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lemon 
"It's okay. I like it just fine." Girlfriend. Girlfriend. Girlfriend girlfriend girlfriend. Alice mouthed the word to herself again and again, overturning his hand and spelling the letters out onto his palm. G-I-R-L-F-R-I-E-N-D. That's what she was now, wasn't she? "Boyfriend, though. Cacti aren't boyfriends. Most people would want something more pleasant and non-prickly for a companion. Maybe we should we rename you."
Her hands? She studied her own, too, because she'd been looking at his for a very long time and had already mostly memorized the way they felt and how fit into hers. "They're okay, I guess. Very capable of doing scary things. But I like yours better." Because his ones could hold hers and touch her cheek and make jelly slug jewelry. Better, see?
Oh, hmm. Mo shifted his gaze from their hands to Alice's face and stuck out his tongue in the Most Mature Move Ever. He was a boyfriend now, and so obviously very mature. "I like being a Cactus, though. I'm good at it." And it was his Alice-nickname. Did anyone else even have one of those?
As for her assertion that his hands were better... agree to disagree on that one. Maybe better when they were holding her hand? But that was
possibly the cheesiest thing ever said, and Mo was determined not to be cheesy if he could help it. Instead he just shrugged. Rather eloquently, he thought, but still just a shrug.
"Vivi's invited me to come visit for my birthday, and I can stay until she decides she hates me again. We ought to plan an adventure. Maybe several adventures. One every day for as long as Vivi likes me."