Cursed

Finn.

“Easy for you to say!” Kieran cried. “You’re not the one all sticky! And my ass hurts!”

He was complaining about having to walk to the shower in his condition. Though, I did feel kind of bad about leaving him in pain… Either way, I picked him up into my arms and carried him like a princess to the bathroom. “So, needy,” I chuckled before kissing his ear lobe.

I never thought I’d be able to be with someone else like this. Especially the bit about… well, making love to them. I honestly thought that would be impossible for me, at least if it hadn’t been Kieran. Anyone else would never make me as happy.

I started the bath water as Kieran looked at himself in the mirror. “It’s funny…,” he started. “I always thought sex would change the way you looked at yourself.”

I lowered my eyes as they rolled over his naked body seeing all the marks I’d made on him last night with a twinge of embarrassment. I wish I had stopped myself from getting so… feral.

“Is that… a bad thing?” I questioned quietly.

“What? Of course not! I’m just glad I don’t feel different,” he said. “It would leave an opening for the gnomes to use mind control on me.”

I sighed deeply. Him and those damn gnomes… But I grabbed him from behind, wrapping my arms around his stomach and lazily lacing them over his belly button. I let my head rest in the crook of his neck as I looked at us embracing in the mirror.

“Anyways, for that shower?”

“We’re taking a bath,” I corrected.

“But the water will get cold!” He whined.

“Oh? What will we be doing in the time it takes to get cold?” I questioned, a sly smirk dangling on my face.

His face went red before he looked down. “Fine,” he agreed reluctantly. How adorable could he get? I smiled as I helped us both get in the tub. I sat down against the back and he leaned against my chest in the larger-than-normal tub.

For some reason, even though we were both in the bath tub completely naked, pressed against each other, this didn’t feel even remotely sexual. I brought his finger up while they were laced around mine to look at the way they fit together and just seemed to belong.

“Finn,” he said. “I… I want to stay with you no matter what it might mean for me.”

I suddenly got chills as he mentioned that. I honestly didn’t want to be without him but… he has a family and a new baby brother that he needs to be there for. But on the other hand, I know he really wants to be with me. Though, I’m sure his parents are already preparing for him to leave home to go to college or work or whatever.

“You can feel it ending too, huh?” I whispered more to myself than him. What I meant was that there was just this feeling of something awful happening. Perhaps that’s what led me to make love to him like that. Not to say that I didn’t want it or that I was unhappy with it. In actuality, I was almost too happy with it.

He didn’t really hear me as he splashed in the tub a little before turning around to face me, both of his elbows on the sides of the tub. As soon as he did that, I was about to ask him what was the matter, until he pressed his lips against mine. I didn’t fight back as his tongue slipped into my mouth. It wasn’t particularly sexual just… a reassurance that what happened between us was real. How much we’ve had to fight for this relationship seemed impossible.

But then he pulled away and shivered. “Too cold,” he said before getting out.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Kieran and I decided to go on what had to be our first date ever. I guess the sequence in which we went about this relationship was just a bit messed up. But it didn’t matter now, it’s not like we haven’t been together for months.

I just stuck with the good old dinner and movies date. We even had it so that I picked him up at seven. It was so cliché… but well, I wanted to experience this for once in my life because I’m not human and I wanted a human experience with him before my identity caught up with me.

I walked up to Kieran’s door and knocked. He answered only a second later and looked around real quick before pecking my lips in a short greeting. He shut the door carefully behind him before walking to the car with me.

“Does my hair look okay? I was getting a headache working on it,” he said.

I quirked an eyebrow at him. “You’re being such a girl,” I told him, chuckling a bit.

“I just wanted to look nice for our first date, Mr. I-wear-jeans-and-a-T-shirt-everywhere.”

He stuck his tongue out at me before I kissed him. “Hush,” I cooed.

“No! Never! Why don’t you care that I look great!?”

I pressed my lips to his again to silence him before sliding my tongue into his mouth. He moaned into the kiss before I pulled away, teasing him. “You look great,” I said with our foreheads pressed together.

“Finally, some appreciation,” he said.

About twenty minutes later, we were in the next town over at a Steak-n-Shake. It was the only thing I could really afford since I didn’t have a job.

“This food is delicious! How have I not come here before?” He questioned as he ate his food. I grabbed his hand from across the table and rubbed circles into the smooth skin of the back of his hand. Whenever the waitress came by though, we let go.

Luckily, in the movies there wasn’t any problem with us holding hands since it was dark. We were watching some ridiculously cheesy romantic movie, which was fine because it gave us plenty of time to cuddle. He rested in the crook of my arm and held my other hand with his since the armrest lifted up.

And… we may have made out there as well…