[He's still on the bed, but what he hopes she doesn't realize is that he panicked after her message and shoved all three of the spiders into his bedroom closet, hoping they wouldn't make too much noise and scare her off. He flopped back onto the mattress just before she opened his door, and he smiles back at her.]

That sounds great. Thank you for bringing all that stuff over. I've been too lazy to really eat properly the last few days.

[When Bela looks him over, she'll see that his left leg is out in front of him way too straight to be natural. He puts a hand out for the soup, so that she doesn't have to stand there awkwardly holding it any longer.]