Small gestures were always important in life.
Even the tiniest smile could chase away gloomy clouds, while flowers and chocolates held special meaning, depending on the day they were given to a person, along with other small presents. Even if they were different, there was one common in the reason of their existence.
Their purpose was to make someone happy.
But what if your chosen one was not the man of such gestures?
When they were skating it was required for them to hold hands, otherwise Alpha would've ended up slipping on the ice. But right now the circumstances were different. On Fei's part, his piercing gaze was a gesture of wanting to be noticed by Alpha.
They were walking side by side, but the other kept his hands in his pockets, keeping a small distance between Fei and himself. Speaking was a luxury for Fei in his state, when he was busy with scolding Alpha in thoughts, using indescribable words. He had to admit the reason why he was so desperate was his own stupidity. He would be fine with this theatrical remoteness, but not with his hands frozen solid.
Yes, pockets existed on his coat too, but he was stupid enough to hide his wet gloves in them and now eve if he took them out his pockets would be dripping with melted snow.
"Uhm, Alpha?" he spoke finally, when he couldn't feel his fingers anymore and vented his anger. Alpha just looked at him with his usual stoicism, but his eyes told Fei everything.
The smaller boy was about to start complaining, but the moment he opened his mouth he was interrupted.
"I see…" Alpha nodded, mostly to himself and reached out towards Fei's hand and locked it between his fingers. He was fine with this level of cold so he didn't wear any gloves, yet his hand felt burning hot when it touched the frozen skin.
"He-hey!" Fei flinched at the shocking experience, but before he could've started complaining about anything, Alpha just pulled him closer and hid their hands in his pockets.
"We'll switch sides if-"
"You should've done this sooner!"
"Yes." admitted Alpha, and then added a small comment. "But I don't know who decided to keep making snow rabbits, after I told them to keep their gloves away from snow."
"So now you're scolding me for having fun?"
"This could he hardly called 'scolding', just a small comment about common sense and reasoning. What would you do, if you got frostbite?"
Fei smirked at the overdramatized reasoning, but still laced his fingers together with Alpha's.
"It seems my common sense knew about the prize."
"Prize? What kind of prize? Alpha looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Never mind." Fei stopped the other's train of thoughts with a small chuckle. "We've had a great day and that's all that matters."
In their case, we could probably say, the smallest, most innocent gesture of all can warm a person up from head to toe.
A/N:
Guest: As I've mentioned this on tumblr, around September, beside the exams, final exam and thesis, I don't really have the time, strength and enthusiasm to write and translate long chapters as often as I want it. I won't force myself to continue something, when I know that I'm not in the mood for that kind of story and the result would be a half-assed, soulless chapter. Everything will be finished sooner or later but right now my studies are more important than my hobby. u_u
