“I’m not rejecting you, Dean,” Sully huffed.“It’s just, you’re right.How is this going to work?”
“How is it working right now?”Dean insisted.
“Yeah, but, I’m no secret agent.”
“No, but you do own half the town,” Dean reminded him.“What are they gonna do, kick out their biggest investor?”
“It don’t work like that,” Sully insisted.“It’s not just money, it’s ...people.Relationships.Folks I’ve known since I was in diapers, practically.”
“I get that,” Dean said.“And I’m being presumptuous, I know.I just...I would like this.For us.That’s all.”
“Me, too,” Sully admitted, perhaps even to himself.“I want this, even if it goes nowhere.Even if we get sick of each other.Or you get sick of me.Or turn my world upside down...”
“Silly boy,” Dean murmured, batting his eyelashes coyly.“You’ve already turned mine upside down.Why can’t I do the same for you?”
“Who says you already haven’t?”Sully huffed.“I mean, what am I supposed to do next week, without three blow jobs a night?”
Dean snorted.“Is that all I’m good for, cowboy?My pretty, little wet and willing lips?”
“I mean, we’ll get to butt stuff eventually, I suppose.”
They snorted, wriggling nervously.“Besides,” Dean murmured quietly, neither of them knowing what time of day or night it might be and, from the sounds of it, neither one caring.“There’s only a month or so left in the semester after spring break.”
“Yeah?”Sully’s heart pounded with the news.“And then, uh...”
“Yes?”Dean teased.
“I mean, by then I could have your place a little cleaner,” he mused, hardly hearing himself as he prattled on about the future.Make thattheirfuture.“Get those storage boxes out of there, spruce the place up, hire a cleaning crew, maybe get some new furniture and ...what?Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Because you’re crying, silly,” Dean pointed out.
Sully shook his head.“No, I’m not,” he croaked, realizing only too late that, he totally was.Absolutely, utterly was.Crying.
“You are, too, baby,” Dean purred, pulling his lover closer as they embraced under that shimmering sky full of naked stars.“And here I was, thinking only City Slickers got all weepy after sex!”
Epilogue
