Shannon only made half of a grab toward the bag, switching partway to turn Eli's head and let the kiss turn into a peck on the lips instead. It wasn't exactly the most innocent of behaviors to start their alone time, but then again, no one was actually expecting anyone to behave here. Once Eli was gone, Shannon turned back to Jackie. His thoughts were fairly obvious across his face as his eyes roamed, stopped along with the rest of him, and narrowed as he processed the true significance of what a collar meant.
"I gotta be," he said after a moment, letting the information roll off his shoulders before it could tangle into an obsessive ball of frustration. It wasn't that complicated and Shannon was not going to let it become that complicated. They were together now, and Eli wanted to gift him something of that much import before they could even have sex together, and Shannon wanted to receive it. He let out a long breath, rolled his shoulders and—to his own surprise—started to chuckle. "When you've got someone who thinks the world of you, how can you not be your best so you don't disappoint? You're right, he didn't tell me. Guy doesn't want to believe it's real, wouldn't want to scare me off."
Then again, Shannon couldn't possibly speak to what Eli's true intentions were. There was a lot going on in that revelation that Shannon would need more time alone to his thoughts to comb through and, for Eli, there must be even more to it. Was he doing this with such symbolic intention, or did he expect it to be something between them that would mean only as much as he allowed it to? Either way, Shannon was not going to let him spook him. That sort of commitment had already been made the moment they first clicked together, when their kiss fell into place and it was right.
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"I gotta be," he said after a moment, letting the information roll off his shoulders before it could tangle into an obsessive ball of frustration. It wasn't that complicated and Shannon was not going to let it become that complicated. They were together now, and Eli wanted to gift him something of that much import before they could even have sex together, and Shannon wanted to receive it. He let out a long breath, rolled his shoulders and—to his own surprise—started to chuckle. "When you've got someone who thinks the world of you, how can you not be your best so you don't disappoint? You're right, he didn't tell me. Guy doesn't want to believe it's real, wouldn't want to scare me off."
Then again, Shannon couldn't possibly speak to what Eli's true intentions were. There was a lot going on in that revelation that Shannon would need more time alone to his thoughts to comb through and, for Eli, there must be even more to it. Was he doing this with such symbolic intention, or did he expect it to be something between them that would mean only as much as he allowed it to? Either way, Shannon was not going to let him spook him. That sort of commitment had already been made the moment they first clicked together, when their kiss fell into place and it was right.