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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 12h

“I won’t,” he said, seeming so sure that the knot in Jula’s chest finally released. “So get undressed and get in, Vasiliev.”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 12h

“I’m okay,” Neo interrupted. “I just needed some time to process and stuff. But I’m not forcing myself—I promise.”

“Don’t let me hurt you, Neo,” Jula pleaded.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 12h

“You can’t wear your clothes in if I’m naked,” Neo said as he peeked around the curtain, startling her out of her worries.

“I’m still not sure you’re not forcing yourself to do this,” Jula told him. “I…I don’t want…”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 12h

So when she knocked, she did so still dressed. Stood outside the door and thought about what she wanted to say or do—how she could do it in a way that wouldn’t make Neo think his fears were coming true.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 13h

Jula picked out clothes for both of them while she waited, chewing on the inside of her bottom lip, wondering if she should go in or not.

He didn’t seem sure.

And the last thing she wanted was to traumatize him more.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 13h

“Can I get in first and then you…you can…join me? After a few minutes?” he asked quietly.

“Do you want me to knock before I come in?”

He nodded jerkily. “Yes, please.”

“Are you su—”

“Yes.”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 13h

She waited, watching him get his thoughts together, staying perfectly still. Any movements she made away from him right now would, to him, be rejection.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 13h

Jula reached up, guiding his face until she could meet his eyes—see the fear in them. “It’s okay to be vulnerable sometimes, you know?” she said gently. “But if you don’t want to, then this conversation is over. You can shower first.”

“No, Jula, I…”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 14h

“Are 𝘺𝘰𝘶 scared?” she asked, staring up at him with no hint of teasing or joking about it.

“I’m scared we’ll do this and you’ll see something about me that makes you realize you don’t want this,” Neo said.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 14h

“You don’t find it embarrassing?”

“What is there to be embarrassed about?” Jula asked in return, pulling Neo towards the bathroom by both his hands.

“Or…or 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥?” he asked.

Jula stopped.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 14h

“You know what 𝘰𝘯𝘦 looks like,” Jula agreed. “But you don’t know what 𝘐 look like naked, and I would think that’s more relevant.”

Neo stared at her for a little while longer before his shoulders slumped and he asked, “Are you sure?”

She nodded.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 14h

She had him there—she saw the spark of interest behind his eyes. She just didn’t have him fully convinced quite yet.

“I know what a naked woman looks like,” he muttered. “So it’s not like I’d be blind either way.”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 15h

“Naked,” Jula said helpfully.

Neo swallowed hard. “I don’t know, Jula, I—”

“Think about it the same way you do wanting to get your bearings in a new place. Maybe sex won’t be so daunting if you’re not going into it totally blind.”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 15h

“We could always shower together,” Jula finally said.

Neo blinked, a blush starting on the bridge of his nose and creeping outwards from there until his entire face was afflicted. “We…we would be—”

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 15h

Only when the sun was setting did Jula agree to go inside and start thinking about what they would do for dinner. They flipped through several pamphlets until they found a restaurant they could agree on, then started an argument about who got to shower first.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 15h

people who decided scraps of attention were better than morals 🤫

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

a very grateful shoutout to @themagicbluefox.bsky.social for letting me borrow her beautiful elegant getaway build for Neo and Jula’s trip! there was nothing else even close to being anywhere near as good 🫶🏻🙂‍↔️

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

“Hey—where are you going? Are you done?” Neo asked as Jula stood.

“No. Just gotta pee,” Jula lied as she scurried off to the bathroom, dumping not one, but two tonics down her throat.

Neo would not be a 𝘥𝘢𝘥 on her watch. What in the hell was she thinking about it for?

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

A thought occurred to Jula from entirely out of left field as Neo brought her a sandwich and insisted she drink something.

He would make a great dad. Always worrying about the little things, remembering things no one else did, taking care of needs easily forgotten.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

They stayed outside for hours.

Chased each other around in the water, swam races, built a coliseum out of sand and decorated it in seashells. Jula had wanted to bury Neo next, but he’d drawn the line at that.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

Jula emerged from the bathroom and found Neo ready and waiting, holding a hand out to her as his other one opened the sliding glass door leading to their section of the beach.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

It would have to be soon.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

She couldn’t help feeling like they were waiting for something. Like everything they were doing was only leading up to something else.

She didn’t want to spend their entire vacation feeling like that. And she knew that if she felt it, Neo would be feeling it ten times more.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

“Okay,” he said after a minute of hesitation, of fighting with his urge to push back against her.

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jay✨🖋💙 @mythicsims.bsky.social · 1d

She knew he didn’t—knew that what he really wanted to do was go walk around until he felt like he knew his surroundings enough.

But Jula tried, within reason, to push him out of the protective bubble he liked to live and operate within. To broaden his horizons.

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