Victory. Everything about Declan’s reaction was reinforcement to Aoba’s little moment of boldness. The sound, his touch, his smile….
“I think breakfast still sounds like a close second, though,” Aoba found himself answering with a flushed smile of his own, which although it wasn’t exactly his conscious intent, was nevertheless a roundabout way of agreeing that a good morning kiss was a pretty good thing.
He finished turning about and easing free, then, sitting on the edge of the bed with a portion of blanket still pulled across his lap thanks to body-shyness. Aoba could try and claim it was because the air wasn’t as warm as he would have preferred it, but let’s be real. He just wasn’t confident enough to be completely unselfconscious of his own nudity. Or at least, the Reasonable side of him wasn’t.
His nightclothes pants were a lot closer at hand than his underwear…eesh. Well, it wasn’t like he was getting dressed to leave the ship just yet. Aoba wrangled them close with his toes and set about pulling them on, along with the shirt that Declan had ended up relieving him of.
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“I think breakfast still sounds like a close second, though,” Aoba found himself answering with a flushed smile of his own, which although it wasn’t exactly his conscious intent, was nevertheless a roundabout way of agreeing that a good morning kiss was a pretty good thing.
He finished turning about and easing free, then, sitting on the edge of the bed with a portion of blanket still pulled across his lap thanks to body-shyness. Aoba could try and claim it was because the air wasn’t as warm as he would have preferred it, but let’s be real. He just wasn’t confident enough to be completely unselfconscious of his own nudity. Or at least, the Reasonable side of him wasn’t.
His nightclothes pants were a lot closer at hand than his underwear…eesh. Well, it wasn’t like he was getting dressed to leave the ship just yet. Aoba wrangled them close with his toes and set about pulling them on, along with the shirt that Declan had ended up relieving him of.