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“Let’s just cuddle like forever.”
The sudden speech startled Alex who squinted in the dark to get a good look at the man in his arms “What?” He asked but he must have been talking to a parrot with the response he god “What?” Conrad asked back avoiding eye contact by instead staring against Alex’s chest.
Conrad couldn’t believe he had said it, he was sure it was just a thought in his head but then his stupid, sexy and awesome boyfriend had to say something and now he looking at the various muscle the man had as if they had the answer to the universes secrets on them. “We both know you usually get bored after five minutes. It took me nearly an hour of convincing to get you to come to bed early just for this.” Alex mentions moving his hand under Conrad’s chin and forcing the usually confident if not brash of the two to look up.
This only seemed to add to the sudden anxiousness that Conrad was feeling “I know I usually say dumb things but that has gotta be number one right? I mean how awkward would cuddling forever be…totally not cool.” He rambled before being silenced by a kiss. “God, you’re adorable and if you want to ‘Cuddle forever’ then maybe we have to settle for night. At least one of us has to work.” Alex jokes causing Conrad to cringe and go back to hiding himself.
“I hate you.” He mutters but comes as a muffled mess of noise that made Alex huff to himself before brushing his hand over his boyfriend’s back. For once everything seemed perfect for Alex with everything after the damned ghost ship feeling like weird unreal fever dream, he was never sure if he had actually made it off alive or if everything was just some Manchurian gold-pre death dream trip. Yet moments like this:
Moments of peace where he got to hold Conrad in his arms as the other wore a certain oversized T-shirt and stayed mostly still, for too long had Alex had to deal with Conrad’s incessant dream kicking. Even better was that neither of them had nightmares recently and here was hoping for another night free of them.
Hell he was always happy just to spend any moment with Conrad but these just made everything in life seem perfect and complete.
“Are you reflecting on us again?” The other muttered using the chance to deflect as he settled back into his usual sleepy attitude “Only a little. Mainly about how awesome you are.” Alex answers as his hand slowly trails up to blonde mop of hair that had grown out since the incident. “Awe, thanks. I’m still not doing the dishes man, man.” Conrad remarks before shuddering at the feeling of fingers scraping softly against his scalp. “Just once? Pretty please.” Alex pleads causing
Conrad shifts for a moment before sighing out contently “In your dreams, babe.” He tiredly mutters before a faint yawn gets past his lips. Alex shook his head slightly with a fond smile as he played with the messy hair “Sounds like someone is ready to sleep and before ten? Quite a rare sight.” He comments but was too tired to counter it so just nodded slowly against his boyfriend’s chest, enjoying the slight movement of it from Alex’s breath.
“Goodnight, Connie.” Alex used the pet name affectionately.
“Night, babe.” Conrad allows it, finally feeling himself slip into the depth of sleep.