Aria smiled but didn't say anything at first, he knew Narim well enough by now to sense his moods and mostly how to respond to them. Right now Narim seemed tired, so Aria would be calm and quiet.
He crouched in front of him with a gentle "Of course," at his request and began to unlace his shoes.

What he really wanted to do was throw his arms around him and kiss him properly, to ask how he'd been, to tell him how much he'd missed him, how he'd ached every moment of every day since he'd gone away. But of course he did none of those things, though he couldn't help seeming a little preoccupied.