Seeing Shannon still at his words, Eli stood up and moved one of his hands up and curled it around the side of his neck gently to stroke his neck with his thumb. He wanted him to fall into the right mindset as gently as possible and was doing his best to facilitate that.

"I want you to be patient and draw it out," he responded gently as he leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. He does like Shannon's playfulness and wouldn't want it to go away no matter what, but he knew he could draw this out so that it wasn't just something that happened in the beginning and disappeared partway through. "I want you to be like this the entire time once we're done getting changed."