Mason starting to court Erin would be extra sweet cause he would have to at least wade a bit into the ocean to find the shells. And the shells might not be as nice as usual courting shells but Erin loves them all the same cause Mason had to fight his fear to get them.
I couldn’t help myself!
I have a fixation with these boys and I love them so much!
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Mason stood at the end of the shore, the water just barely covering his feet. He was trying to will his heart to calm down. Mason thickly swallowed and took a small step deeper into the water, his foot now fully submerged.
He’s swam in there before for Erin. He’s been in there and everything was fine. He can do it again. He’s going to do this again for Erin and for himself. Mason wanted to do this and he wanted to do this right.
“That’s really small.” Mason pulled out a shell from the sand, the water mid-shin. He was using his focus on searching to hide his fear as he went just a little deeper into the water, it now just below his knees. “Better...kind of.” Mason took out another shell. Maybe if he had a collection it’ll make up for the lack of size.
“Mason!” Erin’s squeal got Mason to hug the handful of shells to his chest as he heard splashing. “You’re in the ocean!” Erin was jumping as he went in front of Mason, eyes going wide when he saw what Mason was holding. “You’re...collecting shells?”
“I...I…” Mason held the shells out towards Erin.
“Yes! Yes! Yes!” Erin leaped towards Mason, making Mason drop the shells in order to catch Erin. “We’re mates! We’re mates!” Erin wrapped his arms around Mason and hugged him tightly.
“I’m pretty sure courting is supposed to take more time.” Mason weakly laughed.
“We’ve spent enough time.” Erin happily hummed. “We can finally do all the things mates get to do. We can cuddle more and hold hands and kiss and-” Erin’s cheeks suddenly went red and he hid his face in Mason’s chest, giggling. Mason easily caught on to the implication and went red as well. Mason just chuckled and hugged Erin back. “Can we kiss?” Erin asked, looking up at Mason.
“Y-Yeah.” Mason gently placed a hand on Erin’s cheek before leaning in and pressing their lips together. It only took a moment before they both moved closer into the kiss and clung to each other, this kiss been literal years in the making.
“Finally!” Daniel’s shout from his house got Mason and Erin to both yelp in shock. “Took you two long enough!”
“I wanna kiss again.” Erin giggled, wiggling in Mason’s arms.
“Okay.” Mason grinned and pulled Erin right back in.
“I’ll start making a cake.” Daniel laughed and went back into the house.












