[Milliways]: First Gestures

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Posner can't believe that it's actually here. He can't believe he's finally leaving home (with Dakin) and moving out (with Dakin) and starting at Oxford (with Dakin). He's got all his essentials packed into a trunk and a suitcase, and it feels like too little to encompass his life so far, but it also feels appropriate to be starting a new life without any of the encumbrances of the old.

On the platform, he kisses his mum and hugs his dad and shakes his uncle's hand, and he tries not to look at the tears his mum is holding back, and he tries not to let his own fall. It isn't sad, not really. It's only...a bit frightening.

So he kisses his mum once more, and he lets her fix his hair, and he hugs his dad again, and then he takes a deep breath and lugs his trunk and his suitcase and his whole life onto the train and moves to find a seat by the window so he can wave them off they can wave him off.

And he doesn't sing Gracie Fields this time, but he wants to.

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"I thought I was playing along," David says with a slight pout.

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"Kissing obnoxiously is supposed to be fun."

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He arches an eyebrow. "But it's obnoxious."

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"Fun for us," says Stuart, "obnoxious to other people."

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David blushes, looking sheepish.

"Ah."

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Stuart smirks at him again.

He whispers, "I wish I could kiss you right now."

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David smiles up at him. "I wish you could too."

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Stuart knocks their knees together again.

It's not a kiss, but it'll do.

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Suddenly David can't wait to get to Oxford.

He starts singing under his breath, "You don't have to be rich to be my girl..."

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"'You don't have to be cool to rule my world...'"

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David giggles softly. "Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with..."

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"'I just want your extra time and your...'"

He looks at David.

Smooch, smooch, smooch. "'Kiss.'"

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David blushes bright red.

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Stuart giggles.

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David says, "I don't want to get kicked off the train to Oxford."

Not when it's so close.

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"Oh, God, we're not going to get kicked off."

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"Just...be careful."

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"That's why I'm not kissing you," Stuart points out.

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"But you're making it difficult for me not to kiss you."

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"Pretend you've never kissed me," Stuart says. "Pretend you can't."

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"How can I?"

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"I'm trying to make it less difficult."

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"Yes, but I can't just...forget what it's like to kiss you," David says quietly.

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"Think about a purple elephant instead." He smiles at David.

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"All the way to Oxford?"