Shawn's hat found its way onto his head, as he was walking out of the doors and by habit, not just because it was his own way of feeling safer, it was pulled down low to his eyebrows, resting on the edge of his glasses, hiding his blue eyes and most of his nose from Aki's view. He had stopped to avoid hitting the doors and because he wasn't quite sure where Aki was. He had gone tense and let out a sound of surprise when he was very quickly right there beside him. "I... Um, thank you." He had said, when going through the doors with a protest and explination as to why he had so suddenly stopped right there on the tip of his tongue. But they all died in an instant, in that brief moment when he fully processed that the foreign words had been directed as a nickname for him.<br/><br/>A hidden frown creased his brow and he spun on his heel in the hallway to tilt his head back and look up into Aki's green eyes "What was that?" He said as he looked up at him, referring to the nickname. "What did you call me?" He asked, entirely unsure if he should he offended or not. "What does it mean?" He asked, speculations beginning to form in his mind that it had something to do with his size. He was definately shorter then Aki, and he was shorter then his own brother. Actually, thinking it over now, among his own year, he was on the shorter side of the boys. "You just called me short, didn't you?" He said before he was even given an answer. "I'm not... I am not!" He said, turning and about to storm away upset he'd been called little in such a sweet way. He was used to being told he was short, but not in a way that made him want to hear it again.