Our Safeguard

Chapter 25

Chapter 25

~Jerome~

       I sat down on the bed, gently shaking Nolan awake. He fell asleep moments after he put his Halloween costume on, claiming that he wanted to rest a bit before we went out to the Halloween fair. He wasn't sure that he wanted to go because of how exhausted he was feeling, but in the end, he decided to give it a shot. If he ever got overwhelmed, we could leave whenever we wanted.

       "Hey," I said softly. Nolan stirred a bit. "You going to get up? Or are you actually wanting to stay home?"

       "Five more minutes," Nolan mumbled. 

       I chuckled softly before leaning down and kissing his cheek. "Okay. Five more minutes."

       Nolan didn't actually mean five minutes. Or perhaps, he did but the moment I kissed his cheek, he rolled over on his back so he was looking up at me. And, of course, he wrapped his arm around my neck and pulled me towards him, pressing his lips onto mine.

       I kissed him back for a few moments before pulling away. "So five more minutes or are we going to get going to the Halloween fair?"

       "Five more minutes," Nolan said, about to kiss me again, but I turned my head so his lips pressed against my cheeks instead.

       "I meant five more minutes of napping, not kissing," I said.

       Nolan huffed before he removed his arms from around my neck. He sat up on the bed. "I guess I'll just have to live in pain knowing that my very loving boyfriend doesn't want to kiss me whatsoever."

       "You'll live," I said. "Are you sure you want to go to the fair, though?" I brushed a strand of hair away from Nolan's face, tucking it behind his ear. I rested my hand on his cheek. "You look exhausted. You even fell asleep not even a minute after lying down on the bed."

       "I'll be fine," Nolan said, leaning his head on my hand since it was still on his cheek. "Yeah, I'm tired, but Halloween is my second favourite holiday. I really do want to go to the Halloween fair. I'll just make sure to tell you when I want to go home."

       I smiled at Nolan. "Okay." I gave him a lingering kiss before helping him stand up from the bed. 

       We left the house to head to the Halloween fair that was being held at the city hall for all residents of the city. It was a popular even, but I've never really gone to it. Before, I was obsessed with parties and would always go to one that someone at the high school threw. Now that I was over my whole party phase, I didn't see why I couldn't go.

       The best part was that I also got to go with my extremely attractive boyfriend. When he first asked me if I wanted to go with him, he insisted that we wore matching costumes. It was a bit hard to find something at first, but then we realized we didn't have to be something cheesy like peanut butter and jelly or some famous movie couple.

       So we settled with going in steampunk costumes. 

       Needless to say, Nolan was very attractive in his costume. I would tell him he would also look attractive with the costume off, but Nolan would probably take that opportunity to say he wanted to have sex.

       The Halloween fair looked extremely fun, and all Nolan and I did was arrive. We still saw all the fair games, the decorations, the rides. Definitely something I needed after the stress I had gone through recently.

       "So what do you want to do first?" I asked Nolan as we walked around the fair to check out all the sights. "And no, before you asked, we're not going to do anything sexual here. Save that for when we're home alone."

       "I wasn't going to suggest we do anything sexual," Nolan said. "But now that you mention it... I'd like to go on the ferris wheel."

       "Huh," I said. "That's totally not what I thought you were going to say. Unless you're going to try getting freaky with me on the ferris wheel."

       Nolan's cheeks immediately reddened. He covered his ears with his hands as if what I just said would poison his eyes. I found it so cute that Nolan jumped from being a horn dog to being embarrassed at the mere mention of sex. "D-Don't say that. It's a public space."

       "Right," I said, intertwining my hand in Nolan's as I began leading him to the ferris wheel so we could enjoy it together. "And my car in a parking lot isn't?"

       "I'm just going to pretend you didn't say that," Nolan said. "We didn't do anything in your car. Nope. Nothing at all. We were innocent. I am an innocent person and will never engage in premarital sex."

       Nolan was just such a cutie.

       As we were lined up to go on the ferris wheel, I looked around the grounds to see if there was anything else that Nolan and I might want to do during the Halloween fair. But, unfortunately, something else caught my eye instead. Or rather, someone.

       "Hey, what is it?" Nolan said, noticing that I was looking somewhere for far too long. He followed my gaze, seeing Joel being pulled around the fair by a girl who sort of looked like him. Probably a relative. "Oh..."

       "He still leaving you alone?" I asked.

       Nolan nodded, looking away from Joel. He placed his hand on my cheek, gently moving my face so I was looking at him. "Don't worry about him. There's nothing he can say to me that will make me change my mind about you."

       I sighed. "Yeah. Yeah, I know. I just... I hated how I let him get between us."

       Nolan shook his head. "You didn't let him get between us. I did. But he's not between us anymore. The only thing between us is all these clothes." He tugged at my costume's jacket.

       This was what I meant when I said he went from complete horn dog to sex making him shy. I kind of wanted to see how he would react to me saying something sexual, so I leaned in close to him, my lip just brushing against his ears. "We can certainly take off our clothes if that's what you want."

       Like I guessed, Nolan began blushing intensely. I think I finally figured out how his horny scale worked. If it was something I said in public, Nolan got flustered. He, on the other hand, could say whatever it was he wanted.

       Still made him very cute.

       When it was finally our time to get on the ferris wheel, Nolan snuggled up close to me when we sat down. Granted, we probably should have done this later on to wrap up the night, but it was relaxing to go on. I'd take any excuse to stay cuddled up to Nolan.

       The ferris wheel started moving, allowing us to see the rest of the Halloween fair. Well, I could only see it for a bit because the moment we reached the top, Nolan pressed his lips on mine. Not just for a simple kiss too. He probably wanted to have a full on make out session.

       And I would fully want to if we weren't in a public space.

       I pulled away from him. Nolan just smiled at me, not trying to kiss me again. "I love you," I said.

       "I love you too," Nolan said.

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should i make some more drama? yes? no? yes? okay.