@vonlordes › dominique › 4: a kiss on the space between eyebrows › spots to kiss ( accepting )
“ don’t– ” he grunts, trying to sound annoyed, but he actually doesn’t know what he’s even trying to say. dom’s softness is actually comforting, much to james’ chagrin, but he is even more surprised to find that he actually wants her to stay. he doesn’t even know what his cousin is doing here, and his fever-burdened brain is hanging itself up on the logistics of her presence. it’s still their grandma’s house, who insisted she take care of him while his parents go to work, even when he is old enough to look after himself. the break is a rotten time to get sick and all he does is waste his precious free time by sleeping it off. it’s understandable that he doesn’t feel quite lucid when he sees dominique and has her actually be kind to him, because they haven’t been friends in a few years. maybe that’s the point, and she’s here to patronize him. she’ll see where that gets her.
he tries to laugh in a mean way, but his head hurts too much and he’s too tired to even keep his eyes open or realize that his smile looks actually quite peaceful. and the soft playfulness of his voice, too, is definitely the sickness and nothing else. “ hah, i hope i infected you. ”











