Prompt: "I love you."
Pairing: Kai & Thorne
"I'm not really sure how to say this to you," said Thorne, swallowing.
Kai looked at him expectantly. "Say what, Thorne?"
"Well, it's not that I'm not sure how to say it, per se, I mean, I know what I want to say. More like it's hard to say, but that's not the point. The point is that I've been wanting to say this and I've been holding it back for various reasons but—"
"Just tell me."
"It's just…you're amazing. I can't stop thinking about you. You're…well, I love you."
"You're joking," said Kai flatly.
"What?" said Thorne.
"That was terrible. Pathetic."
He glared. "It was not."
"You spent a paragraph just stammering incoherently about nothing. Cress is going to burst out laughing before you even have a chance to tell her you love her. Where's your characteristic confidence?"
"I don't see you declaring your love to anyone around here!" he said defiantly. That ought to shut him up.
Kai sighed and held up his hands. "Okay, okay, I can see that maybe it's not as easy as it looks. Let's just run through it again. Elaborate a bit on why you love her. That's important. And maybe cut out the part about why you want to say it or not or whatever. It was weird."
"It only came out weird because you're making me nervous."
"If I make you nervous, what are you going to do around Cress?"
"Aces, you're right," said Thorne, running a hand down his face. "I'm totally screwed."