Hmm, looking over this chapter, I realize that it does not have much
importance to the plot. Oh well, I like it and it gives people a chance to
think of Ryo wearing a bathing suit!
Well, there is some point, but it isn't until the very very end. Maybe the last sentence. That is how long it could be, one sentence long! But I know that you would prefer a longer chapter, right? Oh, I also put in a little part to make it important!
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My eyes cracked open, greeted by the harsh morning sun. I closed them and snuggled deeper into the pillow, hair falling down in my face as I did. The warm arms that wound around my body tightened in response. My eyes bolted back open. Dee was supposed to be behaving himself. How would it look if Aunt Elena walked in right now?
"Dee!" I jabbed him hard in the ribs. He protested some before falling back into a deep sleep. "Get up and get off of me."
I must have sounded fierce because he did just that. At first his eyes fluttered open, ever so slightly, and then opened themselves fully. "Hey lovely." A chuckle raced through his body causing the bed to shake some. "I could get used to waking up to this. Maybe now I wont have to sleep on the couch so much."
Shattering the serine moment, footsteps sounded outside of my door. Someone was coming up the stairs to wake us up. "Dee, roll over and pretend to be asleep" I hissed in his ear. He needed to listen to me just once.
"Good morning!" Aunt Elena's cheery voice called as she swung open the door to my room. Dee had just rolled over. She couldn't have seen anything. I made sure that I muttered and grumbled before dragging myself out of bed. It had to appear natural. "Come on, both of you, get up! We are all going to the beach after breakfast. It is a half an hour drive from here."
Dee, who was now awake, shot up in bed. "Beach? Meaning people in bathing suits? Girls in bikinis? I'm there!" I didn't know if I should be happy that he was throwing Aunt Elena off of our trail or be angry that he would think of such things when I was right next to him.
Dee got ready faster than he ever had before, including a time when we were two hours late for work because he had stayed out late and I was up worrying about him. It wouldn't have been anything major any other time but we had been working on a case where someone vowed to get revenge for what the cops had done to his brother. Dee was a target. When he didn't come right home, well, I think I lost about three years off of my life because of how worried I was. Loser that he was, he had been out with Drake at a bar.
We had breakfast and then went up to my room to change. Dee would go into the adjoining bathroom and I would change in my room. Before I allowed him to go in there I had a talk with him.
"I don't want to be rude but.." Before I could finish, he cut me off.
"I know, don't drool all over you when you have your shirt off and you are wearing only those small shorts with your legs showing, and I know that with one fatal wave those shorts could be history." Drool began to flow down his face. I pointed it out to him and he cleaned it up. "Don't worry so much, I wont drool all over you in public if you give me a chance to in private." He strode over to me, long legs guiding effortlessly over the plush carpet. He ran his fingers threw my hair before landing his hand on my face. "Ryo babe, I know what I am doing here. I swear to god himself that no one will have any clue that I am the least bit in love with you."
I shooed him into the bathroom and began to change. I had a feeling that he was spying on me but I let it slide. Knowing him, it was nothing that he hadn't seen before. When he came out he looked me over once or twice before walking up to me.
He put his hand on my shoulder, sliding it down onto my back. "You should go shirtless more often, you know that?" I laughed it off as one of his jokes. "I'm serious! You should." He tilted my face up until I looked into his eyes. His entire face smiled whenever he looked at me. Now he was glowing. "You look good without it."
He bent over and laid a kiss on my lips, perfectly timed. All of the resistance that I had build up fell away. Right then, I wanted him more than ever before, so much that it hurt. I forced my thoughts on less wonderful subjects, such as how my aunt and uncle might react if they came in to find us in bed together, which if he didn't back away soon might happen.
"What ever happened to behaving yourself?" I asked him, trying very hard not to look into those lushes green eyes. If I did, I could never look away.
"Come on, we are going to be late!" Aunt Elena called from downstairs. It broke me from my trance long enough to get to the door. I turned to Dee one last time before heading out of the room, calling over my shoulder for him to follow.
The salty air teased our senses before we could even see the beach. Sand blew across the roads, creeping onto the edges with only a few grains ever making it any farther. On the high dunes the dune grass waved in the wind, calling for us to hurry to the water.
The water was cold, not clear, but it was still cold. Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick ran down like small children. Dee and I stayed out of the water for a little bit. I still had to put on my sunscreen. I did what I could myself, slowly though because there was sand that had gotten into it from the last trip. Each and every rub hurt more than the last. Sunburn couldn't hurt much more than this and had to be better for the skin.
"Dee, could you take care of my back?" I offered the bottle to him and he snatched it away with a wide smile. I warned him about his promise and he nodded. The cool lotion squirted onto my back and I jumped with surprise. Soon Dee's hands began to caress every surface that the painful lotion had reached. It didn't hurt much when he did it compared to when I did.
"Your turn" I reminded him. He let out a sigh and began rubbing it into his arms, legs, and the top of his feet.
"Nasty sunburns there." He reminded me. I had forgotten but I fixed it as soon as he mentioned my mistake. With a glint in his eye meant for only me to see, he handed the bottle back and turned around.
"I'm not that good, this might hurt." I gave him a fair warning and gathered some of the lotion in my hands. He bit back a moan of pleasure as my hands worked it into his skin. "It is almost embarrassing that you get this worked up over putting sunscreen on."
"Only when it is you doing it, Ryo. Now come on, lets get into the water." Dee took off towards the water at a gallop. "Bet that I could get there before you!" he called back even though he was already half way there and I was still trying to put the sunscreen in the bag to keep it from getting any more sand in it. It was a lost cause, but I was still fighting for it. My skin was as well.
Dee stopped near the edge of the water and waited for me. Together, we waded in. When I wave knocked me back into him, his strong arms protected me. I stole a glance into his eyes. He wasn't looking at me, but off into the distance. I followed his gaze. He was watching Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick. They were watching back. Dee steadied me and acted as though nothing had happened. His act was flawless.
I noticed that his eyes would wander to the beach, looking for girls it would seem, but I knew better. He wouldn't do that to me, it was just part of his act. It seemed to fool my aunt, but Uncle Rick did not seem to be swayed. He kept looking over at Dee with a dark gaze. Something about it left me unsettled.
At about noon Dee came up to me. "Hey, I'd say that it is lunch time. What do you say we go get the subs?" A look in his eye told me that he could care less about food right now. I agreed and we hurried off of the beach.
"What did you want to talk about?" I asked as he shut the car door, making a small metallic clang as it latched.
"They suspect us, I don't know how we gave it away. Sorry." Dee buried his head in his hands. He had been trying as hard as he could, I could see it. I put my arms around him, trying to comfort him as much as I could.
"It is nothing that you did wrong. If anything, I was too eager to help you with your lotion and I stayed in your arms too long after getting knocked over by the wave." Nothing that small could have made them think that, but I couldn't allow him to blame himself like that.
"Your uncle wasn't watching you, Ryo. He was watching me. Come on, lets just go get the subs." We drove our there in silence and bought the subs.
On the way home Dee pulled over. "I have to stop for a second." Dee stood up and walked around the side of the car. I watched him worriedly. Something bigger was on his mind than I had thought. After waiting a minute I got out of the car. He looked over at me as I stepped out. "You don't think that it is wrong? Do you?" His eyes were filled with worry.
"No Dee, it isn't wrong at all. You know that." Our positions seemed to be reversed. He had always comforted me, telling me that this was just as right as a normal relationship. "Don't start doubting it, if you do then what we have will fall apart. I need you, but I cant do what you did for me. I cant convince you that it is right. I suppose that it is something that you have to decide for yourself. If it feels right, go for it, no matter what other people think."
Dee, who had been turned away from me the entire time, looked over his shoulder at me. The sunlight hit his hair just right and the shine created a halo around his head. "I thought that I knew what to think, but I'm not sure anymore."
"Don't even talk like that!" I spun him around and looked him in the eye. "You know that there is nothing wrong with it! Anyone who thinks that is blind to the world around them. They have to open their eyes. Don't walk around with your eyes closed. You will walk into a wall, just like I did. You were the one who made me open mine, I had to see this wall for myself."
"I needed to hear you say that Ryo." Dee wrapped one hand around my arm. "We had better get back to the beach before they suspect something."
I nodded in agreement even though they already did have suspicions. As he closed his door I leaned over and kissed him. I couldn't just say that it was right, I had to prove it to him. "I love you"
Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick were waiting on the blanket when we got back to the beach. I explained that subway was busy. The seemed to believe it. We stayed at the beach the rest of the day. Dee was careful not to give anything away, slipping up only once. When he was helping me up after getting knocked down by a wave he snagged a quick feel. We were in the water still, the wave had broken early, so Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick didn't see anything.
That night after dinner, Dee and I went up into my room. He said that he wanted to talk to me during the car ride home. This was our first opportunity. He closed the door behind us and advanced on me. "What you said, you have no idea how much I needed to hear it. I was beginning to think that I was the only one who didn't believe that it was wrong. I cant believe that I was stupid enough to think that you still thought that it was a sin."
He laughed and a stupid grin was slapped on his face. Sighing, he sat down on the bed that we had been sharing. "I never gave you any reason to think that I didn't. I still keep pushing you off, saying that I don't want anyone to know. It's my fault."
Dee opened his mouth but I had a better idea for it than talking. His eyes widened before closing. At the end of the kiss, he tried to talk. This time I let him. "Ryo, this is a surprise! Two kisses in one day! Could it be that you have given in to your hormones?"
I blushed deeply and nodded. He pulled me closer to him and let me do as I wished. I forced myself to behave, still fearing that someone would walk in on us. Fears soon fled as he deepened the kisses. Everything around is faded away. This was how love was supposed to feel. Shame and embarrassment were not part of it, just the feeling of Dee's arms around my waist.
We were so caught up in each other that we didn't hear the footsteps on the stairs. The door swung open, hinges creaking. Uncle Rick looked on as his beloved nephew received one of the most passionate kisses he had dreamed of. We were snapped out of our dream world by the slamming of the door.
"Shit!" Dee yelled.
"Dee?" I shook and shivered. Without his arms keeping me sitting upright, I know that I would have collapsed. Tears sprung out of my eyes, my worst fear had come true. Nightmares that had haunted my sleep for weeks were walking around in the waking world, they knew.
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nothing to say this time, just review to get the next chapter up faster.
Well, there is some point, but it isn't until the very very end. Maybe the last sentence. That is how long it could be, one sentence long! But I know that you would prefer a longer chapter, right? Oh, I also put in a little part to make it important!
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My eyes cracked open, greeted by the harsh morning sun. I closed them and snuggled deeper into the pillow, hair falling down in my face as I did. The warm arms that wound around my body tightened in response. My eyes bolted back open. Dee was supposed to be behaving himself. How would it look if Aunt Elena walked in right now?
"Dee!" I jabbed him hard in the ribs. He protested some before falling back into a deep sleep. "Get up and get off of me."
I must have sounded fierce because he did just that. At first his eyes fluttered open, ever so slightly, and then opened themselves fully. "Hey lovely." A chuckle raced through his body causing the bed to shake some. "I could get used to waking up to this. Maybe now I wont have to sleep on the couch so much."
Shattering the serine moment, footsteps sounded outside of my door. Someone was coming up the stairs to wake us up. "Dee, roll over and pretend to be asleep" I hissed in his ear. He needed to listen to me just once.
"Good morning!" Aunt Elena's cheery voice called as she swung open the door to my room. Dee had just rolled over. She couldn't have seen anything. I made sure that I muttered and grumbled before dragging myself out of bed. It had to appear natural. "Come on, both of you, get up! We are all going to the beach after breakfast. It is a half an hour drive from here."
Dee, who was now awake, shot up in bed. "Beach? Meaning people in bathing suits? Girls in bikinis? I'm there!" I didn't know if I should be happy that he was throwing Aunt Elena off of our trail or be angry that he would think of such things when I was right next to him.
Dee got ready faster than he ever had before, including a time when we were two hours late for work because he had stayed out late and I was up worrying about him. It wouldn't have been anything major any other time but we had been working on a case where someone vowed to get revenge for what the cops had done to his brother. Dee was a target. When he didn't come right home, well, I think I lost about three years off of my life because of how worried I was. Loser that he was, he had been out with Drake at a bar.
We had breakfast and then went up to my room to change. Dee would go into the adjoining bathroom and I would change in my room. Before I allowed him to go in there I had a talk with him.
"I don't want to be rude but.." Before I could finish, he cut me off.
"I know, don't drool all over you when you have your shirt off and you are wearing only those small shorts with your legs showing, and I know that with one fatal wave those shorts could be history." Drool began to flow down his face. I pointed it out to him and he cleaned it up. "Don't worry so much, I wont drool all over you in public if you give me a chance to in private." He strode over to me, long legs guiding effortlessly over the plush carpet. He ran his fingers threw my hair before landing his hand on my face. "Ryo babe, I know what I am doing here. I swear to god himself that no one will have any clue that I am the least bit in love with you."
I shooed him into the bathroom and began to change. I had a feeling that he was spying on me but I let it slide. Knowing him, it was nothing that he hadn't seen before. When he came out he looked me over once or twice before walking up to me.
He put his hand on my shoulder, sliding it down onto my back. "You should go shirtless more often, you know that?" I laughed it off as one of his jokes. "I'm serious! You should." He tilted my face up until I looked into his eyes. His entire face smiled whenever he looked at me. Now he was glowing. "You look good without it."
He bent over and laid a kiss on my lips, perfectly timed. All of the resistance that I had build up fell away. Right then, I wanted him more than ever before, so much that it hurt. I forced my thoughts on less wonderful subjects, such as how my aunt and uncle might react if they came in to find us in bed together, which if he didn't back away soon might happen.
"What ever happened to behaving yourself?" I asked him, trying very hard not to look into those lushes green eyes. If I did, I could never look away.
"Come on, we are going to be late!" Aunt Elena called from downstairs. It broke me from my trance long enough to get to the door. I turned to Dee one last time before heading out of the room, calling over my shoulder for him to follow.
The salty air teased our senses before we could even see the beach. Sand blew across the roads, creeping onto the edges with only a few grains ever making it any farther. On the high dunes the dune grass waved in the wind, calling for us to hurry to the water.
The water was cold, not clear, but it was still cold. Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick ran down like small children. Dee and I stayed out of the water for a little bit. I still had to put on my sunscreen. I did what I could myself, slowly though because there was sand that had gotten into it from the last trip. Each and every rub hurt more than the last. Sunburn couldn't hurt much more than this and had to be better for the skin.
"Dee, could you take care of my back?" I offered the bottle to him and he snatched it away with a wide smile. I warned him about his promise and he nodded. The cool lotion squirted onto my back and I jumped with surprise. Soon Dee's hands began to caress every surface that the painful lotion had reached. It didn't hurt much when he did it compared to when I did.
"Your turn" I reminded him. He let out a sigh and began rubbing it into his arms, legs, and the top of his feet.
"Nasty sunburns there." He reminded me. I had forgotten but I fixed it as soon as he mentioned my mistake. With a glint in his eye meant for only me to see, he handed the bottle back and turned around.
"I'm not that good, this might hurt." I gave him a fair warning and gathered some of the lotion in my hands. He bit back a moan of pleasure as my hands worked it into his skin. "It is almost embarrassing that you get this worked up over putting sunscreen on."
"Only when it is you doing it, Ryo. Now come on, lets get into the water." Dee took off towards the water at a gallop. "Bet that I could get there before you!" he called back even though he was already half way there and I was still trying to put the sunscreen in the bag to keep it from getting any more sand in it. It was a lost cause, but I was still fighting for it. My skin was as well.
Dee stopped near the edge of the water and waited for me. Together, we waded in. When I wave knocked me back into him, his strong arms protected me. I stole a glance into his eyes. He wasn't looking at me, but off into the distance. I followed his gaze. He was watching Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick. They were watching back. Dee steadied me and acted as though nothing had happened. His act was flawless.
I noticed that his eyes would wander to the beach, looking for girls it would seem, but I knew better. He wouldn't do that to me, it was just part of his act. It seemed to fool my aunt, but Uncle Rick did not seem to be swayed. He kept looking over at Dee with a dark gaze. Something about it left me unsettled.
At about noon Dee came up to me. "Hey, I'd say that it is lunch time. What do you say we go get the subs?" A look in his eye told me that he could care less about food right now. I agreed and we hurried off of the beach.
"What did you want to talk about?" I asked as he shut the car door, making a small metallic clang as it latched.
"They suspect us, I don't know how we gave it away. Sorry." Dee buried his head in his hands. He had been trying as hard as he could, I could see it. I put my arms around him, trying to comfort him as much as I could.
"It is nothing that you did wrong. If anything, I was too eager to help you with your lotion and I stayed in your arms too long after getting knocked over by the wave." Nothing that small could have made them think that, but I couldn't allow him to blame himself like that.
"Your uncle wasn't watching you, Ryo. He was watching me. Come on, lets just go get the subs." We drove our there in silence and bought the subs.
On the way home Dee pulled over. "I have to stop for a second." Dee stood up and walked around the side of the car. I watched him worriedly. Something bigger was on his mind than I had thought. After waiting a minute I got out of the car. He looked over at me as I stepped out. "You don't think that it is wrong? Do you?" His eyes were filled with worry.
"No Dee, it isn't wrong at all. You know that." Our positions seemed to be reversed. He had always comforted me, telling me that this was just as right as a normal relationship. "Don't start doubting it, if you do then what we have will fall apart. I need you, but I cant do what you did for me. I cant convince you that it is right. I suppose that it is something that you have to decide for yourself. If it feels right, go for it, no matter what other people think."
Dee, who had been turned away from me the entire time, looked over his shoulder at me. The sunlight hit his hair just right and the shine created a halo around his head. "I thought that I knew what to think, but I'm not sure anymore."
"Don't even talk like that!" I spun him around and looked him in the eye. "You know that there is nothing wrong with it! Anyone who thinks that is blind to the world around them. They have to open their eyes. Don't walk around with your eyes closed. You will walk into a wall, just like I did. You were the one who made me open mine, I had to see this wall for myself."
"I needed to hear you say that Ryo." Dee wrapped one hand around my arm. "We had better get back to the beach before they suspect something."
I nodded in agreement even though they already did have suspicions. As he closed his door I leaned over and kissed him. I couldn't just say that it was right, I had to prove it to him. "I love you"
Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick were waiting on the blanket when we got back to the beach. I explained that subway was busy. The seemed to believe it. We stayed at the beach the rest of the day. Dee was careful not to give anything away, slipping up only once. When he was helping me up after getting knocked down by a wave he snagged a quick feel. We were in the water still, the wave had broken early, so Aunt Elena and Uncle Rick didn't see anything.
That night after dinner, Dee and I went up into my room. He said that he wanted to talk to me during the car ride home. This was our first opportunity. He closed the door behind us and advanced on me. "What you said, you have no idea how much I needed to hear it. I was beginning to think that I was the only one who didn't believe that it was wrong. I cant believe that I was stupid enough to think that you still thought that it was a sin."
He laughed and a stupid grin was slapped on his face. Sighing, he sat down on the bed that we had been sharing. "I never gave you any reason to think that I didn't. I still keep pushing you off, saying that I don't want anyone to know. It's my fault."
Dee opened his mouth but I had a better idea for it than talking. His eyes widened before closing. At the end of the kiss, he tried to talk. This time I let him. "Ryo, this is a surprise! Two kisses in one day! Could it be that you have given in to your hormones?"
I blushed deeply and nodded. He pulled me closer to him and let me do as I wished. I forced myself to behave, still fearing that someone would walk in on us. Fears soon fled as he deepened the kisses. Everything around is faded away. This was how love was supposed to feel. Shame and embarrassment were not part of it, just the feeling of Dee's arms around my waist.
We were so caught up in each other that we didn't hear the footsteps on the stairs. The door swung open, hinges creaking. Uncle Rick looked on as his beloved nephew received one of the most passionate kisses he had dreamed of. We were snapped out of our dream world by the slamming of the door.
"Shit!" Dee yelled.
"Dee?" I shook and shivered. Without his arms keeping me sitting upright, I know that I would have collapsed. Tears sprung out of my eyes, my worst fear had come true. Nightmares that had haunted my sleep for weeks were walking around in the waking world, they knew.
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nothing to say this time, just review to get the next chapter up faster.