A/N: A quick thank you to those who advised me to bump up the rating from K to T. If it weren't for you guys, I would have probably stayed unaware of the sexual references my one track mind has hidden within the past chapters. Oh, wow, my face is going red just thinking about it. xD Oh well, at least I know I'm not the only one who enjoys them... ;)
Anyways, I hope you darlings enjoy! I apologize for the utter lame-ness. I'm lacking ideas. xo.
Worry
"Can I ask you something?" Zane suddenly asks in a low, some-what casual tone. Riley looks up from the textbook of which he's studying and eyes his boyfriend curiously. "Sure," he says, raising his eyebrows slightly in question.
Zane hesitates, and there's a hint of a blush on his cheeks. The athlete wonders what he could be so flustered about.
"What if we burn out?"
The peculiar inquiry leaves Riley confused. Burn out? What was he talking about? He had no clue, and he knew that Zane sensed this because the smaller boy went on to explain what he meant.
"Us. Me and you...what if we burn out?" he repeats with the same stoic expression, while fiddling with the pencils in his fidgeting hands. Riley's eyebrows shoot up like they have so many times before. His lover just so happened to be unpredictable, and he couldn't say he wasn't fond of it. But sometimes, his random and out-of-the-blue ponderings worried him sometimes. Especially now. Zane's absent, blank countenance had transitioned to worrisome. It appeared he was thinking through things... Riley hoped their relationship wasn't one of them.
"That could never happen, Zay, you know I love you."
His reassuring words proved to be futile; Zane shook his head resistantly, unable to accept them for some, unclear reason. "I love you too, but... that can't..." he struggled to put his thoughts into words, "stop anything from happening."
"What in the world are you talking about?"
The smaller boy puts down the pencil he was fiddling around with, and sighs in slight exasperation. "What I mean is, what if - let's say about a few months into our relationship - the desire is gone. The passion, the spark. What if we wake up one day and grow tired of eachother?"
Clearly taken back, and confused, Riley demanded to know why Zane was thinking such a thing.
"Where did all this come from? You've never worried about this before," he stopped himself, and concentrated on reassuring his conflicted lover, "what am I saying? You don't have to worry about this at all!"
He took the younger teenager's hand in his, and gently persuaded for him to look into his concerned gaze.
"What we have, is unbreakable. I'm sure of it."
Zane remains skeptical, but doesn't object to anything Riley says, so the quarterback just continues.
"I assure you, babe, I love you, and I don't think that'll ever stop. We won't ever 'burn out', I promise you," he inhales deeply. "Do you believe me?"
It took a few more minutes of torturous silence on Zane's behalf, but soon after the asian descendant nods. "I do, but I just-"
Riley exhales in relief. He had been on the verge of believing that his boyfriend was actually considering a break-up. He interrupted Zane off with a very sensual kiss to demonstrate that their 'spark' was fading.
