Author's Note: This chapter was written and edited by Double.
Chapter 10: The Next Morning; Gene's PoV
I wake up the next morning with Finny holding me, his body against mine. He looks so adorable when he's sleeping. I push Finny's hair out of his eyes. I look at our clock. It says 7:30 A.M. It's Saturday today, so no classes today. Not that there would be classes anyway. Winter break starts on Monday and lasts until next Tuesday.
'I can be with Finny all day now,' I think to myself.
I look back at Finny. His lips are slightly pursed while he's sleeping. I smile at him and stretch up to kiss him delicately on the lips, trying not to wake him. He stays asleep.
'I gotta pee,' I think to myself. 'But how am I going to get up without waking Finny?'
I wiggle out of Finny's hug and crawl over him out of the bed. As soon as I stand up and start walking toward the bathroom, I feel Finny grab my hand.
"Where are you going, Gene?" he asks me.
"To the bathroom," I answer him.
"Oh. Ok," he says.
"Can you let go of my hand so I can go?" I ask him.
He lets go of my hand, and I go to the bathroom. When I walk out, I don't see Finny anywhere.
"Surprise hug!" Finny yells and he comes up behind me and hugs me around the waist.
I turn around and look at him. I smile at him and hug him back. He smiles brightly at me, and then purses his lips slightly and leans his face in towards mine. I do the same and we kiss each other on the lips for a moment.
"I have you to myself today," Finny says with a smile that seems to turn into a naughtier one.
I laugh some. "Not yet, Finny," I say, hinting into what I know he means.
"I know," he says, slightly frowning. "You're just so cute though."
I smile at him again. Someone knocks at our dorm door.
"Who else is awake this early?" I say as I let go of Finny and walk to the door.
I open the door and see that it's Brinker. He's already dressed.
"Hey Brinker," I say to him. "What's up?"
He walks into the room and closes the door behind him. "I need to know," he says.
"Need to know what?" I ask.
"If you did what I told you to do," he says.
Finny walks up next to me. "What did you tell him to do?" he says as he touches my hand with his and goes to hold it.
Brinker watches Finny's hand. "I believe you've already answered my question," he says as he points at our intertwined hands.
"I told Finny I love him and he said he loves me too. We're officially together now," I say as Finny lays his head on my shoulder. I smile at him and kiss him on the forehead.
Brinker smiles and says, "Congratulations to both of you. Best of luck to you both."
"Thanks," I say to Brinker. He smiles and nods at me.
"I'll just be going now," he says. "You two have a good day." He leaves and goes back to his dorm.
Finny looks up at me. "I'm bored," he says.
"Me too," I answer.
"We should go outside," he says. "It would be fun."
"That does actually sound like fun," I say to him.
He smiles at me. "Let's get dressed then," he says.
We both search for clothes and start to get dressed. Finny gets dressed in warm clothes and heads into the bathroom to brush his hair. I finish getting dressed and wait for Finny. He comes out and I go in and brush my teeth. I brush my teeth and walk back out. Finny already has his coat on. I put my coat on and search for my scarf.
"Where's my scarf?" I ask Finny, looking over at him. He's holding my scarf out to me. "Oh," I say. "Thank you." I take my scarf from him. I put it on and put on my gloves. I look over at Finny.
"Ready to go?" I ask him.
He nods his head and walks over to me. I walk over to our dorm door and open it and walk out of our dorm, with Finny following behind me. We walk down the hall to head outside.
"Race you when we get outside," Finny says behind me.
"You're on," I respond with a sly smile.
We get outside and take our positions.
Finny looks at me. "Ready?" he asks.
I nod my head.
"Ready, set, go!" Finny says as he starts dashing off.
I follow behind him running slower than my fastest. He's running like a bullet ahead of me. I suddenly run as fast as I can behind him. I catch up to him quickly, and I jump onto his back.
"Sneak attack!" I say as I jump on his back. He yells something and falls forward face first into the snow. I'm sitting on top of him laughing at him.
"Are you ok?" I ask while I'm still laughing at him.
He pulls his face up out of the snow and wipes it off. "You're gonna pay for that," he says angrily. He pushes me off him and pins me to the ground. I push him off and pin him down. He smiles at me naughtily.
"So you want that?" he says to me hinting in on it.
"No!" I say to him. "You pin me down and I don't accuse you of being horny. The fact that you brought this up proves that you're horny yourself."
"Maybe I am," he says.
He pulls his arms free from my pinning and puts them around my neck. He pulls my face closer to his and pushes his lips into mine. I become dazed for a moment. I kiss back when I become aware again. I feel his tongue rub against my bottom lip quickly. As if automatically, my mouth opens slightly and allows his tongue to slip in. He slips his tongue into my mouth and battles my own tongue. I eventually start to use my tongue and battle with his tongue. We kiss for what feels like forever in my mind. Eventually, Finny releases from the kiss. I sit up and kneel on Finny's legs. Finny starts to laugh.
"What?" I ask him.
"I thought you said you weren't horny," he says, pointing at the slight boner in my pants.
"Shut up!" I yell at him. "It's your damn fault anyway!"
"Don't worry, Gene," he says to me. "I'll take care of it."
He sits up and pushes on my chest and pushes me onto my back. He straddles over top of me and smiles at me.
"You're in good hands," he says to me as he moves his face closer to mine.
Suddenly, a snowball hits Finny in the side of the face. I burst out laughing.
"Who the hell threw that!?" Finny asks angrily.
He gets another snowball thrown at his face. I look over in the direction the snowballs are coming from.
"Incoming attack!" Brinker yells from behind a bush before running out and pelting us both with snowballs.
Finny and I join the snowball fight with Brinker, ganging up against him. It was fun. It was the most fun the three of us have had together since Leper died. The most fun with just the three of us. Leper would have liked the snowball fight. I think Leper would have liked to see Finny and I together the way we are now.
"Gene," Finny says to me after we finish. "I'm cold." He walks up to me and hugs me.
I hug him back to warm him up. "I know," I say to him. "I'm cold too."
"How about we head back inside?" Brinker suggests.
"Sounds like a plan," I say. Finny nods his head in agreement.
Finny stops hugging me and goes and holds my hand instead while he head back inside. Our hands fit together perfectly. They perfectly intertwine with each other.
Brinker looks at the two of us. "You two are perfect together," he says to us.
I guess Finny and I are perfect together. Our hands fit perfectly together, so maybe everything about us fits together perfectly. I don't quite know yet. What I do know is that I love Finny. I never want to leave his side. I smile and kiss his cheek just before we head back in the door.
"I love you," I whisper in his ear.
"I love you too," he says with a delicate smile on his face.
I never want this feeling to end. I want this moment to last forever.