Tara's stutter is just like my younger son's -- if you give him time and space and he knows you're going to give him undivided attention, it goes away. When he's competing with my extremely articulate and talkative older son (and his father), he stutters a *lot*.
Your Spike and Xander are still men, aren't they? They don't talk about their relationship at all. I love how this couch-cuddling induces a sort of push-me pull-you feeling in Xander enough to make his heart pound! Men can be such dorks:
He’d get so tense then that he wasn’t leaning into Spike anymore, but more just propped against him, stiff and anxious and grinning unnaturally and saying, “This is nice,” loudly and often.
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Date: 2004-11-10 07:46 am (UTC)From:Your Spike and Xander are still men, aren't they? They don't talk about their relationship at all. I love how this couch-cuddling induces a sort of push-me pull-you feeling in Xander enough to make his heart pound! Men can be such dorks:
He’d get so tense then that he wasn’t leaning into Spike anymore, but more just propped against him, stiff and anxious and grinning unnaturally and saying, “This is nice,” loudly and often.
Ha!