A small whimper left his lips as he gazed at the man before him
"You need me don't you?"
Turning his head to the side, he clamped his lips shut trying so desperately to stop the words that wanted to come out.
"Just admit it, you'll feel a lot better...
"Yes, I love you!" He responded, snapping out of his stupor.
Chuckling Nikolai shook his head in amusement.
"I love you too, but that wasn't my question"
"Oh, sorry" His cheeks burned a bright red, he hadn't been able to get last night out of his head all morning, even now as they sat having the most delicious breakfast it was all he could think about. "Um, what was the question?"
"Would you like to go snorkeling?"
"Oh um-I-uh- well, you see the thing is..."
"What?" With furrowed brows Nikolai paused his chewing to stare at the little.
"I actually umm, can't swim"
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah, well my parents never took us anywhere that really had water, this is my first time being on any time of boat"
"So, if we were to suddenly crash into a block of ice like the titanic I would have to give up my piece of the doorframe?"
For a moment there was absolute silence, then Riley burst into a hysterical laughter. A small smile spread across Nikolai's lips as he took in the younger's happy state, but soon he was actually worried.
"Darling please, you need to breathe"
He ran a hand down the little's back as the younger started coughing.
Once he was calm enough, Riley shook his head.
"That had to be the funniest thing I've ever heard"
"Really?"
"Yeah, sometimes you really take me by surprise"
"Well good" Nikolai smirked, before taking the final bite of his food. "I'm actually hesitant about letting you in the water now that I know about this"
"It's okay, I don't mind seeing you in the water"
"But that's no fun. Are you afraid of the water?"
"No"
"Well, we can still go snorkeling then you don't need to move around, but it's absolutely beautiful in the water and I think you'd love it"
"Okay" He grinned, in truth he didn't want to be alone but he would never let that get in the way of Nikolai having fun. Plus he really wanted to go into the water.
They finished up their breakfast and made their way to the room to get changed.
Nikolai went in search of a bathing suit for his baby and swim trunks for himself, the weather was quite warm and the sea mirrored that.
The little got dressed in his green two piece that had flowers on it, the threw a white cover up just until the got back up top.
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