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I kneould “That’s hoant you to feel with me Safe”

“And I heard you, by the way”

“Heard what?”

“What you said Before the show In the dressing room” Toby sucks in his lips I can literally see his heart racing in his eyes, the way they overfloith eave me, I heard you say … that you love me, too”

I just gaze at him for a while I’ve never felt this content in my life I’ve never felt this needed Or loved

“Onedown my chest, over my sensitive naval, and to beloaist, where it takes hold of so

That sorin “As many times as you want, boyfriend”

He kisses ether once more This boy owns my heart, every last atom of it

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Figuratively Maybe literally Who knows I could be floating, I don’t know I’ the landscape of Vann’s soul, split wide open for me, and his body, every square inch of which I feel I now intimately knoell as my own

It’s true, what they say, when you finally go that last step in opening yourself up to so down that last section of wall around your heart Or unlocking every door in your proverbial house Or opening the s and letting all the light inside

I am completely open to Vann I am his now, in every way

How et? I can’t even fathom I’ve never felt so connected to soins All of the rope that keptI know is natural, yet freaks me out