"Should I invite Doug?"
They laid naked in bed, Ste on his belly, scrolling through his contact numbers on his phone and Brendan was sideways, using Ste's butt as a pillow as he was drowsing like a satisfied animal after a good meal.
"What?" Doug's name got him instantly alert and he lifted his head up, and even when Ste didn't look he could imagine the frown on his brows.
"Doug. In the wedding." They finally got the date – registry had a free slot for six weeks from now and they had booked it. They had come home, had sex to celebrate and now Ste was going through his contacts to make a list of people who he was going to invite. He was surprised how few people he actually was close enough with.
"You are not inviting your ex to our wedding." Brendan's voice was low crumble and Ste had to resist the urge to laugh, he wanted to see how far he could take this.
"I don't think one date is enough to make someone my ex. Besides, Amy's coming, she's really my ex and I don't see you complaining." He still resisted his desire to look at Brendan over his shoulder, because then Brendan would see he was teasing him. "Doug and I, we're mates now, you know we keep in touch, you've been there when we call each other." Sulking in a corner and doing bad job acting like he wasn't listening, and soon as the call were over Brendan was on him, like he wanted to push away any though of Doug Ste might have.
"You kissed him."
"Once, right, before you came and interrupted us."
"Maybe you'd be happier planning your wedding with him, then."
Ste had to turn to look at him then, the cloudy expression on Brendan's face.
"I was just messing with ya, you idiot." He laughed and Brendan narrowed his eyes to him. Ste turned back to fiddle his phone. "There's just not many people in the guest list, that's all, thought I might get my side bigger than yours."
He could feel Brendan leaning over him, and then his arm was around Ste's neck, making him lift his head upwards while Brendan kissed the side of his face. "You are not inviting him. I draw the line with Amy when it comes to people you have dated."
"It was a joke." Ste said again, stroking his hand up and down on Brendan's arm. Being this close and feeling his strength made Ste get exited again. He had to bite his lip when Brendan licked his ear. "But I must say, he had a good taste in sweaters."
"Would he and his sweaters do this?" Brendan whispered to his ear and Ste felt his other hand stroking his bum, fingers slipping down his crack to touch his hole. Tip of one finger pushed in and when there was no resistance he felt another join it. Ste let out a low moan and Brendan's laughter vibrated against his back and he could feel Brendan's dick growing harder against him.
"Fuck."
"Would Douglas know how you like it?" Brendan was sawing his fingers in and out from Ste while he kept holding his head up and nibbled and kissed the surroundings of his ear. "Would lil' Douglas be the man you need to satisfy you?"
Brendan curled his fingers, making Ste groan and push his bum higher up. "Who's Doug?" He managed to say, and then Brendan twisted his head so he could kiss him. When he pulled his fingers out Ste didn't have much time to complain, because Brendan was already reaching the lube and coating himself with it before straddling Ste's legs and pushing in.
His arm was around Ste's chest and hand on this throat the whole time, and he kept kissing and licking his face, scraping his beard against Ste's cheek, neck and shoulder. Ste had hardly any space to move from being pinned down on the bed by Brendan's body and he loved it, the weight of him, the way Brendan knew how ward to go and how fast to make Ste's toes curl and when Ste was close Brendan pushed his other hand between Ste and the mattress to grab his dick and helped him rest of the way. Ste was shaking and crying out, falling to pieces safely in his hold and when he fought to get his breath back Brendan held him tighter as he grunted and roared against Ste's neck when he came too.
For a second they just gasped for air and then they were laughing. Ste twisted his head for another kiss before Brendan pulled out and gave his bum a smack. Ste knelt up and looked the mess on the sheets.
"We need to change these now before we get to work."
"Better get moving then, eh?" Brendan stroked his hand down Ste's spine from his neck to bum and it took all Ste's self control not to get into a third round.
They took a shower, changed the sheets and Ste texted Amy and Tony to inform them about the date for the wedding, and Brendan let Cheryl and his boys know before they headed to work. They asked Mitzeee to join them in the office for a minute before customers started to rush in, and told her about the date. She got all excited and got in the party planner mode, and Ste could see the horror in Brendan's eyes when he thought her taking over the wedding – she seemed disappointed when Ste said they'd do everything by themselves. Not that there was much to do, they wanted everything to be simple and small, just the visit to registry and food and drink afterwards in somewhere else.
Ste had forgotten their earlier conversation during the rush of orders, but once they had finished work, came back home and were snuggled in bed, Brendan brought it back up.
"Would you have went on if I hand't stopped you?"
"Hmm?" Ste was almost dropped off to sleep, being spooned by Brendan.
"With Douglas." His voice was low against back of Ste's head. "If I hadn't stopped you kissing him, would you have, you know..."
"No." Ste held Brendan's hand which was pressed against his chest. "I was actually thinking about throwing up to get away from that situation." The memory made him laugh.
"Really?" Brendan pulled him closer against his chest.
"Yeah. I though he'd be the nice guy I was supposed to be with but... Even if I hadn't fancied you it wouldn't have worked out with him."
"You fancied me, then?" Brendan scraped his teeth on Ste's shoulder, making him shiver.
"You know I did. I told you, I fancied you from the first time I saw you. I just went out with Doug because I though you're straight and I could never have you." They stayed quiet for a while. "Would you have let me? Like, if I really wanted to go out with him again, before we, you know. Would you just stayed quiet?"
"I don't know. I knew I wanted you to be happy, so if I'd though that's what you wanted... But it also made mad to think anyone else touching you, so... I think I would have tried to stay aside. Don't know how long that would have worked though, before I would have murdered Douglas in a act of jealousy." This time it was his lips Ste could feel, gently pressing on the ticklish skin behind his ear which made Ste squirm. "I wanted you to want me, but I wouldn't have forced it."
"I did want you. From that first day, you've been the only one."
It felt impossible he could get any closer but when Brendan shifted he somehow was, cocooning Ste with his warmth and strength. His voice was low and it felt like he was trying to imprint his words into Ste's skin rather than let him hear them.
"And you to me. There's no one else."