Absent from each other's daily company for weeks, Kris and Tao finally enjoy some quality time together...

-non au-

“Ugh.”

A smile crept onto Kris’s lips as Tao climbed into bed with him. Lifting his arms he made room for the younger to curl up against him, lowering his book to rest gently on Tao’s back when he was finally settled in.

Tao breathed in deeply, inhaling all the scents he’d come to associate with home. The most prominent was Kris’s body wash, wafting from his recently rinsed skin.

Kris didn’t have much to say but he could see how tired Tao was and he let him relax, looking down occasionally to see Tao with his eyes closed breathing contently, and other times to see him watching Kris’s turning of pages.

It was a quiet night in for the couple, for once nowhere to be, no last-minute script reading Tao had forgotten to do (he checked before letting himself climb into bed), no late night music sessions to attend or frantic friends to calm. His drama filming was finally over and now all he needed to do was spend time with Kris for the first time in what felt like weeks.

“Wanna watch a movie?” His voice was quiet, and possibly a little slurred but Tao didn’t repeat himself. Kris had heard what he’d asked.

“We can, what should we watch?” There was a small shrug against his chest and Kris turned a page in his book, dog-earring the new si