All You Need Is Love (MewGulf AU)

🌻Chapter 35

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The height of summer was drawing closer. They were already having a heat wave.

"Gulf? You're home late."

As he was taking his shoes off at the front door, Gulf's mother came in from the kitchen. She had probably been cooking something. Wiping her hands on her apron, the slap of her house slippers in the floor of the hall drew nearer.

It took a few seconds for her to reach Gulf. If the house still felt normal to him, there wouldn't have been anything unusual about that. But lately, Gulf begun to feel ever so slightly like a visitor from another planet, and this made the event refreshing and new.

"Sorry, Mom." The laces of his sneakers were tangled, and he couldn't get them off.

"Do you want dinner?"

"Sure."

"Go ahead and take your bath then. I'll heat up some soup for you while you're in there."

"I don't need a bath." He finally got the laces untied.

"Why not? Aren't you sweaty?"

"Mew let me take a shower at his place."

"Oh, I see." Gulf was flustered, but he didn't let it show in his answer. When he stood up, his mother's  face was right in front of him. "W-What?"

"Are you sure you're not bothering Mew's family by staying over so late all the time?"

"I told you, he lives alone."

"Oh, that's right, you did tell me that."

"Yeah," Gulf said quickly, trying to slip past his mother.

"You two aren't just goofing around, are you? You are studying?"

"What do you mean?" Gulf was surprised that he jumped and turned around to look at his mother.

"Do you think you have time to be doing that sort of thing so soon before the exams?"

"Don't look so mean. You almost gave me a heart attack." He laughed shrilly, smiling innocently, and his mother went back to the kitchen.

"If you're not going to take a bath, just put your things away and come to the kitchen. Your father's not home yet, so leave the door unlocked."

Watching his mother walk away from him, Gulf let out a deep sigh. "Please don't scare me like that."

He went into his room and leaned back against his door, finally be able to breathe again. Gulf's conscience was heavy with guilt and each of his mother's casual words pierced him like a dagger. He was covered in a cold sweat.

He saw Mew again the day after losing his virginity.

It was the day of the ball game exposition and Gulf and Mew were supposed to compete in ping-pong. Of course, Gulf didn't have much athletic ability, so without ever exchanging a word, the two had snuck out of the competition together and gone back to Mew's apartment.

They spent a few awkward minutes together before finally one of them had unexpectedly sought out a kiss and they'd fallen together onto the floor. Tender love directed their caresses from there.

They licked and nibbled each other everywhere, sucking on the skin. The skin covering their bodies grew sensitive so that even the brush of a sigh excited them. But they never directly touched each other's penises. And there was no penetration.

Gulf's body was still unsettled, and just being touched made that part of him shudder painfully, but he couldn't stop thinking about the pleasure he'd experienced. Although it felt somehow masochistic, Gulf wanted to be penetrated. But Mew wouldn't give it to him.

Mew didn't want to hurt him---that's what he'd told him in his tenderly adoring voice, and Gulf didn't have much choice but to agree that was best.

Instead, Mew relieved Gulf with his fingers, which explore the inside of his body as much as he could have wanted. It let Gulf himself discover where he was weakest and let him ask to be touched there. Gulf surrendered unconditionally to the sensation of Mew violating him, even in his heart.

And so the next time they saw each other, Gulf straddled Mew and took his fill of the man's body. Despite how he had acted during his first sexual experience, Gulf threw himself into the pleasure of it.

They next saw each other two days later. And when they met, they were unable to hold back and they passed the time in sex.

Of course Gulf found it absurb. But as soon as he saw Mew's face, as soon as heard his voice, he couldn't stop himself.

It wasn't just Gulf either. Mew was the same.

Gulf sought Mew often, but Mew sought him even more. Thanks to their meetings, Gulf was in such a state that he had to keep his body fully covered in front of people, despite the fact that it was the middle of summer. Even in a bathrobe, the front could open and the marks of his love affair would be undeniably evident on his skin.

Gulf was sure he wouldn't feel anything, no matter how fervently Mew caressed his chest---he wasn't a girl after all. But he had been mistaken.

He did feel something when Mew touched him, and his nipples got hard. Once they'd become sensitive, he reacted almost painfully to even a warm breath, wanting to be touched even more. Gulf was overcome with everything he was learning about sex.

"I can't even wear shorts now," Gulf said in amazement as he looked his body over once again. He'd asked Mew to at least stop leaving marks on his neck. His mother had found one once on the back of his neck and he'd been in a tight spot trying to explain it. Gulf told her that he'd been stung by a bug, and she'd believed this transparent excuse, but it would get suspicious if it started happening all the time.

Mew looked unhappy, but Gulf's pleading seemed to reach him. But Gulf was pretty sure that in exchange, he would only intesify his attentions elsewhere.

Just tracing the path of his marks, the movements of Mew's tongie came alive again.

"Oh, man." Remembering made Gulf's body glow with passion.

"Gulf, what are you doing? Hurry up or your soup's going to get cold."

"A-All right, I'm coming!"

What timing. Gulf smiled ruefully at his own debauched desires.

TBC