I just read Crawl Home and wanted to stop by and tell you that I love it so, so much. It's really beautiful! You have a wonderful way with words.
uuuuuuuur thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed, it was a bit of a beast :)
In addition to for such a lovely ask you are also my 200th follower, and uh... i’ve been working on an epilogue shhhhhh here is a little gift for you
Joe wants to dance. They had gone out to dinner with everyone to celebrate Nile’s completion of her third year of college, and on the way back they ran into a pop-up concert in the park. Quỳnh had pulled Nile into the crowd to dance for a few songs, and when they finally reappeared they were flushed and laughing, and Andy let herself be pulled down into a chaste kiss, right there on the sidewalk. Joe didn’t say anything then, but that night he turned over and said, “We could dance like lovers now, out on the street?”
“Not everywhere,” Nicky said. Joe stretched his hand out over the space between their beds, and Nicky took it and laced their fingers together. “Cities are safer, but there is still danger.”
Joe sighed. Nicky had rubbed his thumb over Joe’s knuckles and wished that Joe had not suffered for so long only to be reborn into a world that was still steeped in prejudice, in the same intolerance and hatred that caused all his pain. “I would like to dance with you like that one day,” Joe told him, and Nicky had to press a kiss to their tangled fingers.
Even though Joe is still cautious of extending himself in public, that they have not been dancing in private is a travesty that must be immediately corrected. Which brings them to now, shoving Nicky’s bed against Joe’s for the extra foot and a half of space that will get them.
“Alright, what now,” Joe says, shutting the door and stepping in close to him. Nicky swallows hard, unable to speak, and reaches out to feel the ruffle of Joe’s beard beneath his fingers. “Ah,” Joe says. “You have wanted this.”
Nicky nods. “Very much,” he tries to say, but it comes out as a whisper. “So many times, I… I missed you so badly.”
