Day 2: Dance

Warnings: no

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As soon as Roman had had the idea he had known it was the best one he had had yet, and seeing Janus step into his room wearing an extravagant black ball gown with yellow touches, long yellow lace gloves, and immaculate make-up only confirmed that.

He seriously had to thank Logan, for watching that three hour documentary about ballgown creation throughout history, in the living room of the mindscape and subjecting all of them to that level of boredom.

"Woah," he said, staring Janus up and down, "just- wow."

"Thank you darling, that was exactly the reaction I was going for." Janus said with a rather smug smile, fingers slipping between Roman's and gracefully lifting his hand up to press his lips to it. Roman felt tingles up his entire arm at the soft touch.

"And let me tell you, Roman, you look absolutely gorgeous." Janus said, no trace of deceit in his voice. His boyfriend made an effort to speak the truth when he was around him, as Roman had a hard time telling when he was lying or speaking the truth, but sometimes it was all too clear.

"Thank you." He said, hoping that his makeup would conceal how flustered Janus words made him. He was supposed to be the romantic and confident one, which he was, but he had also thought he would be able to take what he dished out.

But Janus... god, Janus just got to him. It didn't matter that they had been together for over half a year, he could render Roman speechless and flustered in mere seconds when he really wanted to.

"I'd really love to kiss you right now, but I don't want to ruin your makeup so soon. We haven't even left my room yet." Roman said with a huff, swiping his hand towards the door to the imagination to make it open for the two of them.

It opened up right into a ballroom that Roman had spent all day creating, and he glanced back to gauge Janus' reaction as they entered, delighting in how Janus' eyes widened at the sight of his creation. It made pride and silly excitement simmer in him, to see that someone looked at what he made and understood the effort he had put into it.

"You've outdone yourself." Janus said, squeezing his hand and looking at him with admiration and reverence that Roman had spent the last year teaching himself that he deserved.

"You say that every time I bring you to my side of the imagination." Roman said with a laugh, shutting the door with them and pulling Janus with him towards the middle of the hall.

"As if it's not true every time." Janus said with a fond roll of his eyes, turning to face Roman and placing his free hand on Roman's lower back, stepping in close. Roman wrapped an arm around Janus' shoulders, taking the same position as he had the last time they had danced.

They did not dance often, but it had happened twice or thrice before, though not as dressed up as this time and not in a location such as this one. The few other times they had danced it had been in the privacy of their rooms, late at night when they were feeling especially sappy, holding each other and swaying together, dressed in their pajamas.

"My love, you make it so hard not to kiss you." Roman complained, snapping with his fingers to make music play throughout the ballroom. It was unfair that Janus would just go around being so handsome all the time, because unfortunately it was unrealistic to constantly be kissing his boyfriend.

He often tried, though, to the playful exasperation of Janus.

"Oh, I expect my makeup to be ruined by the end of this evening." Janus said with a wink as they began to move along to the music, making Roman's face heat.

They tried to keep the same pace as the music with their movements, taking a step wrong now and then because of their lack of experience, but neither complained if the other occasionally stepped on their toes, far too happy to just be there together, swaying and twirling along to the music.

And, to the surprise of neither of them, they did indeed end up kissing. A lot. Neither of their lipsticks stood a chance.

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Written: 9th May 2022
Published: 9th May 2022
Words: 730

Writing them is good practice that i need and also fun cause i do love this ship, although i kind of prefer roloceit because why have roceit or loceit when u can have both and also logince lmao