nature prompt! B watching flower arranging tutorials to create their own bouquet for A.
with suzufield? :)
Cole has seen Eric doing it dozens of times for multiples occasions: for Guy Lafleur’s passing, for Army’s wedding, for Gally’s birthday, for Marty’s birthday even... He knows deep down that is Eric can do miracles with flowers, he can too! And he’s not the type to give up to any challenges so he really wants to do it.
Their unofficial anniversary is coming and he wants to do something for Nick. Something Nick wouldn’t expect from him, even if everything he does sometimes is unexpected to everybody. So Cole gives himself a mission: observing Eric’s work in his garden to make his very own flower bouquet to show how much he loves his partner.
Eric’s routine is pretty simple, he notices while he’s helping him with different projects: he chooses the color type, the flower meaning and then he tries to arrange it.
So Cole is going to do the same. He looks up into the web for the meaning of many different flowers and what he wants to offer to Nick, what he wants to tell him. There are so many options. But for this one, he wants it to be special.
He decides to go with some tones of declination of bleu, blanc, rouge in honor of their time in Montréal. For the red, he goes with some red camellias (“you’re a flame to my heart”). He then decides to add some white gladiolus to represent Nick’s strength and integrity. For the blue, he picks up some blue amaryllis for a symbol of their pride in and outside the ice.
Once he has them all, he tries a couple of combinations. And it turns out that Eric made it look so easy but it’s definitely not as easy as he makes it look. The first ones are ugly. And Cole isn’t good matching things together so he tries again... And again and a lot of frustration. But he’s too stubborn to even give up on this because he loves Nick too much to do so.
He doesn’t even try for the last couple of ones left because he hears the door and a voice saying: “Hello!” It’s Nick.
Cole panics but he sighs, he knows that he failed miserably. “In here!” Cole replies.
He hears Nick’s footsteps on the little stairs before he finally turns around to see Nick with a bouquet of sunflowers in his hand. Cole opens his mouth a little bit. “Hey, everything ok?” Nick asks him. He then tilts his head a little bit to see the experimentation behind his boyfriend’s back. “What were you...”
“I failed miserably to make the perfect bouquet...” Cole admits. He sees the sunflowers and then he remembers. “I adore you too, by the way.”
“What? Oh.” Nick blushes as he looks down his hand to see the sunflowers. “I... didn’t know it meant that. Eric just gave them to us. And the sunflower reminds me of how... joyful you are... so...”
Cole has a soft smile as he approaches Nick to take him by the waist. “I love them. They are perfect. Perfect as my perfect boyfriend.” He says as he presses a long and passionate kiss on Nick’s lips.
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