Chapter 35
Roman poked at the omelet on his plate with a fork. Well it smelled good. He could see pieces of onion, green bell pepper and ham in it.
" What's that black stuff?" He pointed at the tiny speck with his fork.
" It's black pepper." Seth sat at the breakfast bar and took up a piece of toast. " Honestly Romie, you should know what black pepper looks like."
Roman looked at Dean who he noticed taking a deep breath and then he cut into the omelet. He watched as Dean brought it up to his lips and as he slowy put the piece into mouth. Dean paused for a bit and then started to chew carefully.
His expression changed as if he was enjoying it and soon his fork was back down cutting into the omelet once more. Seeing Dean enjoying it gave Roman a huge boost of confidence and he used his fork to cut into the omelet.
He placed the small piece into his mouth and started to chew. He was pleasantly surprised. It was actually pretty good.
" Seth?"
" Yes Romie?" He responded between bites of his omelet laden toast.
" Since when did you know how to cook?"
Seth shrugged his shoulders and poured himself a glass of orange juice. " I went to a so called modern private Catholic high school. All that meant was that both boys and girls had to do Home Ec."
" But Seth this is actually pretty good. Why haven't you cooked before?" Roman swallowed another piece of the omelet.
" I don't like cooking. It's too much hassle." He flashed a winning smile at Roman. " Besides, you guys were more than willing to do it for me."
After they had finished eating, Roman stood up from the stool and stretched. " I think I need to go and take a shower."
" Oh I can help." Seth jumped up brightly volunteering.
Roman chuckled. " I think I got this Sethie."
But his boyfriend shook his head. " No you might faint again. I can't risk that."
He took hold of Roman's hand and pulled him along. " Come on."
Roman shot a desperate look at Dean who was laughing quietly.
" Yeah a shower does sound look a good idea Rome." Dean got up from his seat. " I'm going to go upstairs and grab one."
" Traitor." Roman grumbled and Dean laughed.
" Now make sure you use a loofah to get him all nice and clean Seth." Dean said ruffling Seth's hair.
" I will." Seth smiled brightly. " Come on Romie. I'm going to be your personal nurse."
Dean laughed out loud much to the chagrin of Roman and the confusion of Seth. He left Roman's apartment and headed upstairs. He figured that those two needed some time alone after the rough few weeks that they all had.
" Romie, come on! I have the water temperature just right."
Roman walked into the bathroom slowly with a towel secured around his waist. Seth had the door to the shower open and was standing there naked with his arm in testing the water. Roman looked over his form as he removed his own towel and placed it on the rack. It just hit him how long it had been since he had last saw Seth's naked body. It had to have been when they had the threesome. Way too long.
Seth had already stepped into the shower and was waiting for him with a purple loofah in hand. He walked towards him and stepped into the shower closing the glass door. The warm water from the shower was a welcoming feeling as it ran over his body. He felt a light scratching on his back and realized that Seth was using the loofah on him. He stayed still as Seth rubbed it all over his back.
When Seth was finished with his back he turned around and the shower washed the soap suds away. He looked at Seth with his hair plastered down and his hand covered in suds. Seth started rubbing the loofah over Roman's chest while Roman continued to look at him. His eyes closely followed a drop of water as it slid down Seth's left breast and down his abs and then his hip bone disappearing at the curve of his thigh. Seth's body was even more beautiful than he had remembered.
When he looked back up at Seth's face at first he thought that it was the water from the shower that made his eyes appear that way. But he soon realized that his eyelid was indeed rimmed with tears. The loofah moved slowly and haphazardly across his chest. Roman brought his right hand up against the side of Seth's face with his fingers lacing through the wet hair stuck to his neck.
" Why are you crying baby?" He asked barely above a whisper.
Seth parted his lips. Roman watched as they trembled a bit before he spoke. " Because I almost lost you."
Seth sucked in a big breath and a sob broke through. Roman pulled Seth against him and allowed him to cry as the water continued to lightly pummel both of them. What Seth said was true. That had almost lost each other. Lost each other without making amends. Without coming clean. He had been granted a second chance and he was damn well going to take it.
He took the loofah out of Seth's hand and hung it on the shower caddy. He then ran his fingers up and down Seth's back trying to comfort him.
" You're right baby. But we nearly lost each other long before last night. I just let this entire job consume me instead of being there for who really needed me and for who I really needed." He tugged the back of Seth's hair lightly and he looked up at him with those big brown eyes that he loved so much. " But you knew that I needed you last night and you came for me." He kissed Seth's temple. " I would be gone if it wasn't for you." Roman only became aware of his state when he heard himself sniffling. Seth's thumb swiped across his cheek.
He cupped Seth's chin and lifted it up towards him. " I owe you my life baby."
" Romie..."
The last letter died on Seth's lips as Roman's touched his. Their lips locked together tightly pausing briefly to savour this long awaited contact. Then they moved slowly over each other in perfect synchronization. Seth could feel the warmth of Roman's lips spreading through his limbs. Everything in his body responded to Roman's touch and kiss. He was right where he belonged. Where he needed to be.
Roman's tongue was in his mouth now and he welcomed it. He kissed it. Sucked it lightly. Savoured the moans that it elicited from Roman. He loved this man so much that it sometimes scared him how much he did. He tightened his grip in Roman's hair feeling the water pummel his fist. He kissed him back hard. Roman just had to feel how much he meant to him. He could never lose him. Ever. He would do anything to keep Roman by his side. To taste him. To hold him. To be with him meant everything to Seth and to lose him he would have nothing.
Seth felt his body being moved backwards without any effort on his part and soon his back was up against the cool tiles of the shower wall. He opened his eyes when Roman stopped kissing him. Those grey eyes were looking back at him, succeeding in penetrating his soul.
" I love you Seth." He lifted Seth's right leg up and placed it against his hip. Their erections pressing even harder against each other.
He had wanted this man from the first time he walked out of his apartment and Seth had laid eyes on him. Now here he was with his perfectly gorgeous masculine face right in front of him. Both of them naked and he had declared his love for him once more. A water drop slid off his straight nose.
" I love you too Romie."
Roman's mouth covered his once again and Seth just wanted to sink into him. He felt Roman's cock rubbing against his ass cheeks. Seth whimpered into the kiss when one of Roman's fingers entered him. It had been far too long since he had been intimate with Roman. A second finger entered and stretched him. He sucked on Roman's bottom lip a bit too hard as he enjoyed the sensation of Roman's fingers in him. Hot kisses trailed down his neck and Seth was beginning to lose his damn mind. It was all too much.
" Please Romie." He breathed into his shoulder before kissing it.
Roman's hands were now on his ass. He rubbed them and kneaded them. He lightly slapped each one and Seth could feel the precum oozing out of his dick. His dull fingernails pressed into Roman's back as the head of his cock pushed into him. Seth moaned and squeezed his eyes shut as his body stretched to accommodate Roman's length in him. He had definitely missed this.
Roman brought Seth's other leg up and he secured them around his waist. When he was settled in Seth, he waited a few seconds and the started thrusting. Words could not express how it felt to have Seth in his arms once more. To feel his tightness surround him. To feel those light kisses that he was placing along his shoulder. Seth was his baby. He would do anything to protect him. He couldn't believe now looking back how silly he had been when Seth had told him about his past. He should've scooped Seth up and kissed him silly and told him that he loved him. Seth's sighs against his ear as they made love was all that he ever wanted to hear. When Seth arched his back and yelped, Roman knew that he had found his spot. He kissed him once more swallowing his moans as he wrapped a hand around Seth's cock and stroked him in time with his thrusts. He never thought that he would touch another man so intimately like this before and it would become something that he would love to do. But Seth came into his life and showed him a whole new way of life and he would forever be grateful to him for it.
He could feel Seth's cock throbbing in his hand and his ass gripping his own cock tightly. He hit Seth's sweet spot a couple more times and he was coming. He broke the kiss and gasped Roman's name as his cum flowed over Roman's hand. Roman kissed the center of Seth's chest and without warning he felt a surge through his body and his essence was covering the inside of Seth's walls.
He was breathing hard. Both of their chests rising and falling together as they came down from their climax. His hands were on Seth's hips. Seth's hands were in his hair. They both were looking at each other and nothing further had to be said as their lips reconnected once more.
When they cleaned up and came out of the shower, Seth watched as Roman pulled out a gym shorts to put on.
" I don't have anything to wear." Seth pouted and looked down at the towel around his hips.
Roman digged through his drawer and handed Seth a pair of boxers that were a size too small for him. Seth put them on and they dropped right down to his hips right above his ass crack. Roman laughed as Seth checked himself out in the mirror.
" You should have some clothes down here," Roman said as he got himself comfortable on the bed.
" Maybe I should." Seth crawled on the bed up to Roman and then rested his head on his shoulder.
" I'll give you a quarter of the closet space."
" Only a quarter?" Seth snapped his head up. " That's hardly anything."
" Well Seth you do live upstairs." Roman reasoned.
" So?" Seth kissed the palm of Roman's hand. " I bet Dean would let me have more space."
Roman grinned. " Dean would swim to Timbuktu if his Sethie desired it." He kissed Seth's forehead. " He really loves you, you know."
" I know." Seth looked up at Roman and smiled. " He would do the same for you too."
For the next few hours they madeout, napped and watched the television in Roman's room. Both of them felt really close to each other once more. Towards evening Dean returned to Roman's apartment and made his way to the bedroom. He found Seth and Roman completed wrapped up in each other watching television.
" Is there room for one more?" He asked.
Roman wordlessly stretched his arm towards him. Dean softly smiled and pulled off his t-shirt and got into bed with just his sweatpants on. As Dean settled next to him. Roman placed and arm around Dean's shoulder and watched as Seth reached for Dean's hand across his torso. Seth held on to Dean's fingers and in that moment Roman felt like the luckiest guy in the world.
The following morning found them sitting at Roman's breakfast bar eating breakfast prepared by Dean.
Even though Dean would have preferred some coffee, he drank apple juice instead out of respect for the fact that Roman couldn't have any. " So what are you guys doing today?"
Roman glanced at Seth whose eyes were glued on to some Saturday morning cartoon. " I did promise Seth that I would hang out with him this weekend."
Dean nodded. He had hoped those plans would remain. Seth and Roman still needed some more time together in his opinion.
He cleared away the plates and washed them up in the sink. Afterwards he planted a kiss on Seth's forehead who was still engrossed in his cartoons. " Have fun today with Roman."
" Huh?" Seth's concentration was actually broken. " You're not hanging out with us?"
Dean shook his head. " Nope. Today was supposed to be yours and Roman's. Besides I made plans with Mark to check out the property and then we're going to a vintage car show later."
" Oh I like Mark." Seth pouted. " Say hi to him for me."
" Will do." Dean turned to leave when Roman hooked his arm around his waist.
" Didn't you forget something?"
Dean looked around the room puzzled. " I did? What?"
" You didn't give him a kiss." Seth responded and went back watching his show.
Dean felt himself blush as he turned around slowly to face Roman. " Sorry about that."
Roman smirked. " Don't worry about it."
Dean wrapped his arms around Roman's neck and took his cool time kissing his boyfriend. Sometimes he couldn't believe that Roman was his and that he had Seth as well. It always amazed him when ever he thought about it. When the kiss ended, they shared a tight hug and Roman walked Dean to the door.
As Roman watched him leave he knew that he could never replace Dean in his life. He fulfilled another part of him that no one else could. He loved both Seth and Dean equally but differently and he couldn't be happier.
Roman inhaled the fresh sea breeze as spries from the Pacific lightly touched his skin as he walked along the beach with Seth. They had opted to spend the day at the beach and so far Roman had no complaints. His board shorts and sleeveless shirt was comfortable and it felt good to have a break from work these past couple of days.
Seth had a small plastic bag with him and he was collecting seashells that he found on the sand. He said that the apartment needed some decorating. As Seth bent to pick up a white shell from the sand Roman noticed a for sale sign in front of a house further up the beach.
" It would be nice to own a place like that huh?" Seth asked as he placed the shell into the bag.
" Yeah." A house on the beach was everyone's dream.
He placed his arm around Seth who automatically responded by putting an arm around his waist. " Seth, I've been thinking."
" About what?" He looked at Roman.
" About us and our future." He met Seth's gaze. " I think we should move in together."
" We should?" Seth looked a bit confused.
" Yeah you, me and Dean all living together in one place."
" But don't we kinda have that now?"
" Not really. It isn't our own. I want us to have something. I want us to sleep in the same bed every night." He squeezed Seth's shoulder. " I want us to be together."
Seth thought for a moment. " Yes I would like that Romie." He smiled and kissed Roman lightly on the lips.
They resumed walking on the beach. " You think Dean would go for it?" Roman glanced at Seth who he could tell was miles away in his mind.
" Yeah," Seth replied distractedly. " I think our bedroom should be ecru Romie. What do you think?"
Roman had no idea what ecru was.
A/N: You guys threw so much shade at Sethie's cooking, lol. Don't worry I was right along there with you guys. So the boys maybe moving in together.
Song for the chapter: All of Me - John Legend