"I can walk slower." And as if on cue, he did.

"I was just worried ye might need to go somewhere. I can walk alone if ye need to go." Tobias strongly invited.

"Nah, I have nothing better to do. I can walk with you, don't worry." Because Tobias was definitely worrying about that.

"Alright..." Tobias walked on and looked straight ahead again.

"Sure is." Anthony slowed down enough to be able to walk right at Tobias' side again, and just held onto his arm.

Tobias pulled his arm away and turned to the man. "Ok, you need to cut this out!"

Anthony flinched. He looked confused. "Why? What did I do?" He understood that the problem was most likely him being so clingy, but he didn't understand why it was such a big deal.

The fact that the other man seemed to have no idea what he was talking about made him feel embarrassed again. Was it just him? Was he doing that thing again? "You keep... holding on to me and all that..."

Anthony just looked up at Tobias with that incredulous look on his face and fluttered his eyelashes again, because he is a terrible person. "I didn't know you were so bothered by...someone holding onto you," he said, but he was nice enough to not touch him anymore.

Tobias became even more uncomfortable. He just turned and started to walk again, so flustered that he took a wrong turn.