Likely Truths
“I like you,” Jax says out of the blue one night, no prompting needed.
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“I like you,” Jax says out of the blue one night, no prompting needed. Both he and Pomni were on a grassy hill under the midnight sky.
“Oh?” Pomni replies, a bit startled. “And why is that?”
“You’re not blind to how this place makes us feel,” Jax tells her. “Everyone either pretends it’s fine or just ignores how this place is making them feel…even I kinda adapted to that a little.”
“A little?” Pomni raises a brow with a cheeky smile.
Jax huffs, rolling his eyes with a smile, “Okay, a lot. Don’t get sassy on me short stack.” He ruffles her hat, he knows that she doesn’t like physical skin-to-skin contact so the hat was placed as a boundary.
It was funny in a way, Jax loved to go out of his way to prank the others and Pomni was no exception. But little things like the hat made her feel warm that he didn’t want to push her over the edge. “I like you too.”
Jax’s eyes widened, clearly not expecting that at all, “Really?”
Pomni nods with a hum.
“Are you sure?” Jax cringes a little, even he knew how much of a brat he could be.
“Yup,” Pomni beams at him. “You’re the only one who’s honest with me.”
Jax's tail twitched as he found himself lost in thought. She was right. Out of everyone here, he was the only one who told her the truth about this place and the type of tragedies that it could bring out. He meant it to be harsh, but in a way, he had unknowingly helped her. “Yeah, I guess I am.”
He looked to her hand resting on the grass, covered by her glove. Boundaries he told himself. His own gloved hand reached over to hers, placing his pinkie on top of her own.
Pomni felt her stomach flip, it was so small but the action made her heart ignite like sparklers. With a blush, she curled her pinkie round his, hearing his sharp intake of breath.
The two didn’t look at each other for the rest of the night, but neither had to turn to know how flustered each of them looked. But that was okay, it was enough.
This was enough.
I like you
An unspoken truth was the loudest sentence heard that night.
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