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You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous
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He had been so focused on tucking his foot back under his leg where he’d had it earlier, settling the book back on his lap and pushing his hair out of his face again that Kieran’s unexpected answer almost pulled all the air from his body, and he fell motionless at once. You’re perfect. His cheeks had already flushed a little before he caught up with the meaning, trying to minimise his taken-aback expression, because he knew full well that all Kieran meant was it was fine, how he was sitting. Obviously; what else could he have meant?

But then - Jude’s thumb brushed over one of the roses from the Valentine’s garland, turning it over in his mind - sometimes Kieran did say strange things. (And not little quips and oddities like maybe I like learning about fish, but baffling, complicated, utterly incomprehensible statements about suns and orbits, or I think you're the only person who hasn't figured me out, and even just earlier today, with that offhand what could be better?)

However he tried, he just - couldn’t quite rationalise it.

“I...” Jude began. “You’re...” His mouth was still partly open, as if he had the faintest idea of how he meant to finish that sentence in actual words without seeming incredibly odd. Instead he left it unfinished for a moment, thinking; until he blinked and realised he had been staring right at Kieran again, for another beat too long. “Paint. There’s -” honestly, Jude didn’t know what his problem was, because he didn’t stumble over words, he could have carried on discussing even the political undertones of Verne’s adventure stories for another quarter of an hour without stammering like this; Jude sighed audibly, started over, wished he could say a hundredth of the things he meant instead of something he couldn’t care less about at all. “You’re getting paint in your hair.”

(And Kieran might be hopeless in many ways; but if one thing was to his credit, it was that at least he was not hopeless the way Jude was. The way Jude felt about him all the time, incurably. Hopeless like this.)


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You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - February 12, 2021 – 4:11 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - February 15, 2021 – 12:59 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - February 16, 2021 – 10:00 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - March 5, 2021 – 5:44 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - March 8, 2021 – 5:33 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - March 20, 2021 – 5:56 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - March 23, 2021 – 7:59 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - March 26, 2021 – 9:31 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - March 27, 2021 – 12:02 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - March 27, 2021 – 12:17 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - March 27, 2021 – 10:34 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - March 30, 2021 – 8:51 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - April 2, 2021 – 3:56 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - April 8, 2021 – 2:31 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - April 9, 2021 – 3:15 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - April 19, 2021 – 1:26 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - April 24, 2021 – 9:36 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - May 3, 2021 – 8:48 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - May 10, 2021 – 6:26 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - May 24, 2021 – 3:29 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - May 31, 2021 – 4:08 AM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - June 25, 2021 – 10:49 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - July 2, 2021 – 1:48 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Jude Wright - August 27, 2021 – 2:49 PM
RE: You're a Painting of a Saint and I'm Nervous - by Kieran Abernathy - September 4, 2021 – 8:49 PM
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