freckle confessions
summary: confessing your feelings to frankie in a unique way...
warnings: none i think?? this is pure fluff! also this was an old blurb rewritten for frankie to help me ease into writing for him, because ive been dying to forever lol <3
Warm bodies are tangled together under the sheets while the birds chirp peacefully outside. A lovely, golden-pink sunlight floods through the bedroom windows and past the curtains which ripple gently from the late summer, early morning breeze outside. Frankie is laying on his back beside you in all his glory, his broad chest on full display for you as your hand rubs over his baby soft skin.
Laying on your side with your face just inches from Frankie’s solid frame, you drag a single finger from freckle to freckle, moving in a randomized route over the teeny specks littering the top of his shoulder and on the back of his arm. You smile, just to yourself, looking up at the man beside you and contemplating just how lucky you are.
“What’re you doing?” Frankie finally speaks up with a soft, hushed chuckle, feeling the soft sensation of your fingertips, and wondering what your wandering finger’s goal is as his warm, umber eyes bore into yours from above.
“Doing… connect-the-dots,” you murmur honestly, yet avoid his gaze.
“With my freckles?” he laughs, leaning down and over to kiss the side of your head.
“Mhm,” you admit before gently pushing him up by the shoulder so that he turns over to lay on his side with his back to you.
From contingent doodles, you instead begin tracing the words I love you on his back, invisibly connecting the little brown dots he has there, too. You copy those three words over and over and over again, seemingly lighter each time in fear he might catch on.
You write the phrase in all caps, all lowercase, slanted, in cursive, any way you can. It’s what some would consider a risky game, but for now, it’s the bravest you’ll be and the closest you’ll get to saying the words out loud.
“And what are the dots making, Querida?” Frankie coos, his voice slightly muffled now that he’s not facing you.
“You get three guesses,” you say quietly, hoping he guesses wrong and this all gets swept under the carpet until you can actually voice the real words to him.