“Sorry.” He said.
Bas’ eyes were wobbly with sentiment. “Don’t be. That was beautiful.” He fake sniffled and then playfully swatted Kroven. “You should tell me things like that more often.”
“Whatever you want,blomsjett.” Kroven cooed, bending down to kiss his boyfriend’s jaw.
“It was beautiful,” I said to Qwill, reaching out and putting a hand on his chest. “Thank you for always making me feel like the most beautiful thing in the room.”
“Only speaking the truth.” Qwill bent down and lifted ourconjoined hands, placing a kiss on top of them in tandem before leaving me with another smile.
Kroven leaned forward over the table. “Now you’re just trying to make me look bad.”
Laughter burst out across the table, all of us guffawing to our hearts content. It felt good to share a space with Qwill while enjoying the company of my best friend. I was grateful as hell that the double date had ended up being with Bas and Kroven. It enabled me to relax a little through dinner, through stories of how Qwill and Kroven met through a sangamar named Exo, through all the feelings bubbling inside me just waiting to be let out.
Knowing me, a few more words of affirmation from Qwill and I was liable to burst.
Chapter 16
The double datewas a total success. Being able to cut up with Bas and Kroven with Qwill by my side just made me feel more and more comfortable with spending time with my newfound romantic interest. Unfortunately, that was the last fun thing we’d been able to do, because after I’d gotten to work the next night, my boss informed me that we were getting back to back bachelorette parties for the next four days. Evangeline loved the bachelorette crowd but none of us dancers did. Most of them were fine enough, but a lot turned aggressive, and nobody wanted to work them.
To make matters more annoying, everysinglebachelorette party had ended up asking for a private dance with at least one of the dancers, if not multiple. And since they were paying good money, it meant that saying no wasn’t an option. Luckily, I’d only been requested at one of the four dances. Poor Rocky had been requested for all four and I knew he was livid about it. But we’d pushed through the rest of the week and weekend to make everything work.
Now I was looking at a nice day off, wondering what I was going to fill my time with. Part of me thought about asking Basto hang out after he got off work, so we could properly catch up. True, the double date had given us time to spend together, but I knew Bas was dying to ask me more than he had at the dinner about mine and Qwill’s relationship and to be honest, I was kind of wanting to gush about it myself. Perhaps I would eventually set that up, maybe when there was a little more to tell.
Naturally, the next step was to see if Qwill was available. We’d texted here and there, mainly from him checking in on me after the dances. He’d kept his distance since we’d started seeing each other, something I was surprised by but also grateful for. I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about seeing my boyfriend out there in the audience while I danced.
I froze as I tried to finish brushing my post-shower hair. Was Qwill my boyfriend? The thought had slipped from me without a second pass. We’d surely been acting like boyfriends, especially with the good morning and goodnight texts, but the discussion hadn’t been made yet. As I worked to perfect my usual tousled hair look, I pondered. Obviously I wanted Qwill to be my boyfriend or else I wouldn’t have given the thought a quick pass without lingering on it. But was that what he wanted?
Taking things slow was a nice pace for me. I wasn’t treating this relationship with a certain trepidation because Qwill was a guy, or an Orb. I was treating it the way I would any relationship I would have had with a woman before. I liked the taking things slow stage. Granted, Qwill and I had already fucked, but I liked the slow burn of learning about each other.
Ugh, I shouldn’t have thought about sex and Qwill in the same sentence. I looked down to see my dick growing eagerly in my boxers, looking back at my reflection in annoyance as I put the finishing touches on my hair. Admittedly, I was eager to have Qwill fuck me again. Ever since we’d had our two-time wrestle amidst my sheets, I wanted him all the time. It didn’thelp that he’d said the absolute sweetest things about me during our double date. I’d been ready to pull him into the bathroom right then and there, but it wasn’t exactly a kosher idea after Bas and I locked the bathroom already nor was I wearing the right pants that would make it easy to drag them down to my ankles.
After getting dressed, I grabbed my phone and plopped down on the living room couch. I was really getting used to living alone now, and I loved being able to do whatever I wanted. Maybe it was better that Troian didn’t want to move in. I was still open to the idea of it if he really wanted to, but until then, I was going to enjoy the empty apartment.
Unless Qwill wants to occupy it instead.
My eyes flared at the yet again unmitigated thought. I wasn’t ready for Qwill to move in here, that much I was sure. Hell, we’d only been on two dates and had sex once. Okay, twice. Three times if you counted our mutual oral exchange, but whatever. I needed to know way more about him before I was seriously entertaining the idea of sharing a space with him. I didn’t even know what he did for work. Saving that for later, I quickly scrolled through my phone and pressed Qwill’s name before pressing the phone to my ear.
“Hey, beautiful.” Qwill said after the third ring. “I figured you’d be catching up on sleep. How’re you holding up?”
I’d been explaining to him over text how exhausted I was after how rigorous and busy work had been. But now I was ready for some quality Qwill time.
“I was wondering if you were busy.” I soothed. “I have the day off and thought I’d spend it with my…favorite guy.” I mentally chastised myself because I’d almost saidspend it with my boyfriend. I needed to get a fucking grip.
“Aww, how sweet.” I could picture the grin gracing Qwill’s face as he spoke. “Actually, I’m available now if you are. I’m working the evening shift tonight so I’ve got time.”
I stared at the time. It was about an hour before noon so thatgave us plenty of time to spend before he needed to head to work. The mention of work made it all the more obvious to me that I needed to ask him what he did.
“That’s great, where do you want to meet up at?”
“You remember the marsh where you and your brother were hiking?” When I affirmed that I did, he went on. “How about we go for a little swim?”
It was nearing full-blown autumn in Virginia, which meant that the weather was still doing whatever it wanted. Today it was a comfortable seventy eight degrees with a light breeze. Perfect swimming weather, honestly.
“Sounds great. I can be there in thirty minutes.”
“Perfect. See you then, beautiful.”
I hung up, smiling like the love drunk fool I was quickly turning into. I was already meeting half the requirements to call myself as such.
