Things got so much weirder tonight. Long story short, I let him drive me home. I just recapped this for a friend, so here it is. Thoughts are always appreciated! 
So, we were in the car. Just shooting the shit, talking about random stuff, talked about Ultron and he has no idea I’ve seen it, etc. It was good. He said he was super tired and I told him he should go to bed when he gets home. He said he needed to eat first, and then told me he’d probably make pasta. A couple minutes later, he asks me what I’m going to eat and I told him I didn’t know and needed to go grocery shopping. He said I could come eat pasta if I wanted, and I thought about it for a minute. It was really funny because he looked over at me really oddly while I paused and finally I said, “Okay.”
So we drove, got to his house, and I just kind of hung out in his living room/bedroom while he put some water on. We just ended up talking a bunch, he played some stuff on his mandolin for me, and he’d leave every few minutes to go check on something in the kitchen. He kept asking me what I was doing and I told him I was just sitting and hanging out and he told me I could do that at the kitchen table. So I hung out in there, he gave me some fruit candies in my favorite flavor/the flavor he won’t eat, let me eat a cookie his mom made, and joked around about the pasta. It was made, we ate it, it was good, he gave me some homemade lemonade to drink with it when he asked if I was thirsty and I said yes.
Finished dinner, I washed my dish, he said he had to go to the bathroom, so I just went and hung back out on his loveseat in the other room. It’s a weird apartment so I’m not sure how else to explain it other than it’s a split living room/bedroom. He came in, sat down, and asked me what I wanted to do. I said that he looked pretty tired and I could go, or he could come watch an episode of our show, or we could always do that later. He agreed with that, but we both just kind of sat there. I looked at his mandolin and asked him if he’d finished this song he was working on. He told me no but that he had some new lyrics and I joked that of course I wouldn’t get to hear them because he never plays anything in the works for me. He got the lyrics up on his laptop for me instead and let me read them.
I don’t know how we got there, but I ended up going through his iTunes and seeing what he’d recently bought. On there was this song that I once put in a video about the two of us, that he’d gotten off the USB drive I let him borrow. I started playing that, and it’s kind of about love, and he just sat with his chin in his hands and kind of glanced at me then wouldn’t look at me and seemed to be thinking. I switched through a bunch of other songs after that, and we sang along. The weird thing though was that during this whole thing, he kind of moved closer to me on the couch. He lightly brushed my giant bruise on my knee a couple of times with his fingers, like more than once. He also adjusted himself at one point so my feet were touching his leg and then eventually adjusted so our feet were touching.
Finally, he asked again what I wanted to do. I told him I knew he was tired, so I’d head out. He just kind of said okay and looked really exhausted but also troubled. I told him he looked like something was wrong and he denied it a bunch of times. He asked me if I needed a ride home and I told him it was only three blocks. He tried to insist but I told him to sleep and that I’d text him when I made it home so he knew I was fine. He agreed to that, and gave me a hug good bye.
He only put one arm around me, but the hug lasted a lot longer than it probably should’ve. Then he kind of pulled back and said something, I don’t remember what, and we sort of hugged again. Then again he said something and then was silent, we both had our arms around each other’s waists, and rubbed the other one with our thumbs slightly. I felt like maybe he wanted to kiss me, but didn’t. So then he said he’d walk me downstairs, and I let him. He stood at the door and said good night and I told him I’d see him tomorrow. He said the matinee is at 4:45 and I told him I’d see him and Spencer then, then clarified that he and I were going to do dinner afterwards. He said sure and that it sounded good. Then we just kind of looked at each other and I smiled and said good night and walked off.
