Let Me Be the One Who Calls You Baby

[Continued]

Somehow ‘later’ had decided to happen right after his shift was over. Keto was perched on a bar stool, looking off at nothing in particular, once again trying to sort out his thoughts.

“Something on your mind?” Maxx’s voice broke the young bartender out of his mind’s repetitive thoughts, drawing his stormy eyes up to meet with grass green orbs, lacking their teasing twinkle. Keto had been delaying his departure from the club, because he didn’t want to go home feeling so full of questions.

“Actually. . . yeah.” For whatever reason, Keto felt like opening up to Maxx, even if he ended up sounding love-sick. “I think. . . .I might be in love. With Dom.” He paused a moment, chewing lightly on his lower lip. “But, I don’t know, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.” Keto wasn’t sure what to expect from Maxx, but it certainly wasn’t what he got.

“It confuses you, because you’ve never been in love before.” The older male continued to clean up as he spoke, “For so long, before you met your Shadow, you just went from one guy to another, never allowing yourself the chance to fall in love. So it caught you by surprise. You like him, right?”

A nod from one, followed by a shrug from the other. “Like can become love. So yeah, you could be in love with Dom. Don’t do all the worrying, just think about him and you, and maybe you’ll come to see whether you are or aren’t.” The purple haired boy hadn’t expected such a. . . .wise answer from Maxx. “Now go home to your man, I’ll finish up here.”

And that’s exactly what Keto did.

He was welcomed home warmly; cuddled, kissed, caressed. They ended up making love throughout the night, and to Keto, it felt so intense, not just physically but emotionally. Like they were connected some special way, other than at the lower body. Love?

Much much later, when he barely had a grasp on consciousness, Keto laid in Dom’s arms, half-awake and feeling very content. His eyelids were drooping over his grey eyes as he nuzzled against the larger body next to his. A thought from before flickered across his mind, and before he knew it, he’d opened his mouth.

“Shadow?”

“Yeah, baby?” A little shiver slid along his spine.

“Can I move in?” Keto was pleased when his lover chuckled lightly, holding him tighter as he dropped a kiss on top of the bartender’s head, obviously happy at his request.

“Absolutely. I’ll help you move whenever you want to.”

Keto’s sated body and happy heart allowed for a calm mind, and his sleepiness gave him a lack of tension and worry, so; he said what was on his mind. What he wanted. What he felt.

“Dom?”

“Hmm?”

“I think I might love you.”

His dark haired lover momentarily tensed, before relaxing, his arms and giving a gentle squeeze around Keto’s waist.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.” He felt no hesitation as he confirmed his ‘I think I might’ confession.

“I’m pretty sure I love you too.” Keto’s heart did a little flip in his chest.

“Really?”

“Really.”

Turning over, Keto wrapped his arms around Dom’s neck, pressing as close as he could, tucking his head under the taller male’s chin and closing his eyes. A peaceful quiet settled over them, and Keto simply enjoyed it, before he felt himself start to drift asleep.

“Dom?” It was a mere mumble, a sleepy slur of the blue-green eyed man’s name.

“Hmm?”

“Would you call me ‘baby’ again?”

A hand stroked down his back caressingly, and Keto melted further under the touch.

“I’ll do better than that, how about I sing you to sleep?”

Dom’s breath ruffled Keto’s hair slightly as he spoke.

“You sing?”

“A little. For you; yes.” Dom’s voice was now right by his ear.

“Okay.”

Anything. As long as he was with his Shadow.

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In the words of Keto’s mama ;

“Love is crazy. It’s unpredictable. Wonderful. Sometimes heartbreaking. And often life-changing. But even with all the splendid, hurtful, surprising, marvelous, awful, and crazy things that can happen because of love; in many ways, it‘s worth it.”

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A/N ; THAT’S IT! IT’S OVER!

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