Set exactly a week after Chapter 2. Enjoy and as always reviews are welcome!

Chapter 3

Brendan was sitting on the couch with only underwear on watching TV. It was 9 o'clock in the morning and Ste was still asleep in bed. He didn't want to wake him as he'd been shattered for days now, sorting out this stuff with Doug, working at the Deli and having a lot of sex with him. 5 minutes later, Ste stumbled through from the bedroom, rubbing his eyes and shivering as he was wearing no clothes whatsoever.

'Hey, sleep well?' Brendan sincerely asked.

'Yeah, but I wish I hadn't woken up. You weren't there.' Ste walked towards Brendan and sat beside him on the couch.

'Sorry, I had to take a shower and I didn't want to wake you. You've been really tired recently.' Brendan pulled Ste close to him in a cuddle and kissed the top of his head. 'I want you but I want you to be awake and alert when I do dirty things to you.' Brendan whispered to Ste and smiled.

'I want you too. Every bit of you.' There was a pause and suddenly Ste bolted up and looked directly at Brendan. 'Hey, I need to tell Amy about the wedding. Oh, which reminds me. Have you told Cheryl?'

Brendan looked shocked and forgetful, 'shit, I completely forgot.' He then smiled, 'it's not surprising that I forgot though. I've been fucking you all week and haven't had a chance to tell her.'

They both laughed.

'C'mon then.' Ste stood up and Brendan looked at his cock, Ste pulled him off the couch and Brendan reluctantly moved his eyes to Ste's. 'Get dressed. We'll go and tell her now.'

Brendan smiled and kissed Ste. They quickly got dressed and Ste dragged Brendan out of the flat, more excited than Brendan was to tell Cheryl they were getting married.

They knocked on the door and Seamus answered. They both stood there shocked and unable to move.

'Well, look who it is! Brenda and her toy. What d'ye want?' He smiled, he knew he touched a nerve.

'W-we… Is… Is Cheryl in?' Brendan stuttered.

Seamus moved out of the way for Brendan and Ste to enter his old home. They never let go of each other's hand, knowing what would happen to Brendan if Ste wasn't there to hold him to his sanity. Brendan and Ste smiled when they saw Cheryl - another source of comfort.

'Bren, what are you doing here? I thought you and Ste would still be busy with business for the club and the deli. No euphemism there, I promise.' She laughed, easing the tense atmosphere in the room.

'We have something to tell you.' Excitement and content apparent in Brendan's voice.

Before Cheryl could ask what, Ste added his own point, 'can you give us a minute, Seamus?'

Seamus, who was still at the front door, walked toward them. 'No, I want to hear this too.'

Brendan faced saddened. 'Fine!'

They both ignored him as Ste brought his left hand to Brendan's chest, above where his heart is. He smiled and said, 'I love you.'

Brendan smiled back, 'I love you too!'

Seconds later Cheryl screamed and Ste and Brendan laughed at her. She hugged them both, nearly choking them. Seamus had no clue what was going on as he couldn't see Ste's engagement ring.

'I'm getting the champagne!' Pouring the champagne into pink flutes she asked, 'so when did it happen? Who asked who? Where? Was it romantic?'

Brendan answered. 'It happened a week ago on our first month's anniversary. I asked Ste. I took him to an expensive restaurant and ordered champagne, I got down on one knee and asked him to marry me. I even said "lawfully wedded husband"!'

Ste then added, 'it was very romantic! Then we rushed home and had amazing sex!'

In all the excitement they had almost forgot Seamus was there but Ste made the last remark to gross him out. He gagged at the disgusting thought of two men together and made it obvious. 'I'm gonna be sick!'

All three of them ignored him and continued to be happy and drink champagne at quarter to ten in the morning.

They celebrated all day and Brendan and Ste got back home around 8 o'clock. Cheryl had made plans and she also knew that they wanted to go home so they could celebrate more themselves. When they got home they were both slightly drunk, Brendan more than Ste, but they were ecstatically happy and were laughing so hard. Ste had never seen Brendan laugh so much in his entire life. In fact he's unsure if he's ever seen him laugh more than a chuckle or for more than two seconds. They fell through the doorway and Brendan stumbled up and started taking of his clothes. Ste sat up and noticed a letter on the floor. He was just about to chuck it away to read later but he noticed it was from Doug's solicitor. He opened the letter and immediately went to the phone and ignored Brendan's naked body. Ste phoned the number on the letter and sat down on the couch. Brendan could only hear his side of the conversation

'I just got your letter. What's happened? I though it would take over a year not a week?!' Brendan had some idea of what was going on but he was extremely confused. Ste's voice was high with shock when he spoke next, 'really?!' Then it went back to normal but it was filled with such a happiness that it made Brendan smile at the thought of something making his husband-to-be this happy. 'Thank you so much. I'm speechless! I don't know what to say. Thank you! Good bye.' He hung up the phone and sat there frozen.

Brendan moved toward him. 'What happened? Is everything ok?'

'I… The letter last week said that it would take over a year to be "divorced" from Doug but this letter says "the process has been completed". So, I phoned his solicitor and she said that everything has been finalised.'

'So that means, if we wanted to, we could get married right this second?'

'Yeah, that's what the solicitor said.'

Brendan smiled. He was happy that Ste had no more ties to Doug and they were free to be together forever. 'I have an idea. I asked you to marry me on our first month's anniversary so why don't we get married on our second month's anniversary?'

Ste reluctantly said, 'that's a great idea but we can't plan a wedding and get suits tailored and whatnot in 3 weeks!'

'We can. I was going to let you and Cheryl do all the planning since ye're both so good at it and also I'd probably fuck everything up but if all three of us do the planning, I don't see why we can't be married in three weeks!'

All Ste had to do was smile in reply and Brendan leaned over and kissed him hard. Brendan started to slowly take Ste's clothes, only breaking the kiss to lift the top over Ste's head. Once Ste was naked, Brendan lowered him to a lying position on the couch. It was a passionate kiss and was slow and meaningful not feisty and leading to animal sex. Within a few minutes they were both hard but didn't choose to do anything about it. Brendan started to stand up and Ste moved as he moved not breaking the kiss. They walked to the bedroom and Ste lowered Brendan onto their bed. Ste stroked Brendan's body and pushed his arms up to the head of the bed. Ste brought his arms back down never leaving Brendan's body but Brendan's arms remained where Ste had put them. Ste then stroked Brendan's body again, going over his tattoos and his chest and belly hair. All while this was happening the kiss never broke and was still slow and passionate. After Ste finished with Brendan's body he moved round to his arse and thighs. This time he didn't stroke, he squeezed and nipped. Brendan began to breathe heavily and Ste knew he was toying with Brendan perfectly. While Ste was fiddling with Brendan's arse and cock, Brendan moved his arms down to Ste's head and intertwined his fingers with Ste's hair.

Ste moved his arm and got the tube of lube from his bedside table. He then got Brendan's hand and put some of the lube on his fingers. Afterward he pulled Brendan's arm to his arsehole and Brendan, who had so far let Ste lead and control him, knew he had to give Ste a rimming so he could fuck him in a few minutes. The kiss was still going strong and while Brendan was rimming Ste, he put lube all over Brendan's cock. He could feel that he was ready and inserted Brendan's cock into his hole. Brendan then sat up, laid Ste on the bed and pulled Ste's legs up around his waist. When he was sure they were both in a comfortable position he started to thrust slow and hard. His dick went far into Ste and he knew when he hit that point in Ste because he would bite and pull on Brendan's bottom lip. They were like this for what seemed like forever and because the sex was slow and sensual it took longer for Brendan to come but when he did he came long and hard and had filled Ste with a pleasure that made Ste come too even though nothing was happening to his cock to make him come.

After the both came, Brendan slowly removed his cock from Ste and slowly broke the kiss at the same time, it was the first time their lips had parted. They were both breathing heavily and they just stared at each other and smiled.

After a couple of minutes Brendan whispered, 'I love you!'

Ste then whispered back, 'I love you too!'

Brendan slowly moved away from Ste and got up to check the time. While he did this Ste moved and got under the covers ready to go sleep when Brendan got back. As Brendan climbed into bed he said, 'can't believe it's quarter past nine! We've just fucked for 45 minutes!'

'Mmm… new record!' Ste smiled.

They laid on their sides so they could face each other and Brendan put his arm over Ste's waist and lightly stroked Ste's back with his fingers. They couldn't stop smiling. They knew it was too early to go to sleep but they didn't know what to do with themselves after such romantic, non-animal like sex so they just lay in bed together and talked about ideas for the wedding until they fell asleep.