Boys For Hire!!

Chapter 31: To An End

My eyes open to a world.

My whole world.

"Arian, you know you drool when you sleep?"

My cheeks flushing, I cover my face in a huff, rolling over on the bed so I face the wall. Still half awake, the butterflies in my stomach seem to be amplified 10 times as Akihito wraps his arms around my waist.

"What I'd give to wake up like this every morning..."

"You've been saying that for the past 3 mornings, you know."

"I know." He smiles into the nape of my neck." I just can't get over how good it feels to be with you."

My cheeks heating to an insane temperature, I quickly seperate from the male, sitting upright in my bed and pulling the sheets to my waist. I get what the other think—that we're doing it. Having sex, but Akihiko hasn't made a move on me ever since the party, and to be honest it's a bit frustrating. When I try to kiss him, he moves away and I end up looking like an idiot.

Wrapping my long sleeved arms around my self, I look down at Akihiko who's handsome face lies semi-asleep. His eyes are shut and his breaths are peaceful, and I gently run my fingers along his cheek bone.

"Akihiko?"

"Mm...?" He drawls sleepily.

"Are you... are we... are we-"

"Arian." He speaks clearly now, cutting me off as I'm about to state. "We're taking it one step at a time, okay? Haruo already told me about what your thinking."

Chuckling nervously, I silently curse the blabber mouth Haruo. I furrow my brow and bring my knees to my chest in a curious manner.

"Why don't you even... Even..."

"Kiss you?" Akihiko, now fully awake, pulls his body upwards so he's sitting upright. Stretching his neck, he looks at me as if I should know. "Arian, if I even kissed your cheek I wouldn't be sure if I could hold back."

"Your such a guy..." I mope, slicking my hair back. "Stop making me suffer for your carnal urges."

"In time." He tilts his head and shows me a smile.

When Akihiko smiles at me, it's like the whole world stops. All of the ordeals we've been through, after everything that's happened, I can't believe that I'm here now—with him. All these boys... ever since the beginning, I've loved them dearly, and the chapters of our lives seemed to come into colour with every second that brought us all closer.

Gripping the sheets tightly, I shut my eyes and lean back.

But in every story...

They always end.

***

Trotting down the stairs, dressed and changed, Akihiko's arm is hung around me in a sign of possession as we join the others in the living room.

"You two are finally up..."

"Two busy doing you know what?" Haruo snickers, and I give him a menacing look that shuts him up.

Sitting by Katsumi and Shiroi, I grab a piece of toast which my mother gladly provides with a smile. Biting down into the bitter vegemite, and I revel in the feeling of sitting with my friends and laughing and talking.

"Yeah, and then Naozumi fell into a bucket of dirt and it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen."

"Serves him right for sleeping and not looking where he was going."