The Cycle of Friends to Strangers

Chapter 17 - Intimacy

It was christmas day and the duo were sitting next to their christmas tree.

"Do you wanna open the first present?" asked Anthony.

"Sure," Ian pulled out a small parcel, "'To, Ian, merry xmas, love Melanie' Aww" Ian read outloud.

He opened it slowly to reveal a box, he shook it close to his ear.

"It looks like a watch box" said Anthony.

"Ian opened the box and pulled out a gold watch, "Cool" he smiled as he slowly put it back in the box and set it down next to him.

Anthony pulled out a medium sized present, "'Dear Anthony, I hope you have a good christmas, lots of love Ian xx'" Anthony looked up at, "Lots of love?".

"Hey, I don't remember writing that!" Ian chuckled.

Anthony carefully opened the gift.

"What is it?" Ian moved next to Anthony to get a better look.

"This is where that picture went" smiled Anthony.

The present was a picture of Ian and Anthony in a frame that said 'Memories are Forever'.

Anthony looked at Ian, "This was the picture that was taken out of the scrapbook - thank you" Anthony leaned in and kissed Ian.

Ian was shocked, but gave in to the kiss - he was enjoying it, then he finally let his eyes slip shut.

Suddenly, memories were flying back and forth in his mind, sparks of the kiss were triggering all kinds of things in his brain. Everything was spinning around his head. Ian pulled away.

"I love you!" Ian exclaimed, "Anthony, I don't know what happened, but I sort of remember everything"

"Ian, I love you more than anything in the world right now"

"It's all still a little fuzzy so don't too excited... but I kept my promise"

Ian kissed Anthony again, but this time it was more intimate.

"Wow" Anthony breathed out as he pulled away, "I guess you do remember stuff" Anthony winked, then began laughing as Ian ran upstairs and he was chasing him.

They ran into Anthonys room.

Anthony jumped on the bed as Ian straddled Anthonys lap.

They began kissing each other again, putting their hands in each others hair.

Ian pulled Anthonys top up and off then threw it on the floor next to the bed.

Anthony pulled out of the kiss, "Ian, are you sure you want to do this? I mean straight after you sort of got your memory back somehow?" Anthonys fingers was on the bottom of Masons shirt.

Ian was looking into Anthonys light brown eyes. Ian knew if he lifted his arms up, Anthony would pull his shirt off and they would begin. He wanted them to do that, he wanted them to have that connection, he wanted to have sexual intercourse with the man he knew he loved.

Ian looked down at Anthonys hands and back up to Anthonys eyes.

Ian nodded...

Then he lifted his arms up.

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Anthony and Ian got underneath the covers and just held eachother.

"Are you sure you wanted that?" asked Anthony.

"Of course, I love you and I just wanted to do something apart from kissing" Ian chuckled sleepily.

"You're cute when your tired," Anthony pushed Ians fringe out of his eyes.

"You're cuter, but overall, we're both hot messes" yawned Ian.

Anthon tapped Ians head lightly.

"What are you doing?" asked Ian.

"Just making sure everything is okay up in there, it's still fragile"

Ian tapped Anthonys chest where his heart is.

"Now what are you doing?" Anthony chuckled.

"Just making sure everything is okay in there, it's still fragile" grinned Ian as he put a soft kiss on Anthonys lips.

Then the two men fell into a deep sleep.