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*** Current Project ***
Koda
was still studying the floor though, and that just wouldn’t do. Laying the knife
he’d been slicing the basil with on the cutting board beside the thin strips
he’d already made, Kenji turned towards Koda and lightly touched his shoulder.
“Hey,”
Kenji said, closing the distance until they were chest to chest. “I wasn’t
trying to snap at you, honest.”
“Then
why’s it keep happening?”
Kenji
frowned and studied the way Koda was shuffling from one foot to the other and
biting his lower lip. “Has it?”
“Yeah,”
Koda said softly. “Yesterday morning, when I asked if you were staring at me
because I had paint splattered all over my clothes again, and the other night,
when you were staring out the kitchen window for so long you charred the onions
to the bottom of the pan.”
“Oh,”
Kenji replied, feeling sheepish. He’d been staring because Koda had been
wearing a tattered pair of shorts with enough holes that Kenji had been busy
admiring each patch of skin they revealed. The onions he’d burned watching Koda
planting the last of the flowers in the flower bed, imagining him on his hands
and knees for an entirely different reason and so lost in the fantasy that he
hadn’t noticed the other man come in until Koda was drawing his attention to
the smoke filling the room.
Aww, sweet! (heart)
ReplyDeleteHmm... someone seems to have a crush on someone... Sweet snippet and I'm already loving these two.
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