Rim: All right, now everyone can stop threatening me, and asking me when I'm going to update. I'm updating as fast as I can, seeing as how I do work during daytime hours and all and a few nights. I guess I don't mind threatening, it motives me. So, everyone liked the last chapter, thank you, and I hope this next chapter is up to everyone's standards, now onwards.
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Kenny looked up from where he was laying on the bed with his laptop to stare down the hallway of Michael's apartment. Tilting his head to the side, he could see the red head's shadow silhouetting off the floor of the living room while Michael was fixing them both some dinner. Swinging his feet in the air, he propped his head up on his open palms, thinking about earlier that day.
"I wasn't expecting him to just…" Kenny shook his head, his thoughts in quite a jumble from when he was still at his house and Tala came by to see him.
Closing his eyes, Kenny summoned up the image of Tala in his head once more. He thought back to the events that took place in the room. The words they each had said, and then the decision that was made. Stroking his left thumb over his cheek, he could still feel Tala's warm lips, kissing away the tears which streaked down his face. He could still hear Tala whispering to him.
"You know I hate it more that another man is in your life too. You don't want me to leave, but do you know what it's doing to my soul?"
Sometimes Kenny didn't know what was on the other's mind let alone what was in his soul. So many years of abuse and neglect shadowed it all. Kenny opened his eyes, looking at the half filled page on the computer screen. His eyes went over the last few words that were typed, pausing on the last sentence. "Travis turned his eyes away from Kent, the younger of the two dared not to approach the now fuming man who…"
With a groan, Kenny moved his right hand from under his chin, using his index finger to hit the delete button. Watching the cursor blur backwards, taking the words with it, Kenny flopped onto his back staring up at the ceiling once he was finished deleting the paragraph he recently typed. The words in his head didn't stop coming, in fact they continued to flow, repeating in an unconscious stream of words.
"He can't make me leave your side…just know that. But I can't be so near you while he's with you. If you want me to stay…I will do it. I just won't be satisfied with a friendship for too long, you know how impatient I am. Figure out how you feel and come back to me."
"It's not really that easy Tala," Kenny sighed to the ceiling. "I don't think you really understand what I meant when I said I wanted to be with Michael did you? Did you think that I only meant for maybe a month?"
The way Tala had stared at him when he left, it was like he was expecting the other to make up his mind within the next few days or week. As if this was just a phase that would pass by soon and whatever feelings for Michael would fade in the next month. Tala wanted it that simple, those words gave the red head comfort, but eventually, when Kenny didn't come back, when Kenny fell deeper in love with Michael, he would come back for him.
"It would be nice if I could get the two of them to meet, maybe get to know each other. At least Tala seems like he isn't going to try to start trouble if they meet, then again, this is Tala I'm talking about," Kenny sighed, continuing to stare up at the ceiling, just as his cell phone rung. Reaching to his right, he grabbed the object, cutting it on and placing it to his ear. "Hello?"
"Hey you," Tyson's voice came through. "Do you know what time it currently is?"
"Well, the last time I checked Ty, it's a quarter to nine, is there significance in you calling to ask me the time?" Kenny questioned, tilting his head towards the alarm clock on the nightstand which was displaying vibrant blue numbers.
"Of course there is some significance towards me saying that you idiot," Tyson chimed. "Do you remember what you were supposed to be doing?"
"What do you mean what I was suppose to be doing?" Kenny frowned. "I was supposed to be doing a lot of things, please refresh my short term memory, it's currently short circuiting." Which in fact wasn't all a lie, he had so much on his mind that if his mother were to tell him that today was the day he was born, he would question her later on why she gave his a gift.
"You were supposed to be calling me back remember," Tyson reminded.
"Hell…sorry Tyson," Kenny apologized. "Tala came over and I had to talk to him, then Robert called me and we were on the phone for a while, then was getting together my material for classes tomorrow, and then I called Michael and he picked me up and then I've been sitting on his bed for nearly two and a half hours trying to finish this chapter of my book. It slipped my mind completely."
"Okay, we're just going to rewind that to the beginning. So, Tala came over to your house after that crap he pulled with trying to fuck you in the front seat of his car. That bastard is cocky, isn't he? So, what did he think, you were just going to strip for him and everything would be all right once he's making you scream out his name over and over again," Tyson said, his tone hardening with anger.
"It was nothing like that at all," Kenny assured.
"Good, because you just made me say something I'm going to have nightmares about forever." Kenny smiled, listening to his cousin gag on the other end of the phone line. "So, what did that baboon want?"
"Well, he was just telling me that he and Kai were out looking for jobs and he was around," Kenny replied.
"And?" Tyson stated. "This is Tala we're talking about, remember. Tala doesn't do anything without a reason."
"True…" Kenny nodded to himself.
"So?" Tyson wondered.
"It was more so he was looking for me to want to strip for him so he could make me scream his name over and over again and then I dump Michael because I knew I really wanted to be with Tala and was just using Michael as an excuse to hide from him. And then once I admitted just how hot and bothered I was being near him, we would live happily ever after."
"For one, thank you for that mental image of you stripping for him and then him screwing you," Tyson gagged. "I'll be lucky to stare at him now without gouging my eyes out."
"You'll be fine," Kenny smiled.
"No I won't. Now I'm going to be sick every time I think about…" Tyson continued gagging for a minute. "All right, I'm finished. So, what did you do?"
"What do you mean what did I do?" Kenny frowned.
"What did you tell him?" Tyson remarked. "You know, like did you say go to hell, I'm with this guy now, or what?" Kenny imagined that Tyson was on the edge of his bed, waiting for him to reply. Maybe he should have a little fun with his cousin to see what would happen, and if his theory was true.
"Do you really want to know what I told Tala?" Kenny questioned. "Well…first I told him to take a seat, then I stared him straight in the eyes…and then I told him that if he stuck it in my mouth, I could suck him off while Michael had me from behind."
"You what!" Tyson screeched on the other end of the phone before there was a loud crash and a groan. Holding the phone away from his ear to laugh, he could hear Tyson muttering a bunch of curses, and threats on the other end. Sitting up, Kenny wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. "Kenny, are you listening to me, if you told him that I'm so going to kill you when I get my hands on you that Michael is going to have to hunt me down for burying your body—"
"Calm down, I was just joking, you don't have to try to kill me and bury my body in the back of anywhere," Kenny chuckled. "I just wanted to see what you would do if I said that."
"You're evil," Tyson shouted into the phone.
"I'm sorry, calm down," Kenny snickered.
"Come on, tell me the truth, what did you really tell Tala," Tyson asked.
"The truth—"
"And if you say that you told him you could have a threesome, then I'm going to come over there and kill you," Tyson threatened.
"Damn…well, I guess I got to lie to you then. I told Tala that it was true I did want him when we were in the front seat of the car, and that I told Michael everything about what happened and what happened back in Tennessee," Kenny said.
"What did Michael say about it?" Tyson questioned.
"Well, he accepted everything that happened between me and Tala three years ago. I told Tala that I planned to be with Michael because I want to know if I really am just using him to get over Tala, or if I really love him. I think Tala accepts it, he told me that he would stay here and he wouldn't disappear, but he wants me to hurry up and figure out how I feel so he can be with me," Kenny answered, tilting his head to the side to watch the shadow on the floor of the living room continue to move. The occasional sounds of water or a metal spoon being tapped against the side of a pot could be heard.
"So, next question," Tyson said, Kenny could hear the grin spreading across each corner of his cousin's face. The brunette had a feeling that it was coming, after all, he told the very two people in his life that would want to know all the details about what happened between him and Michael: Tyson and of course Kain.
Kain had already started in on Kenny after leaving Ozuma and Tyson's company. Kenny having to hear a barrage of questions ranging from whether he could walk or if Michael was to rough or was he big enough for Kenny. Luckily, Rei managed to get the bluenette to shut up before he could embarrass Kenny any further. Of course, the brunette still had to answer some of the questions, and deal with the toothy grins and jokes about Kenny not complaining now if he and Rei were late all the times because he would be too busy to care if they were late.
"Don't tell me, it's about me and Michael isn't it?" Kenny questioned with a sigh. "Kain spent nearly ten minutes burning a hole into my skull with nearly every question under the sun over my fun last night."
"So, did you have a good time or not?" Tyson inquired.
"Didn't I tell you the sex was good?" Kenny shook his head.
"You may have said the sex was good, but you didn't say how fantastic. So, was it everything you thought it would be, or more?"
"Let's just say that all five of those orgasms could signify that it was more than I thought it would be. Of course…it has been like three years since I had any, so maybe I'm just exaggerating about it," Kenny thought. "And no Tyson, before you ask, I'm not giving you a play by play of everything that we did."
"I wasn't about to ask," Tyson said.
"Good, at least you're sparing me that indecency that Kain wouldn't," Kenny stated. "I don't think I will ever tell him again about being screwed if I ever go on a drought again. You would think that he got off on the details or something."
"I don't want to think about that ever, that is just about as disturbing as it gets for me," Tyson retched.
"I am in complete agreement," Kenny voiced.
"As long as Tala never finds out about this, we won't have to stop bloodshed over that jealous idiot. But seriously I'm surprised," Tyson said.
"Why?" Kenny inquired.
"Well, I was expecting Tala to try to find out where Michael lived and forced Michael to back off so you would be all his once again," Tyson commented. "I guess that the idiot has learned something in the past three years wherever they've been." Silence fell between the two cousins for a long minute, their thoughts taking different routes than before.
"Tyson," Kenny finally said breaking the silence. His head was turned towards the window, looking out at the night sky. "Where do you think…they've been for the past three years? The look in their eyes…it was haunted…I couldn't bear to ask them a thing about it."
"Your guess is as good as mine," Tyson sighed. "I guess that when they are ready, they will tell us about it. Or…we'll just stumble across it when they don't want it and then they'll end up being stubborn about it before breaking down and telling us. Don't you think?"
"Yeah, it seems to be like that sometimes, but I can understand, the life they lived…they've grown up keeping things between themselves. So, now that we're in their lives, it's much harder to stick to who they use to be and still want to be with us because they know that we would never betray them," Tyson said softly.
"But…kind of irony now," Kenny chuckled. "In a way, we have betrayed them unintentionally. Do you still think that they will try so hard to change with what's happened to them over the past three years and then learning we've moved on like that?"
"I don't know," Tyson exhaled. "I guess that there's no way to really tell until we try to keep our lives together. I know Kai's not going to give me up so easily, but I don't know if he's going to be as patient as Tala with me."
"It's because he's loved you longer. You two practically grew up together, he's had time to watch you grow and mature, his love for you has also grown and matured, kept close to his heart until you acknowledged that you wanted to be with him. So, it's understandable if he's not so patient. He's waited for you so long and now you're with another man, that he's bound to be a little bit more impatient with you," Kenny said sagely, hearing his cousin groan on the other end.
"I know, I know. You know, I'm not sure which of us has the better end of the stick. Kai's loved me longer and Tala's just crazy, that just makes for a fine addition to your story don't you think?" Tyson teased. "So, how is it going anyway?"
"Crap," Kenny remarked. "I know what I have to write, but I don't have any idea how to go about it at all. My thoughts are so jumbled with everything going on."
"Take a break, it's not like you have a deadline," Tyson suggested. "Maybe get away from the city for a few days to gather your thoughts or something."
"Well, Michael was talking about his uncle having a cabin and going there next weekend so I can do a little bit of writing while he keeps in practice with baseball. But I don't know if I should go after everything that's happened," Kenny replied.
"I say go, you need time to straight out your head with everything that's happened recently. It's the perfect opportunity to get to know Michael more, and to discover how you really feel about him," Tyson pointed out. "If Ozuma said he had a little hideaway for just me and him, I would definitely go to clear out my head."
"But you and Ozuma have for one been together longer, and secondly, you really like Ozuma a lot," Kenny stated.
"And you like Michael a lot too," Tyson countered. "I mean, if Tala doesn't like it, well…that's sort of tough, he has to realize that he left you to think he was dead for like three years without so much as a word, and then you finally find love again, he springs up out of the woodwork expecting you to live happily ever after with him. True, it would have been nice to do so, but things didn't turn out that way. We have to accept what we were given and move on. If it's meant to be, then we will walk that road once more."
"For once, you're sounding smart," Kenny joked. "Michael would definitely be shocked to hear that come out of your mouth."
"Shut up," Tyson growled. "Anyway, I say you should just forget about Tala for now and enjoy yourself for the weekend with Michael. Then worry about Tala when you get back, if his head explodes before then, oh well, he will be fine."
"Since you put it that way, fine," Kenny laughed, hearing his laptop closing down. Turning his head back towards it, he found Michael standing by the bed with a plate of chicken fettuccine. Blue eyes looked down at him with a funny look before closing the laptop with his free hand and placing it over on the desk. Once that task was done, Michael walked back over to the bed, climbing on it carefully. Kenny leaned back into Michael's embrace once the other was situated.
"Is Tyson being a pest?" Michael grinned, down at the brunette in his embrace. Kenny looked up at his boyfriend with a smile before opening his mouth. "What? Do you want something?"
"Hey Tyson," Kenny said, giving Michael a slight stare. "We will finish this discussion later I'm trying to be fed."
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do," Tyson teased. "I'll talk to you tomorrow at school then."
"Bye." Kenny hung up the phone, putting it beside him, and tilted his head back up to Michael, opening his mouth once more.
"You might want to close your mouth before I stick something in there," Michael suggested.
"That's the point of me having it open," Kenny replied, seeing Michael get a mischievous look in his eyes. "Food now, sex later, I'm hungry and I don't want to have to heat that up later. So put food in mouth now."
"Demanding, I like that," Michael beamed, scooping up a forkful of fettuccine and blowing it off. Once the food was cool enough, Michael lowered the fork into Kenny's mouth, watching as Kenny's mouth wrapped around the fork, pulling back once the food was in his mouth. Subconsciously, he licked his mouth, his mind wandering away from him just a little bit, or just enough that eventually he found his boyfriend staring up at him with a pout.
"Michael, didn't I say later, I'm hungry," Kenny complained, feeling the awakening arousal brushing against his backside.
"Well, if you didn't look so sexy eating, maybe I wouldn't get so horny around you," Michael said huskily, leaning down to plant a kiss against Kenny's neck. "It doesn't help either that you're sitting in my lap where one of my t-shirts which you do look irresistible in, might I add."
"Michael, I want to eat," Kenny whined.
"You'll eat," Michael assured, continuing his path down Kenny's neck.
"Now!" Kenny voiced. "Or I'm not going to give you any for the rest of the week."
"Fine," Michael sighed with defeat, pulling back. "Wait…does this mean that you're going to be staying with me the rest of the week?"
"Maybe," Kenny said sweetly.
"You're going to torment me until you're ready to tell me, aren't you?" Michael questioned.
"Well," Kenny trailed off, before opening his mouth and waiting for more food.
"You know you're wrong for that," Michael said, sticking another forkful of pasta into his boyfriend's mouth, and watching as Kenny purposefully refused to let go of the fork before moaning just a little. "You are testing my patience and willpower, you know that don't you?" Kenny only nodded, finally letting the fork go as he chewed the food in his mouth.
"You know you love it more than I'm enjoying teasing you," Kenny said, once he was finished eating. "Besides, when we go to your uncle's cabin next weekend, what do you think I'm going to be doing when I want you to pay more attention to me than your practicing?"
"You still want to go? Even after Tala and everything happening?" Michael looked down at the brunette in his arms who stared up at him smiling. Watching the brunette, Michael found Kenny take the plate out of his hands, setting it on the nightstand, then straddling Michael's lap with his legs wrapped around his boyfriend's waist.
"Yes, I still want to go, Tyson said it would be a good time to get to know each other better," Kenny nodded. "So, are you still up to seducing me while we're there?"
"Do you really have to ask?" Michael murmured, leaning down to lick at the full mouth which was tempting him. "Seduce you now, later, and when we get there."
"Who says I wanted to be seduced now?" Kenny grinned, pulling back from the mouth that wanted entrance. "I'm still hungry you know."
"You little tease…"
"What was that Michael?" Kenny said grinding his hips into Michael's receiving a moan out of his boyfriend.
"Fine…you win," Michael sighed. "Now can I please have you now?"
"Well…" Kenny thought for a long second, making sure to purposefully squirm in Michael's lap as the red head moaned softly. "Maybe later, I'm still hungry." Kenny climbed out of Michael's lap, hearing the disappointed whine escape his boyfriend's lips while he picked the plate back up from where it was set and began eating, watching as Michael gave him a pleading look.
"You are wrong for this you know that, don't you?" Michael grumbled, getting up from off the bed, dragging his feet as he walked towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Kenny grinned.
"Bathroom."
"You know I love you," Kenny replied, only receiving something that was close to sometimes he wondered. "When I'm finished eating, I'll play with you in 30 minutes that sound fair to you." This time, he received a huffed no before the red head shut the door to the bathroom. After a minute or two, water could be heard running in the shower. With a triumphant grin, Kenny continued eating, thinking about how he was going to make it up to his boyfriend. "I suppose…Tyson is right. It's going to be interesting to see how this turns out."
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Rim: Okay…I'm done…nobody bother me for two weeks now. That's it I've just killed my brain cells! Now I gotta go to sleep cause I'm going to hallucinate and stuff. Okay, review and stuff and Chaco…please stop throwing your brother's stuff at me, see I updated like I promised…late, but I did update!