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Shawn decides that he wants Veronica to make a re-appearance as he dates Cory.
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***
It’s a nice night.
The stars are stretched out above them with the moon hanging full off to the side. They’d spent this evening just relaxing around a campfire as they told stories about their time in Philly as if they hadn’t both been present for each and every one of those stories. Every story that Shawn told was a story that Cory had been there for and vice versa.
It should’ve made the stories a little bit redundant, but, in fact, Cory loved hearing Shawn’s point of view of those stories. He took things in so differently, saw things differently that they could tell the same story, and they could both seem so different.
It’s kinda amazing.
“Hey, Cor, can I ask you something?” Shawn asks, after they’ve spent a good ten minutes laughing at one of the many stupid things they’ve done together.
“Always, Shawnie,” Cory answers, still looking up at moon and the stars above them.
“What did you… think about Veronica?”
“Veronica who?”
“Wasboyski,” Shawn answers, sounding nervous.
Cory turns his head to the right, but Shawn isn’t looking at him. He’s studiously looking at the moon as if he’s trying to pretend like his question doesn’t mean anything, but clearly it does.
“What did you think of her?” Cory asks, in an attempt to get Shawn’s actual feelings about dressing up as Veronica before giving his answer.
“I asked you first,” he retorts, not bothering to look at him.
No such luck.
“Honestly, I loved her,” Cory admits, swallowing hard. “I’d never imagined you as Veronica, but the second I saw you as her it should’ve made everything so obvious. I mean, until now I’ve never been nervous around you, but when you were Veronica, I felt something different. Now I can admit that I had butterflies.”
“Really?” Shawn asks, turning his head away from the moon towards Cory. “You mean that?”
“I’m not going to start lying to you now, Shawn,” Cory states, plainly. “I liked Veronica and would love to see her, again, but I – I would never ask for it because I love dating Shawn.”
Shawn flushes clearly pleased. “So, you would – I mean – if Veronica made a re-appearance, you’d – you’d be okay with that?”
“I’d love it, as long as you’d love it,” Cory says, honestly.
“Okay, cool. Yeah. We should, yeah, I’d like it.”
He still sounds a bit nervous at the prospect, but Cory assures him. “Whenever you’re ready for it, I’d be happy to take Veronica on a date.”
“I’d like that.”
“Good.”
***
There were a lot of pieces to Veronica that Cory hadn’t exactly remembered, but unlike the last time, he gets to watch Shawn become Veronica (which includes shaving his beard, but the weather was getting nicer anyway, so it’s not too much of a loss).
Although he is hoping that the beard will make a re-appearance. He likes the beard, too.
For now, though, he’s watching Shawn do his makeup. He’s already half-dressed in the stuffed bra and underwear. He said that he’d put the dress on last since it zips up the back, but he’s already got on the tights on his legs.
He looks so good already.
Fuck: how was he meant to make it through a whole date when he kinda wants to take Shawn right here, right now?
He gets a little lost thinking about how much fun he could have with him when suddenly there’s a cough in front of him.
“Cor?”
Cory snaps his eyes back up to Shawn’s – well, Veronica’s – eyes. She’s standing there, looking nervous. A red silk dress covering her frame loosely. The wig giving her hair that falls to her shoulders in light brown waves.
“Yeah?” he asks, trying to pretend like he isn’t just thinking about sex.
“You okay?”
“Yeah, yeah, of course,” he assures her. “Why?”
She shakes her head, giving him a very fond look. “Could you zip me up and then we could get going?”
“Yes, yes, I can do that,” Cory states, standing as she turns, lifting up her hair. Cory quickly zips her up but can’t help sneaking in a kiss to the back of her neck.
She laughs in a very un-Shawn way and it’s kind of endearing.
He loves it.
He loves Shawn and Veronica.
And he’s excited about this.
Going to be a fantastic date, he just knows it.
***
Shawn kind of loves being Veronica.
He loves looking pretty, feeling pretty. It was fun getting ready for this date.
As was getting to tease Cory about the way he’s a bit more nervous than he’d been on their previous dates. He kept correcting himself on pronouns and names and wondering if he should be more or less gentlemanly and if he is more does that mean Shawn would take offense when he doesn’t always do that for him.
It’s the funniest thing ever and Shawn kinda loves teasing him about it.
“I just – I want to make sure that you like our dates as Veronica and as Shawn because I love both and –”
Shawn kisses him, sweetly, under the stars and the moon. Their dinner date leading to a stroll along the water in the moonlight. He leans back noting that some of his lipstick is left on Cory’s lips.
He definitely loves that.
“Cor, you’re my best friend, my boyfriend, and you’ve been far better than any person I’ve ever dated – male or female,” Shawn assures him, voice dipping into his normal voice. “I appreciate that it can’t be easy dating me as both Shawn and Veronica, but I love how you’ve been tonight and how you’ve been every night since we got together. You’re doing… fan-fucking-tastic and I’m so happy you’re my boyfriend.”
He leans forward and kisses him, again.
“And you’d tell me, right? Like I don’t have to play guessing games with you? You’d just tell me if I fucked up?”
Shawn laughs. “Yeah, I played enough of those games myself, I’m not going to start them with you. We’re on a good page, the same page, Cor. You and me dating as Cory and Shawn or Cory and Veronica, we are doing great together.”
Cory smiles, his lips still smeared with lipstick. He leans forward and kisses him, again.
“Good, so then, if I ask to take this date home you won’t consider it presumptuous?”
Shawn laughs. “Definitely not, I’ve been waiting for it.”
“Good, then, let’s go home.”
“Home, it is.”
