Ao'nung x Neteyam slow burn

Day 35 Part 2

Ao'nung

After he told me that he was in love with me he'd told me to go.
Now I was making my way down to the beach. I didn't know what I would do there, but everything would be better than doing nothing. Two people were coming along my way and I recognized Lo'ak and Tsireya.
They greeted me and I forced me to smile. "Reya, can we talk please?" She seemed surprised. "And Lo'ak, you should probably go to your brother. I think he needs you right now." I didn't have to tell him twice. After he'd kissed my sister - ugh - he disappeared into the direction in which I pointed.
"So, what happened between you two?" I bit down on my lip nervously. "Well, he wanted to show me something and then he was suddenly all weird and left and I thought hm, maybe something's wrong with him and I mean he'd been there whenever I needed him so I didn't want to leave him alone and went after him and climbed up a stupid tree and then he told me that he was in love with me and afterwards told me to go." The words just came flooding out of me and I was glad that I could trust Tsireya enough to tell her all of that.
She was blinking slowly and sat down. "And you just left him there??" I shrugged helplessly. "He didn't want me there." She sighed. "And what do you think? About what he'd said."
I stared down on my fingers and tried really hard to form an answer. The longer I thought about what to say the weirder everything sounded to me.
"Could you imagine having him as your boyfriend?", she asked softly. Without thinking I immediately nodded and was surprised by that. "Great. What's holding you back then?" "He surely thinks now that I'm an idiot. And I don't even know if I could really commit to a relationship with him." Even when I said those words, I realized that they were a lie.
Deep in my heart I was longing desperately for the next opportunity to touch him; to feel him. All those times he'd been pressed up against me and the times we were cuddling made my heart race and my tummy was tingling heavily.
Tsireya smiled. "I'm happy for you. You're officially the last na'vi to see that you two are absolutely crazy for each other. Now you just have to talk to him about it." "Huh? What do you mean with 'the last na'vi to know'?", I asked confused.
She let out a laugh. "I wish you could've seen yourself when you were with him. You were hugging each other literally all the time. And If I remember correctly and my eyes didn't deceive me, you'd kissed his head once." I blushed heavily. "Was it really that bad?" Tsireya nodded and smiled.
"What do you think about him meeting you later? Uh, meeting 'all of us' later, of course." She made quotation marks with her fingers and I understood. "Do you think he wouldn't come if he knew that it was only me?" "Possible. I just want to make sure that he comes.
I nodded with a slight smile and started to feel very nervous.

Neteyam

As I jumped down from the last branch to the ground, I heard steps behind me. I somehow hoped that it was Ao'nung. I turned around and realized that it was Lo'ak. "What are you doing here?", I asked and sounded more angry then I wanted to. "I'm waiting for Tsireya, she's currently with her parents. And I love being here - it reminds me of home." I nodded in agreement.
"What's up with you, man?" I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. "I fucked up. Big time." He was patiently waiting for me to continue talking.
"I'm in love with Ao'nung." I was watching him closely. "So what? You're officially the last na'vi to see that you two are absolutely crazy for each other. So, what have you done?" Was it really that obvious? Looking back now, I asked myself why I didn't notice it earlier. Maybe it was because I've never been in love before.
"I told him that he was cute and that I was in love with him. And then I told him to leave me alone." "Why?" Well, that was what I had been asking myself for the past 20 minutes. Why didn't I just wait until he said something? Of course I was afraid of what he might have said, but it drove me crazy not knowing how he felt about me.
"I don't know. But he surely thinks now that I'm an idiot. And to admit that, I'm embarrassed to talk to him now under these circumstances." Lo'ak nodded and smiled afterwards. "Tsireya's coming. Do you want to tell me anything else?" I thought for a second and then shook my head. "If something else happens, I will tell you." He smiled happily.
"Hey babe, how did it go with your parents?", he asked his girlfriend. "Yea uhm.. great. Anyway, we wanted to make a campfire tonight. You, me, Rotxo and Kiri. And Neteyam, we would be happy if you came too, alright?" She was able to make anyone do what she wants. So I simply agreed and watched her face light up with joy.
"Great. See you later." She took Lo'aks hand and they both went away gossiping. What was I supposed to do until then? Usually I would spend my time having fung with Ao'nung, but that was absolutely no option right now.
With a sigh I laid down underneath a tree in the shadow. I decided to take a quick nap and of course I dreamt of Ao'nung.

Ao'nung

I was nervously waiting for Neteyam to appear. And as if Eywa'd heard me, he was walking along the beach towards the rest of the group. Kiri and Rotxo had been told that we had a fight and they both'd immediately agreed to it.
Lost in my own thoughts I pulled the tie out of my hair and tried to makw them look good.
The five were greeting each other and my nervousness was reaching its peak now. Lo'ak got up first and pulled Tsireya with him. Neteyam of course didn't question them leaving. It was almost time for me. Just barely two minutes later, Kiri jumped to her feet and said - as I already knew - "My mom is waiting for me at home. Fuck!" And of course, Rotxo offered to walk her home because it was dark already. Now, Neteyam was sitting on his own next to the fire.

I took a deep breath and slowly went to him. As I sat down next to him, he looked up and was clearly surprised. His cheeks immediately got red. "Ao'nung." "Neteyam." We were quiet afterwards; I didn't dare to disturb the silence and he didn't seem to either.
I finally decided to make the first move. "We should talk about what you said earlier." He nodded carefully, but still didn't talk. "I don't know why you'd sent me away and it doesn't matter now. Tsireya asked me earlier what I thought about that and I had to admit to myself what I wanted."
He looked at me shyly. "And I'm pretty sure that I know what I want. But you have to be patient with me, it's all very new to me." Damn, I definitely had to stop talking. I was only making it worse.
"What I wanted to say was: I want.. you. Or do you want to change your statement from earlier?" My face was absolutely burning and I stared into the flames. I waited. He didn't say anything, so I looked over to him. He was staring at me blankly.
"What?", he finally got out. "I. Want. You", I repeated slowly.
I could see that his brain was starting to work and trying to understand what I said. His face got more and more red and he started to smile.
I pulled him closer to me and before I could even think about it, I kissed him softly. Without hesitation he leaned into the kiss and let out a sigh. With a smile I put my hand up to his cheek and traced his jawline with my fingers.

We were so busy with each other that we didn't notice the four sets of eyes watching us closely. We also did not notice them giving each other a high five or that Rotxos face dropped in surprise.
The only thing that mattered right now was Neteyam and his soft and perfect lips on mine.