"Yes." His slim fingers left the piano bench and reached for hers instead. "We were talking, and you were speaking so softly to me. I touched your cheek. Do you remember?"

Kaworu was trying to say that Shinji was jealous, without betraying their intimacy. Private or not, Asuka needed to know.

"And still, I have to wonder... If his anger, from what he walked in on that day..."

Whether it was really the product of misunderstanding. Kaworu remembered what he told Shinji... I love Asuka. And, he did...

Kaworu's smile wavered. The spoken sentence went unfinished.