I was inspired by @creampuffqueen to share a snippet from a Yangvik Week story that didn't make the final edit (highlighted below in orange).
This is from Cactus Cuddles:
It was impossible to muscle your way through anything once you were laughing hard enough. “Get off of me,” Yangchen said through giggles, pushing at Kavik ineffectually. “Can’t. Sleeping. Honk-shoo, honk-shoo.” “That’s not what you sound like! It’s more of a “Honk! Honk! Honk! Hnnnghh.” “I do not sound like a herd of rooting rhino-hogs!” “And how would you know?” Rather than bring down the mood by mentioning his brother, Kavik ignored the question and instead said, “You sound like Pik and Pak when you sleep. Like-" he made a high-pitched breathy noise, “Hhh! Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi.” “Stop it, I do not!” “And how would you know?” He retorted. "Hmmph," said Yangchen. Determined to get the last word in, she puffed up her cheeks and blew a short puff of air into Kavik's ear. No bending; just her lips. It was gratifying to feel the full body shiver that ran through him, and the sudden way his toes curled against her calf. The bedroom was dark, but Yangchen didn't need her eyes to know that Kavik was blushing from ears to collarbone again, just like he had in Taku - and every time since. Smugly, she wrapped her arms around Kavik's waist, and settled down into the blankets. "Okay. Night-night."
So why did I go with a different ending?
It's very simple: I was very sleepy when I wrote this, and I forgot it existed 😭
(I do my rough drafts in a notebook, and sometimes I jump around from story to story. The rest of the story had already been written and transcribed into google docs, I just needed a few more lines to wrap up this scene before cutting to Jujinta. So I wrote this in pen. And then the next day, I thought to myself, wow, this story is almost done, it just needs a few more lines to wrap up this scene - and then I typed something completely different. I discovered this paragraph after Yangvik week was over lol.)
That's it, thanks for coming to my teddy talk, have a good night folks.
