The Light Of My Life
Their lives were never meant to turn out this way, but damn if they didn't love it.
They were meant to be best friends, brothers, they were meant to never be more than that. But they were.
It wasn't easy, being in their relationship. They were forced to hide from the world, keep to themselves, even in the safety of their own home. One move too intimate for brothers, in the presence of anyone outside the crew, and they were done for.
They lived for the days they were left alone. The house filled with nothing but their laughter and soft voices, until it led to so much more.
Hours would fly by as minutes, spent writhing against one another, their moans and pants muffled by each others kiss.
The glorious moment spent wrapped in each others are were those they would never forget.
The years they spent in hiding were torture. They were terrified of what anyone would think.
The day Parker turned eighteen, they were gone. Back in Ohio in their own little house. They didn't have to hide any longer. As far as anyone in Ohio knew, Graham wasn't a Valentino, but an Arias. No one ever pieced it together, and no one ever would.
A year into their public love, and they came out to their family. They'd expected the worst, but their mother was accepting. She told them she'd always love them, and how they deserved to be happy. That was the day Graham legally changed his last name.
It was Parker's twenty first birthday that Graham proposed. He'd gotten up in front of everyone, as though making a regular speech, only to shock them all by getting down on one knee with a wedding band in hand, and while he knew Parker would never admit it, he saw the tears in his eyes.
Two and a half years of marriage and the couple welcomed Lottie May Valentino into the family. She was the light of their lives, a perfect being. That day Graham was certain a tear rolled down his brothers-- his husbands cheek.
Parker had just gotten Lottie to sleep, when Graham walked up to him. "I'm sorry," he whispered before he kissed the boy tenderly.
Parker was lost in confusion, but wrapped his arms around Graham anyways. "For what?"
"Making us wait. For being too scared to love you. I never should have forced us to hide. If I had known just how happy I'd be, I never would have done it. Having you, and Lottie, it's the most amazing thing that ever could have happened to me. I love you, so much. I'm so sorry."
Parker was the one to admit to his tears that time, as he captured his husbands lips in a passionate kiss.
"Don't be."
He sure as hell wasn't.