Listening to the Heart

Chapter 18

A/N: The image above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Also, there will be some mature content in this chapter, so if you're below 18, please skip this chapter, sorry.

Title's POV

I started to feel guilty for not responding to Cooheart's text informing me that he was getting discharged the following day.

It's been two days now since I have sulked in my hospital bed. I could no longer stand not being in touch with him. I just had to see him and talk to him, if not in person, at least through a video call. My heart hurt at the thought of how much I love him even though he didn't feel the same way for me.

I remember as far back as we were kids, I already had some strange kind of affection for him which I, in my very young mind, could not fully understand. I just knew that I enjoyed being with him all the time and that I felt some kind of loneliness whenever our play time had ended and we had to go home to our individual houses.

One other thing that I really did not like about myself was that I wanted Cooheart's companionship all to myself. I almost always resented any one who tried to be close to Cooheart. My reaction was always intense whenever I felt that my friendship with Cooheart was threatened by the presence of someone else.

I reached for my cell phone that was lying on my bedside table and went to Favorites and tapped on FaceTime.

I started to get anxious and upset when I heard the endless ringing on the other end. Why was he not picking up? Was he the one sulking on me this time?

With a heavy sigh, I ended the call and lay back against my pillows with my eyes closed.

I tried to get some sleep. Tomorrow might be a better day to call.

Cooheart's POV

Kao and I looked at each other wide eyed when my screen showed Title's face. He was trying to do a video call with me.

Kao and I were speechless for a few tense seconds. Then Kao spoke up. He put his hand over mine which was holding on to the phone.

"Please don't take it," his voice seemed to be pleading with me.

I nodded wordlessly. I knew that he was right. Taking the video call was too risky.

Although Title was not my official boyfriend, he somehow claimed some kind of exclusivity with me by virtue of our long standing friendship, a friendship which stretched all the way back to very early childhood.

He was sure to ask me some very angry questions if he were to see me half naked in bed, inside Kao's room.

"Thank you," said Kao in a heartfelt tone of voice, after I let the phone ring until Title ended the call.

He then dipped the towel once more into the wash basin and after wringing the towel he started to wipe me gently from the base of my neck and moving to one shoulder and then the other. He ran the towel down my left arm and then my right.

I held my breath when he started wiping my chest, running across one nipple and then the other. I could not keep my nipples from hardening. I hated myself for not being able to overcome the delicious sensation that was running through my whole being.

I happened to glance at his face. I was surprised to see that it had turned a dark red.

When he noticed that I was looking at him, he made one quick sweep of the towel all over my abdomen and then said in a voice, so soft and breathy that I could hardly catch what he was saying, "I think I should stop here."

I nodded wordlessly once more. My heart was beating so fast that I felt my voice would not be able to escape my throat.

Kao's POV

The moment that I started running the towel across Cooheart's nipple, I felt the beginnings of a hard on.

Against my better judgment, I kept on running it back and forth from one nipple to another until I saw each one turning bright pink and hard as little stones.

I felt my hardened member straining against my boxer briefs and I felt my blood rushing from my neck upwards all over my face.

When I saw Cooheart's eyes on me, I knew that I had to stop what I was doing.

I made one quick sweep over his abdomen and then dropped the towel into the wash basin.

"I think I should stop here," I told Cooheart, my voice hardly above a whisper.

He nodded and turned his face away from me.

I was thankful for that because then I was able to quickly turn around without him noticing what was jutting against the fabric of my boxer shorts.

As I was carrying the wash basin out the door, he called out to me.

"Kao!"

"Yes?" I asked, without turning around.

"Would you please ask Rose to fetch me my toothbrush and toothpaste and a tumbler of water? Plus another wash basin please."

"No need to bother Rose for it," I replied, "I'll get them for you. They're all in the bathroom, right?"

"Yes," Cooheart replied.

I gathered everything that Cooheart asked for but I did not immediately return to the room. I waited for my excited member to calm down first before I went back to face him.

"Thank you so much," Cooheart said when I came back to the room with the stuff that he asked for, "I really hate putting you out. I wish I could completely recover by as early as tomorrow."

"It's not any trouble at all for me, Cooheart," I said sincerely, "please try to remember that before you hesitate to ask something of me."

"My mom was so right when she said that you are a good and kind and trustworthy person," Cooheart remarked.

I was about to say, "I'm not sure about the trustworthy bit" and then realized that he would surely read my mind and make a run for the hills.

Instead, I said, "Your mom is a very good and kind person herself. I'm grateful that she thinks that way of me."

"What about me, do you think that I'm a good and kind person, too?" Cooheart asked, fluttering his eyelashes at me.

What the hell, was he flirting with me?

I was so tempted to climb into the bed and kiss him senseless but I struggled to keep my cool.

"I think so, too, except sometimes you tend to be a little bratty," I replied.

He gave me a cute little pout which made me want to kiss his sensuous looking lips but again I held myself back.

I left him to brush his teeth in private. I went back to the kitchen and got an eight ounce bottle of spring water from the fridge. I drank it in one long gulp.

I felt a little calmer after that.

When I went back inside the room, Cooheart had finished brushing his teeth. I took all the stuff back to the bathroom.

When I went back inside the room, my heart was beating like crazy once more.

"Do you sleep with the light on?" I asked Cooheart, my finger already on the switch ready to turn off the light.

"No," he said, "but I like to leave the night light on."

I went over to one corner of the room and turned the night light on before walking back to the switch by the door.

I climbed onto the bed, taking care not to let any part of my body touch Cooheart.

"I left Chloe, my koala bear, on the folding bed," he remarked just as I had settled myself beside him.

"Just this once, can you make me your koala bear?" To my dying day, I will never know what devil possessed me to say that.