|DISCONTINUED| A Hᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ Gᴏʟᴅ (Hunter × male reader)

Gay panic

Help I'm running out of title ideas- y'all got any?
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You wake up.
Wait- you what now?
You look around, you see the glaring sun, the boiling sea, and Hunter's head propped on your shoulder.
You blush a tiny bit.

"Hey- hey, Hunter, wake up!"

You say to Hunter, who's still sleeping.
You shake him with your free hand, the other being held on to tightly by him.

"Huh?"

Hunter slowly opens his eyes.
He looks around a bit, then notices his head is on you and sits up, looking a tad bit flushed.

"Wait- did we-?"

He looks at you,

"Fall asleep on the beach? Sure did."

Hunter starts to look a bit worried, he looks around again, this time his focus being on the sky.

"Wait, if the sun is out- titan how late is it?! We need to get going."

He says, looking at you then beginning to stand up. You follow his lead and stand with him, your hands still interlocked.

"Dude, you have dirt in your hair."

You say to Hunter.
He turns his head to look at you,

"So do you."

You laugh.
It wasn't funny, you just laugh.
You take your hand out of his grip and ruffle the back of his hair, trying to get the dirt out.

"Hey!"

Hunter tries to swat away your hand, smiling.
You chuckle soundlessly and ruffle the back of your own hair before attempting to smooth it out. Key word, attempting. Your hair is always messy no matter what you do, it's a good kind of messy though.

You grab Hunter's hand again, catching him a bit off guard.

"Alright, we should get going."

He nods and the two of you start walking. As you walk it sets in that you and Hunter were gone the entire night, and you weren't even doing anything too important. This is the kind of thing Belos wouldn't want. Belos doesn't want people in the coven who mess around all night.

You start to quicken your pace.

Belos isn't kind to weaklings like you, is he? And the titan? He'll probably never accept you if you keep this up. You slept in on a goddamn beach all night for titan's sake, you could've done something important on your day off, like impress Belos somehow or- whatever!

You tighten your grip on Hunter's hand.

I mean- you have to work so much harder than those other scouts to prevail! To prove yourself worthy! You can't blend in with the crowd, you were never like that, you were top student! The smart one, teachers looked at you and said 'now there's a kid that'll go far in life'
This is stupid, you wasted your time yesterday.

..but did you really?
No, you did. What you did yesterday was uneventful and purposeless.
But it doesn't feel like that, you felt good. It was nice hanging out with Hunter.
But you shouldn't be doing things for yourself, that's selfish and goes against what the people around you expect of you.
Stupid.
How could you fall asleep there? You have sleeping problems, and you were on the ground too! How can anyone sleep like that?
And you slept in too, making it worse.

Your skin feels irritated.

You scratch the back of your neck, kind of violently too.
You feel scales pop out from your cheeks and arms.
You stop in your tracks and frantically cover the scales.