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Nyx was hanging out with Ethan in the 小庇护所 (Xiǎo bìhù suǒ), “sanctuary” in chinese, he’d been doing that a lot lately he reflected. He looked over at him, GOD! He's so cute when he struggles to read. Ntx thought to himself as Ethan sat on one of the bean bags straining to get a grasp on the dr. sues book in front of him. An idea popped into Nyx’s head, Ethan couldn’t speak Mandarin…
“我爱你” (Wǒ ài nǐ) he says beaming at his own genius.
“Huh?” Ethan starts, and before Nyx can repeat himself, “oh, I love you too.” He didn’t even look up from his book, cat in the hat.
Nyx flushed, he knew mandarin!? “You d- WAIT- How’d you-?” he sputtered out.
Ethan realized what he’d said, promptly also flushed, and said, “My godparents are from China!!” the words tumbling out of his mouth.
Nyx stared embarrassed, “I’m so sor-, wait you love me too?” he said, cocking his eyebrow.
Ethan buried his face in his hands and mumbled something that sounded like, “I wanna die.” Nyx laughed, the red creeping away from his face, ready to tease Ethan about this till he died.
“Soooo,” he said slowly, sliding off his own bean bag and creeping towards Ethan’s, “you LOVE me too?” he teased.
Nyx climbed into the bean bag with Ethan, who still had his face buried in his book. Nyx was practically sitting on Ethan at this point and was pleasantly surprised when Ethan peeked his big green eyes over the book. He was glaring at Nyx, not in a genuinely hateful stare, more of a ‘You’re so annoying’ look.
Nyx pulled the book down to Ethan’s chest and gave him a peck on the cheek before preparing to get up. He had only slightly risen when Ethan pulled him back down, threw the book, and pulled him into a kiss. Nyx was surprised, but not displeased. They sat up in that treehouse making out until Nyx’s step-mom, Molly, caught them.
“If I’d known you were up there canoodling with a boy I would’ve knocked,” she teased after Ethan had left, redder than his dusty pink hair.
“I wasn’t canoodling with a boy,” Nyx said in indignation. “I was making out with a boy.”
“Oh, excuse me, making out with a boy~,” she said with a wink.