my bones are caving in

It's in the stars
it's been written in the scars on our hearts

They were similar in that both of them kept procrastinating that talk. It was definitely one to happen when the portal was accessible again, but Chuy was under some (perhaps false) impression that they would maintain regular in-person contact despite living in separate regions - the portal was convenient, after all.

Besides, they had a date at Torchline planned.

"Hey," he squirmed as she poked at him, letting it summon another chuckle from his chest. Then he was responding - sleep had been a rarity for him since the sun set on the last day before Longnight, and though he was tired, he was still far too wired to let her land such blows against him unanswered. Shifting his body and gently pushing against her hip with his hand, he made to essentially roll her onto her back, with himself draped over her.

"No need to bring that one time up," he murmured softly, shifting himself up to his elbows, his hands either side of her head, fighting against the urge to fall onto her lips with a kiss, and winning out - there was something else he has thoughts of doing. Moving his legs so that they straddled her instead of crushed her, he 'hmm'ed softly.

"Wanna know just how fine I am?" He asked with an overly dramatic tilting of his brows, a playful smirk on his lips, and an extremely suggestive tone to his voice.

That we're not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again

CHULANE