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[acuteabove]

WHAT in person
WHERE Tidy Living Apartments
WHEN Day 132

[A very unusual-looking cutie is standing in the foyer of the Tidy Living apartments today. You definitely haven't seen them before. They are repeatedly pressing the elevator button, then jumping when it opens]

But I don't get it... I know the ding means get in, but who's opening and closing the doors...? Is someone here raising and lowering it? Ahh, and when I went upstairs, it was completely incomprehensible...

[Help them out?]

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[starspangledman]

[rubs his back, soothing]

[divasterous]

Tell me why you love me, again?

[starspangledman]

Because you're wonderful. You make me smile. You make me happy. I love who I am with you. You've helped me become something I wasn't before, someone I'm proud to be.

[divasterous]

. . .

[rolls over so he can blink up at Steve, reaching up to touch his cheek]

What do you mean?

[starspangledman]

[puts his hand over Vasily's]

You've shown me how to look out for my own happiness. How to value moments like this one.

[divasterous]

. . .

[a tiny little smile]

Okay. That's true.

[starspangledman]

And I love you. I want to spend my life with you. To make a home with you.

[divasterous]

[just stares at him, gaze flickering over his face]

[starspangledman]

[pulls his hand over, kissing his palm]

[divasterous]

. . . you could have. Anybody. Anybody would want you. Why me? I'm so—broken?

[starspangledman]

Because you make me a better person. Because you see me for who I am.

[divasterous]

. . . I think so, anyway.

[starspangledman]

I think so too.

[divasterous]

. . .



Ohhhh wow. I just had a full-on sudden meltdown after you tried to do something nice for me, huh?

[starspangledman]

It's all right.

[squeezes his hand]

[divasterous]

. . .

[sits up, leaning against Steve's chest]

. . . each time, it gets a little easier.

[starspangledman]

[wraps his arms around him]

You know I'll always be here for you.

[divasterous]

So it would seem.

[starspangledman]

[kisses his temple]

I love you.

[divasterous]

Let's go take a look around?

[framing his face with his hands]

[starspangledman]

[kisses him, chaste]

All right.

[divasterous]

[stands up, a little shaky]

[starspangledman]

[gets up, keeping a hand to Vasily's back to help steady him]

[divasterous]

[looking around, eyes going wide]

It's . . . beautiful?

[starspangledman]

It really is, yeah.