Slaine peeled his eyes away from the blood stain to look up at Levi, who seemed to be staring at him with worry in his eyes.
“Are you okay? You seemed to be frozen at the table?”
Slaine’s face burned in shame, his eyes returning to the stain on the ground. “I’m fine. I just don’t drink.”
“Oh, if it’s something as simple as that, you should have said it. No one will force you to drink. But, on the offhand, if there’s something else you want to say, you can say it. I won’t judge.”
Could he tell the most beautiful being he had ever seen that he didn’t have enough money for the drinks? He was sure they weren’t expensive, but he was a broke student. And the little money he did have saved up, he didn’t want to use it on drinks. He wanted to continue saving to move into a small studio once sc
