Nameless

Chapter 16 Slow, Love, Slow

Author notes: English is not my first language, so please forgive my mistakes and awkward writing. This is NOT for profit. I don't own them. AU (as in Alternate Universe) and maybe OOC (as in Out of Character). Characters belong to their rightful owners.

Author notes 2: Thanks to @SunnyAlSorna and @JJSin2020 for editing this. All remaining errors are totally mine. Thanks for your votes and comments, they really motivate me to keep writing.

Author Notes 3: The song is Slow, Love, Slow by Nightwish

Chapter 16. Slow, Love, Slow

Zhan took a deep breath. Focus Zhan! was what he was thinking. He needed to finish Bo's birthday present on time. He hoped Bo liked this. Being on a tight budget wasn't really helping him to choose what to give his boyfriend as a gift, but his less than pure thoughts about Yi Bo wouldn't give him some respite.

Trying to be creative, he decided to paint Bo. He took a picture of him gazing at the stars, looking marveled and enraptured. His expression fascinated Zhan and he decided to make a portrait of Bo. An excellent idea, in theory, if he wasn't fantasizing about the many uses of his boyfriend's luscious lips.

His boyfriend, he still couldn't believe it. After that surprising but more than welcomed confession, Zhan had experienced the happiest time in his life. It was not just Bo's love, it was also a sense of belonging. Like he was finally in the place he was supposed to be. He could hardly believe three months had already gone by.

After a short period of time of sleeping better at night, his old fucked-up nightly-pattern reappeared. He was waking up at 3:33 am. Bo didn't like that at all. Zhan knew he worried, but he wasn't going to lie to Bo just to keep him calm. They swore to tell everything to each other, not to keep any secrets between them.

They were in this awkward but happy phase, after their first tentative kisses shared the day Yi Bo confessed to Zhan, they made the point of kissing every day. They wanted to find out if Bo's aversion to being touched was decreasing and if Zhan's apparent desensitization to any emotion was still present or not. 

There had been another underlying issue. They didn't know if any of them had erotophobia, and that of course could present a problem. But their everyday approach, lingering touches and make out sessions slowly revealed that no, none of them had erotophobia, so that problem was out of the way.

Surprisingly, Madam Yang, Bo's mother was the biggest supporter of their relationship. She invited Zhan to their home at every opportunity. She told Zhan the she had been so afraid of Bo living alone the rest of his life, without a partner, that she was just ecstatic Bo had found Zhan.

She made a point of always giving them privacy, making sure that no one dared to interrupt them when they were alone in Yi Bo's room. Of course, both being hot-blooded young males, things... progressed.

Sloppy blowjobs and hesitant hand jobs were more and more frequent, both of them had been, after all, completely inexperienced. But the hunger was there, barely controlled, waiting, wanting to emerge. Both of them so willing to take the next step in their relationship, but reluctant to do so under Bo's family roof.

In fact, it had been Bo's mom who came up with this brilliant idea, they would go out alone on Bo's birthday as a celebration. They had ventured outside before with company. Even Dr. Lu had accompanied them in their first outings to a nearby park and even a leisure stroll around the block, in case something went wrong.

It looked like Yi Bo could manage his agoraphobia if Zhan was with him, his hand firmly holding Zhan's which proved that his haphephobia was also receding when he was with his boyfriend. When Madam Wang was entirely convinced that it was highly unlikely for a panic attack to occur, she was the one that suggested they should go alone.