I cried out when one finger breached my hole. “Sean…can’t wait…gonna blow…”
“Do it, Mason,” he urged me. “Let me taste you.”
He shoved that finger deep inside of me and pressed against my prostate. That did it. My fingers dug into his shoulders as I screamed my way through my orgasm.
“God, you’re loud,” he teased as I leaned on him for support until my legs quit shaking. “I take it you liked that?”
“Understatement of the year,” I deadpanned. The water began to cool, so we quickly washed one another to try to get rid of the smell of sex that permeated our skin.
It was such a tender, intimate act, and a part of me was filled with joy that he was the only person I’d ever done this with, male or female. The water turned unbearably cold as I finished rinsing the shampoo out of my hair.
Sean handed me a towel as I stepped out of the shower and I swore I heard voices from the other room.
Sean reached for me as I hurried out to get dressed, pressing his chest to my back as he kissed the hollow behind my ear. “Fuck, that was hot. I’m starting to worry you’re going to think I only want you for your body.”
“It’s fine,” I assured him. “This probably isn’t any easier for you than it is for me. We’ve already done the talking, going out to dinner and the rest of the shit people do, might as well jump right to the fun stuff.”
As I stepped into the bedroom, I heard a door close. The display on my phone showed that it was almost seven, so I assumed it was one of my neighbors walking around. I’d never heard them before, but I hadn’t exactly spent much time here, other than for sleeping, since moving in.
Still, I dressed quickly and threw a change of clothes on the bed for Sean. They’d be too tight, and he’d have to go commando, but at least he wouldn’t be doing the walk of shame when I took him back to his hotel.
I seriously hated the fact that we both had to work today. It seemed as though it might be possible to build something more between us. Inside my condo, we were just Sean and Mason, two friends who happened toreallyenjoy getting naked together.
Walking out of my place, back into the real world, would either make or break us. We were safe here, didn’t have to worry about anyone seeing us or what they’d think. Out there, we had to hide.
While Sean finished drying off and got dressed, I went into the kitchen to make breakfast. Last night was a nice break from our usual diet, but today I had to watch what I ate. Unlike Sean, who’d spend the majority of his day recovering from yesterday, I had a game to play.
I didn’t have the luxury of a sports trainer to rub me down or a day spent shagging balls in the outfield during batting practice. I knew he’d still go to the visitor’s workout facility to train for a while, but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t give him a hard time about only having to work a few hours a week.
It wasn’t until I went to start a pot of coffee that I realized I wasn’t losing my mind. Or maybe I was, because there was a full pot of hot coffee already brewed.
I chalked it up to a short night of sleep and moved on to dicing veggies to make us omelets. As I tossed peppers, onions and mushrooms into the pan, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye.
“Fucking wonderful,” I muttered, grasping the situation ahead of me today.
My parents’ suitcase sat next to the front door, yet they were nowhere to be found. The voices, the closing door, the full pot of coffee, it all made sense now. My parents had come in early for today’s game, most likely to avoid traffic, and I’d inadvertently outed both of us to them.
Well, not Sean if I could get him out of here and back to the hotel before my parents got back from wherever they’d disappeared to, but there was no way we were quiet enough that they wouldn’t realize I was doing something with another man.
And as much as I didn’t want to think about it, they weren’t stupid enough not to have some idea of what that something was.
No matter how I looked at this situation, it all boiled down to the fact that I had, yet again, fucked up. I wasn’t sure how I was going to broach the whole ‘I can’t get enough of my best friend’s naked body pressed against mine’ thing with my dad, but I was pretty sure that wouldn’t be too much of a shock after the audio from this morning’s activities. And I wouldn’t lie to him if he asked me about it.
I’d kept this one detail of my life from him, and that was only because I failed to confirm what he already thought. I figured it was pointless to tell him I liked guys unless a scenario like this came up. Okay, so in my head I imagined telling him when I liked a guy, not when he’d walked in on me, but there was nothing I could do about that little embarrassing detail now.
“Hey, you okay?” Sean snuck up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. “You’re not upset with yourself about what we did, are you?”
I had no fucking clue how to respond to that. I didn’t regret what I did, except for the fact that it exponentially complicated the near future. But I didn’t want to push him away, so I had to say something. No one likes being the victim of a bait and switch, and that’s precisely what I would be doing if I put on the brakes now rather than face my parents.
Instead of answering, I turned in his arms so we were facing one another. I pushed away from the counter and wrapped my arms around his neck as I nipped at his lower lip. He opened to me and I seized the opportunity to claim his mouth.
Doing this here, outside of the privacy of my bedroom or bathroom made everything that much more real. Sean broke the kiss sooner than I would have liked and took a step back to hold me at a distance.
“Don’t get me wrong, kissing you is quickly becoming one of my favorite pastimes, but you’re not fooling me,” he chided. “If there’s something running through your head, we need to talk about it.”
“Sean, I’m fine,” I protested, not wanting to get into another tense conversation. If I admitted to him that I worried we wouldn’t be able to survive once we left my place, he could easily take that as a sign I didn’twantto do this again.
Unfortunately, there was no way I could lie to him, either. “I was just thinking about how much it’s going to suck to get on a plane tomorrow. I’ll be heading to Arizona and you’re off to Boston, and there’s no telling when we’ll see each other again.”
