Posting this before I bounce for my Honeymoon….this is my work for the @yoirarepairzine and my first JJBek fic ever lol. I hope y’all like it.
JJ arrives, dripping and unannounced, on Otabek’s doorstep during the off-season, along with Almaty’s first bout of summer storms.
His clothes are too thick for the weather, and his black hair is longer than Otabek remembers; heavy with water and sticking to his forehead in unfamiliar patterns. Otabek feels a bit like he’s viewing a stranger—and a part of him thinks that he is , it’s been that long—but the teeth; a straight, lily-white line beaming between parted pink lips taunts him. JJ’s smile is still JJ’s smile, even if it’s fake.
And Otabek knows it’s fake, because he can see the way the upturned corners war with the liquid falling from JJ’s eyes that look nothing like the rain outside. A question forms immediately on his tongue, but he doesn’t ask it, doesn’t even say hello, just sidesteps and beckons JJ and his suitcase indoors.
When the door closes, and Otabek becomes all too aware of the rain that blew in on his own cheeks, JJ finally breaks the silence.
“I couldn’t think of anywhere else to go.”