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"You think so?" Izzy remained close, holding onto Toby and thinking about the possibility of performing.

"I think I just do it for the love of it, not for profit. I don't want that kinda stress. But if I can do it to make people I love happy, then... Well, who knows. Is Dancing considered a craft?" ... No, right? Nah, it couldn't be, that sounded too silly, even for him.

"I do think mom would like to hear you play one day. I know she loves that song."

"I dunno about that. It's an art, but maybe not a craft. Hence it's arts and crafts not just crafts." As he thought about it, he let go of Toby, taking his violin from his hands, and then placing it on the bed. Then without giving Toby a chance to respond, Izzy took both of their hands and laced their fingers together, thinking for a bit.

"Hmm... Can you dance, Toby? I mean, I know just being musically inclined doesn't mean anything, but have you danced before? Maybe at school or at some program or something?" He grinned and leaned in real close his friend, letting their noses brush. "Want me to teach you?"

“You know Toby, you’re really cute when you get flustered. You get flustered a lot too. You’re gonna have a real hard time confessing to that boy you like.” Toby was far too entertaining to stop teasing, and sometimes he got real serious about what he said too.

“I think I can teach you, but there’s lots and lots of types of dancing. It’s all up to what you want to do.” Now he pressed their foreheads together, nose scrunching up while he tried to figure out exactly what kinda dance Toby should learn.

“What comes to mind is Fortnight dancing. Not that it’s particularly good, but it’s fun and entertaining to do. Or are you thinking more like tango or salsa?”

“My offer to teach you how to make em swoon is still open! I mean, Anxo has a boyfriend so I can even help with the whole ‘what do guys like in romance’ thing too!” Izzy leaned back, shaking his hair out of his eyes, and just smiled at Toby. Seemed like something surprised him, which was always the goal.

“Depends if you wanna dance with a partner or on your own. You seem to like holding hands so... Ooh, have you held the dude’s hand? OH do I know the dude?”

“I know them... Hm... Maybe Issac from Math class? He seems like a good match for you, and he’s pretty cool. I saw him do a backflip and hit the ceiling lamp in the hallway... Ooh, but there’s also Terry, the one who always answers first in English. He has one of those smiles that reach his eyes..” As he kept trying to guess, his thumb began to brush against the back of Toby’s hand. He had no idea if he ever held hands with those guys..

“Hmm... You know, I never gave it any thought. I’m a cool guy too, one of the coolest, I’d say, but I never really had anyone try to ‘swoon’ me. I guess that’s just something I’d figure out once someone does it. You know, when you just get those butterflies in your stomach and your heart starts racing? Once that happens, I’ll let you know.” ... Had he ever had a crush? Maybe once on a tutor but that just led to him showing off. And that was years ago!

Right now he only had one thing on his mind, and that was bugging Toby.

“What makes you swoon?”

“You know, Toby, that sounds like me. I mean, I’m confident, and you called my outfit cute!” What prime teasing material! He leaned forward, pressing his nose right against the side of Toby’s neck, nuzzling it.

“Nah, but it can’t be me. I’m not nice. I’m bad! The absolute worse!”

“Oh! Right, dance lessons!” It had completely slipped his mind when prodding for more information and he pulled away just as quickly as he went in.

“But hey, I can’t teach you a dance if you don’t know what you want to do. Heck, for all I know you wanna do some Lindsay Sterling kinda moves, and I can’t teach you how to do ballet with a violin.”

“... True. Especially if you’re looking to dance with that boy of yours. Doesn’t Destiny City have some yearly Christmas Ball they do? I can totally have you ready to ask him out for that by the time it rolls around.” Christmas wasn’t really all that high on his favorite holidays, Halloween was way better, since you got to be spooky then! That reminded him, he had to ask Anxo to go costume shopping soon.

“Nah, Fortnight is for being goofy, you wanna charm the heck out of this man, so how about a waltz? I bet you have some sort of Waltzy music on your computer or something, don’t you?”