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PP sits beside Billkin, with oranges on his lap and he starts peeling the hard orange skins one by one layers. Billkin only looks at PP’s hands and it’s his first time realizing his hands are literal god sends: they are slim, pretty, and just plain beautiful. When PP was done taking his time peeling it, he moves his hand towards Billkin showing the orange to him “here, i think it’s the sweet one” and Billkin looked softly at him, and he felt like crying.
The thing is, to billkin orange is a fruit of warmth and gentleness, orange is a way to show how big your love is to someone because it is hard to peel one and someone who peels it for you must care about you so so much without them realizing it and billkin loves orange, for both fruit and color. He had never thought of a stranger, who is not the same blood as him, would care about him this much.
“Oh no” PP moves closer because Billkin’s tears are suddenly flowing down on his cheeks “are you okay?” PP puts his other hand on Billkin’s right arm and holds it, making sure if he’s okay. Billkin didn’t realize his tears are there, because his eyes could not leave the orange in PP’s hands and his mind went elsewhere “oh, i’m fine” Billkin smiles softly while wiping his tears off his face “maybe im just tired” PP still looks at him with worried eyes “you sure? you don’t wanna talk about it?” “yes” Billkin smiles again with his teeth this time “i feel really really okay now” and PP’s worried face softens and gave Billkin a small smile. Billkin thinks that quick face transition is so silly, PP is just so silly.
“okay, now eat this orange” PP peeled one orange from the full one in his hand and moves it towards Billkin’s mouth. At this moment, Billkin just obliges like a baby bird and opened his mouth ready to munch the little orange in between PP’s fingers “you’re right, it’s sweet” PP smiles at that, “yeah, i’m always right” and Billkin snickers before he said “i love you.. and thank you” PP gave him this look, as if it’s his first time hearing it. “i love you too—” a pause and then “did you cry because i peeled an orange for you?” of course that’s a PP thing to say and of course PP could read him so easily like that. Billkin gave a little sigh with a big smile on his face “i love you” pp laughs with all his heart because he knows he figured it out “oh please, i love you more”