Friction

A second shot of hard whiskey down, the sweet intoxication temporarily letting him forget all about the ungrateful brunette that did not even have the decency to come in the night before. Nicol could not believe he actually wasted energy worrying about the boy, and had lost several good customers on account of looking "concerned."

"Another shot!" The shot glass was slammed to the table, the alcohol still burning in Nicol's throat.

"Wanna ease up? It's not even noon yet." The glare that Nicol shot Alley dissuaded further attempts to convince Nicol against a path that led to alcoholism. Alley had seen the glare before, and it ended with poor Alley wearing a bottle of whiskey on him. It took forever to get the stink of alcohol out of clothing. "Fine, fine." Alley refilled his shot glass.

"I mean, who the fuck does he think he is!? I give him a free place to stay, free food, and he stays out all night, fucking around." Nicol downed the shot and fell lethargically against the bar. "No call, and he didn't show up this morning either."

"Jealous?"

"Fuck no!" Whiskey was quickly becoming too weak for Nicol.

"Well, probably better I didn't mention this, but when I was coming in yesterday evening, I did see that gang leader, Alec, leaving the bar. I asked Sen but he just said that the man was turned around, but I didn't exactly believe him...." Alley set down the whiskey to take a drag of his cigarette that seemed an eternal fixture as it hung off of his thin lips.

Icy blue eyes cast down to the empty shot glass. "That's what worries me. The kid's gonna fuck up, messing with a snake like Alec."

"Ah, not jealous. Worried."

"Shut it geezer, or I'll give you a fucking manual vasectomy." Nicol huffed. "I oughta kick his ass out when he comes in."

Upon Nicol's harsh words, he heard the creak of the rusty bar door open, Nicol spinning around to see the evasive brunette enter the bar, not even casting Nicol a second glance. "Sorry I'm late, Alley. I'll get to work, you can go home." Sen said, brushing the freshly showered bangs from his eyes. Nicol took note that Sen didn't even seem to acknowledge his presence.

It shouldn't have pissed Nicol off, but Sen avoiding eye contact made Nicol want to grab him by his wet hair and push his head into a wall.

"Where the fuck were you last night?" Nicol hopped off his stool, mindful of his light drunken state as he walked to Sen.

"Out." He still avoided eye contact.

"Don't need to be a bitch about it. I'm just...curious is all. Maybe you were out with some handsome guy."

"It's none of your business." The words were almost cruel, but they were weak all the same. Even Nicol could tell something was wrong with Sen, but the boy was starting to piss him off too much for him to care.

"It's my fucking business if you're living in my house! If you're out fucking dogs, you'd better not be dragging fleas in!"

"Like you have room to talk..." Sen quietly grabbed a broom off the wall. Nicol's eyes narrowed. Why did that passive aggressive statement suddenly make him want to beat the shit out of the little brunette. He began to sweep the floor, moving away from Nicol, who was damn determined to not let it end there.

Taking a harsh hold of Sen's chin, forcing the boy to look up toward him, Nicol closed the distance between his and Sen's face. "What the fuck did you just say?"

"Leave me alone."

"Tell me, what the fuck you just said. Or what you meant to say. Go ahead, bitch! Say it!"

Sen cast his gaze away. "Please...just leave me alone."

All the while, Alley watched on quietly as Nicol's gaze further narrowed. "Say it! Call me a slut! A whore! Look down on me like some kind of fucking god! Be like the five billion other people on this fucking planet! I want you to tell me, I was wrong for thinking better of you!" His blood boiled, his body seethed. Any other man, Nicol wouldn't have given a fuck. But the mere thought of Sen looking down on him burned something in his core. And though Nicol would never admit it, it hurt him. It hurt him that Sen might think of him as a common piece of street trash.

"I didn't say that. Please...I just want to be alone right now."

Nicol released Sen. "Just remember, you fucked this piece of trash."

"Please! I didn't say that!"

His body already moving for the door, Nicol opened it and slammed it behind him, a quiet Sen watching on with wet eyes. Alley was already packed, patting Sen on the shoulder as he left to go home and get some sleep. Sen fell to the floor. He was crying again. Crying because he'd inadvertently hurt the closest thing he had to a friend. Crying because his back still hurt from the flogging he'd received. And crying because he was still ashamed of it all. Nicol's words were still ringing in his ears, "Just remember, you fucked this piece of trash."

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!" Sen screamed, bashing his fist against the floor in tear blinded frustration.

Nicol grumbled as he moved down the streets, daring the wandering eyes to approach him for a "good time." His brain was spinning with thoughts of Sen looking down on him, seeing him being less of a man just for being a whore. He also regretted that in his anger, he'd forgotten to ask Sen who he spent the night out with. He was worried. Worried about Cougar. Worried about what would happen if Sen threw in with the snake that called itself Alec. He brushed the scrappy blond curls from his face, tucking a tuft behind his ear. He was worried about Sen too.

As he continued to think, he became aware of a looming presence at his back. Turning to confront his "shadow" his bright blue eyes made contact with a similar pair of blue eyes, peering at him beyond a dark shade of glasses, inky black hair adding a second layer of shadow to his bright eyes. "Hey there, sunshine." He cooed.

"Alec." Nicol hissed.

"I just came to tell you, you really know how to pick house guests." Alec raised his fingers to his lips, his tongue darting out to entangle his fingers. "He's a delicious little thing. He spread his legs so wonderfully. He ever do that for you?"

"Go to hell."

"Oh ho, that's a no! You may wanna get at it, while it's still available."

The words held a hint of malice unlost on Nicol's ear. "What the fuck is that supposed to mean!?"

"Who knows?" Alec laughed, a mocking laughter that burned Nicol's ears. Nicol braced himself for a fight. "Easy babe. I'm just here to ask you to give him my regards. Maybe tell him to meet me later tonight. I'll be lonely."

"Go fuck yourself." Sharp blue eyes drilled holes into Alec.

"I was hoping he'd do that for me." Laughing again, Alec waved himself away leaving Nicol fuming. His day was ruined, and it wasn't even noon yet. What burned him more than Alec's mocking, was the fact that the bastard was actually sleeping with Sen. Sen belonged to him, dammit.

The thought relayed itself to Nicol, as Nicol realized what his thought had just been.

"Fuck!" He trudged onward. He needed a fight. He needed a fuck. He needed a cigarette. He had a cigarette, and he could get a fuck and a fight at the same time. He'd teach Sen to be an evasive bitch. He wandered the streets until evening came, the dusk light beckoning the filth from it's hiding spots. He went home, back to his dingy, recently cleaned apartment room where the sound of running shower filled his ears. He'd been stewing all day, and found he was still pissed. A malicious grin pulled at his cheeks. He had wanted to be the one to pop Sen's cherry, but sloppy seconds didn't always have to be bad.

He slipped into the bathroom, Sen's silhouette cleaning itself just beyond the non-see through glass. He knew he was out of line, but he didn't care. He was pissed. Something that was his had just betrayed him. Punishment was necessary.

He shed his clothes, dropping them to the floor in the same pile as Sen's. He opened the shower stall, and slipped in, alarm already racking through Sen's features.

"N-Nicol! What're you..!"

"Shut up! What the fuck is this?" Nicol's eyes fell upon the red lashes across Sen's back, who turned fully forward to break Nicol's gaze from the brutality. "So, you and Alec really did fuck last night. Was it good?"

"N-Nicol, get out!"

"My shower, answer the fucking question."

With a consenting sigh, Sen smiled. "Yeah, I let him fuck me. So what? Made a good bit of money off it too. Now get out!"

"And the marks on your back!?"

"I was into it." A fucking lie. But he didn't need Nicol's pity.

Nicol closed his eyes, the shower water raking over his nude form to cast a beautiful shine to his lightly golden body. Even with his angelic appearance, the vein throbbing in his neck promised malice. Sen fell back. Nicol turned the shower water off, cracking open his angry blue eyes. "Let me do it too, then."

"What?"

"Let me do it too!" Before Sen could object, Nicol had already spun his body around in the shower, his wet, naked body pressed against the shower wall and his ass raised high. Nicol's knee between his thigh kept him from closing himself off, and Nicol's surprisingly strong hand pressed on his back restricted any struggling.

"Nicol, please stop!"

"Did he feel good, when he fucked you?"

"Stop..." Sen was on the verge of tears for the second time.

"Answer me." Nicol ran hot kisses along Sen's back, apexing at his neck where he bit a section of flesh and sucked into his mouth, the sensitive skin eliciting a shameful moan from Sen. Nicol pushed a finger past Sen's water slick portal, the velvety heat constricting to deny him access. "Answer me already, and don't shut me out. This is happening if I have to rip you open to do it."

"I didn't like it." Tears joined the wet wall in rivets to the drain in the tub basin.

"Really? How 'bout now?" A curl of his finger, and he pressed the button on the inside of Sen's ass, the bundle of nerves that tore an unwanted cry from Sen's lips. "That feel good? Makin' you hot, you little skank?"

"Why? Please...."

"Did he stretch you?" Nicol pushed a second finger in, joining the first and scissoring Sen's whore to stretch it open. After a third finger had thoroughly widened Sen from a clenching bud to a blooming flower, Nicol gave his hardened cock a few strokes, blocking out the sobs that were threatening to kill his erection. Nicol caught himself. If he did this dry, he'd tear Sen. Tearing him would be cruel, way too cruel for just the small amount of pissed off as he was. He just wanted Sen to know how whores were treated. He wasn't even sure why.

"Did he really not feel good?"

"No...." Sen had resigned himself to his fate.

"Why? If I were to fuck you, would you feel good?"

"I don't know....Not like this Nicol. Oh god, please, not like this Nicol."

For whatever reason, it was then Nicol noticed what he'd missed that morning when Sen came to the bar. He was broken. His time with Alec had broken him, ruined the innocence he had maintained since coming to Nicol's house. Ruined the innocence Nicol admired and envied. He hated Alec for it, and he hated himself more for allowing himself to be so easily pissed off. Sen was crying, the tears and strangled sobs broke his heart. Nicol realized, that he was a fucking idiot on the verge of his biggest mistake.

"I'm sorry." Nicol pulled Sen closer, Sen burying his head into Nicol's chest to cry. Nicol guided the boy out of the bathroom, not giving a damn that they were both nude, and lay Sen down on the bed. "For me being an ass, you can have to bed for tonight. Sleep it off. I've got work anyway." He tried to leave the bed, but Sen's hand took a vice grip of his arm.

"Don't leave...please Nicol." Sen's eyes begged more than his words, brown orbs wet with sorrow.

"I've got work."

"Please..."

"...You owe me." Nicol slipped into the bed, pulling the covers over his and Sen's heads and pressing their wet bodies close together, surprisingly warm against Sen who snuggled close to his body. "Why'd you do it? Why'd you do it if it broke you like this?

It was no use. Soft breathing against his chest informed Nicol that Sen was already asleep in his arms. He pulled Sen closer. This was cuddling. It was new to him, and he always told himself that it wasn't his thing. But Sen comforted him. Warmed him to his core in this new experience. But it also made Sen dangerous, dangerous to the emotional barriers he'd been putting up since he was ten years old. Sen threatened to undo eight years worth of work, and Nicol wasn't sure if he was against it or not.

The next morning came with light peering in beyond the shades. Sen stirred awake, pulling the warmth of Nicol's body closer. He placed a chaste kiss on Nicol's soft skin. One kiss led to another, another after that, the smell of the other boy he was intoxicated with wafted into his nose. He remembered Nicol asking him if it would feel good with him. Feel good with Nicol's cock deep within him. Be it his morning wood, Nicol's beautiful body, or his emotions going haywire, Sen could honestly say he was curious to answer the question.

"What're you doing?" Nicol stirred, the feel of Sen's petal soft lips on his body a very pleasant way to start his day. "Trying to make it up to me that I missed a night of work because of you?" He sounded harsh, but his smirk was mischievous.

Having already made it to Nicol's morning erection, Sen didn't answer Nicol's question, rather only wrapped his lips around the member and sucked the crown with his tongue teasing the hole.

"Fuck!" Nicol cried out, arching his back to thrust deeper into Sen's mouth. Sen held his hips in place with his hand, annoying Nicol with his show of control. "Dunno what this is all about, but I'm not complaining.

Sen pulled off, wrapping his slender hand around Nicol's jerking member and pumped it in his hand. "Do you still wanna do it too? Fuck me...that is."

"Well...I don't get to top very often in my line of work. I am a guy after all, I do occasionally like to put my dick somewhere. But, if I fuck you you'll officially be gay." Nicol winked, as though Sen hadn't already jumped the fence.

"I think you made me gay. Of course, I've never really been into women anyway."

"Prefer a dick?"

"Way more."

"Then get me the lube and lay down."

Sen nodded, moving to the nightstand by the bed and handing the sex jelly to Nicol. He lay his body down, his heart thumping as Nicol hovered over him. "Don't worry. I'll be easy." He couldn't avoid his next question. "Was Alec...y'know...at least courteous enough to prep you?"

Sen shook his head.

Nicol sighed. "Bastard." Traveling down, Nicol shook the anger of Alec out of his brain as he placed hot kisses along Sen's stomach. "Don't be nervous. You're tense."

"I don't know why. I've...I've already done this once." Sen trembled. It was different. Alec was hot, and passionate but Nicol burned something in his stomach. Nicol's gaze seemed to be enough to bring Sen to orgasm.

"Spread your legs, and bend your knees. Try to raise your ass off the bed, it'll make it easier." As Sen obliged his request, Nicol squirted the slick jelly over his fingers. He left his hand at Sen's puckering heat, traveling back up Sen's body and pressed his lips to the brunette as his fingers plucked into his hole. The first teasing, the second and third stretching him.

Sen arched his back in a moan. "Like that?" Nicol cooed.

His head was swimming, his body burning in an intense blaze, Sen bit his fist and nodded. It was different, different than the unprepared cock that was pushed inside of him only a few nights ago, and the cold unpassionate fingering Nicol had subjugated him to the night before. Nicol was gentle too, his touches tender and his kisses wet. Wet and wonderful.

"You're cute." Nicol kissed along Sen's jawline. Nicol needed this to be his. Needed Sen to be only his. The writhing, moaning, sweating bundle of a boy underneath him, craving his touch. Craving only his touch. It was something not even Cougar could boast. Nicol licked a wet trail down to Sen's pert nipple, standing tall in his arousal as he licked, kissed, and bit the coffee colored bud, his fingers torturing Sen's oil slick hole in their painfully slow stretching.

"Nicol!" Sen cried out. A beautiful melody on Nicol's ears.

His mouth traced back up to Sen's ear, his hot breath whispering sweet nothings into the brunette's ear. "You're the first..." Nicol cooed. Sen's confused, brown eyes fell upon his blond lover. "The first I've never fucked, or just been fucked by. I guess this is making love." Sen blushed. "Not my thing, but this isn't bad at all."

"Nicol..." Small hands scratched down Nicol's back. "In me...please. I wanna...you know..feel you."

"Alright." Plucking his fingers from Sen's convulsing hole, Nicol applied a healthy coat of sex jelly to his cock, the cool oil adding a slick shine to his cock. The crown of his cock pushed into Sen's hole. Sen's back arched, his fingers raking red trails down Nicol's back. He wanted it. He wanted it so badly, to feel Nicol inside of him.

"Please..."

"I've barely started. But tell me." An arrogant grin plastered on Nicol's face. "Am I better than Alec?"

"Yes. It's so different. My heart feels like it's gonna burst." His body quivered. "Could you...say my name?" Sen's blush deepened, his flushed body becoming a little pinker.

Nicol inched his cock deeper into Sen, not stopping until he was buried to the root, a painfully slow pace. Panting, Nicol whispered into Sen's ear. "You're really...really tight Sen. I like that, but loosen up a little bit."

"Sorry."

"It's okay, Sen, just relax. Untense. I'm not going to hurt you." Nicol wrapped his arms around Sen and hugged him as Sen relaxed his body, his velvet warmth unclenching around Nicol's throbbing length. Nicol felt the brutal lashes on Sen's back. "No, I'm not going to hurt you like that."

"Nicol."

"Alright, I'm gonna start moving." Nicol withdrew, and pushed back in, setting a slow rhythm as he pushed in and out of Sen's tightness. Sen arched his back, Nicol's hand wrapping around Sen's weeping member. He moved, his pace accelerating, his hand staying in time with his hips. His tongue outlined Sen's golden body, Sen's body responding to each electric touch. Nicol's hips were soon harshly thrusting into Sen, Sen holding onto Nicol's back, Nicol's fingers digging into Sen's thighs as he held the boy's legs high. Their bodies tangled, their mouths meshed lazily together as their tongues invaded each other's mouth. The ecstacy that hung like moisture in the air drained oxygen from the room, their bodies matching with each other, Sen pushing down on Nicol's cock.

"S-Sen!" Nicol moaned, his body twitching, his cock spurting thick ribbons of ejaculate into Sen's quivering heat. Sen came soon after, the wet heat now filling him driving him over the edge as he came between himself and Nicol.

"Fuck..." Nicol breathed. He collapsed on top of Sen, grabbing his cigarettes from the night stand along with his lighter and lighting himself a smoky afterglow to his sex. "Want one?"

"Sure." Sen snatched the cigarette from Nicol's lips and pushed it to his own, taking a drag that was accompanied by a series of violent coughs. Nicol laughed, taking his cigarette back and putting it back in his mouth.

"Light weight."

Violent coughing subsiding, Sen laughed and kissed Nicol on the cheek. "You're still in me."

"Yeah I know. Complaining?"

"Well it's all limp and sticky....I like it hard and slick."

"Trying to talk dirty to me, vanilla boy?" Nicol adjusted himself, his limp member slipping out of Sen's hole as he rolled to the side and pulled Sen's body close. He took a drag off of his cigarette, blowing the smoke to the ceiling.

"Vanilla boy?"

"People who only like gentle, kissy touchy sex. Guess I'll never get to use my handcuffs or see you with my vibrator up your ass." Nicol laughed. He was having fun making Sen blush. He plucked the cigarette from his mouth and placed a smoky kiss on Sen's neck.

"Well...I don't think I'd hate that."

The two laughed again. Afterward, they fell silent, Nicol finishing his cigarette, and Sen passed the time kissing every available inch of Nicol's body. After the cigarette burned out, Sen and Nicol locked lips in a passionate make out. As they broke, and cuddled for a few moments, Nicol finally broke the silence. "Don't you need some new clothes?"

"Huh?"

"New clothes. You've been wearing the same clothes for the past couple of days."

"O-Oh...well..."

"C'mon." Nicol sprung from the bed, grabbing some clothes from the dresser, and tossing Sen a set of clothes. "Put those on. We'll go into town and buy you some new clothes. There's actually a pretty good mall not too far from here.

"O-Okay." Sen and Nicol got dressed, Nicol teasing Sen about being shy and dressing in the bathroom. Afterward they set out, walking down the streets to the outskirts of town where the sidewalk was actually slightly visible and approached the parking lot of a mini mall where Nicol dragged Sen to the clothing store. Sen had no idea how picky Nicol could be about clothes, slapping him in at least five different outfits and running Sen back and forth to the dressing room to try on the newest outfit he found. It was tiring, if a little fun. Nicol scrutinized Sen until they'd finally decided on three new outfits that Nicol agreed to buy.

"It's tight." Sen commented, trying on the newest pair of jeans and matching shirt Nicol passed him. He stepped out of the bathroom, greeted by Nicol's hungry eyes.

"It's sexy." Nicol pushed his hand to Sen's chest and pushed the boy back into the dressing room, shutting the door behind him. "See now I'm all hot."

"Nicol...We're in public."

"Kid, I've sucked cock in alleyway and been fucked in a public bar. We're behind closed doors. C'mon Sen, just a quickie." Nicol knew Sen couldn't deny him if he said his name.

Sen embraced Nicol, pulling him close. "Well...you are buying my clothes."

"That's right. Now put that big cock in me." Nicol hopped up, holding onto Sen's shoulders and wrapping his legs around Sen's narrow waist. Just as their lips touched, a woman's voice came from the otherside of the door.

"You two fags about done in there? Some people want to use the dressing room while you two have unnatural sex in there!" The woman sounded to be on the wrong side of forty.

"Unnatural is your fatass eating a hottdog, bitch!" Nicol retorted from the other side of the door. Despite having not seen the woman, it was always fun to knock a bitch down a couple pegs by insulting her weight. He wanted to needle the woman some more. "Senny! Fuck me now! Let's open the curtain and show her what no man will ever give her!" Nicol fakely cried out. He didn't even feel like fucking anymore, the woman's voice having actually succeeded in killing his arousal.

"N-Nicol." Sen meeped.

"Shut the fuck up, fudge packer."

Oh that was it. Nicol unhinged from Sen and stormed out of the changing room, pleased to see the woman was indeed at least two hundred pounds overweight. He always liked to find out he was right. "Fudge packer better defines you, doesn't it tub tub?"

"I'm not fat you skinny little fairy!" She was now in his face, Nicol daring the woman to hit him. He had never been afraid to drop a woman just as quickly as he'd drop a man. "I'm just husky!"

"Husky? Bitch, next to you, elephants look husky. By the way, don't hate fags just because every straight man in your life looks at you and would rather have a cock up his ass!"

"Nicol!" Sen sprung from the booth, though he really didn't want to put himself between the two angry lions.

"Fucking queer!" The woman raised her hand, and swung in the hardest slap she could muster. Nicol stepped back, prepared to take the hit, balling his fist in preparation for retaliation. Much to his surprise, the slap was stopped early, Sen having intervened and put a vice-like grip on the woman's arm, and his brown eyes glaring like a territorial grizzly bear.

"The room's yours. Just...back down."

"Stay out of this your little homo!"

"Bitch-!" Sen waved Nicol down.

"Yeah, I'm gay. So what? Don't ever try to hit Nicol again." It was almost scary how calm Sen was being. Nicol smirked, all that was missing was a well timed use of the word "bitch" and he'd be impressed.

The woman huffed, made some homophobic comment, before disappearing into the dressing room. Nicol paid for Sen's clothes, and the two went to the parking lot. "Sorry if I emasculated you."

"Funny...you never said that when you fucked me." Nicol laughed, wrapping his arm around Sen's neck. "It actually got me all hot. Don't get me wrong I can take care of myself, but it's nice to know someone's got your back every now and again. Thanks...Sen."

Sen wasn't sure if it was the sun that added a fiery glow to Nicol's blond hair, or his words, but Nicol seemed gentle, his body shimmering with a tender aura that Sen had never seen on him before. Before he could stop himself, his hand reached out and took Nicol's into his own, a blush permanently burning on his cheeks. Nicol took note of the action, looking into Sen's nervous brown orbs. Smirking, Nicol tightened his grip on Sen's hand.

"Wanna grab a movie?" Sen asked, timid as a baby cub as opposed to the vicious bear Nicol had seen earlier.

"The only thing I want to see...is you panting and sweating above me while you fuck me raw." Nicol purred, pulling himself tight to Sen.

Blushing, Sen stuttered in reminding Nicol "Movie...Nicol. What movie?"

"We could tape it."

They laughed. Nicol couldn't even remember the last time he'd laughed so many times in one day, that wasn't necessarily at someone's expense. "C'mon, let's just catch the first movie that catches our eye."

"Sure, sure." Nicol gave Sen a slap to the ass.

As promised, they both just looked at what was playing and picked at random. Halfway through the movie, Nicol decided to be naughty and play around with Sen, which ended in Nicol wrapping his lips around Sen's rigid member and sucking the brunette off. Sen, though against it, found the chance of being caught added a spice to the blowjob that made it even better, and eventually found himself fucking the blond's mouth until he came. Nicol kissed Sen afterward, sharing the semen between them in a sticky kiss. The movie ended, neither even sure what it was about, and the two headed back to Nicol's apartment.

"Have a good time?" Sen asked.

"Meh, have had worse times." Nicol grinned. As they walked, a jingle went off in Nicol's pocket, the blond retrieving his cellphone from his tight pocket and flipped it open. "Cougar." Nicol informed Sen. "He wants to meet up tonight. Go back to the apartment without me." Nicol tossed Sen the keys.

Sen went silent, as he caught the keys. "Oh."Cougar, the name he'd almost forgotten with Nicol. The name he couldn't afford to forget.

"Hey, don't sull up. It's just my job. And...besides..." For the first time since they'd met, Sen saw a tint of crimson hint Nicol's cheeks. "...I really liked hanging out with you today. Let's do it again sometimes...Ah...Later!" Nicol hurried away.

Now caught on cloud nine, Sen began a dopey smile poisoned walk back to the apartment, remembering the timid look caught on Nicol's face. All of it ruined by the sight of Alec on a motorcycle, waiting in the apartment parking lot. He wondered if the raven haired thug had noticed him, and if it would be possible to slip by without notice. Considering that his shade covered eyes had already locked on to him, it wasn't likely.

"Kitten!" Alec beckoned Sen over. Sen obliging followed.

"Alec, what're you doing here?" He tried to sound enthused.

"I've got some info babe. Hop on. You've gotta earn it." Alec pat the seat behind him on the motorcycle, a malicious smile tarnishing his handsome features.

With a sigh, the lashes on his back still having not healed, Sen reminded himself that his day with Nicol was just that, a day. They weren't boyfriends. And this was his purpose, his goal. With those thoughts, conflicting with his confused feelings for Nicol, Sen climbed onto the motorcycle as it started up.

"Let's go, kitten."

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Whew. A difficult chapter to write. Thanks to all who read, rated and reviewed, and see you guys next time.