Last night, I was out with my friends for New Years (Happy New Years, everyone!) and I was with my guy friend that was - as I found out later that night - into me and had his arm around my waist and was holding my hand with his free hand. He was like stroking his thumb over the eczema on the back of my hand and, under the light of the bar, you could see how bumpy and bleh my skin looked bc I was wearing short sleeves and.. he just kept gently stroking his thumb over my skin, and we weren’t really saying anything, just like swaying to the song playing. And, bc of my anxiety and weirdness about my skin, I blurted out an apology bc I know it wasn’t nice to touch or see (not to mention I’d already faced a comment or two earlier in the night about my skin, so I was a little extra sensitive) and he just looked confused and was like “what are you talking about, you look great” and like the immediate confusion just.. made me feel things lmao like idk it felt so. Nice??? Idk I’m rambling sorry
