Vampire Boys Of Summer (Completed!)

Episode 50: A Bath and Suspiria

Haru removed himself from me and sat up in bed. Unraveling himself from the covers, he got up, and I saw him in all his glory. I felt my breath catch. He was like a god out of a dream, perfectly chiseled by the sculptor of creation. Firm butt, light chocolate abs, rippled chest. My inner perv was rising to the surface.

“Want to take a bath?” he asked, walking to the bedroom door. I was hypnotized just watching him walk across the room.

“Yes,” I sighed, thanking every single God that people prayed to.

He opened the door and stepped out into the hall naked. Disappearing into the bathroom, I heard him turn on the faucet, running our bath water. I got up and picked up my clothes from the corner where we’d discarded them the night before. I threw them in a drawer, saving them as a wonderful souvenir of our first time.

When I followed him into the bathroom, he was already in the tub. Being a little self conscious, I tried to cover myself with my hands. He smiled as if he thought that was cute. “Don’t cover up, baby. You’re beautiful.”

“No, I’m not,” I replied. “I don’t like my body.”

“Well, I do.” He smiled, stirring the bath water with his hand, inviting me in. “You are very beautiful, love. There is nothing wrong with your body. If so, I would have discovered it last night. The only thing wrong with it right now is it is outside the bathtub, instead of in it.”

I smiled and stepped in the tub, sinking my body down in the warm water. I nestled my back against him, and he nuzzled my neck. Then, with a bar of soap in his hands, he lathered it up, and began to wash my back.

“Last night was wonderful,” he said, as his hands spread the luxuriant soap across my skin.

“Magical,” I agreed.

“I hope I wasn’t…”

“You were perfect, Haru.”

“So were you.” Another kiss on my bare neck as he rinsed off my back. “I’m sorry if it was too soon.”

“It wasn’t. I wanted you to make love to me. It not like I was fighting you off.” I turned to look at him. “Maybe you don’t have to worry about it, but next to you, my time is short. You’ll always have tomorrow, but it’s not like that for me.”

“Wow. Miss Sunshine this morning, aren’t you?”

“Well, it’s true. We could have waited, but I don’t want to wait to have you. I want you here and now. If something should happen to me, I…”

“Nothing is going to happen to you. I will protect you. I will not leave your side ever again. Unless I’m just getting on your nerves and you need a break.”

“As if…”

“Turn around, let me wash your front.”

The sudden change in conversation made me nervous. Having my back to him was one thing, but facing him in the light of day so he could see all of me was a whole different thing. The night before we had been in half darkness, a dim room, now here I would be exposed, nothing hidden, no mysteries.

“It’s okay, Haru,” I said, looking for a way out. “You don’t have to baby me.”

“I want to baby you. I haven’t had anyone to baby in hundreds of years.” When I didn’t turn to him, he sighed. “Nora, you are beautiful. You see flaws, I see perfection. You see all the things wrong with your body, but I see everything that is right. Just right.” He smiled. “Tell you what. If it makes you so nervous for me to see you like this , I’ll close my eyes. Now turn, please.”

I turned and allowed him to wash me. He was gentle, affectionate, and true to his words, his eyes remained closed. His hands moved over me with the soap, lingering just long enough to wash me. And though his fingertips grazed the parts of me no one else had touched, he never attempted anything more than getting me clean. When he was done, he rinsed me off by cupping his hands in the water and splashing it across me. If it had been me, I would have ended up getting water everywhere, but he was controlled, keeping it all on me and in the tub. Once done, he opened his eyes and leaned forward to kiss me light on the lips.

After my breath returned, I held my hands out for the soap. “Okay, it’s your turn,” I said.

“What?”

“Now you get pampered, vampire boy.”

A look of protest crossed his face, but then he seemed to think better of it. Maybe he saw resistance was futile. He handed the soap over and let me bathe him. I smiled. From now on, bath time for me was going to be a lot more interesting.

Later, after we dried off and at least put our pants on, we lay in bed once more, my head resting on his sweet scented chest, watching old horror movies on the TV. My bare feet touched his, my fingers twirling through his dark hair in gentle swirls. Our towels lay on the floor where we had discarded them to make love one more time before mom was due home. Now, as the day wore into afternoon, we lay in our mood of comfort and joy, togetherness and tender fire, yet still mother had not returned from church.

“Maybe she went out to lunch with friends after,” Haru reasoned. “I’m sure she’s okay.”

On the television, a girl walked into a room that had no floor and she fell into a pit of razor wire. The more she struggled, the deeper she became entwined in it. I grimaced..“Oh gross.”

“Suspiria,” he replied. “My favorite. I have the Blu Ray in my collection.”

I laughed. I mean, who would think that vampires were avid film fans or even thought of things like DVD’s, Blu Ray’s, or anything other than sucking blood?

“When do you have to feed again?” I asked.

“Maybe tomorrow, or the next.”

“Can I come?”

“Excuse me?”

“You know, to see how you do it?”

He shook his head. “It wouldn’t be safe. You could get hurt.”

“You just said you’d protect me.”

He couldn’t argue that one. “That I did,” he replied. He looked at me, perhaps to see how serious I was about this. “We’ll see.”

“Okay.” I kissed his cheek. “I just want to know everything there is about you. I want to be included in every aspect of your life.”

He kissed me back. “I understand. I want the same of you.”

“But I don’t do anything interesting,“ I confessed.

“Sure you do.” He smiled “Hey, do you want to see something? I was going to show you the other night, but I can show it to you now, if you like.”

“Don’t you want to finish the movie?”

“No, I have seen it many, many times. They are trying to resurrect a witch.”

“Spoiler,” I replied, acting disappointed.

“Sorry,” he shrugged. It didn’t matter to me, though. After you have made love to a vampire a couple times in twenty four hours, witches seem pretty pale in comparison.