oh, yup. here it comes. the unstoppable force of love, dustin lee, is here to give soda a //HUG//. lowkey but the very definition of highkey btw rests his head on hers. "you're pretty rad, y'know. i can't explain how glad i am that you're around again, soda." is said too. he...might be there for a while.
 he uh, really insists on this sort of thing, doesnât he.
âitâs not unappreciated, soda thinks furiously. itâs a little bit hard through the haze that is her mind whenever dustin touches her, and sheâs not sure why sheâs even denying her dislike of it when sheâs supposed to be denying her like of it, but look the point is she thinks furiously.
âand it spirals like that, with the smell of his shirt and the warmth of his arms and the protective pressure of his body around hers, intoxicating and overheating and overwhelming, and she will never get used to this, will she. sheâs not going to get used to dustin being, what was the word, affectionate? yeah, affectionate. nice to her. physically nice to her. hugging her. and, uh, what came after that too, sometimes he did that to her too. those made her especially dizzy. they were nice. what, no they werenât. she hated them. she hated getting close to him. she wasnât supposed to get within armâs reach of him, the last sensible part of her brain told her furiously, but it wasnât her blame him because he was getting within arms reach of her,âŚ
âso all this means sheâs not quite aware of what sheâs doing: sinking into him. her body wasnât listening to her brain. new law: let go, her brain said. vetoed, dustinâs arms said. she didnât know what that word meant but it sounded pretty nice to her. heart said, you donât need to know a wordâs meaning to know its feeling. and it was right! who ever listened to their brain anyway? heart was the much better choice.
âsheâs smiling without realizing it. dustinâs arms are warm, she thinks again; he smells nice, she thinks again. his voice is nice and sweet and sheâs got one hell of a sweet tooth for it. even if she could think of some choice words for his use of âradâ. dustin lee, future boyfriend: abandoned by the side of the road for the use of an 80â˛s slang term.
âsodaâs voice is disgustingly dreamy as she says,   â âs pretty nice, yeah. â