head over heels

42 ~ serial cuddler

[A/N - been so mega distracted this week, oops.... anyways- enjoy our last little lake trip side quest chapter]

For once, he and Kei had been so exhausted, they'd just fallen into bed, rolled into each other and fell asleep without a word.

When Evan woke up, he felt Kei's arm slung loosely around his waist, his head resting against Evan's back between his shoulders, their legs tangled together.

Evan sighed contentedly, blearily tugging his phone out from under his pillow.

It was just past nine.

He rolled around in Kei's grip, now facing him. His head rested on Evans shoulder now, hoodie pulled up over his head, his face peeking out from underneath, his lips in a sleepy pout, his eyes puffy.

It was cute. Evan smiled as he rescued his phone, and shifted so that he could take a photo. He looked at it, desperately wishing he could have it as his phone wallpaper.

He would too, if a certain idiot couldn't use his same face privileges to get into Evans phone through his face id.

They should get up, but he was too comfortable, and he didn't want to wake Kei.

Before he knew it, he was drifting off to sleep again.

The next thing he knew, he woke to whispers, and little snorts of laughter. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he assumed he was still asleep. He was so comfortable, draped in blankets, with Kei's arms around him.

"This is kind of cute."

"Kei is such a cuddler isn't he—"

"Kei hugs are the best kind of hugs," a voice agreed.

"Should we jump on them?" Another voice whispered.

A snort of laughter sounded, then more whispers.

Sleepily, he opened his eyes. Suddenly, Evan was faced with the disastrous sight of the whole team peering down at them as they'd apparently piled into their room unannounced.

For a long moment, he thought he was dreaming, because why in the fuck would the team be here? Then all too suddenly, as he heard a phone camera click, he realised that oh fuck, he wasn't dreaming.

"Oh shit he's awake—" It was, Hugo? And Luke, fuck, and all of them. 

Evan jolted upright, and beside him, Kei's head flopped onto the mattress comically as Evan's shoulder disappeared, and he too was startled awake.

"Whatthefuck—" he croaked.

For all of two seconds, Evan panicked, thinking they'd been caught, until he blurrily caught the look on the team's faces. There was no shock, just amusement, like their circumstance was a regularly scheduled occurrence.

"Congrats Evan, you got the Kei cuddle experience," Hugo snickered, "Welcome to the team, officially."

He blinked rapidly, his panic disappearing as fast as it had come on.

The— what?

They— didn't suspect anything? Oh... ?

"Mm," he managed. Now that his sudden onset of nerves had faded substantially, he was tired again, and he leant into it. Unbothered was the best way to act, like oops— they'd accidentally cuddled while asleep, oh no!

He rubbed his eyes, glancing down at Kei, who had merely closed his eyes and rolled over with a groan after briefly assessing that there was no threat.

Christ, they'd obviously forgotten to lock the door.

Thank god they were fully clothed. Cuddling could be explained away. Naked cuddling however? That was decidedly incriminating.