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One leftover taco dinner later.
Rowan finishes his work on the dishes, which due to the leftovers is mostly confined to just their own plates, making clean up east tonight.
He turns to Jac' with a chuckle, "We have gotten good at splitting up the chores over the years, haven't we? So uh..." He trails off, thinking to their rather makeshift plan for the night. "Kitchen clean. Us next?"
Jacinto sighs softly as he leans back on the kitchen chair. "Guh. I might have eaten a bit much. But... yeah." He smiles at Rowan: "I guess we both want to do this."
Rowan blushes, "If you're okay with it... I mean... I don't know, I'm not exactly going to be much to ogle in the shower."
Jacinto blushes in mirror. "Well... me neither, and..." He swallows. "Okay, uh... why does this feel more daring than what we have already done?"
Rowan shakes his head, "Don't know... It really does though, huh? We've already seen each other practically naked when suiting... But never all the way. Err... Not like, on purpose."
Jacinto nods. He then gives a smile and offers his hand to his boyfriend: "...time's the first, then. At least there's no one witnessing us being all weird and embarrassed about this."
Rowan takes Jac's hand and grins, "No one, that is, except the single most important person in the world to me? Though, you've seen me being weird and embarrassing myself plenty of times already..."
Jacinto laughs softly as he gets up from the chair, gently guiding Rowan up: "Well, then we can just be all that together. Like at every point up to now."
Rowan hums, standing at Jac's urging and following him once more. "Just another step forward together, huh? I don't mind you seeing me being silly or stupid or embarrassing... I don't know why this feels different. Maybe it's not, maybe I'm just overthinking it?"
Jacinto smiles, nodding towards the bathroom. "Maybe. Maybe not. One way to find out, and I'm getting a bit excited to." He squeezes at Rowan's hand softly, before leading the short way once again.
Rowan nods, still feeling the butterflies in his stomach, "Me too... Nerves and thoughts aside, I want to do this with you."
Jacinto nods in agreement. "P-pretty much. Just... the same as we already did, just with less fur, right?" He swallows, somewhat uncertain if he actually believes that, but moving them forward all the same.
Rowan nods tentatively, "L-less fur... Less cute... More hairy, and fat. Ugh. Unsure how you can stand me, honestly." He laughs, trying to make his comments sound like a joke. "At least Akari is pretty."
Jacinto listens to Rowan, then frowns towards the end. He lifts his hand to Rowan's cheek as they step into the bathroom proper: "Hey. Stop that. You are pretty handsome as yourself as well, just differently for several obvious reasons."
Rowan smiles at Jacinto, blushing at his touch, "I love you. Maybe I'm just afraid you'll see me as I see myself?"
Jacinto smiles: "Well, then we better improve at least one of ours' sight if it comes to that." He gives Rowan a soft kiss, then ever so slowly starts undoing Rowan's shirt buttons.
Rowan hums into the kiss, a little more encouraged, and certainly not pulling away, "And now you're saying I need glasses..."
Jacinto laughs softly as he continues: "Mm, depending what you see in a mirror I guess."
Rowan reaches lower to unbuckle Jac's belt, "Don't know... if you're there too, I might end up with my eyes on you."
Jacinto shrugs even as his hands work to get the shirt off of Rowan: "Then we may have to answer this mystery on another night..."
Rowan helps, wiggling out of his shirt as Jac pulls it off. "Heh, perhaps... But I do trust your opinion in these matters."
Jacinto hums, getting Rowan's shirt off before leaning for another kiss. "I am pretty opinionated like that."
Rowan lets the shirt fall to the bathroom floor, leaning into the kiss as he unbuckles Jac's pants. "You always have been. And I love that about you. You never go half-way into anything you love."
Jacinto giggles softly as he allows his pants to drop to the floor, stepping out of them without letting go of Rowan in the process. "Mm, I'm weird like that. And well, now I love you...~"
Rowan blushes, then reaches up to work on removing Jac's shirt. "And I want to return that love and that passion right back."
Jacinto mm's, starting to undo Rowan's belt buckle in turn: "Whether in fur or not..."
Rowan nods, pulling Jac's shirt off. "Yeah. This... It's all about us. Together."
Jacinto allows his shirt to drop: "Yup~." Once Rowan's pants are loose, he lets go enough to undress the rest of the way himself. "Sharing showers is just one part...~."
Rowan does as well, stripping his underclothes off nervous but excited, until he's standing there naked, blushing, "It's been a pretty great part so far. No reason to believe it'll be any different now."
Jacinto allows his hands to touch Rowan's chest from the sides. His heart is racing, but his gaze is very warm. "Indeed. You are just as lovable like this, as when in fur... if anything, it's hard to compare the two."
Rowan relaxes at Jac's touch, the anxiety draining away when his love doesn't flee in disgust. "You're beautiful, hot in ways that Cindi isn't, but that I still love fully."
Jacinto smiles, then leads the way towards the shower. "If I am beautiful, so are you."
Rowan's heart skips a beat, "I... Th-thanks, Jac'." He steps into the shower once more, hands moving to Jac's side.
Jacinto turns the warm water on, feeling it rather instantly on his skin compared to the several moments it took to feel it in long fur. He gasps a bit at the heat, then turns to smile at Rowan again, pulling him under the shower and into a soft, passionate kiss.
Rowan barely has the time to process the water when Jac pulls him close, but he eagerly returns that passion.
Jacinto closes his eyes, holding the kiss for as long as he dares under the flowing water, before giving Rowan a wet, smoldering look. He mouths quietly: "I love you. So much."
Rowan grins, eyes wet with more than just the shower water. He's less capable of the raw smouldering look, and instead gives Jac' a wet, sincere look of love. "I love you too~. I can't hold it in." He shakes his head, then leans in closer, his hands moving up to support behind Jac's back.
Jacinto mm's, holding Rowan close: "Well, no reason to hold back now...~"
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