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"Espresso," Madeleine mumbled his name, pulling him into a hug. "Espresso, Espresso, Espresso." Head over shoulder, tilted to the side so to hear his racing heart. Oh, how he wanted this. How he's wanted to hug Espresso all this time, to be close and play, for their talk to be so much more—only to be held back by his own state of mind, that it would ruin everything, it would ruin their public image, the both of them, and everything would go away. It was his greatest fear and greatest hurdle. "You mean so much to me. You're worth all of the sweets and flowers and gifts on the holidays. You're so important."
Espresso stiffened against him, his breaths going shallow and quick. His heart was beating so fast, so strongly that it betrayed his liveliness. It took more than a few moments to reply, but the way his hand reaffirmed its place in Madeleine's hair, slowly combing through and joining warmly with the back of his neck, was more than enough of a response.
"Madeleine... I think I'm in love with you," Espresso admitted softly, a strange sort of tightness in his voice.
Madeleine accidentally bumps one of Espresso's shelves and gets a potion on him.
This changes everything.