Jack was completely frozen. What was he supposed to say to that.

'Oh, well after our last conversation I began thinking of you more and more, to the pint where I found out I liked you...'
Internally he laughed. The face he was sure Aster would make if he heard the information, would be funny for sure, but hurtful as well.

It would start with shock, Jack was positive that Aster wouldn't believe it and so he would try to turn it into a joke, but Jack wouldn't allow himself to play it off if he said the words. Which would clearly lead to the pooka showing disgust.

Jack wouldn't believe for a split second that Bunny would have any feelings towards him, the most he could get was a friendship and try his best to hold out until he was liking someone else.

Jack thought that was all he could hope for. Nothing good ever really came his way, excluding the children in believing him. Sure, it was a big thing, but compared to all the rest of the crap he went though...it didn't really match up.

" You wouldn't understand, Aster," Jack said, not daring to look the pooka in the eyes," it's nothing we need to talk about."

He prepared to leave, lifting himself from the ground, and grabbing his staff that he had set beside the tree.

Aster grabbed his hand, refusing to let go as Jack tried to pull away. "I'm not letting you leave, Jack," Aster said not happy with the decision that the teen was trying to make," you will answer my question."

Jack didn't know what to do. Say that he was afraid that Aster wouldn't feel the same way that he felt and that he was scared that Aster would leave him like everyone else in his life already as.
He didn't want that. He wanted to keep their friendship, he didn't want in complications in between.
He wanted everything to stay the same. Normal.

"I said I don't want to talk about it, Aster," Jack said, once again trying, and failing to pull away from Bunny. "Why can't we just leave it at that."

Aster snarled. How the heck was he supposed to leave this alone. Not when the teen had put him trough all this, he would not stop until he had Jack with him, safe, secure, and for once...happy.

"I'm not leavin," Aster spoke," nor am I gonna sit here and watch ya fly off without giving me a good explanation."

He wasn't going to back down from this fight with Jack. He didn't care if he didn't want to talk about it.
He had more than five months to not talk about it. Now was not the time for Bunny to be backing out right now, not when he had finally caught Jack.

Jack new that continuing the struggle was useless.
The pooka was obviously stronger and Jack didn't have want to harm the him, which would further put a strain on the friendship they held.

Anything he thought of that might help him escape seemed useless. He was stuck here with Aster.

"Jack...," the Australian accent broke through his thoughts," just tell me, and you can go, I promise."

There was the word again. The word that had started it all. Promise.
If Jack had never questioned he pooka with that one word, he was sure nothing of the sorts like this would've happened. From MiM's sake, he probably would've been having some fun in the snow in Canada for all he knew!

He decided to get it over with. Why should he have to suffer longer if he could just get it over with now. Know that Aster didn't return the feelings , and could continue on without any regrets.
It seemed like the best course of action to him if anything.

"How much did you see?" Jack questioned.

Aster grew a small, but visible smile, seeing how Jack was cooperating. " I was kissing ya, and right before I woke ya up it seemed as if we were getting to a good part."

Jack frowned some. He knew that Aster had seen the kiss, but he didn't think he had gotten that far in his dream.
He had planned on saying he had a crush on Aster and that it was small, but who would think of having almost potential sex with a crush?! Defiantly not Jack.
Things just had to keep getting harder and harder it seemed.

" So you want the truth?" Jack asked, finally looking aster in the eyes.

He only received a nod from the pooka. He took it as sign to go on.

"Then you can get the truth.. ,"Jack said, his voice seemed confident but underlying it was so much fear.
"I, Jack Frost, am in love with you, Aster."

"Excuse m-," Aster had begun speaking but was cut off by Jack.
" I don't know how, or why it started but I can't stop it," Jack said, his voice finally giving way to the fear, as his voice began to shake." I just know it started about awhile after we stopped seeing each other."

"I tried not to admit it for awhile, but that was useless. You were the only one I could think of for the longest, and you don't know how bad I just wanted to run back to you and tell you all of this. I don't care if you don't like me or whatever, I just wanted to get it of-"

Jack's speech was cut short as a pair of the softest pair of lips hit his.
Oh sweet MiM was this just a dream, because if it was it had clearly gotten ten times better than before.

Even if it wasn't Jack was going to let himself enjoy the situation at hand.
As the saying goes, 'Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.'

Aster stopped the kiss, positive the teen would be short of breath by now. He wanted to continue the kiss, but he couldn't have Jack passing out in between.

"...Jack," he said smiling," I love you too."

Jack froze. Had he just heard right, surely not.
Bunnymund would not love him. Could not love him!

Even in a dream Aster had never said that, sure that might've made out or gotten a little bit further; never sex though. But saying those words... saying those words that he knew could either make him or break him, was never said in anything. Neither in real life or in the fantasies of Jack's mind.

" Jacky look at me," Aster said, grabbing the teen by his chin so his face could be in his direction," I'm telling the truth, I would never lie to ya about something like this."

Mwhahaha I have ended it there.
Ah the long awaited thirteen chapter confession! Oh but don't think it's over, as if I would leave it at that.
Your beloved couple(?) has more than slight confessions in store.

I wrote this with one thing in mind. Drama! And that's exactly what you're gonna get.

I'll let our characters see that love can make you feel as if you're on top of the world and that it can also hurt so very much.

Believe it!