Breathe
“I love you.”
In the silence that followed his words, Laxus found himself swallowing heavily, sucking down air to replaced what had escaped, during his admission, but the room felt lacking it then. Like all the air had been sucked from it by something else, before he got a chance at it.
Someone else, maybe.
Her.
Mirajane.
She took a deep breath too, at his words, he could see it, he could see her, only her, and her eyes were so blue and big and round and perfect and he wanted to stay like then, he had to stay like this, how could he not stay like this just forever, but if more air wasn’t supplied into the room soon, then he’d have to belly crawl out,, get away from here, to wherever the oxygen had been pumped instead.
He didn’t think that they’d end up there that night.
Back at his place.
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