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[ieirisms]

i love you, and i'm not gonna let anything like that happen to you again.

she feels him hovering behind her, but it's not long until he closes the gap. the quiet insistence of his touch at her waist, arms wrapping around her and holding her close. she stays quiet, contemplative as she blows smoke out from her lips. it's the last drag before she stubs out her cigarette in the ashtray on the table. the taste of it lingers, dry in her mouth.

she feels his fingers curl against her stomach, shirt fabric wrinkling in his grip. her mind is somewhere far off, even when his lips drop to her shoulder. somewhere, in the soft haze of awareness left for the present, shoko feels the worry radiating off of him in soft pulses, his narrowed gaze regarding her, wordlessly begging for her to come back from wherever her mind has wandered.

his lips are now pressed to the side of her head, his nose buried in the still damp hair clinging to her.

i love you, and i'm not gonna let anything like that happen to you again.

those words fall from his lips like second nature. at least, to her it seems that way. it's enough to snap her back to reality. her bronze gaze sliding sideways as she tilts her head enough to see him, carefully going over his expression.

" what ... what did you say? "

@eleutheriya !