He still had earbuds in his ears, and I almost wanted to take them out. To seewhat could possibly have been playing in them all the time. But I didn’t.
I let Crescent be himself, just as he let me. Our new selves, basking in the presence of the other. My heart fluttered, swelling three times its size as I caressed the curve of his nose with my eyes, the planes of his cheekbones, and the individual hairs on his chin. Resting my palm on his cheek, just as he always did to me, I pulled him forward, making our lips meet.
This time, I made sure it wasn’t chaste. The moment I felt his tongue touch my lips, I opened, letting him in. It wasn’t enough. Nothing with Crescent was ever enough.
Our souls tugged and pulled, our hands moving with them. I shifted, not fully separating us, but kissing across his cheek, his jawline, and trailing down his neck. Hearing his breath hitch in my ears, feeling his chest inflate, only to get stuck for a moment, felt like angels singing.
“El,” he whimpered, his voice ragged and deep.
My cock pressed against my shorts, my palms mapped every inch of his exposed skin, and my tongue tasted the salty sweat beading along his neck. Pure ecstasy. A drug nobody had ever been able to create.
Crescent’s hands roamed up my side, gripping me. “El, wait.”
I stopped immediately, shifting so I could look down at him. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, baby. I’m very okay.” He was nearly panting, his breath coming so quickly I started to worry he might faint. “I just—you’re the first person I’ve ever… you know.”
“Ever what?”
“Done anything with. Or kissed. I just thought you should know that.”
I blinked. And then I blinked again. “Me? Only me?”
He looked away, his body physically shrinking into the bed. “Yeah. Is that, um, bad?”
“No, no, it isn’t bad. Absolutely not, honey. I’m justsurprised. And honored.” I cupped his cheek, gently turning his face back to me. “I’m honestly fucking honored. And happy. And so many more things I can’t even comprehend.”
The side of his lip turned up. “Really?”
“Are you kidding me? Yes, really. Thank you for telling me.”
Nodding, he wrapped his hand around mine, which was on his cheek. “I’m happy too, you know. That you’re my first with everything. I don’t think it was meant to be anyone else, really.”
“I don’t think so either.”
“We can, um, keep going. If you want to do more.”
I was already shaking my head. “We can go slow, honey. I don’t mind.”
“No, like.” As he cleared his throat, I could tell his cheeks were getting red under the moonlight shining through the window.Beautiful.“I want to. If you do. Just, maybe something light? Since you know, my siblings are nearby. And I have no idea how good I am at keeping myself quiet.”
“I wasn’t going to propose anal, Cres. Don’t worry.” I slid my hand from his cheek, scraping over his beard and down his neck, resting it on his chest. “I could… suck you off, maybe?”
His heart beat faster beneath my palm. A lot faster. “Y-yeah. That sounds good.”
“Are you sure?”
He took his earbuds out, setting them on the nightstand beside the bed. “Very much so, Sunshine. Very much so.”
I gave him a fiery kiss, pouring every ounce of my excitement into it, and promising him with my tongue that I’d make it worth it.
My tongue didn’t stop with his, though. It begged totaste every inch of him, the tip of it following a path down his neck and across his chest. I lavished all of him, not leaving a single part untouched. Unlicked. Unloved. I circled my tongue around his nipple, sucking it lightly, smiling to myself about each moan that vibrated from his chest.
His other nipple got the same treatment until he was squirming beneath me, gasping and groaning my name quietly. I said an apology in my head to his siblings in case they heard, but truly, I didn’t care. How could I, when Crescent’s hands were struggling to stay off me? He grabbed at me, only to pull them away, only to grab at me again in an indecisive cycle. I licked down the center of his chest, all the way to his belly button, sliding my hands along his arms to keep them from latching onto me again.
Just above it, I kissed his skin, sucking it into my mouth, lavishing him with everything I could. I wanted to taste all of him. I wanted to remember how his skin felt on my tongue for the rest of my life.
It’d been a very long time since I’d done something like this. I refused to let this moment go to waste.
