Alex spread his legs wider, bucking against the restraint of Jared's hand. He fumbled for purchase on Jared's naked shoulders before finally grabbing his hair, pleading and begging incoherently. Jared relented. He took the head into his mouth, encircling it with his tongue, and slid his hand up and down the length of Alex's cock.

  "Aw fuck, Jared!" Alex bucked and his hands clenched in Jared's hair as he came. Jared choked, and pulled away, cum in his eye and up his nose as Alex's cock pumped out thick ropes of white. His face streaked with cum, Jared looked up and grinned. Alex grabbed him, pulling Jared up into his arms. He pressed a firm kiss against Jared's lips, and wrapped his hand around his lover's leaking, needy dick. Then Alex licked the first line of cum from Jared's face. Jared's eyes opened wide.

  Alex's grin was devilish. "It's only polite to clean up my mess." He moved his hand expertly on Jared's cock with just the right rhythm. A twist and the swipe of his thumb over the head, and Jared threw back his head, rocking his hips into Alex's grasp. Alex's eyes widened and he slowed his hand, licking his lips. "Oh, I want…" But Jared stopped him with a hand wrapped firmly around Alex's as he fucked their combined grip.

  "Too late." He hunched over Alex, muscles bunching, his face contorted, shouting as he came, striping Alex's belly and chest. Laughing and shaky, he collapsed into a boneless pile beside Alex on the carpet.

  "God, Jared."

  Jared huffed a laugh. "Okay, that was a little intense." He wrapped an arm around Alex, snuggling them together.

  "You think?" Alex nuzzled Jared's neck. "Oh, you got cum on your chin." Alex licked it off, and Jared's body gave a lazy shudder in reaction. "Oh, there's more." Alex leaned over Jared and licked cum out of the hollow of his throat, nibbling his collarbone. Jared groaned and his hand slid into Alex's curls, cupping the back of his head. Tightening his grip when Alex enthusiastically sucked cum off each nipple in turn, by the time he reached Jared's navel, Jared's cock had revived and poked Alex's cheek when he nosed along Jared's treasure trail. "Mmm, that's a big one." He eyed Jared's cock, one hand cupping Jared's balls palming them gently. Alex cast a sideways look up Jared's body to meet his eyes. "Good thing I've been practicing." He winked and turned his attention back to Jared's erection.

  "Practicing, what…?" But that was as far as Jared got before Alex swallowed him to the root, throat muscles flexing around the head, nose buried in Jared's pubes. Jared shouted, his hands fisted in Alex's hair and he came. His body jerked, shoving his dick further down Alex's throat. Alex swallowed dick with no problem but the steady stream of ejaculate choked him and forced him off Jared's cock, coughing, sputtering, and eyes watering. Alex finished him with his hand and then curled once more against Jared's side, Jared barely moved. "Damn, Alex."

  "Sorry, the dildo didn't do that." Alex blushed furiously and hid against Jared's shoulder.

  Jared shook with his effort to control his laughter. "You just deep throated me and you are apologizing? What the hell, where did you even learn that?"

  Alex refused to look at him. "Porn. I mean, they can all do it and I knew I'd never be able to. I choke on my toothbrush. So, well, I practiced."

  "Practiced? On a dildo?"

  "Yeah."

  "Where did you get a dildo?"

  "The internet, where do you think?"

  Jared choked back another laugh. "Right. Of course."

  "I got one bigger than me but, well, not big enough, I guess." Jared snorted at that and Alex poked him. "And it didn't cum so that kinda fucked me up. Stop laughing at me."

  Jared turned and made Alex look at him. "Not laughing at you. You were amazing. I wish I'd thought of it."

  Alex beamed, his embarrassment obviously fading in the face of his success. "I was pretty good. You came fast."

  Jared kissed him and their tongues tangled in a cum-flavored kiss. "Can we get in the bed now?"

  "Sure." They climbed to their feet slowly, muscles trembling from their exertions and sore from the hard floor. Jared stretched and groaned, arching his back. Alex laughed at him. "Let's shower first, and call room service. I'm starved."

  "Yeah, sure, sleep was never part of the plan anyhow." Jared agreed, kicking their ruined tuxes into a pile before following Alex into the bathroom.

  "You need sleep," Alex complained. "You're old."

  "Shut up and make sure the water's hot enough, kid."

  Alex turned from adjusting the water. "I'll be in there, it's going to be hot enough, you'll see." He led the bemused Jared into the shower with a firm hand on his dick.

  Promise Of Tomorrow

  Alex woke to the slow pet of rough fingers against the skin of his belly and the beat of a heart steady against his back. He stretched, rolling to face Jared. Jared's hand slid to his hip, and his thumb grazed the tattoo inked into the tender skin just inside the jut of Alex's hipbone.

  "I can't believe you got a tattoo of my name. You're a little bit crazy, Alex."

  Alex nuzzled lazily under Jared's chin. "My name's there too. You should have heard the locker room crap I got. Idiots. I love it. Love you." Jared growled low in his throat. His hand tightened on Alex's hip, and within seconds Alex was unsurprised to find himself on his back, his lover poised over him. Jared braced on a forearm beside his head and leaned in for a kiss. Grimacing, Alex turned away. "My mouth tastes like crap."

  Jared chased Alex's mouth and captured it. Tightlipped, Alex resisted for a few heartbeats, before finally giving in to Jared's persistent tongue. As soon as Alex's lips parted, Jared licked inside and if his mouth tasted like crap too it was beyond Alex's beleaguered senses to pick up on it. Jared kissed the corner of his mouth. "Did you really mean no?"

  "I just don't want to gross you out."

  "Good thing to worry about, I'm sure that's going to happen any second now." Jared's teasing won him a swat on the ass from Alex and a wet open-mouth kiss given without reservation. "Better," Jared breathed into their kiss. His hand moved between them, encircling both their cocks.

  "Big hands." Alex gasped, arching into the touch. His cock slid against Jared's hard length through his loose-fingered grip. "But no way you'll get us both off like this."

  "Don't think so?" Jared tightened his grip and Alex whimpered, his hips rocked forward again. "You leak." His face flamed, but Jared's teasing didn't stop the trickle of precum that always accompanied Alex's arousal. Jared rubbed his cheek against his, the coarse rasp of their unshaven jaws, a sandpaper caress. "I like it."

  Alex's eyes clenched closed, his hands fisting in the sheets, his attention fixed on the movement of Jared's hand and the feeling of their cocks rubbing together. Jared's relentless grip pushed him to the edge and over, wringing a cry from his throat and cum from his cock. He grabbed Jared's hand. "Stop." Jared froze in mid-stroke staring down at him. "Just a minute. I have to pee. Now. Then I want to suck you. So just stop." Looking bemused Jared rolled onto his back and tucked one hand under his head, the other went straight back to his engorged cock. Alex watched Jared stroke his dick for a long minute before grabbing his wrist and stilling the motion. "Seriously. Wait." Jared pushed his offending hand under his head as well, and Alex scooted to the edge of the bed, his eyes fixed on Jared's cock. Unable to resist, he leaned and licked the glistening drop of precum from the slit.

  Jared groaned and pushed Alex away. "I'll be here and I promise to wait." But when Alex returned, the edge of passion had dulled and Jared headed for the bathroom. While he was gone Alex ordered room service. They showered while waiting for it to arrive, and afterwards they sat cross- legged on the bed with the huge tray between them. They devoured bacon, fruit and hard boiled eggs, the promised blowjob still pending.

  "What?" Jared asked, taking a bite of bacon.

  Alex ate another egg, glad he'd ordered a dozen of them. "What do you mean, 'what'?"

  "It's all over your face you have something to ask me, so, what?" Jared grabbed another piece of bacon.

  "Oh, that." Alex took a bracing drink of orange juice. "It's just, I mean, don't you want to fuck me?"

  Jared's lips twitched and he snagged a piece of cantaloupe. "Seriously stupid question."

  "Oh. Well, you haven't, so I just wondered."

  "Yeah? Do you want me to fuck you? 'Cause you know, you didn't ask."

  Alex glared at him. "That's really not funny. You were in charge."

  "Me? I remember getting tackled and swallowed—wait, you owe me another one of those." Jared winked at Alex and ate a grape.

  "I feel kinda lame going back to the dorm still a virgin."

  Jared choked on his grape. "You feel like a virgin?"

  Alex glared.

  Jared cocked his head. "It's the penetration thing isn't it? Now I have a question. Say I fuck you and you bottom. Aren't you still a virgin? I mean you didn't put your dick in anything."

  Alex threw a grape at Jared. "You're being stupid."

  Jared laughed. "Okay I am a little. I guess it's just perspective, you've had my dick everywhere but your ass. My opinion is you can go back to your dorm and report that you are no longer a virgin. If you need more than that you should know I have no intention of ruining our time together by introducing anal sex and you'll be going back virginity intact."

  That surprised Alex. "It's that bad?"

  Jared moved the tray from between them, setting it on the floor beside the bed. He lay back on the pillows. "Come here." Frowning, Alex settled into his arms. Jared pressed a kiss to Alex's forehead. "Bad or not bad didn't have anything to do with my decision. Stress was the deciding factor."

  "Stress." Alex wasn't convinced.

  "Stress. Alex, when or if we make the decision to have anal sex what do you expect?"

  Alex shook his head. "I'm missing something. I mean, I figured we would. I know you'll be careful."

  Jared stroked Alex's arm. "And I will. But, Alex, it's not just a big deal for you. I haven't had anal sex since I was fifteen. I might know less about it than you do what with all the porn and dildo action."

  Alex snorted a laugh. "It's not that much porn. You want me to top?"

  Jared cupped Alex's ass cuddling him closer. "Just one of the things we'll have to work out. The thing is it doesn't always go the way you hope, even if everyone is careful and does everything exactly right."

  "David is the only guy you ever…"

  Jared shrugged. "Yeah. His whole purpose in dating me was to get me to that moment. He didn't disappear the next day, but it wasn't more than a few weeks. We had anal sex a few times. I couldn't relax. I didn't have much fun. I didn't really have another boyfriend until college. We'd barely started getting to know each other, and then my dad died."

  "So, your entire sexual history is one boyfriend a hundred years ago."

  "That pretty much sums it up."

  Alex nipped Jared's neck. "You told me most of that already, but the stuff with David. You're seriously holding back there. How bad was it?"

  Jared ran a hand through his hair and drew a deep breath. "It hurt. I cried."

  "Cried." Alex struggled, trying to decide what to say.

  "You can laugh."

  "It's not funny."

  "Well, it sorta is."

  "Maybe, if you think you'll get over it."

  "I might."

  "You can top."

  "You owe me a blowjob."

  "Very subtle. This subject's not closed." Alex nuzzled closer.

  Jared tugged Alex until he was sprawled across his chest. "It is for today."

  "Today." Alex agreed. He sat up and straddled Jared's hips. Looking down on him, Alex thought his heart in danger of bursting. "Sit up." Jared sat up and he wrapped his legs around Jared's waist. He pressed his cheek against Jared's so he didn't have to meet his eyes. "I know you would never use me that way. It's not in you, Jared, so you can stop being afraid. I want you every way it's possible for a man to want another, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you… with you. Think about that when you get home, how much I want you."

  Jared buried his face in Alex's neck, trembling so hard Alex thought he'd gone too far.

  "Alex." Jared's breath was hot against Alex's skin. "Say it."

  "I love you."

  Where It Begins

  Alex graduated Valedictorian with a full ride to MIT under his belt. Jared hung back after the ceremony and watched Clark and Stevie congratulate him. Standing where Alex's mother wouldn't see him, Jared wondered how he fit into the picture of Alex's life of wanting to be an Architect. Alex's dreams were so big and Jared was more than content in the college town managing his small company. Everything about Alex was bigger, better than him. Thinking they'd ever manage to build more than a high school romance was crazy.

  Jared watched with pride as Alex hugged his beaming father and accepted tentative congratulations from his mother. His friends and family posed for pictures. The graduates signed last minute year book signatures and exchanged phone numbers unlikely to be used—all the usual high school graduation rituals. Alex participated but appeared restless, his eyes constantly scanning the crowd. He asked Clark something a couple times and Stevie once, receiving the same shrug and shake of the head each time.

  Finally, having mercy on him, Jared stepped out from where he'd secluded himself in a group of trees. He knew the minute Alex spotted him by the way his grin lit his face. He grinned back, aware of the way every eye in the group followed Alex's gaze. The hate in Alex's mother's eyes burned into him. Taking a deep breath Jared steadied himself. A moment later, Alex filled his arms, laughing in delight, and nothing else mattered. A problem didn't exist that couldn't be overcome as long as they were together. Jared hugged him hard, one hand falling naturally to his hip. His thumb covered the place where, under his clothes, Alex's body bore Jared's name. He managed to stop short of ravaging Alex with public kisses.

  "Where have you been?" Alex gasped. "Were you surprised? I wanted you to be surprised."

  Jared turned Alex back in the direction he'd come from and, with an arm around his shoulders, herded him toward his family. The day had started off frustratingly for Jared. Stevie and Clark made them late and somehow he'd ended up in his seat without a program. He saw now it had all been a conspiracy. "Valedictorian. Yes I was surprised." Jared stopped just before they reached the others and Alex turned to look at him. "I'm also very proud. That's some amazing stuff, Alex." Alex glowed under his praise.

  "Dad, I surprised him too!" Alex grabbed Jared's hand and dragged him into the center of activity. Jared was uncomfortably aware of the way Alex's mother moved away and stood watching them, reproach clear in her eyes. Her arms folded over her stomach, disapproval written in every line of her body. Frank grinned at Jared and they shook hands.

  "We planned to take the kids to dinner before we start back, did you want to come, Jared?" Frank's invitation was sincere, but he didn't have to look in Janet's direction to recognize it was one-sided.

  "Thanks, Frank, but I have to get back. My plane leaves in a few hours. Clark has the truck, he and Stevie are going to help get Alex home. I'm sure they'd appreciate something to eat." Alex gripped Jared's hand tightly, but he didn't dare look at him. They'd fought this battle once already and Jared didn't plan to repeat it. "Alex is going to walk me to my rental, if that's okay?"

  "No problem. Alex, you know where we parked, we'll meet you there." Frank clapped Jared on the shoulder and returned to his wife.

  "Don't wreck my truck." Jared warned Clark on the way by.

  Clark rolled his eyes. "Aw, damn! My master plan unveiled!"

  "Language," Jared called over his shoulder, leaving Stevie giggling in their wake.

  "You could stay long enough to eat."

  Jared dropped his arm around Alex's shoulders again. "No, I can't. Your mom came and that's huge, Alex. We'll have plenty of dinners once you're home. At least you'll be there this summer. I half expected you to announce a trip to the Great Wall of China or some damn thing."

  "Well now that you mention it…" Alex cast a sideways glance at him.

  "Oh, no! This summer is ours before you go off to college and become someone else. Do you have any idea how intimidating the man you are growing into is?" Jared roughed Alex's hair, turning his words into a joke, but he was only half kidding. Alex wrapped his arm around his waist, snugging himself more securely against his side.

  "I have no idea what you are talking about, I'm only trying to keep up with the man you already are."

  Jared relieved Alex of his ridiculous graduation cap and pressed a kiss to his sweat-damp curls. "You have hat hair." Jared didn't argue with what Alex said. He believed it and it might be true to some degree. Jared knew Alex made him better, something his dad used to say about Jared's mom. "Look for that, Jared," his dad had told him. "Not for beauty or smarts, you look for the guy that makes you better. When your mother looks at me she sees a man I'm not sure is even real, but I'll do anything to be that man for her. Love someone who looks at you and sees a superhero. Then be that hero."

  "Earth to Jared!" Alex laughed. "Don't make cracks about my hair and then zone out, it's insulting."

  "Superman." He smiled. Alex looked like he thought Jared had heatstroke.

  "What?"

  "It's how you make me feel. Like Superman."

  "Spider-man is hotter."

  "Whatever, get in the car, Alex." Jared hit the automatic lock on the key chain. Alex glanced around at all the traffic.

  "Dude, it'll be faster for me to walk back."

  Jared grabbed Alex's chin, turning him to meet his eyes. "Get. In. The. Car."

  Alex's eyes widened. "Oh." He got in the car.

  Once inside, Jared started the engine and turned on the air conditioner before turning to face Alex. They stared at each other in silence. He touched Alex's face, cupping his cheek. "I missed you so much."

  "Missed you too, thought about you every second." Alex stroked Jared's hand.

 

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