you can delight because you have a place

ilya and shane being invited to the wedding of one of their teammates and there's like a hundred people and all the kids take a liking to ilya because he's ilya and he's not boring like the other grown ups and this little boy in particular seems to really like him and ilya notices how he holds his hands over his ears when the guests get a little too loud so he speaks to him a little extra softly and unlike the other children he doesn't like the fun colorful looking sour candy because it makes his mouth hurt so ilya offers him the plain chips instead and he doesn't really play with the other children much but he likes showing ilya his dinosaur toys and the little boy's mother, who doesn't know that he is a famous hockey player, comes over and she seems really surprised that he likes ilya because normally he doesn't like talking to strangers and ilya just chuckles and says he reminds me a little of my husband and the mother goes oh is your husband also autistic? and ilya looks at her confused which starts a conversation about autism and the more this woman tells him the more he looks over at shane and then the little boy and then back to shane and for a reason he can't explain he feels a little panicked as if accidentally discovering something he wasn't supposed to but then at the end of the night he thinks it doesn't even matter because that's his shane who he loves so much who also prefers the plain chips because the flavor isn't overwhelming and maybe there's a word for it but it doesn't matter because ilya wouldn't have him any other way

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