Re: Rafe/Gabe - Cabanas - 7:45 p.m.
"Why would that cause a problem?" Gabe's brows drew together across his forehead, his smile shrinking slightly. "I just, I kinda hoped—as long as we're OK—that we'd be hanging out more, and then if we both lived on the same floor it'd be easier...
"But I'm not trying to...well, I am influencing you, just a little bit. If you'd rather be near Alice, that's fine. I mean, I could get more pastries out of it," he grinned. One of his feet tapped the ground, a little impatiently, but he calmed it. "Seriously, Rafe, I wouldn't mind. At all." If there was someone else who might, that person was absent from Gabe's thoughts, in that moment.
All he could picture was Rafe being right across the hall. It would be a sweet torture, but it would reassure him that he could do something before more trauma befell his friend. Not to mention simply have an excuse to see him over and over and over.