he said and pointed at two things on his open choice of desserts when the waitress came back. He helped her get back the two laminated booklets. "it seems some things come easier when you don't need them. I had a social life because home was more important, and then, when my friends were all I had, they disappeared too." he wore a grim kind of amusement about it. "I guess what I'm saying is, enjoy both while you have them."