[I thought it was some slang I’m not hip enough to know. xD]
“Yeah,” Gio agreed. “I’ve been doing some research already, but I’ve come up with nothing. You’d expect a bunch of posts on Yahoo! Answers of people freaking out and asking why they can, I don’t know, bend spoons with their mind – especially if this is an epidemic of some kind, but there’s nothing. Granted, I’ve only been at it a couple weeks.”
His complete failure at finding anything (other than his friends’ confessions) might have made him frown in reflection for a while, but Glory agreeing that there were definitely worse things she could be doing for the new year made him smile. True, she was talking about watching fireworks, but Gio couldn’t help but sneak in an implication that it meant she was talking about hanging out with him, too.
Amid a mind war in which Gio was trying to decide if he was bold enough to joke that Glory could hold his hand if the fireworks scared her, he did notice her shivering. It was hard to miss since he was staring right at her, but he didn’t know what he could do. Wrapping his arms around her was totally out of the question, and logic told him it might not do a damn thing since they were both separated by many layers, but he knew at least he would heat up from sheer blushing embarrassment.
Still, not gonna happen.
“Are you cold?” he asked instead. “Why don’t you wrap the blanket around your shoulders? I don’t mind sitting in the sand. If it was just me I wouldn’t have brought a blanket.” If it had been just him, he probably wouldn’t have bothered going out at all. To prove his point, Gio began to get up so Glory could pull the blanket around her shoulders. He really didn’t mind.