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“I’ve grown bigger haven’t I?”
Kaeya lifts his eyes from the book on hand. “Come again love?” He sees you pulling back the shirt you wore to fit your curves by the mirror. He thinks nothing of it really.
”I look rounder these past couple days, don’t I?”
”Oh love..” He walks toward you and hug you from behind, resting his chin by your shoulders. “You look absolutely breathtaking for me.”
“Of course you think so, you’re my other, you can’t say anything to upset me.”
”I’ve said a lot of things to upset you, although some not on purpose; what makes that different?” He asks. “Wait..does that..upset you?”
You remain silent and it seems that he’s found his answer.
“Oh my dear..alright.” He lifts head from your shoulders and his hands from your waist to your shoulders. “Stand up straight and look at the mirror for me.”
”What are you trying to do?”
”Don’t ask, just do, okay?”
“Alright, now what?”
“I want you to tell me 3 things you love about me, physical traits or what not.”
”What’s that got to do with-”
”Ah, ah, ah.” He stops you. “Don’t ask, just do.”
“Okay, okay, this is easy. I love your eyes, how I’m the only one who’s able to see their true glory. I love your arms and how strong they are. I love your brain and how it works, even I can’t seem to know how it works.”
You trail off his features and why you like them. Although you love all of him, he said just to name three. “Kaeya, pray tell, what’s this for?”
“Alright, thank you love.” He presses a kiss to your temple and whispers in your ear. “My turn.”
“What are you doing-” You suddenly flustered at the way he pulls you close to him and puts his hands underneath your shirt.
”I love your curves and your belly. I adore how it hugs all parts of you, how it perfectly catches my eye by its own distinct beauty.” His hand trails upwards to embrace you from behind. He rubs small circles by your skin near your throat.
“I love your voice, how I’m the luckiest person to get to hear it first thing in the morning and the last before nodding off to sleep. I like how loud you can be but also be quiet. However you feel like it, you have the best singing voice I have ever heard. Not even Barbara’s capabilities can compare to how much I swoon over your small performances and how I am the blessed one to see them.”
He turns you over to face him and leans to give you a kiss, from the shoulders, to your neck, by your jaw to the cheeks, your nose, above your eyes to your forehead and lastly a deep kiss to your lips.
“Your face, with all its imperfections, is perfectly imperfect to me. This very face that greets me in the morning the moment I open my eyes, is what gets me going everyday. I love your eyes how they glisten when light hits it, your nose and how it’s just the right size for nuzzling into my back with every lazy morning, your lips how it’s so soft and plump against mine and even though most of the time you say its dry and crackly, nothing a little lips to lips couldn’t solve eh?”
You punch his side at the snide comment and it elicits a smile out of you, Kaeya’s ultimate goal.
“That’s unfair, you told 5 things.” You turn to him and hug him close, resting your head on his chest.
“Oh my love. I could go on about more. I love you, and everything that makes you, you.” He pulls you closer by the waist and rests his chin on top of your head. He sways you from left to right before he stops and you both look into each other’s eyes.
You reach for his face and graze your finger to the scar on his face, tucking the hair covering it behind his ear in the process. “You aren’t perfect, and so do I, but why must I feel like I’m the only one?”
“You aren’t love, as you said, I’m not perfect too. We all have our redeeming features and that’s what makes up to our lapses.”
He pulls you closer by the back of your head to make your foreheads touch.
”But to me? Dear Archons above, to me..you are exquisite..” He pulls away and looks you right into your eyes. “My love, you complete me. You fit me..perfectly.”
Before he leans, you pull him close by the loose collar of his shirt and gave an intimate kiss.
To think than the heavens have heard your calls for a man that could tolerate you, that would stay for whatever and however. This man that every Mondstadt grandmother would want their grandchild wedded to, is yours? The Archons heed the call of of your lovesick blues and this one was certain to be forever.
“Love, hey..” Kaeya pulls away and wipes your cheek. “Do I kiss that good to make you cry?”
“I’m just..really relieved..” You tell him. He takes your hand to sit by the grand sofa in your small shared place, this was really an unnecessary purchase but he insisted it was an investment you could pass on for future generations. Yeah, like a couch could last a hundred years without rips and tears or a load of stains you wouldn’t even remember where it came from.
“If it were a different person, I would be guessing they’d suggest I lose weight, eat less, even blame me for growing too big. I'm thankful you aren’t like that but it lingered in my head before that maybe you would, no offense.” You told him, head resting on his chest and playing with his fingers interlocking them with yours.
“If you want to, tell me and I’ll help you. I wouldn’t ask anything more of you, especially changing your own appearance, but if its what you wish then I’ll do what I can of my abilities. Anything for you love.”
“I’d maybe start small, eating less?”
”But you already eat so ample? Why lessen it more than it should? In any case you should be eating more.”
“You’re trying to make me fat, are you not?”
“Hey, you aren’t fat. You’re thick boned, you have been this voluptuous and beautiful the first time we’ve met, its your natural body type. Eating less will only make you sick, and we don’t want that to happen right?”
“But Kae~” You whined. “I don’t know where to start then.”
“We’ll figure it out alright? You have me with this, I wouldn’t change you or exchange you for anything in the world.”
“Not even for wine?”
“Why have wine when I have the full course meal right beside me? Hey- OW!”
You had smacked the throw pillow nearby to his face, serves him right.
“Speaking of meals, it’s nearly dinner, have something in mind you want to dine?”
“You’re cooking? That’s new, often times we’d be by the tavern by now not even a meal in mind.”
”We are staying home tonight, my love needs me more tonight than alcohol.” He kisses the back of your hand and asks you again. “Dinner...or me?”
“Maybe some Northern Apple Stew and Wolfhook Juice, that sounds good.”
”Hmm..” He looks a tad dissapointed, but he would make you all the meals you wanted anyways. “Alright, I’ll get the cooking started. You my love is free to do whatever, although help is much appreciated.”
“Then let’s get cooking.” You take his hand and walk to the kitchen to start on dinner. “I’m thinking if I should have you for later?”
“I look forward to that.”