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Miyano sat comfortably nestled in Sasaki’s lap; his back pressed against his boyfriend's chest, as they snuggled together on Sasaki’s bed. They took advantage of the fact that Sasaki’s family were out for the evening, meaning they had the place to themselves.
They decided to use this time to read a new bl manga that had sparked Miyano’s interest, which he held open for both to read. Sasaki rested his chin gently on Miyano’s shoulder, reading along but was vastly more satisfied with just holding his precious Miya in his arms.
Miyano felt Sasaki’s arms cuddle tighter around him, the older male’s breath tickling against his neck. He paused his reading to turn his head back to Sasaki. “You okay?”
“Mhm, just happy to be cuddling you.”
Miyano went red and couldn’t help the shy smile that appeared, his attention hastily returning to the pages in his hand. “I-I’m happy about that too. Did you want to stop here?”
“No, no. We can keep reading, I want to know what happens next.” Sasaki playfully shook Miyano, encouraging him to resume reading which got him to laugh a little and Sasaki’s heart felt like it stopped beating for a second when hearing it.
It was the sweetest sound.
After reading through a few more pages, they stumble across a page of the manga that turned playful. One of the characters had begun tickling the other, tears of mirth forming in that character’s eyes and a pure look of mischief in the others.
Miyano couldn’t help but smile at the playful act, he always thought the idea of couples tickling in bl was an adorable trope and it even helped to move the plot along, in some cases. It always looked fun, too…
A sudden poke to his side caused him to startle out a squeak, his face heating up before hearing Sasaki’s snickering behind him.
“I was checking to see if you were still awake, you had been looking at this page for a long time.”
“O-Oh, um, I’m sorry! I got lost in thought for a second,” Miyano stuttered, trying to regain his composure. “L-Let’s keep going.”
“Is everything okay?”
“I’m fine.”
Sasaki looked at the side of Miya’s face briefly, unconvinced. His eyes landed back on the page at the current scene and noted the tickle scene and curiosity struck the older male.
“Hey, Miya?”
“Yes? – Ah!”
Sasaki began to gently wiggle his fingers against Miyano’s sides, which created an adorable flow of giggles to stream from the smaller male’s lips.
“Hehehey!”
Sasaki chuckled at the reaction, pausing his fingers to allow his boyfriend to catch his breath. “I was just curious if you were ticklish.”
“Y-You know I am, I’m pretty sure you’ve tickled me before.”
“Only the little poke here and there, that’s not really tickling.” Sasaki then started to dig his fingers into Miyano’s ribs which startled another laugh from him. “Not like this!”
“Sahahasaki!”
Miyano squirmed trying to move away from the tickle attack, but his seating position rendered him helpless and trapped in Sasaki’s arms. All he could do was laugh and squeal whenever Sasaki tickled a particular ticklish spot.
“You’re too cute for your own good, Miya.” Sasaki smiled, continuing his playful tickling while his heart melted at the sight of Miyano all flustered and giggly. It was when his fingers travelled around to Miya’s tummy that he knew he hit the jackpot.
Miyano positively squealed as his tummy was tickled, his legs kicking out and his head shaking from side to side.
“THAHAT TIHIHICKLES, SAHAHSAKI!”
“I can tell,” Sasaki laughed along with Miya’s hysterical laughter, completely lost in the sound. He could listen to it all day and never grow tired of it. However, when Miyano started to cough that’s when he decided to end the tickles. “You okay? Sorry, I kinda got carried away there.”
“Noho kidding,” Miyano tried to catch his breath, his hair messed up and his face still cute and flushed. “But that was actually fun.”
“Yeah, you liked that, huh?” Sasaki smiled, cuddling his boyfriend close to his chest again and using a hand to help fix his messy strands of hair.
“I guess I did,” Miyano thought he would have felt embarrassed by admitting it, but Sasaki always seemed to make him feel comfortable and at ease. Just one of the many reasons he liked him so much.