Living Silently

Kin

"Austin"

He was definitely embarrassed about last night which like most things about him was cute and a little frustrating.

"How long are you going to pretend to be asleep," I asked him. He didn't respond though his eyes were trying hard to remain closed.

"When are you going to stop being shy around me. I mean we're getting married and adopting a kid together it's a little late in the game to still be nervous about being yourself around me," I said before flipping him around and pressing his nude body against my own. His eyes opened up and his undertones were rose colored.

"I love you, now can you stop being so innocent and talk to me about our wedding," I said looking into his pretty eyes.

"We can just set an appointment for the courthouse on Monday," he said and I looked at him as if he was crazy.

"What," he asked.

"We're not going to the courthouse to do this. I want the real deal with family, friends, and a big ass cake that is going to have Amar so hopped up on sugar that we are going to want to kill him. I want to see you walking up to me in whatever color suit we choose and then a honeymoon somewhere nice and not landlocked," I told him unable to hold in the smile just thinking about it.

"Austin I don't have friends, it's just you, Amar, and my siblings. That's all I have," he said not able to look me in the eye.

"First of all, we can have a smaller wedding so it won't be such a big deal. Second, you have a whole network of people who care about you in the hospital. You know they spoke highly of you when you were in the hospitals after the accident. They were always making sure I was treating you right when I came up there. I think you are so blinded sometimes by just your perception of the world that you don't actually step back and see what is going on," I said forcing him to look at me.

"You're kind of a special person who matters to a lot of people. I mean how many people can say that they fostered a kid recovering from cancer," I asked him and he didn't respond.

"We can have the wedding October eight. No more than fifty people and I want to honeymoon where there's some snow," he said after a long pause.

"Deal," I said insanely happy.

"Now can we get dressed I'd like to clean before we have to go pick up Amar," he said pulling away from me to get up. I watched his every move
paying a greater amount of attention when he bent over to get his robe and pulled it on both his shoulders before walking to the bathroom. I could hear scratching at the door and knew that Nemo was awake and looking for us. Getting up I opened the door and he just walked right in and started sniffing around not paying any attention to me. I walked to the dresser and grabbed some underwear then went to the bed stripping it of all its sheets and pillowcases. When Noel came out he went to the closet grabbing clothes and began to get dressed. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and could hear him shuffling around in the bedroom. When I was sure my breath smelled minty fresh I left out the room and saw Noel wearing a white shirt that's showed off his lean body along with these jeans that weren't baggy but hung off his hips a little allowing a little sliver of skin to be shown and the label of his underwear was visible even when his arms were relaxed.

"You look good," I said walking over to him just to give him a peck on the cheek before getting dressed in a similar outfit. Then all that was left was cleaning and walking Nemo who wanted nothing more than to lay around and eat. Before I knew it we were in the car heading to Chloe's house to pick up Amar then prepare for the week of classes and work. I loved my job at the firm. Since I was new I was mostly doing research and proving myself which wasn't a problem at all. I was a firm believer in crawling before you walk. It was important to burn the midnight oil going through old cases and preparing for someone else's before you were the big man in the seat.