“ you’re either with me or against me. ”
a meme i can’t find / @serpentside !
‘ RIGHT — LET ME THINK ABOUT IT, HUH ? ’ for about three seconds, and then his poker face slips and he starts grinning big like the lovesick idiot he is. they’re not always like this ; some days, or weeks, jughead isn’t in the mood for this kind of intimacy. the heated kind, hands and mouths charting familiar courses over every accessible inch of skin. and that’s fine with him, because he doesn’t actually need it : just being near each other is enough.
but that doesn’t mean he won’t take full advantage of it, when it does happen. that’s what he’s doing now, no holds barred, catching lips already swollen from kisses and nipping playfully with his teeth. he wriggles back a little on the couch, circles an arm around narrow hips and leverages one swift motion to hoist his boyfriend closer — and it’s stopped sounding weird, the ‘ b ’ word ; he wants to tell everyone, wants to yell it from the roof of a building so the whole town knows. he’s never been less ashamed or more sure of anything in his life, which is terrifying but not in a bad way. nothing about this is bad. nothing.
distantly, between the buffets of sensation that feel so much like losing yourself, he considers what people might say when this does finally get out. he doesn’t care, but jughead does — not out of shame, he doesn’t think. more an aversion to the door it opens, the sort of shit he’ll be handed by people like the football team or maybe the kids at south side high. mouth moves from lips to jaw, that vulnerable spot behind his ear, down across his throat, up again to his lips, and none of the rest matters. not the gossip or the barbs or any of the rest of that white noise he can’t care about. it’s worth it ; he’s sure of that, too.
with him because he always has been, as friends, and as lovers, and as both — enduring and unconditional. only against him in the most literal sense of the phrase, the most physical, hands rucking underneath fabric to ghost the soft skin of his back. a murmur, if that.
‘ — ‘cause i think i can be both. ’