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@elasticollin
If I was at home...
No! No, that’s totally not what I meant by that. It was more of a I’m-super-excited-so-let-me-mark-this-amazing-day-on-the-calendar thing.
Well, I’ll leave the technical stuff up to you, puppy. As long as you’re happy with it then so am I.
Yeah ok, you do that in your excitement then. Whatever makes you happy.
You with a fencing saber? Really? I can see how poorly that'd end before it'd even happen. But thank you.
If I was at home...
Of course. Should I mark it on the calender?
Oh phew. I was worried you had it already or something.
What, you going to schedule me off it if you don't? Maybe I should reconsider the idea...
No, I have one, but it's not this, and you can always have more than one. The weight and things help you practice when they're different.
If I was at home...
Oh, very true. Perhaps we should just get it out of the way now so we don’t have to worry about it?
Why? What’s the matter? You don’t like it?
Can you wait until the weekend? It'll be annoying to clean up after.
Actually, it's perfect.
If I was at home...
Well, an ice cream cake is fine by me.
Ice cream tonight and then we’ll do the cake and ice cream tomorrow?
Nah, you can get it now. I’ve had a hell of a time hiding it from sight until now actually, so you might as well. And don’t laugh because I honestly have no idea what to get you so I’m sorry for the lame-ness of it. I was walking down the street and caught sight of this six piece sabre fencing set and immediately thought of you.
Right, ok, but are you going to remember now between now and June?
Sure, that's fine.
I... Austin, I can't. It can't really be for me. You're lying.
If I was at home...
Well, you could’ve made time! Blown off classes, played hooky! Ooh, or you could’ve called me, and I would’ve thrown you a party! But noooo. You just decided to be a good, well-rounded, responsible person instead. Pssh.
I could have called you, but I couldn't call out of class... too much to catch up on later. Homeworks just awful if you forget to do it during break. Because then like... you have a week worth to do on the last day and it just doesn't work.
Maybe later you can throw a late party?
If I was at home...
Well at first I was thinking we could get cake and ice cream and then use your 19-year-old self as the table but now that I think about it that might be a birthday gift to me so we might have to wait for my birthday for that one.
I’m still thinking cake and ice cream though. As for your gift, well that’s a surprise for later because creative little me managed to actually think of something. I spent two whole weeks trying to think of something, so I’m crossing my fingers that you like it.
If you did that, it's probably have to be an ice cream cake considering. But nice try for being creative... ?
Maybe just one or the other really. i don't think I need both considering the time of night. But tomorrow?
Oh did you? Do I have to wait, or can I get it now?
If I was at home...
See! You’re so behind, Collin! You have a whole day of celebrating to catch up on!
Well I had a whole busy morning, with classes and homework and tennis practice. When was I ever going to find the time!
If I was at home...
Not ‘ah well’! It’s like that old saying, “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”—it’s your birthday somewhere already, which means you’re totally allowed to celebrate!
Well, then I should have started yesterday! Because it's already tomorrow in Australia.
If I was at home...
Can we just pretend you are home and start celebrating early?
We could... did you have any ideas in mind? I never got to think about a present or what to do or anything.
If I was at home...
Oh my gosh, your birthday is coming up? Happy Birthday, Collin!
Well, in North Carolina it'd be now... but here I have to wait three more hours.
Ah well, right?
If I was at home...
it'd be my birthday already.
So...
You’re very welcome, Collin.
Ah, you’re turning the big one nine, I’m assuming.
Yeah, I'll be nineteen soon. I sort of got held back a year when I was younger, but it seems to have all worked out in the end.
So...
Happy early birthday.
Thanks Jayme.
It's a bit weird feeling actually, since I'll be entering my last year of a being a teenager.
So...
My birthday's in ten days, and I don't even know what I want to do for it yet.
Feathers & Coffee Grounds || Coustin
Austin hummed into the kiss, a smile on his face at Collin’s simple answer. It was perhaps the one moment Austin could think of in which Collin rarely spoke. He remembered their first time, perhaps one of the moments that stuck out to him the most, when Collin had flat out told him to shut up. It wasn’t a usual thing to come from Collin’s mouth, but in moments like these, Austin had to agree; words just didn’t belong.
In fact, a simple touch, movement, breath even, all spoke more than any spoken word. More meaning, more enhanced. The jolt of sensation of skin against skin that started at the touch and spread across every nerve ending, leaving Austin covered in goosebumps even though he was ridiculously warm.
He missed this. It’d been so long that he hadn’t realized how much he’d actually come to enjoy sex. A strange thought considering until a few months ago he hadn’t really thought of sex at all, let alone sex with another man. Regardless of how flirty and jumpy his attitude was, growing up Austin had never been a sexual person, experimental yes, but never letting it get to the point where it became sex. Now, here with Collin, it was one of the most exhilarating feelings in his life. A tornado of sensations that crashed together at the same times. He couldn’t even begin to describe it.
Immediately Austin could tell the difference in the pace Collin was setting. It wasn’t as awkward or rushed as the first time. They knew what they were doing enough to be able to ease into it. Their hormones weren’t completely out of their control yet and if Collin wanted to take this slowly and enjoy being in each other’s company, completely unaware of the world still turning around them, then Austin wasn’t going to complain in the slightest.
His hand came up to the back of Collin’s neck, fingers running like the droplets of water across his skin, feeling. Perhaps it was just the water, or maybe even the fact that they’d slowed down enough for Austin to appreciate it, but either way, Austin decided that Collin had really soft skin. His finger tips trailed across it easily, reaching the strands of hair at the base of his neck, letting the wet strands slide between his fingers before he pulled away to give Collin air. His face tilted slightly, using the opportunity of Collin already bent forward to his height to run his lips along Collin’s jawline.
Collin felt Austin's hand move over the back of his neck, and the heat trail that went with it. Yes, he was warmer than before the fall, but it wasn't any better or worse. Just different. The edges of Austin's fingers were still rough, still moved with the same care as before. Yes, things in their lives had changed, but they were still the same people, and Collin wouldn't believe anything else.
As Austin's fingers went through his hair, Collin's hands also moved. The one, mimicking Austin's currently motion while locked in the kiss, moved up to the edge's of his hair lightly flicking through it. The other arm moved completely, off it's resting place over Austin's shoulder and down to his side where Collin's hand went to graze the side of Austin's rib cage. The movement of it was slow, a kind of lazy grazing motion.
When Austin pulled away, because unlike Austin Collin did in fact have to breath, he felt his attention shift to his jaw. Which was honestly a weird sensation. It was almost like it was trying to be ticklish but couldn't really manage to get there all the way. He supposed the word for it was teasing, but really it was more... borderline annoying? Like a dog trying to lick your face it's alright because it's a dog and it doesn't know any better, but when it's a person it's just weird. Not that that was what Austin was doing, but it didn't make the situation terribly much better. So Collin just made both of their lives easier by adjusting his head slightly, yielding his neck to Austin.
Feathers & Coffee Grounds || Coustin
Austin raided his hands in mock surrender, a chuckle leaving his lips quickly as he shook his head. “I wasn’t even asking, Collie puppy. You and I both know that five minutes in I’d be the one begging anyways. I think the only way to get you to beg would be like….making you take Ecstasy or something and I’m pretty sure we will never have to worry about that happening.” Though Austin should probably stop saying never at this point as around Dalgaard it seemed that anything impossible was quite easily possible given the correct situation.
Another pout found it’s way to Austin’s features as he watched Collin. “You know, you don’t always have to do the laundry,” Austin told him, leaning his hip against the sink. “Actually it might be a good idea if you showed me what to do so I can actually pull my weight around here. Maybe if I can keep myself busy I won’t spend all day in bed being bored and slipping in and out of sleep.” Austin really had no idea how to do the laundry, though it wouldn’t have stopped him from attempting to. Even if he fucked it up somehow he could always fix it, though if that were the case perhaps Collin’s clothes should be left out of the load he would attempt unless of course Collin was willing to show him how to use it.
This time was so different than their first, he was actually starting to believe that nothing would be able to dim or replace the memories of his first time. They hadn’t been completely sure of what they were doing, they weren’t sure what to expect. Now, this time, all the memories were there. Remembering how it felt, what he needed to do, how to keep Collin comfortable and pain-free. There was so much to remember Austin briefly wondered how they’d managed the first time without breaking anything. Though he did have to give himself a pat on the back for being able to keep his wings away. Talk about a buzz-kill that would have been. Austin was pretty sure if anything like that ever happened in the middle of sex Collin would have a heart attack and die right then and there. Austin wasn’t really into necrophilia either so the idea wasn’t a really pleasant one.
He let his eyes roam across Collin’s body before their eyes met. Austin wasn’t really sure what he was feeling, it was more powerful than the first time, the heat that seemed to spread across the underneath of his skin like fire and yet at the same time it wasn’t as uncontrollable as it was the first time. Austin had control of this, he could set the pace, it wasn’t a mad rush to get the urge out of his system. Granted there was still a bundle of nervousness settling deep into the pit of his stomach, but it was subdued by the arousal there too. Except it was much more than arousal, because Austin could flick on a porno on the laptop and get aroused. This wasn’t the same. It wasn’t the same because it was Collin standing there in front of him , not some random person on a screen, Collin was real and in front of him. It wasn’t a fantasy, it was in the here and now with someone he cared so much about that it literally made his chest hurt at times simply thinking about it.
Austin’s hands immediately went to Collin’s waist, pulling him in a little closer as he leaned upwards to meet Collin’s lips. It might have been awkward at one point, kissing someone so much taller than him, but at this point it was all second nature. It was comfortable and routine. A smirk appeared on his lips, pulling away from Collin ever so slightly, enough so their lips just barely brushed when he spoke. “You just lemme know when it gets to hot for you, puppy.”
Collin let himself be pulled forward and he leaned into Austin. Or perhaps melded, what with the heat from Austin's body being high to start with and the warmth of the water cascading over the pair of them. It was familiar but different, the water of course. It wasn't like Collin didn't take showers, it's just normally when he did he wasn't hyper-aware of the presence of the water itself. Now, like this with Austin again – and it was certainly a bit strange to think of it as an again – he found himself noticing how the constant light drumming of the water went missing where Austin's hands went over his skin.
But it was a good kind of again, and Collin found himself not minding the extra-sensory assistance. Surely he tasted the water, when they kissed even briefly, but it was like punctuation to Austin's movements. And here, stuck in a little enclosed space away from the rest of the world, literally walled into their own universe, the pair of them seemed like the end-all-be-all of what there was to existence.
As Collin felt the words Austin spoke, the air from his mouth, and the slight movements of the edges of their lips as Austin's moved he thought of nothing much in particular, only closing his eyes. He knew from experience that as what they were doing continued, their small bubble universe would narrow even more to where the actual shower, the water, the heat, everything other than just them existed.
“Alright.” Collin said, nothing more and nothing less. Because if there was one time Collin didn't prattle on endlessly, it was while being intimate. He knew when his words where at a lost compared to the strength of action, so he was more than willing to save them for when they were appropriate.
He shifted slightly, tilting his head a fraction to bring their lips back together again. It wasn't forceful or soft, but more along the lines of cautious. Collin didn't want to rush into anything straight off, he still wasn't fully awake of course, but he mostly wanted to just be lazy. Take their time, and that sort of thing. It had been moths since the last time they were physically together, so while some animistic part of Collin's brain remembered what was going on, he wanted things to turn more slowly so the actual part of his brain he had control of could have a reference too.
Feathers & Coffee Grounds || Coustin
Austin put on a fake pout at Collin’s teasing, a hard feat with the grin splitting his face. “Aw, but Collie, I thought you were the puppy in this relationship. Puppies are cute when they beg, birds just kind of sit there with their mouths open peeping at you. Not as cute.” For a moment the image of him sitting at the door peeping in order to beg Collin into letting him in popped into his head and he had to bite back his laughter. It was really a ridiculous thought and to be honest Austin would never have begged to be let in in the first place. He would have probably gone and buried himself into the covers and wondered what he’d done wrong. No, locking the door had a potential to turn sour with him and his ever faithful overreactions. Sometimes he had to sit back and wonder how Collin ever managed to put up with him in the first place. Austin could hardly stand himself at the best of times let alone when he was being his usual drama queen self.
A chuckle managed to escape at Collin’s words, “Well I wasn’t exactly planning on stopping everything just to do laundry. I guess it was more of a reminder to myself that that actually needs to get done today.” It was relaxing, the two of them able to simply enjoy each others company while being completely domesticated. It was such a switch from the past couple of months were everything was tense and the two of them were walking on eggshells around each other. This was relaxed, comfortable, and Austin hadn’t realized how much he’d missed it until just now. When he was younger he would complain about being bored all the time, having grown up an only child in the middle of Maine. Now, now the excitement was too much, too damaging. He’d give anything for everything to stay just like this. Relaxed.
Austin almost let out a purr, a damn purr, when Collin’s fingers made their way to his hair. He still wasn’t quite sure what it was about Collin’s fingers in his hair that seemed to send electrical stimulation to his entire body, but he wasn’t really sure he cared at this point. It felt nice, and he’d missed it. It reminded him of the way Collin pulled at the strands of hair the first time they’d had sex and how long it’d been. Austin had never been a very sexual person, he’d thought about it, but when it came to actually doing it he’d always opted out. Now though, with Collin, it seemed to light a fire in his stomach and almost bubble in excitement. Oh it had been much, much too long.
He watched as Collin slipped out of his clothes, catching the light blush covering Collin’s cheeks and grinning at the thought. This wasn’t the first time they’d been together, obviously, and yet at the same time Austin could see that Collin was self-conscious about being naked around him. It was upsetting slightly because as far as Austin was concerned Collin could walk around the dorm room completely naked and Austin would have absolutely no complaints…well as long as it stayed in the dorm room. If Collin started walking around naked so that anyone else aside from Austin could see, then Austin might have some complaints.
Austin followed Collin under the steady stream of water, letting his coffee-stained towel fall to the floor behind him. The warm water was strange at first, much warmer than Austin’s previous shower had been. Luckily though, the naked body of Collin in front of him managed to prevent any memories of his nightmares, brain completely distracted. “The water’s going to be too warm for you soon, isn’t it?” Austin asked, returning his lips to Collin’s shoulder to kiss there again. “I’m warmer than I was the first time we shared a shower together.”
Collin paid little attention to Austin's pouting, more than aware he wasn't truly upset. “I am the puppy.” Collin said, “But, if that's your way of trying to subtly turn that idea around and ask me to be the one that's begging, yeah, not going to happen.” He shot Austin a look that read 'so don't even try' after, because Collin was sure he could go longer without physical contact than Austin could, no question.
“You mean, a reminder to me to do.” Collin said, half suppressing a smile and half rolling his eyes, “Since I'm normally the one who does.” Which would mostly be because Collin didn't trust Austin to use the right soap, or water, or just generally not mix things he wasn't suppose to and turn everything red. Or more probably orange, since that was the color of Collin's favorite, and thus most frequently worn, hoodie. Though, if Austin really wanted to try laundry, Collin guessed he could oversee the process. Even if the likely hood of it turning into a soap fight was high, it'd be something they could laugh at each other about later.
Moving into the shower, strangely, actually made Collin less embarrassed. Because then Austin couldn't look at all of him at once, but rather only in parts, and while some people might find being cut into just parts as more objectifying, Collin found it to be less so. Maybe because he was more used to it. Though that was to say nothing about the nervousness which was now rising slowly inside him. They'd been fine the first time, more than fine really, but this was different because his body has something of a vague memory of how this was suppose to go. Collin flicked his eyes up to look at Austin's, and found there was a similar sort of thing lurking behind his eyes from when they were in the other room only much more prominent now. Collin wasn't sure how to describe it, it was something possessive, sure, but it was more than that. He hesitated on lust because this seemed a lot more controlled than that word would suggest, and desire seemed too bland to capture the depth of it. Warm, maybe.
Collin stood mostly still as Austin moved in towards him, feeling how soft he was being. Collin hummed at the mention of the water temperature. Sure he'd thought about it, but maybe not in conjunction with Austin's perspective. “It's not that hot.” Collin said, “Just let me relax into it a little first ok? Then you can change the water if you want.” Or rather needed to. Collin wasn't oblivious to the fact that Austin's resting body temperature was higher than at the start of their relationship, he'd been sleeping next to him for the past several months after all, but it didn't change the fact that Collin had just woken up and his body was kind of still lethargic at the moment. “I'll be fine, promise.” Collin said, crossing his arms loosely over Austin's shoulder's and tilting his head down to kiss him.
