//soulmates\\ karlnap

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I woke up before Karl and laid in bed admiring him. His eyelashes slowly moved due to the overhead fan. I ran my thumb over his cheek as he started waking up. "Good morning, gorgeous." I said quietly, kissing him.

His eyes weren't open but he managed to find my lips again after a pulled back. "Good morning."

I made him coffee and breakfast and came back in the room to find him looking at himself in the mirror, he was wearing the black corset and khaki shorts held up by a thick black belt. I wrapped my arms around him and looked at him in the mirror, resting my chin atop his head. I kissed his shoulder and his cheek as he smiled. "You deserve everything in this world, Karl Jacobs."

He lit up when he unboxed the phone and laptop. "Thank you, babe." He laughed and put his hands on either side of my jaw, kissing me lovingly.

I smiled and handed him a small light purple box. "This is the last one." He looked so focused as he carefully took the tape off the box and then opened it, taking out the white wrapping paper to reveal the gold necklace. It had a circle pendant on the thin chain, engraved onto the front was K + N.

Tears pricked at his eyes as he wrapped his arms around my neck, his knees crinkling the wrapping paper. "Thank you, oh my god I love you so much."

"I love you too." I said quietly, kissing the side of his head. We hadn't ever really said I love you back, but it was true, I did love him. A whole ass lot.

He pulled back and laughed, looking at the necklace and wiping his tears off his cheeks. "Can you put it on me?" He turned and I put the necklace around his neck and securing the clasp. "Thank you." He leaned back onto my chest, looking up at me. I ducked my head down and kissed him softly. "What are we doing today?" He asked, putting on his converse as I put on my shoes.

"We're going out to get lunch and dinner and then we should probably pack."

"Pack? For what?" He leaned against the wall, shoving his foot into the shoe.

I hummed and kissed his temple. "You said you wanted to go to Greece, right?"

"Yeah?"

"So we're going to Greece." I said simply, opening the door for him.

He stared at me. "You're lying." I pulled my phone out of my back pocket and showed him the plane tickets. Seven am tomorrow, a one way flight to Skopelos. "Fuck you." He squeezed me tight. "I fucking love you."

"You like it?"

"I love it." He continued hugging me.

"Are you okay, Karl?" A reporter asked as we went outside.

Karl nodded vigorously, wiping his tears. "I'm actually really good."

"It's his birthday." I said as I searched my pockets for the car keys.

"What about your basketball season?" Karl asked as we drove, my hand was on his thigh and he was playing with my fingers.

"We're on a break."

"What about Willow?"

"Delilah and Sarah are going to take care of her."

"How long are you staying?"

"Seven weeks. I also have something to tell you." I squeezed his thigh. I could feel his gaze shift onto me as I looked at the road. "My parents kinda live there." I looked at him when we were at a stop sign.

Karl just stared at me. "Does they know that I'm coming?"

"Yeah." I looked back out at the road. "We don't have to go if you don't want to I just thought tha-."

He squeezed my hand. "You want me to meet your family?"

"We don't even have to tell them we're going there and we don't have to talk to them or anything. Or you could go by yourself so there's no chances-."

"Nick, I want to meet your family." Karl cut in. "I want to go to Greece with you and meet your family."

"Are you sure? I don't want to pressure you."

"I'm very sure." He kissed my hand. We drove for an hour to the beach, Karl set up up his phone on the way over and found the note I left him in the notes app. "I love you so much, happy birthday Karl Jacobs." He read out as I parked.

"I love you too, Nicholas." He unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned over, kissing me with a smile. After teaching Karl how to change his background, his lock screen was permanently a picture of me and him together. "What's your thing?" I opened my phone to my home screen to show him a picture of him lying asleep on my chest, my hand was on his side and my face was cut off, only showing my black t-shirt. "I look ugly."

"No, you look adorable." I kissed the corner of his mouth and led him down the beach to the boardwalk.

We got back to the apartment at ten. "Today was amazing. Thank you so much." Karl said, jumping up and hooking his legs around my hips.

"Anything for you, K."

He went to the bedroom to get dressed while I sat on the couch and tried to set up an email for him on his computer. My phone buzzed from beside me after a little while, I grabbed it and saw a notification from Karl. "Why are you texti-?" I stopped when I saw what he'd sent me. He had taken a mirror picture of himself sitting in the ground on his knees, smiling at the phone, that wasn't the best part though. He was naked, completely naked. I stood up, walking into the room to see him still sitting on the ground. "You're so annoying."

"Aw, why?" He stood up and smiled at me, lying down in bed.

"Stop."

"Why?"

"Because you're turning me on." He rolled off the bed and came over to me, untying my shorts and taking them off along with my boxers. "What are you doing?" I grabbed his hips.

"I want to have sex."

"I thought you were asexual."

"That doesn't mean I can't have sex." He stated, eyes on my bare stomach.

I looked at him. "Are you sure? Like completely sure? Please don't feel pressed, Karl."

"I don't feel pressed, I want to do this with you."

"You don't have to, Karl. It's really okay."

"I want to." He put his hands over mine. "I really, really, really want to."

I led him over to his bed, my fingers slipping down from his hip to his inner thigh.

Loud moans and skin on skin.
Heavy breaths and perfect bodies.
Small waists and muscles.

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