"I mean, most of them are? I don't know a ton of Fai's, like, great-great-aunts who only speak Swedish and English with a hilarious Swedish accent or whatever. And we did sort of go ahead and invite like half the school."

He'd done a lot of dancing in his life, so with him in the lead, there wasn't too much thinking or effort necessary after learning the basic step. He kept it all simple, sweeping her around the floor, trying to keep her from having to do any of the work.

"You're pretty new here, so you're still meeting people, right? Like, when I'd been here a few months, I just had Fai, and... well, a couple other people, but the point is, it wouldn't have looked like this! Don't let it get you down too much, ok?"