I feel bad j haven’t written anything in a while, and this ask is months old so I’m gonna speedrun a fic real quick!
(Also I promise I’m working on tktober and the spiderluz fic, I haven’t forgotten-)
Classroom Confessions
Fandom: The Owl House
Pairing: Lee Gus and Ler Willow (platonic ofc)
This is not proof read
Description: Willow is more open about liking tickling, Gus needs some encouragement.
‘But, how do you just come out and say it like that?!’ Gus exclaimed, in a tone that was more shocked then anything. The illusionist boy was sitting on one of the wooden desks, in one of Hexside’s many empty classrooms during lunch. Well, obviously not totally empty.
‘Because it’s not that embarrassing to talk about it, not with my best friend, it’s easy to say it to you!’
Willow said, being a lot more cheery then her friend, mainly because they were talking about a dreaded subject matter. Tickling. Normally, whenever they discussed it, Gus could barely bring himself to say the phrase ‘T-word,’ but Willow could say it no problem, even admitting that she liked it. Today was no different however, despite how much they talked about it, the two students were usually too flustered to try and tickling each other, Titan forbid they ask for it, that would be too needy or too flustering. No, no, they’d rather silently pray for one instance of tickling to occur, even just a poke, but today was a little different.
The only reason it was, is because Gus needed help. Tickling was just so…childish and he didn’t want people to see him that way, he didn’t want to be looked down upon for being the youngest. Though, Willow of course, saw it differently. Mainly because she was in a similar situation when she was forced into the abomination track, even though she loved plant magic so much, the witch was forced to shut away that part of herself for so, so long before she got to switch tracks. Knowing how bad something like that felt, even if tickling wasn’t as significant, she couldn’t just let her friend suffer in silence.
‘Sounds like you just needed some encouragement!’
Willow cryptically smiled as Gus turned to her, tilting his head as he crossed his ankles. The young witch had a puzzled look on his face until he met his friends gaze, noticing her smirk and a mischievous glint in her eyes, practically twinkling behind her glasses.
‘Ah, no, no, it’s fine, we can just go back out to lunch now and-Willow!!’
Gus teetered out loudly as his best friend’s arm wrapped around his waistline, pulling him closer to which he didn’t fight back at all. Gus squirmed and wriggled a bit as Willow pulled him onto his lap, but not enough to get away, perfectly content as he curled his knees to chest, leaving his arms dangling defensively at his sides.
‘Oh hush, you know you want this, and I’m not gonna torture you be making you ask, the least you can do is hold your arms up for me!’
She called him out, in a tone playful enough to bring splashes of colours to his cheeks, while his lips furrowed together. After playing with his fingers for a couple seconds, Gus slowly raised his arms above his head, even lowering his legs so he was more comfortably sitting in Willow’s lap.
‘Thank you!’
She chirped at him, causing him to feel ever so more comfortable in this position. Until five nails came scribbling against his stomach, moving so fast that he had no time to brace himself.
‘A-AHAHAHAH TIHAHATAN, WIHAHAHAHALLOW!!’
Gus screamed, kicking his feet off the side of the desk as he thrusted himself around from side to side, trying, but not really trying to get away from her hand. As quickly as he relaxed, he immediately curled up against, wrapping his body around her arms like a koala. It was a really cute sight to see! One of his hands gripped the side of his face, which just had a wide, goofy, yet also pleased smile brought onto it. His eyes remained squeezed shut, just looking at Willow’s hands made him feel more leeish (and he totally isn’t saying that because it’s hard to admit your in a Lee mood, he just thinks it sounds cooler, definitely).
‘Oh, what was that, little lee? I couldn’t hear you over all your laughing!’
Willow smiled down at him, sweetly and unassumingly as any further attempts for Gus to speak and retaliate just got lost within his stutters and laughter. The poor witch’s face was getting so red, you could practically see steam coming out of his ears as he gave up trying to speak or deny the tickles, just sitting there limp with his arms stiff above his head. Other then occasionally kicking her leg out whenever Willow’s nail slipped against a really bad spot on his tummy, or suddenly squeezed at his sides and hips a couple times just to catch him off guard.
‘WI- *snort* WIHAHAHAAHAHAHAHLLOW!!!’
The boy laughed loudly, tapping his hand against Willow’s shoulder repeatedly, uncontrollably to signal that he’d had enough. The tickling came to a quick halt, with only a couple light scratches to tease Gus along with something gentle rubs to usher away any remaining phantom tickles.
‘There we go, next time, don’t be so shy about asking me, okay? It’s really not gonna bother me at all!’
The witch explained sweetly, gently patting her friends as the words soaked into his brain, bringing a sense of calm to his otherwise anxious, worrying mind when it came to this subject.
‘M-mhm,’
He managed to nod in agreement, taking a couple more minutes to regain his breath before hopping off her lap with a smile, looking ever so meek while he looked up at her, fidgeting with his hands.
‘Thanks you, for that, by the way..’
Gus forced out, barely audible, but still audible. It was a start, which Willow returned with a sweet, genuine smile.
‘Like I said, no problem!’
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Being so fr, I only wrote this because I wanted to write something over the summer holidays! Ill write more in tickle tober, and answer requests along the way! Hope you enjoyed!
