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#13 – “Kiss Me”

Neil was tired. It was very late, and their group had just gotten to the house in Columbia after a night out at Eden’s and an Exy game before that. They had won the game thus clenching the number one spot of their conference. Neil had celebrated the win by drinking a little more than he usually did tonight, though it was nowhere near the amount the others consumed regularly.

After Andrew pulled into the driveway Neil was first out of the car, he unlocked the door with his key, and upon entering the house he headed straight up to the room he shared with Andrew. Usually he would hang around downstairs with Andrew making sure everyone else was safely tucked away, and that all the doors were locked. Then they would head upstairs together, but tonight he was tired, a little tipsy, and just wanted to be in bed already. Once upstairs he’d gotten ready for bed quickly, then burrowed into the blankets to wait for Andrew.

Neil was lying in bed eyes closed when he heard Andrew come into the room. He didn’t open his eyes until he felt a dip in the mattress and Andrew move over him to get to his side of the bed. Andrew laid down beside him, but didn’t look over at him as he pulled the blankets up and around himself. Which was a good thing because it gave Neil the ability to stare openly at him.

One would think that with Andrew nestled into the blankets and the yellow glow from the streetlights shining off his pale hair and skin he would look soft, but Neil wasn’t sure Andrew Minyard could ever look soft. In his mind Andrew would always be fierce, unrelenting, and solid. They were the reasons Neil felt he could trust pieces of himself with Andrew during a time when he felt like he couldn’t trust anyone. They were the same qualities that still made Andrew the most important person in his life now that Neil was free of his father and free to live the life that he wanted.

Looking at Andrew and thinking about everything he had done for him was making a warm feeling surge up in his chest and spread all over his body. The warmth felt like it was going to burn a hole straight through his chest, and he needed to do something about it before it consumed him whole.

“Kiss me.”

Andrew’s response was immediate, “You’re drunk.”

“Yes,” Neil confirmed. Then added, “Just a little though.”

Andrew didn’t respond to that, probably thinking that Neil was going to drop the matter. Which he really should have known better by now, since Neil wasn’t one to give up without a fight. “I still want a kiss.”

“I’m not doing anything with you while you are in this state,” Andrew said while gesturing towards Neil with a barely raised flick of his wrist.

Which caused Neil to roll his eyes. “I don’t want to do anything more. I just want one kiss.”

Andrew finally opened his eyes and rolled onto his side to look at Neil. Now that they were laying with their faces only inches apart it would be so easy for him to move his head just slightly forward and kiss Andrew, but he never would. That would be crossing the line Andrew was setting right now, and Neil would never ever cross any of Andrew’s lines uninvited.

So he waited while Andrew studied his face for a moment before he finally said, “One kiss and then you will shut up and let me sleep.”

Neil nodded his head against the pillow eagerly. “Yes.”

Andrew’s eyes roamed over his face for a second more before they landed on his lips and held. Neil’s eyes fluttered shut as Andrew leaned forward and pressed the briefest of kiss to his lips.

The warmth flared in his chest again.

“Thank you.”

Andrew pulled his head back to his side of the bed. “Don’t thank me for something so simple, now go to sleep Neil.”

It might have been just a simple kiss, but Neil would be willing to thank Andrew for anything and everything he willingly gave to him.