In One Frame

Pete's KAO

What Pete felt waking up in the morning after Kao had rushed to him after watching his video recording of professing his love online.

Pete lay in bed waking up to the sunlit room, it was just months ago that he would always wake to a dreary atmosphere with his black curtains closed and his room cold.
But now it was not the same anymore, he would wake up with Kao sleeping on his stomach against the bed. Hair ruffled, cheeks pink, lips partly opened plump, and a little swollen. He looked like a fairy glowing in contrast to Pete's black sheets.

Pete grew fonder and his heart swelled with the idea that he would always wake up like this, he would not want anything more. Grinning a bit he tugged the sheets making Kao nuzzle him closer as he liked the feeling of Kao's soft breaths on his chest. It felt like a splurge of happiness nothing can compare.

He was full and he was contented seeing that lovely face every morning. Kissing the latter's forehead and whispering sweet nothings that even he made his heart flutter like butterflies on the first break of spring.

Mischievously nuzzling his nose through kao's frayed bangs, a habit that he always does to wake the sleeping beauty beside him.

"Kao ... Kao..." - Pete

He hummed softly and sweetly like bees buzzing on a lazy afternoon, basking in the fields of pollens under the warm sunlight.

"Hhmmmmm... Pete ..." - Kao

Kao mumbled and he smiled, hearing Kao call his name the first thing at waking up makes it all the more endearing.

"Wake up Love..." - Pete

Love that made him blush, cheeks that heated up he was never used to saying sweet and earnest things. He was Pete after all the asshole Pete that everybody knows.

But he got Kao, and to him, Kao is more than anything else. Kao became the change he wanted and worked hard to prove that the asshole he is can change because of Kao because there is Kao.

It was Kao all along...

And Pete loves Kao all the more he loves himself.

"I love you Kao" - Pete

He whispered in between holding him tight as if never letting go. Kao murmured still half awake, mumbling in his chest as his hand both found a way to draw circles in Pete's back.

He felt Kao giggle and smile against his chest.

"I know that... I love you too... Pete" - Kao

Pete's head leaned on the top of Kao's soft hair. He knew it was these times, he knew he would never be able to let go of Kao again.

"I love you, Always Kao" - Pete

"Love you, Pete, Always" - Kao

And they were lulled to sleep on a hazy Sunday morning, shielded by the warm sheets in the arms of each other. Away from all the anxiousness and fear of people around, they are safe and caged by each other's warmth.

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Dedicated to Alex @appy_alex 🤗💙
Happy Birthday to you Luv

-Som