A Whole Bunch of Loki's

Loner in Love - Chubby Young Loki - Part Two

Loki stared into the mirror and took a deep breath, his nerves were beginning to get the better of him and he felt mere seconds from uncharacteristically chickening out.

This was the first dance in all his years where he was going to ask someone to go with him and he had never felt his heart beat faster in his chest.

"But what if she says no?"

"You're a handsome boy, Loki," Frigga smiles, placing her hands on his shoulders, "she won't."

"You have to say that," he sighs with a roll of his eyes, "you're my mother."

"And that means I must lie?"

"Isn't that part of the parent contract?"

Frigga laughed, her thin fingers kneading at his leather jacket.

"Only in the eyes of a child."

Loki smiled at his mother's actions, feeling instantly relieved of any tension in her presence.

"I'm not used to seeing you this unconfident, Loki," Frigga spoke up again, a soft and motherly smile still in place, "even when others are mocking you, you have never let your guard down until now."

"I know, but this is different."

Frigga let out a soft and wistful sigh, stepping around her son so she could look him directly in the face and wasn't continuing to talk via reflection.

"Loki, I am entirely faithful that she will say yes."

He looked up at his mother and tried to suppress the frown that still managed to crease his brow, his eyes darting off to the side as he tried to avoid the motherly look he had respected for years.

"But I'm nothing like Thor or Fandral," he protested weakly.

"No, you're not and that is what makes you so unique."

"Unique doesn't mean being fat, covered in spots and having to wear these," he pointed to his thick glasses, unable to cover the distaste in his voice.

"Loki," Frigga started in a tone that was a mix between worry and scolding, "I never want to hear you speak of yourself in such a way again."

"They say that the truth hurts, Mother."

"That does not mean that I wish to hear it, nor should you think that way."

Loki frowned and looked away from his mother, not wishing to make eye contact and seeing that look of sad disappointment in her eyes.

"I can't help it, not when everyone around me is like an Adonis."

"Loki..."

The room falls silent as Frigga stared down at her son, who in turn was finding anywhere in the room to look but her.

It pained her to see her son so upset and not knowing how to help him, the knowledge that her brilliant son was so insecure despite the face he put up was something that plagued her mind, though she did her best to hide it.

A rapid knock at the door sounded before it clicked open and Loki's heart stopped as a head poked around the door, a large smile on the girl's face.

He had momentarily forgotten that he had asked a maid to call for her, he's also briefly forgotten his nerves, which now came flaring back up at the sight of the one person who had stood beside him no matter what since befriending him.

Worries of rejection and awkward sympathetic looks as she said no crashed though his stomach and built up the nausea all over again, he wasn't ready.

"You wanted to see me?" She grinned, walking over to the two.

Loki noticed her eyes flickering over him as she stepped closer, he knew that she was analyzing his new black and green armour, probably thinking of everything that was wrong with it and how ill fitting it was.

"Is that new?" She asked, finally looking into Loki's eyes.

He could only nod feebly, his mouth going dry.

A wide smile crossed her lips as she nodded in return, "It suits you."

His inside fluttered a little at the compliment and he returned her smile, though his was more uncontrollable as the comment inflated his confidence once again.

Frigga shared a brief look between the two before giving her son's shoulder another encouraging squeeze and leaving the room without needing to say a word.

She knew that Loki would eventually manage to ask the question and shifts things around for himself, it was all he would need in that moment to finally take that changing step between the two friends and she was more than eager to hear about their growing relationship after the dance.