Page 76 of Full Body Hit, Part 1

Why only for a bit?

Charlie

I know that it’s for heats like you’re not supposed to do it all the time

Aunix

Why not?

Chase opened his mouth like he was gonna talk back instead of type, but he was stumped on both fronts. All he could do was repeat himself.

Charlie

Um because it’s for heats?

Aunix

I mean, sure, Omegas do it during heats as a biological imperative to build somewhere safe to be while they’re incapacitated

But that also makes sense for when you’re feeling sad or anxious, right? A nest is supposed to be a safe place. Nothing wrong with that

Charlie

Ok but I can’t just go off to hide every time I’m a little anxious

Aunix

I mean if you hid for long enough to not do the stuff you had to do, like eat and shower and go to work and see your friends, sure. But if it’s a form of self-care, I don’t see anything wrong with that

Chase scoffed, weirdly irritated at Aunix’s arguments, chest all tight and small.

Charlie

Do YOU nest when you’re feeling sad?

Aunix

No one ever told me I could, but now that you suggest it, yeah, I will. Thanks, baby. How about I build one here and you build one there?

Chase stared at his phone. Looked around his empty apartment. Stared at his phone again.

That wasn’t right. Aunix couldn’t build a nest—he was an Alpha.

Chase couldn’t say that, though. Actually, it felt icky just to think that. He wanted his daddy to feel good, and if a nest did that, then that was what his daddy should get.

Charlie

I don’t really have anything to nest with

Aunix

No worries, baby, I’ll send you some stuff. I’ll get myself the same and we can build some nests when we’re both free.

Stupid, ridiculous tears stung his eyes. He wasn’t crying—it didn’t count if the tears didn’t fall down his cheeks—but he felt like he was breathing deeply for the first time in a long while, as if there had been something thick and stiff caked onto his chest and it’d been knocked loose.

Charlie

Ok daddy