“When you said you liked it when I held you down.”
“Oh God.” Ramin’s voice was small. Embarrassed. “Forget I said anything.”
“Come on.”
Noah jiggled Ramin.
“Just… sometimes I like being… dominated.”
“Dominated?” Noah’s heart beat faster. Why did that excite him?
“Ugh.” Ramin twisted around. Noah could barely make out the green of his eyes in the dim light filtering in from the window. “Don’t freak out, okay? It’s just a kink.”
“Okay.” Noah hadn’t given much thought to kink before. He didn’t even know if he had any. What was a kink and what was just… what you liked? Or what your partner liked?
And why did he want to pin Ramin to the bed again?
“I’m not freaking out.”
He was, however, making a mental list of things to google.
“Can you explain a bit more?”
Ramin sighed. His minty breath washed over Noah’s face. “I like being… told what to do. Held down or bossed around or made to… not literally made to, but just kind of… I don’t even know how to explain it.”
“Huh.” Noah tried to bite his lip, but he only managed to smoosh it beneath his night guard. “How come?”
“I don’t know? Maybe my therapist would say it’s because I have to be in control of so many things in my life so I like it when someone else takes control? But I think I’ve always liked it. When I used to dream about you—”
Ramin’s voice choked off.
Noah grinned. “You used to dream about me?”
“Ugh. I’m still drunk.”
Ramin might have been buzzed, but Noah didn’t think he was drunk anymore.
“Uh-huh. Sure.” He tightened his arms. “Come on, tell me.”
Ramin whined and closed his eyes.
“I won’t judge,” Noah said.
Ramin groaned. “Fine. Remember how I used to be on newspaper? Back in school?”
“Yeah.”
“I dreamed I was covering one of your wrestling matches, and then I had to pee, and you came in to the bathroom, too, in your singlet, and you… I can’t believe I’m telling you this.”
“I’ll keep your secret.” Noah’s heart was hammering. Could Ramin feel him getting harder in his boxers? Maybe Noah was a little kinky, too. “So. What happened?”
“You shoved me into a stall, and told me you’d seen me checking you out, and you… pushed me down to my knees and made me give you a blowjob.”
Noah felt like Ramin had splashed cold water over him. Consent was the most important thing. “I would never—”
Ramin’s hand came up to shush Noah with a finger. Noah’s lips tingled where they touched.
“I know you wouldn’t. But it was… really hot. In the dream, I mean. I woke up wet.” Ramin snickered. “Also, in the dream your dick reached the floor.”
