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Toey doesn’t know what got into Q today. Last time they spoke, Q seemed on edge. They were in the cafeteria after Peem and the others left.
Toey asked how he was doing on his drawing, and Q responded with a lot more feedback than normal. Things like shading, proportion, scale, and he even went as far as to say that he didn’t like the shade of the background.
It was odd, because Toey thought that his drawing skills were getting better. Usually Q has feedback, but he was being knit-picky this time.
“P’Q, don’t you think you’re being a bit harsh?” Toey pouts at his mentor, who is unyielding.
”I think what’s harsh is this line right here,” Q points at a random line without breaking eye contact. Toey knows its just teasing, but he can’t help but feel just a tad hurt.
Q looks like he just came up with an idea, as he smirks at Toey.
“You should work on your drawing later with me,” Q looks away, “at my place,” he finishes.
Toey smiles and shakes his head, as he sees right through Q in this moment.
”If you wanted to hang out with your mentee that badly, you could’ve just said so.”
Q looks back at him and rolls his eyes.
“Are you coming or not?” Q looks away again, crossing his arms and leaning back.
Toey feels so much adoration towards Q at this moment, he’s so cute when he’s annoyed at Toey. But he’d never tell Q that.
“Do I even have a choice?” Toey watches as Q sticks his tongue out at him, packs up, and leaves for his class.
That’s how Toey found himself wondering what’s up with Q, as he goes to knock on Q’s apartment door.
Q is super excited to have Toey over. They don’t often get to spend time alone. He looks around his room and does a small bit of cleaning. He looks over at his easel, and notices his drawing of Toey.
Q can’t even lie, it’s a really good drawing. He didn’t even need to use a reference to perfectly capture Toey’s bright, shining eyes. He’s looked into them more than enough times to memorize them.
He thanks the universe for letting him catch the drawing while it was in plain sight, Toey doesn’t know Q’s feelings yet. While he wants to change that today, he doesn't want to freak Toey out with this drawing of him. Besides, Q doesn’t need Toey to know that he is, in fact, a little obsessed with his mentee.
Q picks up the drawing, looking down at it and smiling. He decided to place it in one of his textbooks, away from where Toey would see it
Knock knock knock.
Q gathers himself, and shakes off his anxiety through his arms. He opens the door, revealing a smiling Toey. He’s wearing a cute fuzzy sweater with a teddy bear on it, how fitting.
”Hi,” Toey welcomes himself in as Q scratches his head, then leads Toey to his room with the easel.
Q watches as Toey takes in his surroundings, he seems intrigued by every little thing. Toey is standing in front of Q, with his back facing him.
Q takes a step forward, so he's now a foot away from Toey.
“What’s so interesting?” Q crosses his arms and smirks.
“You are what’s interesting” Toey says as he turns to face Q.
Q blushes and coughs, “We should get to work on that drawing,” he says in a high pitched voice.
Toey smirks, “Of course”.
Toey sits down by the easel and whips out his drawing, and Q immediately notices that he seemed to have taken all of Q’s advice already. And the drawing even looked finished.
”Well, you’ve already fixed everything,” Q says while nodding, “so do you wanna watch a movie or something, since you’re already here?”
Toey doesn’t know how to respond. He’s suddenly overwhelmed with joy that he decided to work on the drawing beforehand.
“Sure,” Toey nods. He’s trying to tell himself to be normal about watching the movie with Q.
“Okay, I have to use the bathroom real quick though” Q says and Toey nods.
When Q leaves, Toey finds himself wandering through his mentor’s room. Smiling at every detail he gets to take in of his crush's interests, he sees that Q is reading his favorite manga, and hurriedly takes it off the shelf. In doing so, he accidentally knocks Q’s textbook off the shelf.
A small, folded piece of paper falls out. Toey picks it up to place it back into the book, when he sees a familiar pair of eyes on the paper. He knows he shouldn't be this nosy, but he can’t help it.
He opens the messily folded paper to reveal a drawing of…
“Toey?” Q is standing under the door that connects his bathroom to his room. He watches as Toey whips around, with his hands behind his back. He looks suspicious.
Q makes his way towards Toey when the sight of the textbook, open on the floor, hits Q with a tsunami of embarrassment. Q’s face turns a bright shade of red as he scrambles to pick the textbook off the floor, desperate to see the drawing he hid so meticulously.
He doesn’t find it and he looks up at Toey, eyes asking for a sign of comfort.
Toey reveals the drawing from behind his back, with a guilty look on his face. He opens his mouth to speak, when Q interjects—
“I know, it’s weird” Q looks away, his face still burning as bright as the sun.
He thinks about how Toey is probably freaked out, and thinks Q is a creep. He’s so lost in his thoughts that he doesn’t even notice Toey step forward.
“I’m sorry, I was looking at this manga that we both liked and I knocked the textbook over and it fell out. I didn’t mean to snoop.”
Q looks back at Toey, who looks genuinely apologetic. Does Toey pity him? Q starts to feel defensive.
“I think you should go,” Q says softly and nods towards the door.
”But this doesn’t change anything,” Toey says, and Q feels pathetic.
”What do you mean it doesn’t change anything?” Q is getting worked up. He sees toey get closer and it fuels Q even more.
He starts to go off, “Toey, I feel so dumb, and…” Q goes quiet as Toey takes a step forward, grabs Q’s face, and swiftly pulls him in so their lips meet.
Q feels how eager Toey was to kiss him.
Toey wants and needs Q to feel how much Toey adores him. He starts by kissing Q slowly, as Q directs their rhythm.
It was a short kiss, because Toey pulls away, Q opens his eyes and Toey smiles and pokes Q’s cheek.
“You didn’t even let me speak. I’ve never seen a piece of art that beautiful, and I wish you could see your talent for yourself. I know you feel like you need to be this great mentor all the time, but you really just have to be yourself. The rest comes naturally to you.” Toey finishes his little rant as Q smiles.
Q grabs Toey by the waist and pulls him in for another kiss. This is how Q is comfortable conveying his emotions for now.
And Toey seems to like it too, especially when Q nibbles on his bottom lip and Toey gasps. When their tongues meet, Q feels the electricity.
Q pulls away and Toey leans forward, chasing after his lips. Q puts a finger between their lips and keeps Toey from kissing him again.
Toey frowns, as Q smiles and says, “We still have that movie to watch”.