"We could go to the city today.", Zacharie suggested as he left the school building with the Batter. It was Friday so they wouldn't have school the next day. Shortly Batter nodded.
"So it's a date!"
This time the Batter didn't answer, he just glanced around embarrassed. The two of them had been dating for two weeks now. They haven't really come out to anyone yet, but it was pretty obvious that everyone already knew.
Together the two lovebirds headed towards the city. Zacharie would have loved to take Batters hand and softly hold it, but he knew that the Batter wouldn't like that, at least not with all the other students around. So instead he decided it would be better to wait with that until they were further away from the school building.
"I know a good restaurant we could go to maybe.", the Batter murmured a little absent in thoughts.
"Oh so you're taking me out?" With a wide grin Zacharie watched the Batter blushing red.
"I-I didn't say I would pay for you!", he said, sounding a little like a little boy who's pride just got hurt. Smiling Zacharie giggled a bit.
"Wow, what kind of a boyfriend are you?", he teased him while pouting.
He watched the Batter burying his hands in the pockets of his pants groaning.
"Fine."
"Woa, really!?", Zacharie replied in surprise. Excitedly he pulled Batters hand out of his pockets and buried his own hand in Batters. As he looked up to the Batter he caught him looking at Zacharie aswell, smiling. Zacharie moved a little closer and gave him a quick kiss, then leaned his head on Batters arm happily, ignoring the glares of the strangers they were passing.
Eventually the Batter stopped, showing Zacharie the restaurant. It was a Thai restaurant and the smell coming out of it made his mouth water. The food was just as great and a few hours later they were well fed and on their way back home. They used a different way back than the one they came from. It was a little longer but definitely more beautiful with more residential buildings and especially gardens, rather than simply shops and streets everywhere.
They came from the opposite direction as they would come from their way home from school, leading them to pass by Batters home first rather than Zacharies. Before Zacharie could say any goodbyes or anything else really he could hear the Batter offering him in.
"Do you want to stay over a bit maybe...?", he still sounded kind of shy and awkward, it was adorable.
Zacharie nodded a little surprised since the Batter rarely ever asked him to come over.
"I should probably tell my mom I'm coming later though."
"Or", he could hear the Batter stammer carefully, "you could tell your mom you're staying for the night... if that's fine with you."
Zacharie couldn't possibly say no to that. He'd love to sleep over at Batters place. So simply he nodded with a bright smile and started to call his mom while following the Batter into his apartment.
By the time they had arrived in Batters living room Zacharie hang up and put his phone back into his bag. A sudden realization hit him for a moment and he looked up to the Batter confused.
"Where am I going to sleep though?"
Zacharie watched the Batter awkwardly scratching the back of his head and with the other hand pointing into his bedroom that was just around the corner.
"I, uhm, thought maybe we could like share my bed, I mean, if you're fine with that..."
Zacharie could clearly see that this was utterly embarrassing for the Batter but he couldn't help him but to chuckle a bit. He leaned closer to his boyfriend wrapping his arms around Batters neck and burying his face into Batters chest so he could breath in his smell.
"I would love that!", he murmured into Batters shirt.
He could feel the Batter placing his his hands on Zacharies waist. A little surprised Zacharie looked up to see the Batter blushing deep red. Noticing how cute he looked when blushing made Zacharie giggle softly. He stood up on his toes, pulling the Batter into a sweet loving kiss. He could feel the Batter had not expected that, gasping softly in surprise, but he didn't seem to complain and instead replied the kiss, making it end up a lot longer and more intense than Zacharie had first planned.
This time it was Zacharie taken by surprise and he put that to show with a soft moan, almost like whimper.
His arms still around Batters neck, he moved one of his hands, carelessly threw off Batters baseball cap to bury his fingers into Batters soft blond hair. For a moment Zacharie panicked he had crossed some kind of border as the taller man suddenly pulled off the kiss. He had never seen the Batter without his cap. If it was as important to him as the mask had been to Zacharie, recklessly throwing it off might've been a horrible mistake. That fear got washed away a moment later as he suddenly felt Batters lips sucking on his neck. Surprised Zacharie threw his head back, letting out another sweet moan.
Heavily breathing he stopped the Batter who looked a little disappointed, but quick enough Zacharie pulled off the Batters shirt, throwing it to the ground next to the cap, his own shirt following shortly after.
For a moment Zacharie stopped, mustering his boyfriends upper body, for this was the first time he would see him shirtless. He was way more tanned and muscular, obviously, since Batter played Baseball every day while the most sports related thing Zacharie did was watching Batter play Baseball every day.
He wanted to lean unto the Batter, feeling their bare skin touching, but before he could he saw the Batter glancing away, looking everything but excited, and suddenly Zacharie stopped worried.
"A-Ah, I'm sorry...!", he stuttered, he wanted to hit himself and disappear in a hole right now. He couldn't just take Batters fucking shirt off what was he thinking.
"N-No! It's fine! I'm fine!", the Batter replied with a shaky voice but Zacharie didn't believe him at all.
"Are you sure...? We don't have to... you know...", he mumbled, trying to get the truth out of the Batter an apparently it worked.
He watched the Batter sinking down to the ground, leaning against the wall and sitting there.
"I-I'm so sorry Zacharie...", he mumbled under his breath.
Worried Zacharie kneed down in front of the Batter, trying to comfort him somehow.
"No it's completely fine, I'm sorry."
He wasn't sure what was going on in Batters head right now but it must be really bad because Zacharie had never seen the Batter this down before. He moved to sit on the ground next to the Batter, leaning against him, and for a while they just sat there, not talking, not saying a word.
Zacharie kept wanting to apologize, for wherever he crossed the line, but he was also too scared to break the quiet. Maybe this simply was what the Batter needed right now, so he kept quiet until the Batter himself decided to say something.
"I'm... sorry...", he whispered, barely loud enough for Zacharie to hear, "It's just... I... had very bad... experiences...?"
Zacharie didn't know what to say. He never would've guessed and he still could'nt quite make out what the Batter meant with 'bad experiences'.
"I-I'm so sorry. I- what- what happened?", he asked carefully.
"My mother, she- she used to- … ugh I'm sorry I- I don't really want to talk about it.", he stammered, he sounded tired or exhausted maybe.
"No. No! It's fine, I'm- I'm so sorry I brought it up."
The Batter gave him a small exhausted nod.
"May- Maybe we should, uhm, go to sleep... It's pretty late already anyways.", Zacharie suggested and helped the Batter up as he agreed.
They both changed out of their clothes and into some sorts of pajamas then lied into Batters bed.
It was a bit small for two people, but Zacharie didn't mind. He cuddled himself close to the Batter, who also seemed better by now, and soon the two of them fell asleep.
