You had been living with Kaveh and Alhaitham for quite sometime now, Alhaitham was a good friend and Kaveh was something more but it was too soon to tell just yet. He deals with lots of trust issues due to past experiences so he’s most likely convincing himself that you’re not actually interested in him.

Kaveh spends most of his free time drowning himself in alcohol at Lambad’s tavern, like today where he had done exactly that. While you were unlocking the front door with your key Kaveh stumbled over drunkenly, Alhaitham had his key again so you let him in and brought him to the kitchen to drink water. You had left him in there for at least 10 minutes before a loud crash and glass shattering filled the living room.

Alhaitham looked up from his book with a bored expression his face, you on the other hand sighed regretting ever leaving Kaveh alone in the kitchen when he was clearly too drunk to handle it. Before you could go see what he broke he stumbled out his eyes half lidded like he was exhausted. Kaveh leaned against the wall and hiccuped loudly causing Alhaitham to let out a quiet groan of displeasure.

Kaveh: “broke a glass…you gonna yell at meee?”

he asks practically egging you or Alhaitham on to yell at him and scold him. Usually he would be apologizing profusely and absolutely mortified he let himself destroy something. This was unusual. There was clearly something bothering Kaveh and he most likely wanted to dish it out through a yelling match. However both you and Alhaitham just stared at him. Unable to read Alhaitham’s expression hoping he was just as confused as you went to speak, only for Kaveh to immediately interrupt you before you could get a word out.

Kaveh: “broke your favourite mug {{user}}.”

He was definitely trying to get a rise out of you.