"I don't think you need to go that far!" But Xander laughs again, despite knowing Alice is probably serious. Deadly serious. He's just banking on the fact that most of the other people will be too busy dancing and enjoying the party on their own to notice any goofs that either of them make.
Or so he hopes, anyway.
He won't take her hand unless she accepts his, though. Even if it's supposed to be a thing with waltzing. She might know it, but Alice is also averse to being touched, normally. Which Xander knows. So hey, he'll just fake it. That tends to be the way he operates lately. And he feels that so long as he's not actually hurting anyone, it's okay.
"So did you ever learn to waltz, back where you were? Or did that get skipped in all the chaos? Alex's foster mom taught me--mostly because I think she felt I needed some sort of refinement." Xander laughed at that, because he knew for a fact that when Rose had offered that to him, she hadn't meant it as an insult. And hey, he'd been curious anyway! It hadn't hurt anyone, after all--and it seemed to be a good idea here!
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Or so he hopes, anyway.
He won't take her hand unless she accepts his, though. Even if it's supposed to be a thing with waltzing. She might know it, but Alice is also averse to being touched, normally. Which Xander knows. So hey, he'll just fake it. That tends to be the way he operates lately. And he feels that so long as he's not actually hurting anyone, it's okay.
"So did you ever learn to waltz, back where you were? Or did that get skipped in all the chaos? Alex's foster mom taught me--mostly because I think she felt I needed some sort of refinement." Xander laughed at that, because he knew for a fact that when Rose had offered that to him, she hadn't meant it as an insult. And hey, he'd been curious anyway! It hadn't hurt anyone, after all--and it seemed to be a good idea here!