Burning Questions

[mistkitt]

 Originally Posted: 06/16/17

Chlonath Week Day 5: First Kiss/Holding Hands

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How did you find out my identity?

The first time she asked him, he smiled at her and said “Wouldn’t you like to know?” before walking away.

But Chloe Bourgeois was nothing if not tenacious, so a few days later, she sat beside him in the school courtyard at lunch and asked him again.

“How did I find out?” he asked in the tone of someone who knew very well how, but didn’t feel like telling her. She waited one minute. He said nothing. Five minutes. He hummed to himself. The entire lunch period passed by in relative silence that was, to her utmost frustration, not entirely unpleasant. And when the bell finally rang, he packed up his things and said, “We should do this again sometime.”

Two nights later, she dropped by his house. In costume.

“Tell me how you found out,” she demanded.

“It’s four in the morning,” he said, and shut the window in her face.

And so it went.

Days became weeks. Weeks turned to months. Her stubbornness—certainly not her attraction to him—wouldn’t allow her to leave him alone. And though he refused to tell her, he did not discourage her from asking. 

In fact, one might guess by the way he left his window open for her at night, or the snacks he carried for her kwami, or the countless seats that he saved for her, or the invitations to cafes and movies, that he encouraged her to keep asking.

Until one evening, when they sat in his room doing homework together while her kwami napped among his art supplies—when she hadn’t even asked him at all—he said, “Your lips gave you away.”

She turned a questioning look on him.

“For the Queen Bee painting, I needed a lot of references, so I went looking for every photo and video I could get my hands on. In one of them, you made a face at something and I got the strongest sense of deja vu.”

“My lips,” she said. “Really?”

He reached over and traced her bottom lip with his thumb. “Really.”

And with that question finally answered, she closed the distance between them and pressed her lips against his.

Because over time, she had become curious about a great many other things as well.