That made sense and hushed Theo's paranoia making him relax, but he still felt for Ernie having been on his feet all day. "We can stay here for a while." he assured, not about to make Ernie get up and do things just yet and content enough to sit in the warm quiet of The Nook and just be beside the blond.
"I had a half shift at What the Book and I've just been here otherwise, so not much." he admitted. "I haven't done much Christmas shopping myself." He added, although he tended to make his own gifts for people and rarely went all out with decorations and the like. Here was something he could share with Ernie though, a little bit of himself that he hoped made up for the fact that he was too repressed and weird to give physical affection out so easily. "I don't really celebrate Christmas so I've just got presents to get and that'll be me done." he said with a shrug, not making a big deal of the way his hand moved to seek out Ernie's and touch fingertip to fingertip, asking if it was okay to hold hands again. That much he could do, and more than that, had wanted to since he'd ended his shift at work.