THE STORYBOOK

H7: EPILOGUE (ENGLISH)

Earth smiled as he watched the face of the young man who, curled up under the covers of their own bed, was whispering his name as he hugged the pillow that was under their heads.

All this while still sleeping soundly.

"Poor Night..." he told himself as he looked at the different scratches, some darker than others, that populated the man's bare shoulders and back, "he had barely slept for a few hours and now I have to wake him up ..."

As... he had to admit that he was the one who had not let the young man sleep for much part of the night. The desire ... the passion that had consumed them during all those hours had caused them to barely close their eyes after the appearance of the first rays of the sun ... first thing in the morning.

Which meant that now... they had to get up and start their day, causing him to have to separate himself from Night for several hours ... something that, without a doubt, was the last thing he wanted to do ... much less now that ... that he finally had the young man for himself.

But...

Working obligations do not wait for anyone, not even for them ... and both, unfortunately, had to fill their positions in just a couple of hours.

"If only I had returned a day before and not at the last moment ..." Earth recriminated himself, while looking with desire and love towards the young man who was still asleep at his side, "me and my great ideas ... "

As, without a doubt, his decision to escape from everything and run away for a few days ... although it had helped him discern his true feelings about Sam and Night's matter ... it had also generated several problems.

The first one ... without a doubt ... Sam's excessive reaction towards his disappearance.

Earth knew that...him going away from that restaurant, without telling Sam anything else than what he had said to him, was not going to sit well with the man but ... he never imagined that he would dare to go to the houses of his family and friends while demanding to know where he was staying...

"And to think that I didn't heard anything about it until coming back to the city ...", he thought as he remembered his astonishment when, after finally turning on his cell phone, he had received more than one hundred messages from Sam as well as from many of his contacts who... were also imploring him to appear and solve the mess he had created. Even his boss had called to tell him that Sam was going everyday to his workplace in order to ask for him and that he should do something about it right away..., "If only he would understand that I am not going to return with him, though ... I guess it's also my fault for not being clear since the beginning".

With a sigh, and while wishing that he could stay the whole day in bed with his boyfriend - yes, HIS boyfriend -, Earth decided to run a finger ... in a very gently way ... over the bare skin of Night.

Immediately a slight giggle began to emerge from the young man's parted lips while, slightly, he started to move his body away from Earth's fingers. Fingers that, now all together, began to play with the naked skin of the boy who, already fully awake, was now laughing without being able to stop himself.

- "N.... Nooo! - Night exclaimed laughing out loud - "St... Stop!"

Earth smiled and, leaving his fingers still for a few seconds, leaned down to lay his own lips on Night's.

- "Good morning, my love..."

The young man, with his face slightly flushed, smiled happily.

- "Good Morning..."

Meanwhile....

Sam was looking towards the main door of the building where Night's apartment was located. His back, resting on the brick wall of the block that was on the opposite sidewalk, had been hurting for a while but ... he was not going to leave ... not again.