location: obsidian beach, mid-morning costar: @mc-adarsh
"It's disconcerting, isn't it?" Alex clapped a hand to his head where his sunglasses were sitting, keeping them from blowing away in one of the strong gusts that hit the shore periodically. He slipped them down onto his face and gave Adarsh a scrunchy grin before scooting closer to the other man on the tatami mat they were sitting on, weighted down with chunks of black rock that could be found on the beach. "The black sand, I mean. It's like the physical equivalent to eating food that's been coloured black with charcoal and has no business being that colour."
Alex brushed at the sand that was clinging in a streak to Adarsh's thigh, before impulsively bending to kiss the spot of skin he'd just wiped; warm and smelling of the salt water they'd been swimming in a short while ago before coming back to the shore to bask in the sun. He kept his hand there when he sat back up again, smoothing his palm over Adarsh's thigh as he continued, "...pitch black croissants. Midnight coloured custard tarts. Vantablack pancake syrup. Deeply unsettling."
Leaning in, Alex planted a kiss at the side of Adarsh's mouth, then more squarely on the other man's lips, murmuring, "Squid ink energy drinks...."
