ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ ʙᴏʏ|| jachary a.u.

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*a month or so later*

Zach was playing on the bed with the puppy while Jack was in the shower.

The shower stopped.

"Let's pretend we're asleep to prank your daddy okay?" Bandito licks his face and Zach scratches his head.

He lays his head on the pillow and Bandito lays down next to his neck.

Zach hears the door open and some shuffling.

A few moments later he feels the bed dip.

Jack looks at his brunette with a lovingly smile that got bigger when he sees Bandito snuggled on his neck.

"How did I get so damn lucky?" Jack goes to peck him when Zach opened his eyes.

"Boo!" He whispers, making him jump.

"Jesus fuck." He says breathless. "Scared the shit out of me." Zach laughs.

"Told ya we we're gonna scare daddy." He pets the puppy. "Yes I did, yes I did." He kisses his little snout.

Zach turned to Jack and kissed him. Bandito was quick to playfully bite his fingers. They parted.

"You need to stop being jealous mister... he's my boyfriend." Jack scratched Bandito's belly.

Zach lied down on his stomach and pecked his cheek.

"We never talked about dinner with your parents."

"You were amazing and I'm glad they liked you." Jack lays down with his belly up.

"I stabbed a knife on a table."

"When I was with my ex, my mom broke a glass of wine from holding it too tight because she was talking about shoes."

"Would've reacted the same way." They chuckle.

"You have a way...I still don't know what it is, but everyone likes you. You were so nice even when my mother was a bitch to you."

"It's the Texas charm baby." They chuckle.

"Did I ever tell you you're beautiful?"

"A few times yeah...did I ever tell you that?" Zach united their foreheads.

"A few times yeah..." They chuckle.

"So you're gonna let me call you beautiful and not kiss me?"

"Yep." He grabs Bandito and turns his whole body to the other side.

"Baby... c'mon." Jack turns him around and leans in.

"Just because you're cute." Zach grabs his face and connects their lips sweetly.

Both of them melting into the kiss.

They part momentarily.

"I love you." Jack mutters against his lips making Zach freeze.

Jack's eyes widen when he realized what he said.

"I'm sorry...I-I wasn't thinkin-" Zach sits up, places Bandito on his lap amd scratches his head.

"It's not that I don't feel the same...because I do and you give me lots of reasons to do that...it's just I'm not ready to say them to you, specially when I believe they're very important."

"I understand and I'm sorr-"

"You don't have to be sorry Jack...you can't control your feelings...what if we do it like this..instead of me saying the words I'll say eight letters and when I'm ready I'll actually say them?"

"What if...we just say eight letters to each other until you're ready?"

"Seems like a deal to me." Zach pecks his cheek.

"I'm sorry for making things kinda awkward..."

"It's okay, if I was mad or something I'd make you sleep on the couch." They chuckle.

The puppy, tired of turning around, went to the end of the bed and lied down.

"Eight letters." The curly head smiles.

"Eight letters too." Jack leans in. The brunette connected their lips again and Jack pulled him closer by the waist, the both of them smiled into the kiss.

"I love kissing you." The curly head muttered against lips.

"Me too." Jack makes him lay down, grabbing his head, to make sure he doesn't hurt him.

Zach parts the kiss and starts laughing.

"That was adorable babe."

"What was adorable?"

"You holding my head because you don't want me to hit the headboard again. That's actually very sweet."

"Of course, I don't want to hurt you." Zach kisses him several times.

"Eight letters." He smiles.

"Eight letters more." Jack pecks him.

"Let's sleep because I'm tired babe."

"Then let's sleep baby." They lay down and Zach covers Bandito before snuggling on Jack's side.

***

Zach is woken up with something wet on his cheek.

"Yes?" Zach asks sleepily.

Bandito answered with a happy little bark.

The brunette then felt the puppy bite his cheek and he opened his eyes, only to see his boyfriend close to said cheek, ready to bite it again.

"Did you bite my cheek?"

"Whaaaaat?" Jack looks away and they both laugh.

"You're so weird."

"Says the guy that sleep talks."

"I don't sleep talk." Jack grabs his phone.

"...no more cake for you Mr. Chubs...no, every body type is good...him? Whipped cream...and abs-" he pauses the recording.

"I got it."

"Whose abs do you dream of?" Zach blushes.

"You heard abs? I heard uhh...stabs, yeah I heard stabs." Jack sends him a look."Fine...it was you."

"Me or my abs?"

"You're asking too many questions before breakfast...also I have the right to not answer that."

Jack pecks him and picks him up.

"C'mon, breakfast is the most important meal of the day...and I want you to be healthy so you can spend a long time with me and Bandito."