In Another World

Epilogue

One year and a few months later

"Come on, Angel, pick up your laptop and tablet now that I've got your desk set up," Aki said, rolling his eyes. "You can do that much."

"My back hurts," Angel whined.

"You picked up a box of clothes, Angel. Denji did more to move you than you did to move," Aki said, his hands on his hips. "Your desk is all set up in our room, the least you can do is put together your work station."

"My boyfriend's so mean," Angel muttered before grabbing his laptop and hugging it to his chest.

"Yeah, yeah, go complain to Denji and Power," Aki said with a snort.

The majority of Angel's things had been taken down the stairs (the stupid elevator still wasn't working) to a moving van that Aki was planning on taking to a few thrift shops around town. Most of it Angel had gotten used, anyway. Aki had even convinced Angel to toss out some of his old clothing that had too many holes in it. The rest of his things were to be moved into his new apartment.

Angel walked exactly one apartment down, opening the door with care before walking in. Power and Denji had given up on helping him move–one of them much sooner than the other–to play video games together. Angel took his laptop into his new bedroom, which only had three boxes laying on the ground to sort through. Set up in the corner was his desk. This would be his new work room, as well as his bedroom.

Angel placed his laptop on the desk, squatting down to connect the charger to the wall. He heard Aki walk in behind him, but he didn't react besides getting up from the ground with a groan. Moving was such a pain. At least Aki promised him ice cream at the end of it. The good stuff, soft serve. It was warming up to the point where Aki would be willing to walk down to the ice cream shop instead of picking it up at the nearby convenience store.

"I'm going to start putting away clothes. You said there was a box I wasn't allowed to look at, right? Which one was it?" Aki asked, tapping on the boxes with the side of his foot.

"The biggest one," Angel replied. "You'll find out what's in there when we can get Denji and Power out of the house."

"Oh?" Aki said, an eyebrow raising. "Now you've got me curious, Angel."

"Open it and you're dead, Hayakawa," Angel said flatly. "Now, if you'll excuse me, my boyfriend is making me do hard, manual labor."

As Angel walked away, off to his old apartment to get his tablet, his mind went over what was in said box. While the majority of the toys and lingerie Aki had seen before, there were a couple of new items in there, most notably some all-white lingerie he had bought custom-made that included some tiny angel wings on the back. Although he had worn lacey things before, all of it up to this point had been made exclusively for men and didn't have any sort of bralette. This one did and while he was nervous about wearing it for Aki, he knew that, based on past experiences with lingerie, Aki would love it.

Angel carefully picked up his tablet from his old kitchen counter, deciding to leave the stand, wires, and pen in place for now. He walked back to his new apartment, making his way back into his new bedroom. Aki was laying out clothes on their bed, sorting them by both color and seasonal appropriateness. Angel rolled his eyes, but smiled a little. Aki wouldn't be Aki if he wasn't a little bit anal about this sort of thing.

Angel placed his tablet back on his desk, with extreme care. These monitor tablets were expensive, and he did not want to pay to replace it. With another soft groan, he turned around and began the walk back to his room. He vaguely noted that Power and Denji had begun bickering. It would probably turn into a brawl soon enough, but they never went after each other enough to truly hurt each other, so Angel wasn't particularly worried about it.