Summary: Your name is Cronus Ampora and the snow around you has almost ruined your plans for the day.
Rating: No Content Warnings
Day Five: Kissing

The snow falling makes the world around you look like a blank canvas. It washes it over in a blue-white that, to people that never see snow, would be beautiful. But for you it just means that you've got to dig out your car and you've got to trudge through it to your classes. You realize with a sigh that this must be adulthood's dirty secret. You don't want to do these things, but you've still got to.

You bundle up and head outside. The crunch of the snow under your heavy boots makes you wince. You and Kankri were supposed to go out today. And now it looks like you won't be going anywhere until these streets are cleared off. You walk to your car and unlock it, pulling out your scraper. You start to clear off the car in the hopes that the streets might actually get plowed while you're outside, but you highly doubt it. After a good twenty minutes your car is as clean as it's going to be with the snow still falling.

You sit in the car as you look out to the street, hoping that it's been cleaned out. Your hopes are, predictably, let down. You head back to your building and are surprised to see a familiar bright red coat walking towards you. You run over, doing your best not to slip and slide on the ice in your Docs. When you make it to him you can see that his face is nearly as red as his coat and you lead him into your apartment in silence. You know that if he wants to talk, he will.

You watch him as you take off your coat and he does the same. But you can't stay in silence any more. You lean against the wall while he meticulously unlaces his shoes to pull them off. "Babe, why'd you walk here? It's like ten fucking degrees outside and there's a goddamn blizzard going on."

He stops moving for just a split second but then continues unlacing his shoes. "Just how long have we been dating, Cronus?"

You shift against the wall uncomfortably, suddenly aware of just how hot your apartment is. "Like three months. Why?" You have this sudden feeling that he might break up with you. But you realize that he's still taking off his shoes. He isn't wearing his coat. He walked here in fucking below freezing weather to see you. There is no way that that's what's going on.

He pulls off one shoe. "I've just been thinking things over..." He pulls off the other and places them next to your boots before standing up.

You quirk an eyebrow at him. "What have you been thinking about? You do a lot of thinking, babe."

He comes closer to you and looks up. "I've been thinking about us."

You swallow. Here it comes. The admission that he just wants to be friends. That this was all a mistake for him and that the two of you are through. "Oh? What about us?" You want him to say it. You don't want to have to guess.

But he doesn't say anything. He's close enough that you can see the light ring around his pupils and he brings his hands up. They rest for a few seconds, inches from your face, but then you have that contact of skin on skin and he pulls you down.

It happens to quickly that you're not sure if it really did. But his lips press featherlight against yours and then he lets go and back away quickly.

You smile broadly at him and move close to him. "Kankri?"

He swallows. "Yes?"

"You just fucking kissed me."

"Yes."

You rest a hand on his cheek. "You kissed me."

"I know that I did. And I'm aware that it was a fairly presumptuous action on my part. I should have asked for your permi—"

You cut him off with a kiss of your own. It isn't as chaste as his. Your lips move slowly against his and, after a few seconds, he returns it. He lets out a soft sound as you take his lower lip between yours. You trace your tongue against his lip and you just can't believe your soft his lips are. It's almost not fair.

But then you realize that your lips are against his and you're kissing him softly. You've been waiting for this moment since you'd first met him and now you finally feel like he really trusts you.

He pulls back from the kiss and stares up at you. His lips are parted slightly and kiss reddened. You smile down at him. "Sorry, babe. Guess I shoulda asked, huh?"

He chews at his lower lip and smiles up at you. "Asking wouldn't have made a difference, Cronus." He leans up and presses another soft kiss to your lips. "I wanted to kiss you. And now I know that you wanted to kiss me."

"Babe I've fucking wanted to kiss you since I met you." You laugh and rest your forehead against his. The two of you stay that way for a few minutes and then you turn your head. "Holy shit you aren't going anywhere I think."

He hums inquisitively. "Oh my. It certainly is a blizzard now isn't it?"

You shrug. "Guess that means it's you and me. Wanna watch a movie or something?"

He yawns. "I'm actually rather tired. Do you think we could just sleep for a little while?"

You grin. "Yeah babe. Let's go take a little nap." You sling your arm over his shoulder and the two of you go into your room.

You lay on the bed and snuggle next to him. You press a soft kiss to his lips and the two of you drift to sleep, glad to feel him wrapped in your arms.

You hope that this won't be the last time that this happens. Because this is the most content you've been in a long time.