Loving Ezra

07

I WALKED TO HIM, making sure I didn't slipped with all the water in the ground. I have to clean that. I grabbed the baby blue loofah and softly brush it on Ezra's back, I didn't want to make him uncomfortable.

"Dee rub my head. It hurts!" Ezra mentioned, making sure to hit the water as he could.

I laughed and did what the cute boy demand, "Alright, angry boy."

Wasn't he the cutest?

"Babe."

Ezra turned his head and looked towards Damien's side, not specifically at his face. "Yes, Ezra?" He responded quietly, wondering what was going though his mind.

"I'm all done! Ezra is done done!", the green-eyed man shouted looking at the door now with a bright smile painted on his face, "Ezra needs towel now," he turned to look at his towel that Damien had on his lap.

"Of course, Ezra needs his towel," the sweet man nodded.

Damien grabbed the towel off his lap and gave it to Ezra as he stood up from the tub. Look away look away look away. When Damien felt Ezra grabbed his towel, he quickly turned and began taking steps towards the door.

"I will be outside. Yell at me if you need anything." The taller man quickly looked back at Ezra and began walking out of the bathroom.

He walked up to the kitchen and grabbed the pastel yellow phone that hanged on the wall and picked up a pizzeria business card that was sticked on the refrigerator. Wait.

"Darling, is pepperoni okay!" Individuals with autism tend to have strict preferences with their food. Don't want to upset the pretty man from upstairs.

"I likes green peppers too!" He shouted back.

God, isn't he the cutest.

Damien quickly dialed the phone number, he can't have a hungry boy for any longer. "Hello, I would like to order a pepperoni pizza with bell peppers," Damien said to the person behind the other line.

"Anything else?," responded the stranger. "That is all. Don't forget the bell peppers. Thank you," ended Damien.

After giving his name and the phone number, he ended the call and began cleaning up the living room which had scattered plushies all around. While picking up the younger mans' plushies and blanket he heard footsteps coming from the stairs. Damien looked up to see the man that had made him feel different, wearing his light pink pajamas that had pleated stars.

There he is. The beauty himself.

The taller man could feel his cheeks turning red like a tomato. He certainly was not the only one having the same emotions.

"Come here, pretty boy. Let's cuddle up." Damien whispered loud enough for Ezra to hear him.

Ezra, with rosy cheeks, smiles shyly and tan up to the older man. They both sat down in silence, you would've been able to hear a pin drop, Damien making sure there was some space between them. Both looking at each other. Until Damien spoke again, "I ordered pizza for us, will be here in approximately 5 minutes. Is that okay, darling?" At what Ezra nodded and made an approval noise.

"Babe... How old is Dee?," Ezra questioned, green eyes looking directly to Damien's blushed lips. Avoiding the hazel eyes Damien wore.

Damien looked at him surprised, with a hint of worrisome. Am I too old for him, oh God. "29, nearly 30," the older man muttered, "I am really old!," he continued.

Maybe a joke could make this situation less awkward.

"29 is not old. 50 is old. 90 really old," Ezra replied with a serious face.

Oh right...

"That was a joke, lovely," Damien smiled at him, " What about you, Ezra. How old are you?"

Ezra looks at him in the eyes for a second before focusing back to Damien's lips.

"'m 23 and 2 months," Ezra answered looking at his finger tips as if they were the most interesting thing in the universe.

"23 and 2 months," repeated Damien with a soft smile on his face.

Damien looked back at Ezra and paid attention to all of the small details on his face, the hundreds of tiny freckles, the fine lines, and the speckles of brown in his green eyes. Butterflies surrounded his whole body, an incredible feeling he'd felt for the first time.

He thinks back at his life. How at some moment he thought Ruby was the one, yet he never felt this enormous sensation with her.

"Dee....Babe...Knocking. Damien!," yelled Ezra trying to gain Damien's attention.

The older man came back to the present and turn his head towards the knocking sound.

Seems like dinner is here...

"Sorry, Darling. The pizza is here, wait for me. Okay?," Ezra nodded without giving much attention to what he was saying.

Damien stood up and walked to the front door before opening it. A blond women appear wearing an ear-to-ear smile.

"Well hello there! Pepperoni with green peppers?," smirked the women, looking at Damien from head to toe while biting her lips.

"Oh yes! I apologize for not responding earlier."

While Damien was struggling getting the payment and tip, as he was holding the pizza box with one arm, a much shorter guy came behind him looking straight at the women.

"Babe...green peppers too?" Asked Ezra still with his eyes lingering towards the women. Damien answered immediately, "Yup!"

When he got the right amount of money, Damien returned his view to the women who's bright smile had disappeared. It seems she heard Ezra's nickname.

"Here you go, thank you," smiled the tall man respectfully. The women made a disgusted face looking at the guy behind Damien.

"Yeah whatever," responded the women before turning her back and leaving.

Uh...what was that?

With a confused look, Damien closed the door and approached Ezra who was back on the couch looking his hands intensely.

"Ezra, I said to stay remember?," the younger man turned to look back and quickly ran to him, hugging him tightly.

"Pizza now!," shouted Ezra.

Damien laughed and hugged him back with his free arm, not too tight so that Ezra didn't feel suffocated.

"Let's go eat pizza, sweetheart."

Both, still hugging, walked towards the kitchen. Ready to eat love.

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Hello! Here's the chapter I began writing a while ago. Started the second semester at college and it's kicking my ass, much harder than last semester.

Today was a good day so I decided to finish it.

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Until next time....