Chapter 52 - Even Licked Off of the Face of a Lover, the Frosting Tastes Good

Legosi went back over to his backpack, getting his school work back out. He would give it another look over before Louis came to help him.

Louis did his cake work. He had already made the batter before, so it wasn't long before it was in the oven. He was smiling the whole time. He felt very validated after all of that.

Legosi kept getting distracted, seeing Louis work in the kitchen. It was comforting to see him cook. It partly reminded him of when he was back home still, watching his grandpa cook, or his mother if he went way back.

The deer looked at him. "You're not getting very much work done."

"Oops!" Legosi picked up a random sheet of paper, looking it over but not reading it.

Louis turned back around and continued. How couldn't he be distracted...

Legosi sniffed the air. It was starting to smell good in here…He glanced at the nightstand. His phone was there. It was blinking, indicating a message. He checked it.

Haru: Did you find him? What happened? I'm worried about you two!

Legosi's ears drooped. Oh, right. She had to be worried sick.

Legosi: I found him! We made up and he said he'll try to work toward getting better.

Haru: Phew...

Legosi: I'll bring you a slice of carrot cake tomorrow :)

Haru: He's still making it even after all that?

Legosi: Yep! He couldn't leave it half-made after all. Plus I told him I wanted it.

Haru: How did you get him to calm down? I heard those things you said...

Legosi felt hot. Well, she knew about last time. Might as well update her

Legosi: Well, after we made up we started kissing, and it became more

He wondered how she'd interpret that.

Haru: Congratulations, Legosi!

Legosi: Thank you! Louis was a bit embarrassed, but we both really enjoyed it

Haru: Now we can talk about how good he is at sex! Which is...weird.

Oh, of course. Legosi's refusal to type anything explicit backfired.

Legosi: Well, we haven't done that yet, but we rubbed against each other. I think that's the best way to describe it

Legosi buried his face and set the phone down.

Louis looked over. "Are you okay?"

Legosi looked over. "O-oh, yeah! I was just trying to describe to Haru-chan what we...did. I hope you don't mind."

Louis blinked.

"That's okay. Right, Louis? She already knew about the other night," Legosi asked, reading the message she just sent.

Haru: Oh, so, you didn't go that far.

Haru: Did anything happen regarding your instincts? Or his?

Louis nodded. "Yeah. How much did you describe?"

"Um, I just said we rubbed against each other. It...sounds silly saying it like that, because it sounds so simple. But it was so amazing, Louis!" Legosi's eyes were practically shining. "That was a good idea you had, to do that! I wouldn't have thought of it."

Louis smiled. "You're such a dog."

Legosi smiled and looked down. "I'm your dog." He went to the phone again.

The deer needed to take some time with that one.

Legosi: Louis said he got a little bit of it, and so did I, but nothing that ruined anything.

Haru: I still think you should try what I talked to him about.

Louis hadn't mentioned anything...

Legosi: What was that?

Haru: What?

Legosi: What did you talk to him about?

Haru: It would sound weird coming from me. Did he really not tell you?

Legosi: No. Should I ask him?

Haru: Yes. He told me he'd tell you!

Louis looked at him again. "You're really easily distracted, aren't you?"

"Um, Louis? Haru says you two talked about something, and you'd tell me about it?"

The deer furrowed his brows.

"What is it?"

"Uh...she recommended you keep your mouth open in front of me and we just sit there and fight our instincts…"

"Oh..." Legosi said quietly. It made a certain sense, but it scared him a bit.

"We don't need that, right?"

Legosi cocked his head. "I...I don't think so, considering what we just did. But, we can always keep it in mind."

Louis nodded. Truth was, he was just nervous that if he or Legosi caved during the training, it would be over.

The wolf looked back to his phone.

Legosi: He just told me. It's a good idea if we ever need it

Haru: What does he think of it?

Legosi: He doesn't think we need it

Haru: You do!

Legosi: We'll see

He put his phone down, sniffing the air again. "That smells so good."

Louis looked over. "I'm getting better the more I use all this."

"How long will it be?"

"Not too much longer." He looked back at where the cake was. "...We're eating too many sweets, aren't we?"

"Well, we just need more recipes. It is a bit difficult to cook for both a herbivore and a carnivore," Legosi commented.

"True, plus a canine, at that." He scratched his own chin. "If I'm going to start eating more, we'll have to start with small amounts and then increase them. If I eat too much, my stomach bothers me."

Legosi nodded. "I think soup would be good for that."

"True, as long as it's filled with nutrients and not just liquid."

"So...what should I do to try and help you to eat?"

"Hm..." Louis thought for a moment. "Well, I definitely won't eat alone. I think now that I'm more willing to eat, it will be a lot easier to get me to. If it comes down to it we can just come up with a rewards system~" He cooed. "I'm joking. I'm not a dog."

"You speciest," Legosi scoffed, then laughed. "We should go out sometime to eat, too."

"True. This saves us a lot of money."

Legosi looked up at the ceiling, wistfully. "Unless we go someplace fancy. We could wear nice suits too."

"Good thing we have some, now! Someplace fancy, huh?"

"Yeah. Someplace good enough for you..."

"We can use those suits at one of the school dances too."

Legosi cocked his head. "Oh, yeah. I've never been to one of those."

"That was just an idea..."

"We did dance pretty well the other day, I think."

Louis smirked. "Think we'd take over the dance?"

Legosi smiled back. "I think we could."

The deer laughed. "It would still be fun, I think."

Legosi stood up, striding over to his boyfriend, both still in their underwear. "We could practice while the cake bakes."

He turned to him. "So, a fight, then sexual activity, then cake, now dancing? This day is all over the place."

"Well, that just makes it interesting! Except the fight." Legosi scratched idly at his cheek. He went over to the music player and turned it on.

Louis looked at him again after he had turned on the radio. "Someone's excited."

"I like dancing! It's calming." His mouth went crooked. "Of course, I'd still rather be working the lights."

The deer smiled and came closer. "Oh really?"

"Well, if you were able to join the club again, I'd dance with you during a performance..."

"In front of everyone?" He crossed his arms as the song kept playing around them. "A whole entire audience?"

Legosi looked away, shyly. "I know, I feel like I should be afraid of it. But, if it's with you, I think I'd want to do it. I want everyone to see us. But I know in reality it's too dangerous."

Louis grabbed his hands, slowly. The slow jazz continued to fill the room. Louis tapped his foot as he gripped Legosi's hands. "You just want the world to see us shine."

The wolf looked down at him with a sad smile. "I really do. But...as long as there are animals out there like that ramen shop keeper..."

"..." Louis sighed. "Yeah."

"Everyone here seems okay, at least. So, maybe going to a dance would be nice." Legosi put his hands on Louis' hips, swaying from side to side.

Louis raised his arms on his shoulders. "I've never actually gone to a school dance here, knowing how I was."

"It could be fun. As long as we have each other, I know it'll be! We can hang around the club and my friends, too."

"I can't wait to see how Bill deals with wearing a suit."

Legosi leaned down. "I can't wait to see you in a suit." They would have been an interesting sight. A wolf and a deer, in their underwear, one wearing an apron, slow dancing in the middle of a room.

The deer smirked. "Better than wearing only an apron and underwear?"

Legosi blushed. "Well, no, but you'd be kicked out of the dance if you wore that."

"Unless they liked it."

"Maybe I'd get jealous." Legosi raised an eyebrow.

"Oh really? You think so?" They kept swaying to the rhythm.

Legosi moved with him. "Heh, I was just joking."

"Then maybe I'll go show myself off to all the guys in school right now~"

Legosi's grip tightened ever so slightly around Louis.

The deer began to move away, jokingly.

Legosi pulled him against his bare chest. He blinked. "O-oh. Sorry! You were just joking..."

"So you would be jealous!"

"Probably. At least a little bit. But I trust you." Legosi gave Louis a quick peck on the forehead.

The deer pulled him closer and they kept at it. "The school dances are always talked about so highly here. It doesn't sound like something Legosi the grey wolf would ever go to."

"I'd like to see it with you. It'll be something new for both of us!" Legosi leaned down, resting his head on Louis' shoulder. It was times like this where he wished he was shorter.

Louis kept moving even though his boyfriend had to bend down pretty far to rest on his shoulder. "And all the animals won't bother you?"

"Well, like I said, we could just hang around the ones we know. Plus, the more animals there are, the less likely you are to be noticed." He thought back to their trip into the city all those months ago. "What about you? I know you don't like crowds..."

"The dance floor would be big enough to where I'm not pressed against anyone, right?"

He chuckled and reached up, scratching behind his ear.

Legosi breathed contentedly, nuzzling his face into the back of Louis' neck.

"You're pretty good at dancing, you know."

Legosi smiled, his lips pulling the fur on Louis' neck back a bit. "Thank you."

The herbivore kept scratching his ear. And in that moment, Legosi stepped on his foot.

"Ooph! Sorry!" The wolf drew back, looking down to see if he had done any damage.

Louis had winced. "Ooh...It's fine, I'm fine..."

"Is it?" Legosi's ears drooped, his eyes wide like a puppy's as he frowned.

"Y-yeah!"

"L-let's get back to it..."

"Okay." Legosi took him gently by the hands this time, keeping his distance.

They began dancing again. "I didn't realize how intense that would feel. You're pretty heavy."

Legosi looked away. "I'm sorry. I'll be more careful."

"It's okay," his mate said. "I should have been paying attention as well. This music is so nice..."

"It is. It sort of reminds me of our meetings at the fountain, all those months back..."

"Oh really?" Louis hadn't made that connection at all. "Tell me about that."

Legosi shrugged. "Just the feeling it has. It's serene and calming, but with a sense of excitement."

"Those fountain meetings were nice. I got kidnapped before it could become a regular thing..."

Legosi tried not to think about that event. "Maybe...we would have had our first kiss there."

"You think? Tell me a story about how that could have happened."

Legosi's nose twitched. "What?"

"In an alternate universe where I didn't get kidnapped, tell me how that would have happened."

"Well..." Legosi looked up thoughtfully. "We would go there every night, and each night we would become closer and closer. We would hold hands one night, and then the next night, we would be holding each other. Then, one night, under the moonlight, we would kiss..."

Louis blushed quite a bit for some reason. "O-oh...you think so...?"

"I think...it was probably leading there. Considering how close we are now." His thoughts drifted back to just an hour earlier. "Even if there are some...bumps."

"Bumps," Louis nodded. "I can't imagine how much you would have fantasized about that kiss."

Legosi chuckled. "I thought about how a kiss with you would be for quite a while before it happened. I was always ashamed back then when I thought about it."

Louis looked up. "...Me too."

Legosi wagged his tail. "I'm...really happy we were able to meet each other, and make something like this. It doesn't matter how society views it, I'll never regret...us."

"Me either! We have to fight more than others, but we've been fighting for one another this long, so what's more fighting?"

"It'll always be worth it." He leaned down and nuzzled his nose against Louis's. His thoughts drifted back to his grandpa again. Is this what he had to go through? He really might have to give him a call soon...

Louis rubbed his nose against his. "Every day with you is like a dream. I feel like I'm walking on clouds."

Legosi transitioned their nose touching into a deep kiss. He could never get enough of this deer.

Louis laughed and kissed him and then in the middle of it he just start laughing wildly.

"Ah? What's so funny?" Legosi licked his lips after separating from the kiss.

Louis kept laughing.

Legosi started laughing, too. His deer's laugh was so infectious.

"Hahahaha! I'm sorry! It's just! Hahaha! I'm so happy! I realized how ridiculous I was acting before!"

Legosi couldn't take it anymore, he reached down and scooped Louis up, sweeping him off his feet. "I'm happy too! I'm so happy, Louis!"

The herbivore kept laughing and giggling. "Hahahahaha!"

"I'm sorry, Legosi! I acted so dumb!"

Legosi put his hands on his knees. "I-it's okay! I said a really awful thing, too, and I'm sorry for that!"

"I won't do it again!" He clung to him, still chuckling. "I'm sorry!"

"I forgive you, Louis." He rubbed his back in a slow, calming motion. "I love you."

"I love you." His laughing came to an end. "And I hope I love this cake."

"You know, even with that fight we had, this has been one of the best days of my life." Legosi sniffed at Louis's collar deeply.

"Every day is the best day of my life with you by my side. It's kind of ridiculous how young and alive I feel."

Legosi smirked at him. "But, you are young, and you are alive! It's good that you feel that way!"

Louis rolled his eyes. "I always felt older than I was."

"We're each others' balance."

The deer nodded. "I think you're right."

Legosi set Louis down once again, both of them breathing heavily from their laughing fits.

Louis walked over to the kitchen and looked into the oven. "Cake is ready."

There it was, the finished cake, sitting in front of them on the counter. "It doesn't look like the picture..."

"Well, they put all sorts of icing and decorations on the one in the picture. This one still looks delicious, though!" Legosi sniffed the air. "Smells even better!"

Louis leaned in and squinted. "Your father doesn't love you," he whispered to it.

"L-Louis!", Legosi looked down at the plain cake. Legosi brought the knife over and Louis took it.

The wolf eagerly awaited him cutting the cake, despite the fact he would have been able to do it himself.

He cut a relatively large sized piece for his boyfriend. "Does the frosting look good?"

"It really does!" Legosi held his plate out, ears twitching eagerly.

Louis lifted the slice with his fingers and held it up. "Open up."

The wolf blinked and then opened his mouth, slowly at first, and not as wide as he could.

Louis looked between his fingers and Legosi's mouth and it opened a bit wider. Suddenly, Louis smashed the cake into his face, rubbing it all over.

"Ghhgkh!"

Frosting got all over his fur, along with crumbs, many falling to the ground. "Hm...Looks like I missed." Louis smiled.

Legosi took some of the cake from his cake, licking it off his finger. "Mmm. It's good, though! How about you try some?" He wiped the rest of the mess from his face and slapped it against Louis's mouth.

"Mmmphhh!" It smacked into his face and, thanks to Legosi's large paw, covered it.

"It's really good!" Legosi cut himself a proper slice and started eating it, icing still sticking to his fur.

Louis blinked. "You got my face all messy!"

"...Want me to lick it off?"

"U-uh, well..."

Legosi leaned in, not waiting for the answer.

The deer swallowed and blushed, their faces still relatively covered in cake.

"Have some of mine, too," Legosi whispered between licks. It was definitely a strange way to share the dessert.

Louis blinked and then leaned in, beginning to slide his tongue along Legosi's cake covered face. He was finally actually tasting the cake, mixed with Legosi's fur, but the cake part tasted really good.

"We're gonna get all sticky..."

"Yeah, I didn't really think this over."

"Well we can always wash up. Lets have some more!"

"Oh...you mean like this?" He quickly grabbed more came and threw it at his face. He was feeling playful.

"L-Louis! We need to eat this!" Legosi tried sounding stern, but he couldn't help but laugh. It was a treat to see Louis like this.

"But it looks so good on your face!" He laughed. "Kinda..."

"Well, any cake you throw on my face you have to eat off." Legosi felt proud of that one.

Louis picked up the entire cake by the platter and made like he was about to chuck it.

Legosi held his hands up. "No! No, no, no, no, no! You put that down!"

"Or what?~"

"I'll...I'll..." Legosi was at a loss. "I'll...get...you?"

"Now I want to even more."

Legosi shot out, grabbing Louis' wrist and using his other hand to grab the cake.

"Gah!" The deer gasped.

Legosi set the cake down as gently as he could, and he turned to Louis and began to tickle him on the sides.

Louis' eyes widened. "D-don't! Not while there's cake on your face!"

"Why? I'm not touching you with it!" He licked his cheeks.

He continued to laugh from being tickled. "You might!"

"Then clean me up!" Legosi giggled. "Take responsibility for what you did to me!"

"Ahhh!"

Legosi mushed his face into Louis'. "Take responsibility!"

Louis yelled. "NO! LEGOSI! NOOO!"

Legosi pulled back suddenly, ears back. "Wait, are we still playing or are you actually scared?"

The deer furrowed his brows, a piece of frosting falling from his face. "Playing?"

"Th-this wasn't just playing around?"

"It is just playing!"

Legosi's scared expression quickly shifted back into a grin. "O-okay!"

Louis leaned in and rubbed his cheek on Legosi's, the cake spreading between them.

"...So, are we just going to do this to all the food you make now?"

"What do you mean?"

"We should probably eat the stuff you make. Especially after...that talk we had." Legosi continued, quietly. "Of course cake isn't the best meal."

Louis sighed. "Okay, okay. Sorry."

"It's okay." He looked around them, seeing all the cake that had fallen to the floor. "We should clean up our house."

"After we actually eat more cake."

"Yes."