Kiss Me (yaoi / boyxboy)

Chapter 23

Finn

I immediately regret telling him the moment the words leave my mouth. What did I expect though? That Cor (yes, he's actually letting me not use his full name) would be totally cool with the fact that I was the reason Grey was currently sitting in a dark room, having only eaten Nutella for the past day or so?

"No." he crosses his arms across his body and sticks out his jaw stubbornly, "No. I'm not going to sit here and listen to this. Is this your life? No. Do you have any right to influence it? No-"

"Hang on a minute, I'm his brother, I have to protect him even if that means..."

"Hurting him?"

When I don't say anything he turns around and sits facing me. A warm breeze blows a hair across his face and I reach up to brush it away but he catches my hand. He holds it in his smaller one, linking his fingers through mine. My heart beats hard against my chest- I really love this kid.

"You have to put it right, Finn. You need to tell him what you did. If you do that then at least he'll have the information to make his own decision."

When I do nothing but chew my cheek, he starts again, "Text him. Tell him to come down and meet us. Then you can come clean."

"Do I have to?"

"Yep." He says brightly. I groan, knowing I'll do it just because he was the one who told me to.

I grit my teeth and type out a quick message to Grey,

Me:
Get out of bed u lazy sod.

Of course, he doesn't reply. I sigh in frustration and try from a new angle,

Me:
I'll buy u an ice cream.

I smile in triumph when I finally get a reply,

Grey:
I'm not third-wheeling.

Me:
I don't want u to. Cor does.

Grey:
Why? u really that boring?

Me:
I'm too sexy to be boring. Just get ur ass out of bed.

Grey:
Fine.

After I send another text giving him our location, we resume talking. After a while, the conversation dies to a comfortable silence... A silence that I decide to break,

"He'll hate me when I tell him." I grumble.

Cor shakes his head, "He'll see that you were trying to protect him. He's smarter than people give him credit. We all are."

"We all are?"

He smiles, "Us. Youth... People underestimate what we can do and that's what gives us power." he pauses for a moment, "Y'know, I'm surprised the government hasn't tried anything involving kid spies- think about it, you would never suspect-"

"Cor, I think you're getting a tad off topic."

A slight blush crosses his smiling face, "I just think I'd make an alright spy."

I take a breath in, preparing myself for rejection before I make a move and lean in closer, resting my forehead against his. To my blissful relief his eye's flutter closed and he swallows deeply. I feel my pulse start to race.
His breathing is fast against my cheek and I relish in the reaction I give him...

"You would make a fucking awesome spy."

He lets out a breath that I take as a laugh and I move closer so that if either of us were to speak, our lips would brush together. I pray to god that he can't hear my heart as he raises a hand to the back of my neck.