hi! it's been a while, i know. but i'm back! so i've decided to start this on-going project of drabbles, mini-oneshots, etc. because more often than not, i get an idea for a fic but it's just a chunk & then i can't figure out the rest. so i thought i might as well publish the ideas i can think of. even though this one is kind of long. oops. c:

all of these will be show!verse. so yeah! read on, reader! c:

A faint sound is heard as a bright string shoots up into the sky. James chews his bottom lip in thought, squinting his eyes up behind his glasses to try to make out the color that the firework might turn out to be.

"Gr... een?"

"You don't sound too sure of yourself," Kendall whispers in his ear, right as a loud boom is heard and the color is revealed. Red.

James pouts as the firework fades into the dark sky over the large field. He never guesses right.

"Ugh, I quit," he whines, surrendering from the game after his third try to lean back into Kendall, who is seated behind him with his legs stretched out on either side of James. Another firework is lighted into the sky. James guesses orange in his mind.

"Purple," Kendall says softly, his chin now balanced on James' right shoulder as his head is tilted upward to the sky.

Boom!

It was purple.

"What? How did you know that?"

Kendall just laughs and tightens his arms around James' waist to pull him closer to his chest, pressing a kiss against the side of his neck. James bites his lip and tries to fight the butterflies that were flying wildly in his stomach, not noticing the way that Kendall is looking up at him.

–x–

Single fireworks shot up one by one for a while after that. Kendall managed to get most of them right, smirking against James' neck after each time he guessed correctly, earning a huff from James in return.

After the string of fireworks ended, the finale was about to start, so Kendall and James got up from their seat on the grassy field to stand up. Kendall and James stood side by side, their hands intertwined tightly, waiting patiently for the finale to start.

Suddenly, James hand was being tugged and he turned around, now facing Kendall, who visibly swallowed before speaking.

"James, I think I need to tell you something." James furrowed his eyebrows.

"Right now?"

Kendall nods, placing his hands on James' hips as if it was on instinct.

"But–"

"Listen, I–"

He was interrupted by a loud cheering from the people around them, signalling that the finale was about to go off at any minute.

"Kendall, the fireworks–" But Kendall shakes his head instead and pulls James closer, moving his hands up to place them on James' cheeks.

"I love you, James."

James' breath hitches and he swears that his heart skipped a beat. Kendall... loved him? There was no way, there was absolutely no freaking way that the gorgeous and perfect Kendall Knight loved the dramatic and vain James Diamond. This had to be a joke! He can't–

James' thought process is cut off short when Kendall ducks his head to place his lips over James, just as multiple fireworks go off in the background, the noises overlapping, echoing in the night, along with the loud shouts and clapping of the people cheering on the finale.

But all of those sounds go unnoticed to the couple as James grips the sides of Kendall's shirt and returns the kiss with a smile, feeling Kendall smile back against his lips.

They pull back when the need for oxygen gets demanding, goofy smiles gracing each other's faces. For a moment, they just stare at each other until James returns the favor.

"I love you, too, you dork," James says loudly over the background noise.

Kendall laughs and pulls James in close by the hips for another kiss, fireworks going off not only in the sky, but in James' heart.

the beginning of this is really random but eh, i needed to start it off somehow. & i know the ending was cheesy but ahgsjdgksdgj. i had to, okay.

review if you'd like, let me know if i should continue with these drabble things or if i should just stop, lol.

oh, and happy fourth of july to my fellow americans on this site! c: