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"You've only kissed?" Neve blinks at Kai, a bit surprised. It was shocking to him, when Kai was such a special person to him, and so handsome, too.
Neve looked sheepish. He should clarify, maybe? He wasn't sure if it was understood this didn't mean he had no experience at all. It didn't matter, but he would hate it if they later learned he'd had more than they'd understood and felt strange about it.
"I'm not... completely lacking in experience."
That was a delicate way to say that, right?
"I've just never dated or been in a relationship."
It was important to Neve to be clear about this. Not to guilt them, or change the way they treated him, but to make it evident that any missteps might come from lack of experience and uncertainty and hesitation, and not a place of ill-intent. To explain they may have to be patient with him, and to be sure they were aware of this before jumping into this with him. Not everyone has the patience, and that would be okay.
Though the thought of Kai and Dash getting together without him filled him with sickening jealousy. So he hoped it wouldn't matter, and wouldn't ever come between them.
"I like that. Three dates." He smile gratefully at both of them, a bit shy still. "When I think about dates I think of listening to someone. The place doesn't really matter as long as we get to talk."
Three dates, he really enjoyed the thought of it, his mind swirling with possibilities. There were so many fun things to do outside of the typical and usual first dates. While traditional could be fun, they were going to be anything but typical. It meant they needed dates to match the outside of the norm. He wondered how many others around them had similar types of relationships. With more opened eyes would he see them now? He knew sometimes he never noticed something until he really knew of it. Giving a nod of his head, he squeezed Dash's hand. "I love the idea of three first dates. Then we'll all get a chance and focus." It would also show the different shades of their personalities.
Eyes moving over to Neve, he blushed a little. "My dad always used to say people just didn't understand me in school," he explained with a tiny shrug of his shoulder. "The selkie thing didn't make it much easier to try and hide. I probably seemed really odd back then." Not at all now but he liked to think of himself as unique, creative.
Not lacking in experience? What did that - oh! "Oh! Neve. Of course that isn't an issue if you think it might be. That'll probably be helpful to not have to watch - uh - things to try and figure it all out." Clearly, he meant adult videos but just didn't say it more clearly. "If someone was with you and didn't want to be with you, they really weren't thinking clearly."
Experience level did not mean much at all to Kai. "Does it - bother either of you I don't ....have much experience?" Now being a virgin could turn off some and if it did, well, he understood. "I mean I've tried plenty of my own!" Probably not an important revelation to actually share but still.
"Talking dates. That sounds perfect to me too." He might be blushing really vividly.
Kai isn't the only one with a head full of thoughts about dates. Dash has daydreamed enough to be a veritable expert on the subject. Even before he was daydreaming vaguely about dates with Neve and Kai, he often got a little lost in thought about the idea of spoiling someone. And there was a point when he was thinking about what it'd be like to go on a date with two people at once, but he hadn't quite cottoned onto the fact that his brain was already thinking of two specific people.
Surely the little imaginary figures in his mind looked like Neve and Kai because they were dear to him, not because he was actually thinking of dating his dearest friends!
Joke's on you, past Dash. You were already head over heels.
"Everything's equal that way," he affirms, nodding. His thoughts were going to wander in another direction, perhaps. Were. And then Kai speaks again, addressing both of them.
He bites his lip, maybe trying to hold back a smile. Trying and failing. "I think it's okay to have a little trial and error! This isn't the same as dating one person at a time, so we're all bound to be a little unsteady on our feet." His smile shows itself now, turning soft. "It's okay to have questions. Let's just promise to do our best to be patient with each other, all right?"
Here, he looks at Neve, then Kai. "Whatever experiences we have had in the past, they can only help us now, don't you think? If we call work together, I bet we'll be able to fill in some of the gaps."
If that means "gaps" in intimate experience in Kai's case and in relationship experience in Neve's, and maybe a little of both for Dash, then so be it.
It's true, this way, they all get to spend time together in a way of their choosing. It's a good way to start — simply re-contextualizing things a little and putting their feet in the water to test it. They can keep talking about this and take it slow.
It's almost hard to, because Neve likes them both so much and wants things he's never wanted before. He doesn't feel like waiting, he wants to grab them both and kiss them and lose himself in them for a few days. When they're in their little world, he feels safe and happy. Like right now, most of his concerns from earlier having faded to nothing.
"That sounds good. Three dates and patience." They would need it, but it wouldn't be a problem for Neve to give it. His impatience was only about wanting to be closer to them, not about being patient with them. He would never rush them into something they were uncomfortable with, or be frustrated with them for needing time.
"I think Dash is right," he says, nudging Kai with his shoulder. "It can only help us. It doesn't bother me at all." A beat. "But I might want to know what kind of things you've liked."
Okay, that isn't entirely necessary, actually, at least not yet, but the words escape him before he can think. "I mean, eventually." His cheeks get a little pink, flustered that he let his thoughts escape his mind so easily.
He clears his throat, squeezing their hands.
"Do we... want to talk about more things?" Like what their boundaries were, if it was okay for two of them to spend romantic time together without the third, things like that.
Equality, trial and error, patience - he nodded his head about all of it, easily agreeing. They would need to slowly find their footing with how to have a relationship with two others rather than just one. It excited him more than worried him because he could already tell there were a lot of emotions to contend with. They also had already developed a significant relationship between the three of them. It would help more than anything else because a strong foundation mattered.
Neve and Dash mattered to him.
"All of that sounds great but we probably need to figure out the dating aspect to this. Are we only going to do romantic things as a trio or will it be as a duo sometimes too?" he offered, squeezing both of their hands. The mechanics of things would need to be discussed to not have anyone slighted or feeling badly. Communication mattered more here than in typical relationships.
"As for things I enjoyed or do enjoy...." His voice drifted off as he looked at Neve, a smile filling his face again. "Do you want to know now or later?" A tease? Maybe, just maybe but he couldn't help himself.
"We will need to talk about that too. What we think with preferences and uh desires." Again, only as a trio or sometimes as a duo? Another important point to figure out.
Unable to help himself, he pressed a kiss to the back of Neve and Dash's hands. Affection starved and all of that.
Dash lights up at the kiss to his hand. He is sort of a sucker for sweet gestures and that one made his heart leap a little bit. Tiny bit. There was a second there where it jumped a little and threatened to try and make a leap into his throat. He smiles, ducking his head.
"You're cute," he says quietly. He then nods in Neve's direction and Kai's right after. "Both of you. Very, very cute." Kai, with a kind of softness to him that makes Dash want to curl up in his arms for hours and Neve, with a warmth that isn't immediately evident, but so very often makes Dash feel short of breath. They're both beautiful in their own ways and Dash knows he has a very special affection for either of them.
Both of them. At the same time. It gives him some pause over Kai's question.
"It's all right with me, you know. If you both want to spend time together, just the two of you." He raises his head from Kai's shoulder and relocates to Neve's, doing so slowly and cautiously. He wants to broadcast his intent and his eyes silently ask if it's okay. Before he lowers his head, he'll wait for an affirmative reply of some kind. "If it's about things that are, ah, more physical? I think we should let things happen naturally. There's no reason it has to be planned out too much ahead of time, right?"
Here, he hugs both of their hands to his chest. "But it's okay if we want to, too, I think. I don't mind telling you now." He bites his lip, holding back a little smile "I guess it'd be good to know before we actually get there, right?"
Maybe it'd be... prudent. "There's some... logistical stuff, I guess, that we'd want to talk about. I may have experience, but," he coughs softly. "Not like this."
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Neve looked sheepish. He should clarify, maybe? He wasn't sure if it was understood this didn't mean he had no experience at all. It didn't matter, but he would hate it if they later learned he'd had more than they'd understood and felt strange about it.
"I'm not... completely lacking in experience."
That was a delicate way to say that, right?
"I've just never dated or been in a relationship."
It was important to Neve to be clear about this. Not to guilt them, or change the way they treated him, but to make it evident that any missteps might come from lack of experience and uncertainty and hesitation, and not a place of ill-intent. To explain they may have to be patient with him, and to be sure they were aware of this before jumping into this with him. Not everyone has the patience, and that would be okay.
Though the thought of Kai and Dash getting together without him filled him with sickening jealousy. So he hoped it wouldn't matter, and wouldn't ever come between them.
"I like that. Three dates." He smile gratefully at both of them, a bit shy still. "When I think about dates I think of listening to someone. The place doesn't really matter as long as we get to talk."
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Eyes moving over to Neve, he blushed a little. "My dad always used to say people just didn't understand me in school," he explained with a tiny shrug of his shoulder. "The selkie thing didn't make it much easier to try and hide. I probably seemed really odd back then." Not at all now but he liked to think of himself as unique, creative.
Not lacking in experience? What did that - oh! "Oh! Neve. Of course that isn't an issue if you think it might be. That'll probably be helpful to not have to watch - uh - things to try and figure it all out." Clearly, he meant adult videos but just didn't say it more clearly. "If someone was with you and didn't want to be with you, they really weren't thinking clearly."
Experience level did not mean much at all to Kai. "Does it - bother either of you I don't ....have much experience?" Now being a virgin could turn off some and if it did, well, he understood. "I mean I've tried plenty of my own!" Probably not an important revelation to actually share but still.
"Talking dates. That sounds perfect to me too." He might be blushing really vividly.
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Surely the little imaginary figures in his mind looked like Neve and Kai because they were dear to him, not because he was actually thinking of dating his dearest friends!
Joke's on you, past Dash. You were already head over heels.
"Everything's equal that way," he affirms, nodding. His thoughts were going to wander in another direction, perhaps. Were. And then Kai speaks again, addressing both of them.
He bites his lip, maybe trying to hold back a smile. Trying and failing. "I think it's okay to have a little trial and error! This isn't the same as dating one person at a time, so we're all bound to be a little unsteady on our feet." His smile shows itself now, turning soft. "It's okay to have questions. Let's just promise to do our best to be patient with each other, all right?"
Here, he looks at Neve, then Kai. "Whatever experiences we have had in the past, they can only help us now, don't you think? If we call work together, I bet we'll be able to fill in some of the gaps."
If that means "gaps" in intimate experience in Kai's case and in relationship experience in Neve's, and maybe a little of both for Dash, then so be it.
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It's almost hard to, because Neve likes them both so much and wants things he's never wanted before. He doesn't feel like waiting, he wants to grab them both and kiss them and lose himself in them for a few days. When they're in their little world, he feels safe and happy. Like right now, most of his concerns from earlier having faded to nothing.
"That sounds good. Three dates and patience." They would need it, but it wouldn't be a problem for Neve to give it. His impatience was only about wanting to be closer to them, not about being patient with them. He would never rush them into something they were uncomfortable with, or be frustrated with them for needing time.
"I think Dash is right," he says, nudging Kai with his shoulder. "It can only help us. It doesn't bother me at all." A beat. "But I might want to know what kind of things you've liked."
Okay, that isn't entirely necessary, actually, at least not yet, but the words escape him before he can think. "I mean, eventually." His cheeks get a little pink, flustered that he let his thoughts escape his mind so easily.
He clears his throat, squeezing their hands.
"Do we... want to talk about more things?" Like what their boundaries were, if it was okay for two of them to spend romantic time together without the third, things like that.
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Neve and Dash mattered to him.
"All of that sounds great but we probably need to figure out the dating aspect to this. Are we only going to do romantic things as a trio or will it be as a duo sometimes too?" he offered, squeezing both of their hands. The mechanics of things would need to be discussed to not have anyone slighted or feeling badly. Communication mattered more here than in typical relationships.
"As for things I enjoyed or do enjoy...." His voice drifted off as he looked at Neve, a smile filling his face again. "Do you want to know now or later?" A tease? Maybe, just maybe but he couldn't help himself.
"We will need to talk about that too. What we think with preferences and uh desires." Again, only as a trio or sometimes as a duo? Another important point to figure out.
Unable to help himself, he pressed a kiss to the back of Neve and Dash's hands. Affection starved and all of that.
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"You're cute," he says quietly. He then nods in Neve's direction and Kai's right after. "Both of you. Very, very cute." Kai, with a kind of softness to him that makes Dash want to curl up in his arms for hours and Neve, with a warmth that isn't immediately evident, but so very often makes Dash feel short of breath. They're both beautiful in their own ways and Dash knows he has a very special affection for either of them.
Both of them. At the same time. It gives him some pause over Kai's question.
"It's all right with me, you know. If you both want to spend time together, just the two of you." He raises his head from Kai's shoulder and relocates to Neve's, doing so slowly and cautiously. He wants to broadcast his intent and his eyes silently ask if it's okay. Before he lowers his head, he'll wait for an affirmative reply of some kind. "If it's about things that are, ah, more physical? I think we should let things happen naturally. There's no reason it has to be planned out too much ahead of time, right?"
Here, he hugs both of their hands to his chest. "But it's okay if we want to, too, I think. I don't mind telling you now." He bites his lip, holding back a little smile "I guess it'd be good to know before we actually get there, right?"
Maybe it'd be... prudent. "There's some... logistical stuff, I guess, that we'd want to talk about. I may have experience, but," he coughs softly. "Not like this."