[Adam can't help the way that he sighs as Kavinsky's arms curl around his waist, the repetitive slide of his fingertips a reassuring touch. He asks for loyalty, for friendship, for family. Maybe it should feel possessive. Maybe he should flinch at being called broken. But there's something in the way that he frames it- not that Adam is a broken thing for Kavinsky to play savior for, the way it always felt with Gansey. But instead he says it like Kavinsky and his boys were all lonely and broken, and they could save each other.
And that's something that Adam thinks that even his pride could live with. Because it sounds like Kavinsky isn't asking for anything that he's not willing to give.]
Maybe. Which isn't.. I'm not saying no, okay? You should ask me again when you're a little more coherent.
[His tone isn't cruel, and he doesn't stop touching him, doesn't lean away from the other boy. He knew that Kavinsky was more or less always at least a little bit high, but twenty minutes ago he'd been texting him about how he didn't know what he took, but not to let him have any more. And this was complicated for Adam. It wasn't the sort of thing that he could just say yes to.
And right now he really wanted him to kiss him again.
Kavinsky felt... he didn't know how to put it in words exactly, but he's not in the other boy's lap just because he knows that it will scorch Blue and Gansey to their bones. But the other boy is fiercely attractive and captivating, and he can't help the feeling that he is more than the rumors, more than he seems. The ways that he makes such an effort not to spook Adam, to make sure he feels safe, when everyone else in his life had to be taught.
He can't resist wanting to know him better, to see what he hides.]
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And that's something that Adam thinks that even his pride could live with. Because it sounds like Kavinsky isn't asking for anything that he's not willing to give.]
Maybe. Which isn't.. I'm not saying no, okay? You should ask me again when you're a little more coherent.
[His tone isn't cruel, and he doesn't stop touching him, doesn't lean away from the other boy. He knew that Kavinsky was more or less always at least a little bit high, but twenty minutes ago he'd been texting him about how he didn't know what he took, but not to let him have any more. And this was complicated for Adam. It wasn't the sort of thing that he could just say yes to.
And right now he really wanted him to kiss him again.
Kavinsky felt... he didn't know how to put it in words exactly, but he's not in the other boy's lap just because he knows that it will scorch Blue and Gansey to their bones. But the other boy is fiercely attractive and captivating, and he can't help the feeling that he is more than the rumors, more than he seems. The ways that he makes such an effort not to spook Adam, to make sure he feels safe, when everyone else in his life had to be taught.
He can't resist wanting to know him better, to see what he hides.]
But maybe.