Silent

Chapter 23

Avi awoke to the alarm on his phone. He groans as he reaches over and fumbles with his phone to cut it off. It took him a minute to clear his head enough to realize where he was.

He looks around and smiles at the sleeping man only a few inches away. He very gently brushes the hair out of Tim's face and softly kisses him on the forehead. Tim did not even stir from the tender kiss.

Avi quietly gets out of bed and gets ready for school. It won't feel the same knowing that Tim will not be right next door. And he hopes that Ben doesn't even try to talk to him today cause Bram is definitely NOT on his list of favorite people.

After Avi finished getting ready, he was going to give Tim a quick kiss before leaving. He carefully leaned over and kissed Tim on the cheek. Tim reaches up wrapping an arm around Avi's neck pulling him down on the bed.

"Baby, I gotta go." Avi giggled.

"No, I don't want you to." Tim looked at him with sad eyes.

"Don't give me those sad brown puppy dog eyes. Cause it ain't gonna work." Avi chuckled giving Tim a kiss and pushing himself up from the bed.

Tim groans and throws the covers over his head.

Avi laughs pulling the covers down uncovering Tim so he could see his face. 

"I love you." Avi said quietly, kissing Tim again.

"I love you more. Be careful." Tim said, rubbing Avi's cheek.

"I'll text you later." Avi said before turning and heading for the bedroom door. He stops at the door and blows Tim a kiss.

Tim pretends to catch it then lays his closed fist to his chest.

After Avi leaves, Tim sits up on the side of his bed and stretches. He could feel his back pop in about three different places.

He got up and got dressed for the day.  The first thing on his 'things to do' list was to go talk to his landlord. This was something he was NOT looking forward too.

He walks down the hall to the landlord's door and knocks.

His landlord Kenny Rogers, was one of the nicest people he had ever met. He just hopes he understands the situation that he is in.

Kenny opens the door and smiles. "Well, Good morning, Tim. What brings you around this early? I thought you'd be at the school by now."

"I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute, if you have time." Tim asked nervously.

"Why sure, come on in and have a seat. Is something wrong?" Kenny asked. Kenny knew of Tim's hearing problem so he made sure to always speak so Tim could see his mouth.

"Yea, you might say that." Tim said sitting down on the couch. "I came to tell you, Kenny, that I'm going to have to move."

"What? Move? Why?" Kenny asked sitting down.

"Uh, my teaching job at the school has been discontinued. They dropped my Hearing Impaired Class due to lack of funds or so they say. So I am now unemployed. One of the other teachers is gonna let me move in with him. He has a 3 bedroom house." Tim said.

"The bearded guy that I saw leaving your apartment early this morning? Oh, I wasn't spying, I just went out to get my morning paper and saw him leaving." Kenny chuckled.

Tim smiled. "Uh, yea. That was Avi, my boyfriend."

"A very handsome young man. Tim, I really hate to lose you as a tenant but I totally understand your predicament. You're a very blessed man in your field of teaching so I'm sure it won't take you long to find something." Kenny said.

"Thank you so much for understanding." Tim said standing up and shaking Kenny's hand.

"You're welcome, son. And if you ever need a place in the future, look here first." Kenny said walking Tim to the door.

Tim steps out in the hallway as Kenny closes the door. He breaths a sigh of relief.

He heads down to his jeep to go and find some boxes. Now for the task of packing all his crap up. Tim hated packing. He thought when he moved from Texas that he wouldn't have to pack anymore. Boy, was he wrong.

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Avi walked into Tim's apartment and notice all the pictures were gone from the walls and the what nots that were setting around were all gone.

"Hey Babe!" Avi called out. Then shook his head when he realized that Tim couldn't hear him. He goes to Tim's bedroom and notices a lot of things were gone from there too. He hears movement coming from the other bedroom.

He walks in to see Tim labeling some boxes, then stacking them neatly in the corner of the room. Tim glances up to see Avi standing in the doorway.

"Oh, Hey. Is it that late already?" Tim asked, standing up and running his hands through his hair.

"Looks like you've been very busy." Avi said walking up to him and kissing him.

"Very busy. Went and talked to Kenny. That went very well, he was totally understanding." Tim said, wrapping his arms around Avi.

"That's good. I know you were worried about that. I'm glad it went smooth." Avi said playing with the collar of Tim's shirt.

"So how did it go for you today?" Tim asked.

"Good, I guess. Bram never came out of his office I don't think." Avi said with a smirk.

"That sorry low life son of a....." Tim had to stop when Avi smiled and put his hand over his mouth.

"Apparently your day has been going well, don't let the mention of his name get you in a bad mood." Avi said still with his hand over Tim's mouth.

Suddenly Tim sticks his tongue out and licks Avi's hand.

"Ewwww." Avi said jerking his hand away from Tim's mouth. "Oh No You Didn't."

Avi leans up licking Tim up the face.

"Yuck!" Tim said stepping back wiping his face as Avi laughs.

"Oh, you're gonna pay for that." Tim raising his eyebrows.

"For real?" Avi said beginning to step back.

"For real." Tim said as he takes a step toward Avi. 

Avi screams and runs with Tim after him. He runs to Tim's bedroom just as Tim tackles him to the bed.

Avi fell on his back with Tim on top of him. Both were laughing like children.

Avi reaches up running his hands through Tim's hair that had fallen into his face.

His smile fades as he looks into Tim's eyes. "Make me pay, loverboy."

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