[Alec’s words may at first be his usual type of reply, but he can see the way his remark affects him. How he leans in, so close, his expression far from smug. Henry expects what he thinks will be a kiss, until: I love you, too.
And there it is again, that sentiment Alec always gives so freely — the one that makes Henry feel like someone who’s wanted as much as he wants in turn. A void filled until it’s overflowing, except this time, it’s spilling out over the edges, pleasantly overwhelming.
He had never understood what anyone meant when they said love hurts; inane sentiment, he thought, just more performative nonsense to romanticize a relationship between two people. But now, Henry thinks he is beginning to understand its complexities — because he aches, utterly aches, thinking about how lacking he was before he met Alec. How even emptier and more purposeless his world would be without him. How he’d do anything for him, but that still doesn’t feel like enough.
He loves him, too. Really loves him. Somehow. For some reason.
There’s only one thing he can do: he closes that middling space between them and brings their lips together, almost desperate on his end.]
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And there it is again, that sentiment Alec always gives so freely — the one that makes Henry feel like someone who’s wanted as much as he wants in turn. A void filled until it’s overflowing, except this time, it’s spilling out over the edges, pleasantly overwhelming.
He had never understood what anyone meant when they said love hurts; inane sentiment, he thought, just more performative nonsense to romanticize a relationship between two people. But now, Henry thinks he is beginning to understand its complexities — because he aches, utterly aches, thinking about how lacking he was before he met Alec. How even emptier and more purposeless his world would be without him. How he’d do anything for him, but that still doesn’t feel like enough.
He loves him, too. Really loves him. Somehow. For some reason.
There’s only one thing he can do: he closes that middling space between them and brings their lips together, almost desperate on his end.]