[The contact feels so fragile, and something in his chest feels so heavy when Lance kisses back, because that certainty of belonging together is well and truly just gone. The doubts don't leave his thoughts, the way their lips connect no longer feels as much like two halves becoming whole and... and then it's over.
Kissing Lance is different now, a sad kind of sweet where it'd once been every cliched superlative in the book. Maybe there's some kind of relief to be found in being so much more anchored to reality, even if for right now it hurts because the memory of being so effortless together, all but literally floating is still smoldering and intoxicatingly warm.
Even with that in mind, his breath still hitches when Lance presses in close for another kiss, skin tingling at the nuzzling. Despite it all, Keith can't help smiling. Those are his reactions now, things he feels because they're real. They're going to talk later -- that's set in stone now. Decided.]
Want to go back to sleep? [It's a quiet little question asked in a voice barely louder than a whisper. He stays close enough that he feels the way they're breathing has synchronized at some point in time.] I think I slept better these past few days.
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Kissing Lance is different now, a sad kind of sweet where it'd once been every cliched superlative in the book. Maybe there's some kind of relief to be found in being so much more anchored to reality, even if for right now it hurts because the memory of being so effortless together, all but literally floating is still smoldering and intoxicatingly warm.
Even with that in mind, his breath still hitches when Lance presses in close for another kiss, skin tingling at the nuzzling. Despite it all, Keith can't help smiling. Those are his reactions now, things he feels because they're real. They're going to talk later -- that's set in stone now. Decided.]
Want to go back to sleep? [It's a quiet little question asked in a voice barely louder than a whisper. He stays close enough that he feels the way they're breathing has synchronized at some point in time.] I think I slept better these past few days.
[Because of you.]