i'm touch starved and shameless pt. 1
[ a pazzi fic with 3 times paige couldn't keep her hands off of azzi, and the one time azzi couldn't keep her hands off of paige either]
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my first fic on here, and my first pazzi fic, so please don't kill me. anyways i've had this in the drafts halfway written for about three months so here it is now! enjoy.
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Paige sat at the airport, waiting for her flight to Minnesota. The gate was on the other side of the airport from the rest of the flights and she had taken an entire bus to reach this section of the Denver Airport, which seemed completely unnecessary to her. Still, she sat by her carry-on, head phones in, rewatching the latest season of Grey’s Anatomy.
Boarding the plane was more annoying, she knew she would be seated next to some stranger, forced into close quarters just days after spending months with a bunch of other girls. Not that she didn't love all of her FIBA teammates and spending time with them, but being that close to people would cause anyone to want to crawl out of their own skin. Yet Paige managed to find her seat and sat down, resuming her original set up of Netflix with headphones in.
Within moments though, she felt her peace disturbed by a shuffling as her new neighbor sat down close as could be, practically touching. Paige, already irritated by the fact she was almost too tired to understand her show, was about to rip the neighbor a new one when she turned and saw her teammate, or former teammate - it was all a bit confusing - Azzi Fudd. Paige's face instantly turned from fury into something much more friendly as she took in the younger girl.
“Hi,” Azzi smiled softly at Paige, “I was wondering if I could sit next to you? I mean I already am, but would it be alright if I stayed-?”
Paige realized her mind had not caught up to her eyes, and that she was in-fact, staring, as Azzi began to ramble,
“Yeah, of course!” Paige jumped in, interrupting Azzi’s monologue, “it’d be awesome to sit by you!”
Azzi’s shoulders dropped the tension they were obviously holding in fear of Paige’s rejection as she fully placed her personal item under the seat. In the shuffling around to make sure that she was able to access everything, like her laptop and water bottle, Azzi accidently elbows the blonde next to her.
“I’m so sorry-” Azzi speaks out quickly, her face flushing with embarrassment as she moves her elbow away quickly.
“It’s okay,” Paige laughs out in response, her hand coming to rest on Azzi’s elbow, bringing the other girl forward to focus on her, “I’m fine, no injury here!”
Azzi snorts at that, because of course, she could have told you Paige was fine, but it was still nice to know she didn’t inconvenience her either.
Paige gives Azzi another smile before turning back towards her phone, her hand still resting on Azzi’s elbow. Paige’s eyebrows furrow some more as Azzi keeps looking at the point of contact between the two of them, before a voice snaps her out of her trance.
“My Netflix is being stupid,” Paige finally huffs, “Want to just talk the way home?”
Azzi pulls her eyes away from the point of connection between the girls before considering Paige’s offer. She had wanted to read for a while, finally getting her hands on a book she wanted for the last couple months, but talking to Paige didn’t seem horrible. Finally Azzi nods, which Paige takes as a enough go-ahead to start on a tangent about something or other, basketball related.
Yet, even as Paige talks with her hands, and keeps talking, her hands keep finding their way back to Azzi’s arm, or leg if something was particularly funny. Paige won’t admit it but her Netflix was working fine that day, she just didn’t want to lose the moment.
So on the rest of the flight home, the two giggle their way into a new friendship, and Paige does everything she can to keep touching Azzi, just to make sure this is real, and really happening.
By now, Azzi was used to Paige’s clinginess. The need for the other girl to be touching Azzi was like a second nature, something that Azzi had grown incredibly used to over the last three years: in fact she started to yearn for the touch herself, but she wouldn’t admit that to Paige in one hundred years.
The blonde was staying with Azzi’s family right now - COVID having fucked up everything majorly - and while Azzi did like the touching from Paige, she wasn’t sure how much more she could take. The blonde was everywhere, in all of Azzi’s senses, in her space, in her mind. The touches that Paige needed, and seemed to crave, were becoming too much.
Who could blame Azzi for snapping?
“Azzi,” Paige whined from the couch, phone discarded beside her, face twisted in the way it only got when she was incredibly bored.
“What, Paige?” Azzi responded from her spot at the kitchen table.
“I’m bored,” Paige groaned, flopping off the couch dramatically.
Azzi just rolled her eyes, the blonde was not going to distract her from her homework today. While grades were less important now with the whole world wide pandemic happening, Azzi still wanted to stay caught up and make sure she finished with all As.
“Azzi,” Paige whined again, sitting up and looking at the dining table where Azzi was, “come hang out with me.”
“I can’t Paige, I have to finish this essay,” Azzi sighed.
Paige flopped down again before rolling her eyes. What was the point, if any, if she couldn’t hang out with Azzi. The blonde stood up before moving over to her friend, deciding that something had to change, quickly, or she would die of boredom.
Paige walked over to where Azzi was, standing behind the younger girl, wondering what she could do to get her attention. Paige didn’t want to exactly ruin Azzi’s evening, but she also didn’t want to be bored the rest of the time. Finally Paige settled on the most reasonable solution, poke Azzi until she paid attention.
Paige stuck out her hand then and made her first move, a poke on Azzi’s shoulder. Of course the younger girl was used to her antics by now and ignored it, but Paige was not to be deterred. Another poke came swiftly after directed at Azzi’s side. This one caused Azzi to flinch, but still her concentration was not broken. Finally, Paige knew what she had to do. Azzi wasn’t responding to the normal prompts from Paige - which usually made the other girl at least acknowledge her - so it was time for extreme measures.
Paige quickly moved both her hands in on her third attack and began tickling Azzi, forcing the other girl to finally break her concentration, squirming away from Paige.
“Paige!” Azzi shrieked, trying to slap the older girl’s hands away, moving up from the dining room table.
Even as Azzi attempted to escape, Paige gave chase, moving quickly to capture the other girl and continue her assault.
“Paige, I’m serious,” Azzi wheezed, out of breath, “let me go.”
“Nuh-uh,” Paige said, “Not until you agree to hang out.”
Paige ended up on top of Azzi on the ground, pinning the girl to the floor in a mess and tangle of limbs that were practically indistinguishable from one another.
“Paige,” Azzi’s voice was breathless, but her tone clearer now, “stop.”
Azzi’s tone quickly snapped Paige out her giggly torrent, the sobering snap of it making her stand up quite quickly.
“I don’t want to hear it right now,” Azzi pushed herself up, “Just wait for me in my room or something so I can finish my work.”
Paige just nodded, walking away while mumbling an apology under her breath.
About 20 minutes later, Azzi walked into her room where Paige was sitting on the edge of her bed. The blonde had obviously been pacing around anxiously, if the clutter around Azzi’s room being reorganized was any indication. When Paige looked up from her lap with sad eyes as Azzi finally reached her, the younger girl felt bad,
“I’m sorry for snapping,” Azzi said, kneeling down between Paige’s legs so the two of them were eye level.
“It’s okay,” Paige said, her hand unconsciously moving to Azzi’s leg, “I was being an asshole.”
The two delved into giggles then, their laughter causing imbalance, which eventually made Azzi start to sway and fall as she fell forward onto Paige.
Paige’s hand, which had before been resting in a comfortable position on Azzi’s leg, now slid further up her thigh, causing both girls to draw in a breath.
“Sorry-” Paige mumbled, red flushing overtaking her cheeks quickly.
“No, I fell on top of you,” Azzi spoke, quieter than before, “it’s my fault, if anything,” she exhaled.
The two finally seemed to notice how close they had gotten from this, and how much of each other was touching the other. Paige’s hand stayed in place on Azzi’s thigh, and her other hand seemed to twitch as if it also wanted to touch the other girl.
Azzi noticed, obviously, she noticed everything about Paige. This time felt different though, as Azzi took Paige’s hand and guided into her own, knowing that touch calmed her. Knowing that Paige’s heartbeat was picking up and her breath was coming quicker.
“Can I kiss you?” Paige blurts out, as Azzi just finished pulling her hand onto her lap.
“Paige-” Azzi’s eyes go wide.
“Wait- no, forget I said anything-”
“Yes,” Azzi smiles, before pulling Paige into a kiss.
Life changing, is what Paige would describe it as, her lips on Azzi. She removes her hand from Azzi’s, going to hold the girl’s waist, as they pull back from the kiss. Their foreheads clash together as they lean forward again, smiling. Paige quickly leans in again to kiss Azzi once more, it’s slower this time than the one a few seconds before, and it feels like the first time she touched Azzi’s elbow all those years ago.
“Girls!” Katie Fudd’s voice shouts from downstairs suddenly, causing the two of them to jump apart, “dinner!”
The two of them look towards the door and at each other, putting a respectable amount of space between each other before preparing to go downstairs to see what Katie made for dinner. Yet as they walk, Paige’s hand doesn’t seem to leave Azzi’s body in some way, and both girls know they’re screwed.
Azzi knew they were a bit codependent, Paige knew it too. Who wouldn’t be? They’d know each other for years, it was practically second nature to seek the other out at any given moment. The problems arose when their teammates pointed it out.
Azzi was asleep on the couch on top of Paige after another movie night, the two girls intertwined underneath a blanket with Paige holding Azzi against her chest. The intimacy of it all was a bit sickening to their friends who were also gathered around, no matter how cute it was.
“Calm down bro,” KK eventually said, the movie about halfway through, “ain’t nobody taking her from you, Bueckers.”
The rest of the team devolved into quiet laughter around them as Paige blushed, but not lessening her grip on Azzi at all, continuing to draw patterns with her hand on the girl’s back.
The commotion caused Azzi to stir under the blanket, before Paige leaned down to whisper something in her ear. Azzi blushed and snuggled closer at that, causing a collective groan to fall from all of their friend’s lips.
“Jesus, this is too much.”
“Okay, okay! I see where we aren’t wanted,” Paige said, tapping Azzi to wake her.
The younger girl stirred, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. As she sat up, Paige’s arm never left her, migrating from her back to her shoulders to steady her.
“Get a room!” Ice said from a beanbag across the room.
“You know what, we will,” Paige said back, ignoring that the movie was nowhere near done.
The two girls, ever the unit, moved towards the door, waving bye to their friends as they collected their things.
“See you tomorrow guys,” Azzi said, sleep making her voice gravely, Paige halfway holding her up.
A chorus of byes came from the dorm as the door shut behind the two of them and they walked back to Paige’s room. The couple stayed close together the whole time though, and Paige’s hand never left Azzi’s body as they maneuvered back to the dorm, and resumed their cuddling in Paige’s bed.
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end of part one! part two out soon, hopefully. anyways my asks are open! have a good night!!
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