And then Minho’s hands were in his hair, nails scraping his scalp, and their lips were rough and raw against one another - a festering wound ripped back open, a stark, blatant, unholy baptism of two absolutes that neither of them had the heart to deny - it was evident in that kiss.
Thomas hit the concrete wall, his jacket rucked up around his midsection, heavy boots scuffling against the dirty alley floor. The smoke from his cigarette clogged his mouth, coating his tongue with ash. Minho was burnt to the core, swallowing puffs of Thomas’ cinders between each hurried breath he stole as their lips worked against each other.
Hands. Narrow fingers, calloused palms, slender wrists, all wrapped up in the soft cotton of Minho’s long-sleeved shirt. They crawled, cold, like heavy, splintered tree branches against Minho’s stomach, then his chest, gripped the round bones of his rib cage, and pulled him in.
“Don’t what?” Thomas snapped, his hands slipping from beneath Minho’s shirt to grip his face, incapable of surrendering to his own childish stubbornness. His voice, slathered in poison, was muffled by another open mouthed kiss, heated and broken and too sad to be romantic.
Chestnut eyes narrowed as Minho held Thomas’ hips, nails digging in like shards of glass just passed his waist. He was as smooth as a chipped piece of ice, freezing cold and sliding right out of his grip.
It was a feeling Minho was used to by now.
“Don’t just leave like that. It’s every time Thomas, every single time! I find you, we do this, you leave. I go home, you’re there, we do this again, you leave. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This was supposed to be Paradise!”
“It was supposed to be a lot of things,” Thomas grumbled. His fingers falling slack against the hood of Minho’s sweatshirt.