Re: The Capital: Holly W & Noah N
Holly knew. He knew that Noah moved a lot. Noah moved a lot, and he took up a lot of space, and he said words that involved lots of feelings. These were things Holly knew about Noah, right? He knew them, and he liked them, and Noah was over there being jittery, and Holly was trying to refrain from touching the sweater that draped over Noah's hands, which, you know, was probably the beginning of some thaw setting in. Though, let's be real. Holly had started to thaw hours earlier. He was just kinda slow about it.
He was glad when Noah closed the door, though he wasn't actually aware of it until the door was closed. It was the motel thing again, right? That warring within himself, and he kinda wanted to have it out. Okay, he didn't want to throw fists and scream or anything, but he kinda thought he might explode if he didn't talk, which he completely blamed on Noah. Holly had never been a big talker, well, not outside of his own head, and the past two months had totally changed that. It was like a lifetime of defense mechanisms shattered by one boy's stupid smile.
Noah sat, and Holly held his breath for a few seconds. The press of thigh against thigh felt like some thermonuclear reaction or warp core overload, and Holly clasped his hands together tighter, you know, because. He listened to the words of the song, and he knew Noah was teasing, and he just gave him a world of side-eye. But, right, words. "You know, it's kinda a lot, right? Adrian's over there acting entitled, like sucking your cock means he has some say in you, and then he's all about why he does it, the cottaging, and it reminds me that you might want to go back to that, that it's this massive unknown. And then Dietre waltzes in and spends an extraordinary amount of time conveying how you're too good for me, while also acting way entitled to your ass, and I didn't even know you were close, so I was left looking like a massive idiot, and it's... just, it's a lot." Not nearly as casual as he intended to be, yeah? But, right, there it was.