p.s: nevermind
title: p.s: nevermind
author: hikasne
pairing: wally/kuki
words: 646
summary: "…Because you were close by," – yes. that would be her excuse. [wk]
Why was it so easy? - His eyes flickered from one pale, un-socked foot, to a pair of violently violet eyes that were looking, panicked like a fleeting bird, into his own green ones. Excuses were fluttering feebly from her lips, until she ended with a word—
"Nevermind."
She said the word like a small, frightened child, and folded her long-fingered hands in her lap. He suppressed the urge to straighten the yellow butterfly clip in her hair. But then he got annoyed again.
Nevermind? "You scared me," he muttered, bending down over her chipped-polished-purple big toe and taking it gently between his tan fingers. It was red, swollen, and frankly—kind of pathetic looking, but in a strictly sympathetic way, of course. He did feel sorry for her. But why was it so easy for her to get hurt?
He pulled her closer to him by the foot, placing both of her long, pajama-clad legs over his own. He absentmindedly touched each tip of each toe with his finger. Momentarily—she stopped breathing. Well, it was sort of impossible to breathe when your heart stopped beating.
"I know, I'm sorry," she murmured back to him, talking fast, her rose-petal lips barely having time to part between words. "I…panicked." She was panicking right now come to think of it—being in such close proximity with Wally was making her hyperventilate.
"You panicked me!" he repeated emphatically, glaring at her toe like it was its fault. "Kuki, you can't scare me like that—I was worried about you."
Suddenly, he seemed angry, glowering right into her deep purple eyes. He let go of her toe. "You stubbed your toe." He cursed under his breath, like he was mad at himself for letting it happen.
She shrunk back, curling her toes one by one inside themselves. "Sorry," she whispered again, blinking back tears. He was scary. Sometimes. "You were the one closest by…and Abby…she's sleeping…"
Her expression seemed to soften him—his eyes changed from fired up to a gentle, sea-foam, peaceful green.
"Nevermind," he muttered to himself, sounding less annoyed than halfway amused. "Is that your excuse nowadays?"
Suddenly, heat spread across his cheeks like he'd had an embarrassing thought occur to him. He looked from her foot stretched out across his leg, to her black hair splayed out wildly against the couch cushions.
She watched, holding her breath, as he brought his pointer finger to his mouth, like he was making a kissing gesture with his finger, and then he touched that finger to her toe, looking back at her with his cheeks pink. She felt her foot burst into—figurative—flames.
Well, maybe he noticed that her face was turning purple.
"Feel any better?"
note:
This actually happened to me yesterday. Only it was my dad, and not Wally. But I thought it would be kind of…cute, in an intimate sort of way, like he's sharing a secret through touch.
If I were Kuki, I kind of would have passed out already. I could think of a million ways to make this 'sexier', but I wanted this one to be strictly cute, short, fluffy, and innocent.
Well—that's me for now.
- [als.]