Apologies for the brevity of this chapter.
We pick up the story before the cuddles were ever proposed.
JKR pwns. (I'm old, I know, I know.)
After a morning of lazing about on separate pieces of furniture and watching silly videos online, we are ready to set out in search of lunch. We're going to take a long bus ride to get downtown, so he starts showing me his recent photos – dazzling sunsets and sunrises from a music festival, dogs, and his baby nephew. It becomes immediately obvious that he dotes on this child, and he shows me a video where they're being silly together – Scorpius fake sneezes, his nephew laughs and claps, Scorpius does it again. Then the baby nephew imitates him and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen I may just spontaneously combust. And in that moment after the video loops back to the start and I meet his eyes, all I want to do is kiss him.
"Scorpius?"
"Yes?"
"Would you kiss me if I asked you to?"
"Are you asking?"
"Yes."