Mac was smiling. Aoba wasn’t. Shouldn’t that have been a bad sign? Weren’t you supposed to be happy when you liked someone that liked you back?
You’re just going to go around in circles if you get started on this line of thought again, Desire grumbled at him, even while getting him to give Mac a wave back before he was scooping up his things and a very-relieved Ren. You’re going to tell him the truth, then I bet you he’ll be confused, relieved, and happy, in that order, and then the big guy’s going to be our big boyfriend.
And you know what? went on the other aspect, almost sounding aghast. I don’t even care if you don’t hop in the sack right away. He just wants to be loved, remember? And I want to be able to love him.
Aoba stopped short in the middle of his slow walk back across the hangarspaces from Mac’s ship to the Mariner. That…was a pretty effective condensation, wasn’t it? There were things he was afraid of and worried about, rational and irrational alike, but he didn’t disagree. He wanted to be able to love.
He put Ren down as soon as they were back aboard the Mariner, the Allmate immediately looking up and about for Ghost while Aoba, after some hesitance, left his things in the galley area and went about making some hot cups of instant tea, hoping it would help steady him. Sharing tea was one of the things he associated with Declan now, too, so maybe in a way he also wanted to keep up that association.
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You’re just going to go around in circles if you get started on this line of thought again, Desire grumbled at him, even while getting him to give Mac a wave back before he was scooping up his things and a very-relieved Ren. You’re going to tell him the truth, then I bet you he’ll be confused, relieved, and happy, in that order, and then the big guy’s going to be our big boyfriend.
And you know what? went on the other aspect, almost sounding aghast. I don’t even care if you don’t hop in the sack right away. He just wants to be loved, remember? And I want to be able to love him.
Aoba stopped short in the middle of his slow walk back across the hangarspaces from Mac’s ship to the Mariner. That…was a pretty effective condensation, wasn’t it? There were things he was afraid of and worried about, rational and irrational alike, but he didn’t disagree. He wanted to be able to love.
He put Ren down as soon as they were back aboard the Mariner, the Allmate immediately looking up and about for Ghost while Aoba, after some hesitance, left his things in the galley area and went about making some hot cups of instant tea, hoping it would help steady him. Sharing tea was one of the things he associated with Declan now, too, so maybe in a way he also wanted to keep up that association.
This was basically just stage fright, right?