[ that squeeze is enough to make his breath hitch, trying to tuck his face further into zack's shoulder just to hide. because it's almost overwhelming how easily zack seems to be able to take him apart, even though cloud's had the extra years in between to develop some kind of defense against it.

but.

he almost can't believe he has it in him to protest, especially because whatever zack wants to do to him sounds better than perfect, but. ] Wait. Wait, wait, wait --

[ tangling a hand into zack's hair to make sure he doesn't keep moving down, because cloud's brain is already halfway to useless with zack where he is. ] Not saying that's a bad idea. I promise I'll shut you up as much as you want me to later, but.

I -- [ hesitating on it for just a second, a little more pink creeping into his cheeks. ] Right now, I really want --