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✮˚.⋆𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟✮˚.⋆
My dearest Gaming,
I’m glad your last wushou performance ended greatly, you truly look adorable in the pictures you sent me, so much it makes my heart flutter.
As of your question of how I’m doing mentally…. It’s getting better, as of lately I find myself more laying peacefully on the surface of the water than hiding and diving further, so much so I think birds are starting to take me as an otter. Have you ever seen an otter? I don’t think they hang around much throughout Liyue…. I’ll leave you a drawing.
Socially though…. I’m tired, more and more so I find myself aching to be simply held and protected from everyone else, fortunately by your arms.
I wish I could hug you, kiss, or even T̶o̶u̶c̶h̶ hold you.
On another note, Father has requested a new mission from me (maybe I have begged for it a little bit), so I’ll be sent to the Chenyu valley next week.
I’m sorry if there’s not much anticipation, but well I tell you this as soon as I recive such information myself. If it wouldn’t be much inconvenience… I’m hoping I could stay with you. I’ll arrive the 9th around 12:00 am, hope you could pick me up from the harbor since I’m not that well knowledgeable in Liyue’s paths.
Thank you deeply for still loving me.
Yours only,
Freminet (who loves you back just as much)
✮˚.⋆𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟✮˚.⋆
Gaming jumped off the couch when he read the last bit of his lovers letter.
“Did you hear that Man Chai?!” he said kneeling down to his suanni’s level. “Fremi is coming over! For a week! FREMI IS COMING OVER!” He said before standing up again and pacing around, jumping, giggling like a teen girl. Man Chai stared over, confused.
Happy was an understatement of his feelings right now. Sure, they were long distance but they still saw eachother plenty, mostly for a day or two when Gaming had to travel over to Fontaine for work. Still, it was never the other way around.
The days anxiously waited and passed, at times painfully slow as Gaming counted them down, until the 9th came around.
He woke up hours before he should, took a warm shower to relief some of his nerves (which helped poorly) and went over to prepare himself, to prepare himself for his boyfriend.
He looked in the mirror, grabbing his brush and following his usual routine. Brush hair, grab the short parts, ponytail. But just when he’s separating the red from the brown he drops it. Freminet always says he likes his hair down, should he?
I mean, Gaming NEVER wears his hair down. He’s called “lion boy” for more just than his dancing, and one of those factors truly was his incapacity of understanding how to even begin to tame his hair. It doesn’t help the fact that he’s been growing it out (maybe and just maybe because Freminet told him he liked his hair longer).
Surely keeping it down wouldn’t be such a drama, even more if Freminet likes it. That’s what the boy told himself before spending about an hour and a half trying to stop it from looking like a beat up Halloween wig.
He looks over at Man chai, exhausted as the little Suanni just rested on the floor. The little flush of fire looked at him and tilted his head. Great, even his pet thinks he looks weird.
“Well, if he likes my hair down then why doesn’t he take it off himself and mess with it…” he muttered as he grabbed his tie and started going through the already burnt-in routine of making his ponytail. And then he stops. What did he just say?
Mess his hair.
Sexually?
He blushes like crazy, his ears so red they could almost be mistaken for more of his red locks.
Sex? With Freminet? That was something that had never crossed Gaming’s mind.
It’s not that he’s asexual, he believes, or virgin. He’s got his fair share of experiences…. Well once five years ago and with a girl, and very unpleasant.
Anyhow he knows plenty how guys work down there, he isn’t addicted to porn or anything, but sometimes traveling journeys get boring… And the amount of times he has caught his friend Chongyun and his new boyfriend was disturbingly high.
He shook it off and splashed some cold water on his cheeks, just to tame the blush.
He goes over to his room, grabbing his usual attire and slipping it on. He stares at himself in the mirror. Maybe the shirt would look better tucked in? Maybe a different jacket? Were the accessories too much? You should always take an accessory off before you leave the-
“Ugh!” He plops down on his bed, hands over his eyes “who am i trying to fool?! It’s Fremi! It’s gonna be okay… it’s gonna be okay, damn- stop overthinking stop it stop it-“ he hits his head softly a few times until Man Chai comes up to him and nuzzles against his side to calm him down.
Gaming sighs and nods, moving his hands away and staring at the ceiling. He takes the suanni on his chest and hug him softly, cuddling with him.
“Why is having a boyfriend so hard? I… I miss him to death yet… I’m so nervous sometimes I prefer him to stay in Fontaine… it’s just- what if I fuck it up? As long as it’s long distance he can’t get mad at me, if we barely even talk. But when he’s around? When he’s around he could even break up with me… i… I’m just so scared of pushing him, of hurting him… he’s so… delicate, you know? I don’t mean it in a despective way I just… he’s… emotionally complicated? And I know if I go too fast he’ll stress out and leave and if I go too slow he’ll stress out too! And… I just wanna be gentle with him, but if I’m too gentle… I don’t wanna treat him like a kid because of his mental health… I just feel like a douchebag all the time, like I’m messing up-“ he sighs, Man Chai looks up at him.
They meet eyes, and that’s enough for Gaming.
Sometimes he feels like a lunatic, but he truly believes his little suanni understands and answers to his worries.
12:00, he rushes to the designated meeting spot, late? Sure, reassurance from an animal takes a while.
Freminet is already waiting there. Standing up besides a lamppost, with Pers between his hands, fidgeting with it’s wings. He looked just as nervous. Just as beautiful as Gaming remembered. And that was all he needed, just a glance at his beautiful milky skin and golden hair to feel the flutter again, to forget ever why he risqued so much.
He walked up behind him and wrapped his arms around his lover’s waist.
Freminet squirmed and tried to push off before realizing it was him “Gaming?!”
He made his way around Freminet and smiled at him “HI” he said rushed.
Blue eyes felt on his hazel ones, the freckles hidden behind a soft blush Gaming was proudly familiar with. He looked down, tugging some hair behind his ear and murmuring a soft “hello…” before being suddenly hugged.
Gaming wrapped his arms around the boy tightly, hidding in his chest and letting the latter rest his chin on his shoulder. And they hugged. They hugged for the first time in three months. They hugged and felt eachother’s soft breaths. They hugged as Gaming left a soft giggle which made Freminet smile.
They hugged and pressed their aching hearts together. They hugged and forgot.
✮˚.⋆𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟✮˚.⋆
Gaming opened the door to his apartment holding all of Freminet’s luggage (“this is literally my job!” Was all he said as an excuse to give his boyfriend the princess treatment).
The blond boy walked in shyly, as always, looking around careful and taking in his surroundings.
The place is small, not the smallest he had ever seen, but sized accordingly to Gaming’s not-so-fair salary and his out-of-home-often lifestyle. It was… warm, decorated with dark brown wood, soft orange-ish lights, warm green tones on the wall decor and the plants close to the big window. Small couch, a big pile of warm cozy blankets, a matching tea table and a lamp on the corner. On the other side a small kitchen separated by a bar counter with three tall stalls to eat on.
Gaming set down the luggage and turned to Feminet with a wide smile, hands rested on his hips. “Well! This is my crib”
Fremi smiled gently at the words. He just walked in and already felt in love with the space, comfortable at the way it reminded him so much of his lover, of his own comforting and warm personality.
“Mh… I was surely expecting way more red…” mumbled feminet.
Gaming laughed and nod “oh yeah right? Don’t worry, you are gonna see pleeeeenty of red around here, hope you don’t get bored of it.”
Freminet smiled. Bored? He would never get bored of such color, the one that reminded him of his boyfriend. The one that had flooded his mind ever since they got together. Lately, everything had been red, all he could even find, and it pulled him away of his usual blue.
✮˚.⋆𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟✮˚.⋆
“It’s not as good at what you are used to BUT it’s made with love” Gaming set two dishes infront of Freminet, some Liyue food he had never seen before.
“Dim…sum?” Freminet tried to remeber all the times the redhead had talked about said kind of food.
Gaming smiled widely. He remembered. He nodded his head quick “yes! Well- it can be served as dim sum, what we are doing isn’t quite dim sum tho…. It’s… uh.. this is Mai gai, it’s rice stuffed with meat and mushrooms… hope it isn’t too much for your Fontainian palette” he had a sly smile on his face.
Fucker.
Freminet struggled with the chopsticks as he took a bite from one of the rolls. Chewing on it was truly… an experience. The different layers of flavors flooded his mouth in no time, he hummed and nodded. “It’s good… you are a good cook”
“O-oh haha… thanks! Xiangling showed me most of what I know… mh! Are you free tomorrow? We should go to the big big city!” He shoved a roll in his mouth and looked over at Feminet expectant.
“Um… sure… what for? I’ve seen Liyue harbor plenty of times…”
Gaming swallows hard and nods “well yeah, but I want you to meet my friend, dummie! Xiangling started to believe I just made up the whole boyfriend thing”
Freminet looked down and fiddled with his jacket “o-oh… okay… sure…”
✮˚.⋆𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟✮˚.⋆
“Oh! I can lend you some clothes if you want, you’ll look sooo cute in them…” Gaming smiles as he turns around from his closet.
“Um- there’s no need, I have my own… b-but maybe… tomorrow… I wouldn’t be opposed I-if we end up going to… the harbor I… would like to share clothes…” Freminet talks soft and low, Gaming is almost mesmerized by the sound of his voice. He nods eager. The blonde continues “can I change in the bathroom?”
“A- yes of course! It’s the door on the right” he says and points. Freminet nods and start to walk off with the pile of clothes on his arms, Gaming stops him.
“Ey Fremi! Um… just… don’t worry too much okay? I know you must feel a little uncomfortable because you are in unexplored territory, let’s say, but… I wish you could feel as comfortable as in your own place? I mean- it’s just me here and you know there’s nothing you can do that would push me away, just… just I wish you could trust me, really…” and he awkwardly rubs the back of his neck.
Freminet blinks at him for a few seconds, before taking a step closer and resting his hand on the redhead’s cheek. Freminet’s hands are always kinda cold, he notes, not uncomfortable at all. The blonde surprises him with a quick and soft peck to his lips, just a mere touch, but it means the world for Gaming.
“I will try…” he whispers while their lips are still in close proximity, before walking off and closing the bathroom door. Gaming is left there. Standing. Surprised. This boy is gonna be the death of him.
Freminet steps out of the bathroom a few minutes later, it’s just a shirt and some shorts but it leaves Gaming’s jaw on the floor for a few seconds. It’s just too casual for the boy to handle.
The blonde stands infront of him for a few moments, trying to decipher what to do next.
“A- right! Sorry I- I had never seen you in- I-“ he stumbles over his words a few more times, his cheeks feel warm, he can tell he’s blushing. He take a deep breath and nods before continuing.“You look beautiful, Fremi”.
A smile, more soft blushes, gentle touches of their hands and a soft “thank you”.