Lay Your Prompts On Me - 7. 356 - Keeping Secrets

“Since when do I have to tell you everything?”

“Another guy moved into your house and you decided not to mention it?” Zeke snapped, the tension rising across his shoulders, making him visibly angry. “Is he cute?”

“What with having a boyfriend; I hadn’t actually noticed!” Emmett growled back, “can we just go back to having a nice dinner now?”

Zeke huffed, but picked up his chopsticks again, and held the carton from the Thai noodle bar near his chest as he turned back to the television. Emmett had already eaten far more than his share of the takeout, but his stomach was gnawing away silently on itself nonetheless. He was overdue to eat properly again, but since he and Zeke has already made weekend plans, gorging himself happily on pork belly and seal blubber was out of the question.

Emmett didn’t watch the television, it was some English show about straight blokes organising wedding’s for their usually rather uptight brides, but instead dwelled on the fact he’d lied to his boyfriend.

Of course had had noticed that Jian was, far from being just cute, absolutely beautiful. The not-tiger was slim but athletic, smooth skinned, bright eyed, and smiled readily. They had already had more and deeper meaningful conversations than Emmett and Zeke had ever done: and those had nothing to do with being a shifter either. When Jian had got up to get more beer, Emmett had followed him out of the corner of one eye, unable not to watch his lithe little body moving. Jian might’ve worn old board shorts and an oversized hoodie, but the clothes did nothing to hide his natural charisma.

After a while, Zeke put down his food and cuddled up to Emmett’s far bigger frame. When the slender man’s hand pressed over his crotch, Emmett could tell that he’d been forgiven. He took Zeke’s jaw between two fingers and tilted his face upwards for a kiss. The television played on regardless, not knowing that it had lost its audience.