Llama: Kaaaay~ slightly get out of PG in this one but nothing serious. NOT YEEEEET~ Lewl. I asked my friend if she'd want to write me a yaoi scene to maybe post as a separate chapter. Btw enjoy the quotes, they have nothing to do with the chapter, it's just what. Listened to as I wrote this. Feel Good Inc. By Gorrillaz :P
~ Love forever, love is free. Let's turn forever, you and me. ~
Laney stared at the two boys, confusion written all over her face. She came into Cam's room, closed the door behind her, and sat down in the chair in the corner.
"Well?" She demanded, getting impatient when neither of them explained what they were just doing. She'd stood there a moment trying to understand what she was watching; Ash attacking Cam's mouth, Ash moaning, Cam pulling Ash's head down for more. Those things she only saw in romance movies her and her father sometimes watched in the city at theaters. Between a man and a woman.
Not between two men.
She was so confused. She needed Ash or Cam to explain why they'd just been making out when she just got back from taking Cheryl home. She even brought them snacks! Remembering the abandoned snacks, she glanced sadly at the broken bowl that previously held little truffles. Laney saw the tension between the two boys and hopes the chocolates would ease them back into friendship. But it seemed they'd been overly friendly within minutes...
"Laney," Cam finally tried to start. But he said nothing more.
"Just exactly," Laney began, staring at Ash, "were you doing?"
Ash looked like he was going to get up and run soon. He was sitting across the room from Cam in the corner, tapping his foot rapidly. "U-Uh, I-I don't kn-know..."
"How do you not know, Ash?" She was getting fed up with these two. She wanted answers and she wanted them now.
"I kissed him," Cam blurted out. Ash shot him a glare for taking the blame when Ash initiated it. Ash didn't want Cam to go down by himself.
"Liar!" Ash accused, "I kissed him, Laney, be mad at me but not Cam."
Cam would have smacked the rancher if he was closer and wasn't instructed to lay around all day. "Ash, stop trying to take the blame. Laney, don't listen to him, I did it."
Laney watched as the two argued that way for the next five minutes before she yelled, "Enough!"
The two bickering boys stopped mid sentence, their eyes back on her immediately. Cam had never seen the sweet Laney so.. So full of rage. "Laney... A-Are you mad?"
"Yes! I'm mad, but because I'm just so confused... I-I didn't know you two felt that way for each other..."
Ash couldn't hold back the scoff. "We didn't either."
Laney shot Ash a glare. But before Cam could watch his two friends yell at each other, he interrupted. "Laney, what Ash meant to say was that we didn't understand how we felt either. I knew I felt something for him, but I couldn't name it. I-I don't know what Ash feels, but I think he feels the same. If you don't want us together alone anymore, I understand."
Ash thought of not being able to be alone with Cam anymore. The thought scared him for a moment. He just discovered his feelings and someone wouldn't let them be together?! "Cam, you can't be ser-"
"Ash, stop," Cam warned, glancing towards Ash with a sad smile. "If we confuse Laney, then who are we to be selfish enough for our own happiness?"
Laney watched the two lovers stare silently at each other, noticing Ash go insulted to understanding in a few moments. She say Cam's hand twitch towards the younger boy. And she understood what she had to do. "It's alright."
Cam broke the staring contest first, snapping his gaze back to the smiling blond. "What?"
"It's alright for you two to be together," she repeated with more depth.
"Y-You mean i-it, Laney?" Ash's face lit up. Laney nodded. Ash made some form of excited yell and launched himself into Cam. Cam cried out in pain and reflexively shoved Ash off. Laney stood up quickly, ready to assist Cam in any way she could but sat back down when the two started to embrace each other. She smiled lightly, excusing herself politely when things started to get a little too much to her liking.
She wondered if the two lovers even noticed.
It'd been two hours since Laney had left. Cheryl had arrived, but only came in to leave the cookies and then left. Ash was now laying in Cam's bed with him in his tiny bed. He had to be on his side, and Cam had to be on his back, but Ash didn't mind. Cam had slipped off into dream land and Laney promised to keep everyone out of his room this afternoon.
He could get used to this, he thought to himself happily. Maybe the Goddess didn't hate him.
Cam mumbled in his sleep incoherently. Ash listened in on the mumbling, hoping to discover what was so interesting in Cam's dreams. He hovered over Cam's sleeping figure, holding himself up with his arms on either side of Cam's head. Twisting around started hot hurt Ash's back, so he threw his leg over Cam's lap and held himself up. He listened carefully as Cam mumbled in what seemed like an argument.
Just as Ash was about to crawl off him, Cam opened his eyes, staring up at Ash.
"Ash," Cam reached up to rub his eyes sleepily, "what in the world are you doing?"
Ash's face flooded red as his inner thoughts scolded him for getting on top of Cam. "Uh," he tried think of a reasonable excuse. 'Getting frisky' didn't sound like something he should say, right? "I saw a bug." Ask swore inside his head, how ridiculous could he be?
"Hm," Cam drew out the 'm' in thought and disbelief. Cam smiled and leaned up to kiss Ash, ignoring the biting pain from his bruised rib. Ash was taken by surprised by Cam's sudden kiss, but soon found himself pressing his lips back to Cam's and making him lay flat to prevent from him from hurting himself further.
"Cam, I-" Ash pulled just enough away to mumble against his lips, hovering just above him. Cam blushed furiously, leaning up to kiss Ash deeper. "Cam!" Ash exhaled and mumbled in a rush.
"What?" Cam grumbled, nipping at Ash's bottom lip. Goddess, he'd been wanting to do all of this to Ash for a long time, he now understood what he'd really wanted but dismissed it as hormones or his mind running wild. He always wanted Ash. So why was he being denied of kissing him?
"N-Not too far," Ash murmured vaguely, his lips now trailing down the florist's jaw line. Cam was confused for a moment, he was about to ask what Ash meant before he readjust his leg and rubbing his thigh up against Ash's lap.
"Oh."
"Yeah," Ash said awkwardly, flustered. Cam laughed a bit, felling mixed about Ash's arousal. He was flattered, but also slightly nervous. He wasn't really ready to, er, seal the deal. Not that he really knew how, as he was a virgin like Ash.
Ash crawled ever so carefully off Cam and plopped back down by his side. "it's okay, it'll go away," he let out a long sigh.
"I know," Cam smiled wider.
"Right.. You're a guy too..."
"Hm," Cam said again, having a funny response. "Don't know about that, wanna check for me?"
Ash's brows flew to his hairline in alarm, somewhat hoping Cam wasn't serious. Cam chuckled but raised his hand and ruffled the younger boy's hair, knocking his hat off. "Cam," Ash complained, snatching his hat back and returning it to his head, not bothering to fix his hair.
A knock at the door had Ash hiding under the covers. "I'm coming in, alright? So put your clothes back on, lovebirds!" He heard Laney shout and hesitate before entering. "Ash, if I were anyone else, you'd be caught in point-one seconds, just so you know."
"Darn," Ash joked, pulling the covers back down from over his head. He grinned at the blond. "What'd you need, Laney?"
"Oh, right, I need a favor."
"Which is?"
"Well..." Ash knew his had to be good. "There's a vegetable I need from Phillip's garden in Konohana but he can't rent a horse to bring it here. So can you go get it for me?"
Cam frowned, already not liking the idea when Phillip was mentioned. He glanced out his window, curious of the time as Ash and Laney discussed what this mission required. It was probably about five in the afternoon. Ash would get there about nine. He'd either have to travel back in the dark or stay the night there. Disapproval radiated off Cam like warmth off a fire. He didn't want Ash staying in Konohana.
"You'll need to stay the night," Cam noted dryly.
Ash thought about this before nodding, not meeting Cam's eyes. "I'll leave the next morning and be home soon enough."
Laney stood silent as Cam stared at Ash. "And you'll just leave me here?"
"Cam, you can't come with me, you're hurt. It's just a day," Ash reasoned. He didn't want to leave Cam either, but Cam was stuck with bedrest for at least three days before he could get up at all to go anywhere besides the bathroom. Laney also made sure to force Cam to abide by those rules.
"Alright," he finally accept, aggravated.
"Don't be mad at me, Cammy," Ash turned around to steal a kiss from the older boy. "I'll be back before you know it, love."
"Then hurry up and go, and hurry up and get back."
Ash faked hurt, his hand over his heart as he stood up to get his work boots on that sat on the floor by Cam's bed. "That hurts, trying to get rid of me already?" Cam rolled his eyes but smiled at Ash.
Ash left sooner than Cam thought, sighing as the only noise he heard was the tick-tock of his little clock on his desk. This was going to be a long evening with nothing to do.
Ash was hurrying up the mountain on his horse, Ben. The sun was lingering in the sky and he was running a little late. He was just about to pass the top of the mountain point when he saw him. A strange boy, probably around his age, walking up the mountain from Konohana's side. Ash frowned and pulled on the reigns.
"Where are you going?" Ash asked him. He looked up at Ash with this goofy grin.
"Not sure! Where ya goin'?" he asked in this silly fake accent.
Ash rolled his eyes but found a smile prickling at the corners of his mouth. "Konohana," he told him, "I need to deliver something."
The boy visibly lit up, "you too?"
Ash shrugged, who was this weirdo?
"I'm Dirk! I deliver the packages from town to town."
"Huh," Ash nodded slowly, taking in this plus Dirk's 'uniform'. It looked silly, decked out in red velvet. "Didn't know we had one of those."
"Yup! Just started today!"
"Well it's too late to go across the mountain, it's getting very dark and dangerous," Ash said, pointing up at the sky. It was getting much darker, Ash needed to hurry up.
Dirk shrugged, "I'll be fine." Ash frowned, not liking that this kid wouldn't listen to Ash's advice. Dirk started to walk on without even so much as a friendly 'goodbye' or anything. Ash grumbled but continued down the trail to Konohana hurriedly.
Llama: Haha, intro to Dirk. He's going to be slightly important, kind of like Laney and Cheryl. Review and stuff :P