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“My love, they would be looking for us soon.” Long Mian feels the vestiges of consciousness slowly slip from him, yet he fights it. If only to look at his lover, who was smiling at him while absently playing with the hair at the back his horns.
Jacob heavily blinks. “Do you care?”
Long Mian finds that he does not. He would much rather be where they were right now, squeezed together on the couch with Jacob pressed together by the backrest and Long Mian’s body like a sandwich. His long tail hung loose over the couch, and they both use the throw pillows as a pillow to help elevate Long Mian’s head so his horns wouldn’t be obstructed by the arm rest of the couch. It was a bit uncomfortable, and they would rather sleep on an actual bed. But it was their special time together, and nothing could take this moment away from them— not even the impracticality of sleeping on the couch.
Long Mian wraps his arms around Jacob’s waist and pulls himself closer to the man. “I do not.” He buries his face to the side of Jacob’s head. The base of his horns poking on his temples.
”Good.” Jacob stops playing with his hair to trail his hand down. Down, down, down. All the way to his chest, and he presses his hand.
Thump, thump, thump. Came the beat of his heart. It was slowly becoming Jacob’s new favorite rhythm. It was strong like a stallion. Yet gentle like a feather. It was steady like a river. And Jacob loved the heart that was beating with all of his own heart.
”Do you like how my heart feels?” Long Mian asks with a slight curl of his lips.
Jacob smiles back. “I love it.”
”Then I hope you are aware that it is yours.” Long Mian went and placed his own gloved hand over Jacob’s.
Jacob grabs Long Mian’s hand and places over his own chest. Long Mian could feel the gentle ballad of heart and ribcage, and he treasured the beautiful sound with the flat of his palm. Jacob smiles at the lovestruck expression that Long Mian was making, and he tells him. “Mine is yours as well.”
Long Mian, in his sleepy haze, leans in to press a quick kiss on Jacob’s soft lips. Jacob kisses back, and they stayed that way for a couple of seconds before they pulled away.
”I love you, my darling.”
”I love you too, my treasure.”
And then they let the remaining wakefulness in them slip away as they both fell asleep.