Cheriour gazes at Eighis like he had gone out of his mind and had said to jump off a skyscraper wearing polka-dotted overalls made of feathers. Eighis merely stares back at him, mouth a line, tapping his pen against his journal impatiently.
"Look, when I said that I would help you with understanding the human body a little better, I didn't mean this! I'll tell you about the organs, I'll tell you about how we digest our food, I'll even tell you about mucus and saliva, but the last thing I'm doing is this!" Cheriour frowns, folding his arms.
"But you do understand, we need to know how the other species works. And you did say you would do anything to help me so that there would be no misunderstanding. I don't see what's the problem here."
"The problem is is that it's kind of a private thing that's only shared between people who are really into each other, and..." He pauses, feeling himself flushing and really understanding why he's getting really worked up about this. "That's enough! Yes! Can we...can we just move on, now?"
Eighis grumbles and turns the page, and Cheriour stands there, face as red as a tomato. He feels foolish. He feels weird, and strange, and much later, when their relationship takes a turn that he didn't expect, he'll remember that feeling again, and realize that there was so much more in that than the embarrassment over showing his anatomy.
I DON'T THINK I CAN WRITE ANY MORE WOW THIS IS JUST THE WORST i'm sorry OTL
wow this is horrible i'm sorry
"W-what?!"
"I said, drop them."
Cheriour gazes at Eighis like he had gone out of his mind and had said to jump off a skyscraper wearing polka-dotted overalls made of feathers. Eighis merely stares back at him, mouth a line, tapping his pen against his journal impatiently.
"Look, when I said that I would help you with understanding the human body a little better, I didn't mean this! I'll tell you about the organs, I'll tell you about how we digest our food, I'll even tell you about mucus and saliva, but the last thing I'm doing is this!" Cheriour frowns, folding his arms.
"But you do understand, we need to know how the other species works. And you did say you would do anything to help me so that there would be no misunderstanding. I don't see what's the problem here."
"The problem is is that it's kind of a private thing that's only shared between people who are really into each other, and..." He pauses, feeling himself flushing and really understanding why he's getting really worked up about this. "That's enough! Yes! Can we...can we just move on, now?"
Eighis grumbles and turns the page, and Cheriour stands there, face as red as a tomato. He feels foolish. He feels weird, and strange, and much later, when their relationship takes a turn that he didn't expect, he'll remember that feeling again, and realize that there was so much more in that than the embarrassment over showing his anatomy.
I DON'T THINK I CAN WRITE ANY MORE WOW THIS IS JUST THE WORST i'm sorry OTL