If the ongoing situation in the house hadn’t been affecting him so DEEPLY, the ex-SOLDIER may have found this more amusing. Cloud’s constant swerves on the topic are easily read enough, but even so, he has to wonder if maybe he’d read INCORRECTLY. No… he’s certain he’s on the right track, since nobody would react like this if they didn’t have some emotions to desperately SHOVE out of sight.
❝ You told me– that you saw me as more than a friend. ❞ Strange words drip from Zack, sounding foreign to him but KNOWING that he’s heard them before, from Cloud himself. It was a long time ago, now, though that CANNOT take the whole blame for how unusual it feels to revisit this intimate topic.
Frustrated, he draws his head back, turning so that he can look at his INTERROGATION VICTIM, even if said victim won’t face him properly. Still he needs that direct communication ( as direct as he can make it ). ❝ If that’s the case, ❞ is he REALLY saying this? Is he really going to address this so plainly, right here, right now? He’ll outline what both of them KNOW to be true, but they haven’t acknowledged openly.
❝ … WHY do you keep running away from me? ❞
❝ That . . . was a l o n g TIME ago. ❞
Notes of FINALITY staved off the enticement that euphoria brings. That HE brings. Lashes fair dusted a complexion equally pallid, sights withdrawn as if to further d i s e n g a g e. && yet, there was no DENYING the reality of it all. From the sound of that oh so familiar ( how many times had he played back those FINAL words ? ) voice dripping into his ears to the feeling of the calloused hands that restrained him now, Zack was there. But was Cloud? His Cloud? Twas a notion that bound him the very moment it came to interacting with the revived.
A hollow && dry laugh left the blond, chest h e a v i n g against what held him. The sight of the firmament that mirrored his own returned, gazing up at the other through the veil of eyelashes. Digits swathed in leather snaked around a sun-kissed wrist, a yank executed not in the name of resistance but for EMPHASIS. ❝ Well no one is runnin’ now. ❞ Divert && elude. Hopefully twas enough to MISLEAD. Distract. Desperate to encrypt was was left in between && unsaid.
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