warning: mentioned/implied character death.
{ 21: sunset }
Kendall was the first to pull away, their lips disconnecting with a soft pop. He scanned over the brunette's face for any negative sign that might tell him that he pulled the wrong move, but all he saw was bright hazel orbs staring intensely at him, oranges and reds from the sky reflecting in his eyes. He definitely didn't miss the smile he was given.
"That was our first kiss," James whispers, looking down at their intertwined hands in the sand between their bodies.
"I couldn't wait any longer, honestly," Kendall confesses, retracting his hand from James, instead sliding it over James' back and resting it on his hip to pull the brunette into his side. He stares at the side of James' face, seeing him smile wide before looking up, the sun slowly descending downwards. He tears his eyes away and does the same, looking up at the warm colors clouding the dark sky.
"We should do this more often," James speaks up, snuggling closer into Kendall.
"Like a tradition?"
"Yeah," James says, looking at Kendall with a tiny smile, "like our own tradition, I guess. Does that sound stupid?" Kendall shakes his head, bringing James impossibly closer to him by the hip, pressing a lingering kiss to the side of his head.
"Sounds great," he proclaims, watching as James looks to him with a smile before both boys redirect their eyes to the setting sun in front of them, James letting out a content sigh.
He remembers every aspect of that day, of that exact moment, much like every other memory he has experienced with James. And ever since they shared their first kiss that summer, it's been a tradition, like James suggested. Kendall would go out whenever he knew that the sun would be setting, and he would sit down on the sand and watch the sun disappear into into the ocean as the sky turned dark, the scene of their first kiss and first sunset looping in his mind every single time, making his heart ache.
And after two years, he still keeps the tradition alive, even though he wasn't able to keep James alive.
you can decide yourself how james passed away. in my mind it was something a disease like cancer or maybe he got hit by a drunk driver. either way it's sad.
meep. ;~;