Sensuality

IV - 6

I wake up to two voices whispering. Irritated I turn around and dig my face into the pillow, which smells like Mick. The voices stop for a second but the moment I don't move anymore they start again.

"You can still see them!"

"I am trying my best. This is the first time I am doing this."

"Shouldn't we wake Koda, so ..."

"No, he came to bed really late last night. I wanna let him sleep some more."

Ups, so Andrew noticed when I slipped into bed early in the morning. Again I turn around. Again the whispers stop. The sounds become clearer around me and my mind wakes up. No chance of going back to sleep now.

I open my eyes and bright sunlight lets me close them immediately after.

"You want me to do what?", I ask with my morning voice and closed eyes. A moment later someone sits down next to me on the bed.

"Mornin'", Andrew says still in a small voice. "I am trying to cover up Mick's bruises but I don't really know how."

"Just get the concealer and ... What bruises?", suddenly I am awake. My eyes are open and the light doesn't bother me anymore. Andrew is sitting next to me a little startled. Mick is sitting at my improvised beauty table. He is shirtless.

I walk over to him looking for major injuries but I don't find any. Then my eyes fall onto the dozens of hickeys on Mick neck. I point at them and ask if they mean those.

Mick nods: "I wanted to go home because my dad has some kind of business lunch meeting we all have to join, but if someone of my family sees me with all of these hickeys I am dead."

"Your brother will be there?", I ask.

"No, but I don't want another overprotective family member all over me." Without a word I get all the things, I need to make Mick's hickeys invisible.

"You should wear these with pride and don't hide them", I mumble. After the shock of thinking Mick was hurt my brain just went back to its half-asleep state. "Hickeys are sexy."

"You think so", Mick says. I jerk a bit not expecting someone to reply to my mumbling.

I just nod and finish with some powder to blend everything nicely. "There you go. No hickeys." Mick leans forward to examine my work. I think he is satisfied since he jumps up and dresses quickly. I follow him to the apartment door.

Before Mick opens the door he turns around. Right in front of me he pauses and looks me straight in the eyes. "Thank you", he says. Then he leans down and kisses me. Our lips dance with each other just a second but it is enough time for me to feel his gratitude.

He smiles at me and is gone the next moment.

'Thank you as well, Mick.'

I walk back into the living room. Now fully awake I notice that I am just in my boxers. Andrew is probably not very comfortable with my state of dress. I want to get some clothes from my room when Andrew stops me.

"Since when do you two kiss?" He sounds a little confused but mostly curious and ... envious?

'Ohhh, Andrew! Did I get into your head?'

I smile at the thought of Andrew getting comfortable around Mick and me and wanting more intimacy. Andrew notices my smile and now he is embarrassed.

"A few weeks ago we made a deal that I am okay with us kissing but he has to kiss me first for it to happen. So it happens on his turn and in the pace, he is comfortable with. This is the first time he made use of that offer though."