"I wanted to ask you," Arthur started, then took a breath.

So. He had to actually make it through the sentence.

"I wanted to ask you if you wanted to court. Me. Not in general." That was probably obvious, now that he had said it, but it was too late to be more eloquent now.

Arthur was way more suave when he was just kissing people; this whole 'being a real adult' thing was far more complicated than he wanted it to be.

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