It was still dark outside when Dan awoke. Strong arms held him close to a warm body. Harry. He was lying in Harry's arms. How weird was that? And he liked it. That was even weirder.
Dan became aware of Harry's erection pressing into his back leading his thoughts to what the two of them had done just before falling asleep. He remembered specifically what he had done to Harry who had liked it, too.
Dan smiled to himself, wriggling deeper into the embrace. Hot breath drifted across his cheek when Harry spoke.
"You're awake."
"So are you."
"Either that or we're having a conversation in our sleep."
Dan moved his hand so that it rested on top of Harry's across his abdomen, his fingers stroking the tawny hair on the back of the younger man's arms. Harry began nuzzling Dan's neck. His lips sucked at the sensitive skin behind the other's ear. Shivering pleasurably, Dan closed his eyes again.
"I like your accent."
Harry chuckled. "So you're not having second thoughts?"
"A bit late for that, don't you think? If I had considered for one second that I didn't want you in my bed, I would never have invited you here last night."
"So you lured me here just to have your way with me?" Harry teased.
"I hoped you would have your way with me, even if the thought of being with another man terrified me." Dan drew in an unsteady breath. "Harry, during our first -- date at the pool hall, after I acknowledged to myself that I found you attractive, I realized that I had had feelings for you for quite some time. You've always been a good friend, even when I treated you with less respect. The past week or so I guess I started thinking of you the way I do the women in my life. That sounds wrong. What I mean is, I thought of you as someone I wanted to make love to. Like I said, it terrified me. That's why I was afraid I was losing my touch with women.
"Who I am is tied up in my sexual identity. When I started desiring you, it confused me."
Harry didn't speak but resumed exploring the back of Dan's neck with his mouth. He nipped gently at the spot where the neck and shoulder joined then moved back up to Dan's jaw, tracing its line upwards from the chin to the corner of Dan's mouth. He left a small kiss there then reversed his path back down the side of the neck.
"I'm pouring my heart out here and you're trying to seduce me?"
Laughing quietly at the tone rather than the words, Harry asked, "Is it working?"
"Yes. I said what I had to say so please continue what you're doing."
Harry got up on his knees and placed one hand on the other side of Dan so that he leaned over him, then lowered himself to stretch out full length.
"First I want to apologize to you."
"For what?"
"I more or less ambushed you with that kiss last night. If I went too fast, I am sorry."
Dan gazed up at him. Their faces were close enough so that he could see the expressively kind eyes even in the dark. "If you hadn't made your move right then, none of the rest of it would have happened. I was too scared to say or do anything first. As you know, I don't easily admit to being scared of anything."
"I know," Harry said smiling gently. He brought his hands up onto Dan's chest and rested his chin on them. "As for what you just told me about your feelings, I sensed your confusion. You'd been distracted. Quieter. Conflicted. I wanted to help but didn't know if you'd welcome the kind of help I wanted to give you."
"Could I ask you something?" Dan asked.
"Shoot."
"How did you know?"
"About you? I didn't. I only hoped you would return my feelings."
"I mean, how did you know about you.....liking men? When did you know?"
"Oh. Well, that's a tough one, Dan. I was kinda slow about it, too. I was in my late twenties before I gave myself permission to admit that I sometimes prefer men. After that it only took me another five years to do anything about it." He smiled self-deprecatingly.
Doing some quick calculations, Dan said, "So you've only been doing this for about two years or so?"
An unidentified expression moved over Harry's face. It went away but returned accompanied by a slight frown.
"Or so."
Dan said, "I'm sorry. I forgot not everyone operates in get-them-into-bed-before-they-know-what-hit-them mode. You must take your time."
"I like to get to know my date's name first, yeah," Harry allowed a small smile to chase away his frown.
"Ha ha. Very funny."
"I've been with a few men. I could count them on the fingers of one hand and have a thumb and maybe a pinky left over."
Dan suspected Harry knew exactly how many men he'd been with, but he didn't press the issue. It wasn't important anyway. Harry chose him to be with now.
Apparently, Harry was thinking along similar lines as he suddenly got a mischievous light in his eyes and slid down the length of Dan's body, vanishing under the sheets.
"What are you doing?"
There was no verbal reply but Dan felt Harry's adventurous mouth close over his semi-erect penis. The shock of the contact made him stiffen all over. Harry didn't let him get used to the new sensation. He continued uninterrupted, lathing the suddenly rigid organ with sweeps of his tongue from the base of the shaft to the crown. He lapped around the tip and, sealing his lips on the end of it, sucked on it hard. Then he licked at the vein along the underside of the cock. Dan could feel with every lick and suck exactly what Harry was doing as if he the sheet wasn't in the way and he was watching it with his eyes. He felt he was getting very close to orgasm, but found himself too incoherent to speak. His fingers dug into the bedding on either side.
Suddenly Harry stopped what he was doing, and just like before, he clamped his fingers around the base to halt Dan's climax. He popped out from under the sheets, making his hair stand on end, as he emerged looking flushed. His eyes sparkled as he leaned over to the nightstand, pulling out a condom.
He gazed down at Dan and asked, "Will you do it again?"
Dan took the rubber from him. Harry handed him the lubricant then straddled his legs facing him.
"Will that work?"
Grinning, Harry leaned down and planted a sloppy kiss on Dan's lips. "Oh yeah."
Quickly preparing himself, Dan tossed the K-Y aside and grasped Harry's hips as the young man sank down on him, impaling himself. Dan dug his heels into the bed and did his part as Harry rocked up and down, tweaking his lover's nipples and sending jolts of fire straight to Dan's groin. It didn't take long before Dan climaxed.
"Fast and furious," he panted. Then he noticed Harry's cock was so erect it touched his belly. "But you didn't come."
"I know. Will you let me fuck you?"
"Harry! Such language," Fielding scolded mockingly.
Studying Dan's face, trying to hide his disappointment Harry said, "You're not ready."
Stopping him from getting up by holding him by the wrists, Dan said, "I want to." He paused as he tried to think of a way out of it then realized it wasn't fair to Harry. "For you. I'll do it for you, because you want to."
"I'll be gentle, Dan. I promise."
"All right. I trust you."
The smile that lit up Harry's face came through his eyes only. "I meant it when I said I was falling in love with you."
"Oh." Dan cleared his suddenly clogged throat. "I thought you....." he trailed off, ashamed of where his thoughts were leading him.
"You thought I was just saying that in the afterglow of our moment together?"
"It happens."
"I don't take the words 'I love you' lightly."
"Oh Harry." Dan wrapped him in a tight embrace. Releasing him, he kissed him on his bare shoulder. Starting to get on his knees, he asked, "Where do you want me?"
"Lie back again. I want to see your face when you come."
While Harry quickly but gingerly rolled a condom on and used a generous amount of lube, Dan lay against the pillows with his legs separating naturally. Harry knelt between them and lifted one up over his shoulder. The other he pulled up against his side. Dan let it fall there, his heart pounding erratically. He kept his eyes on Harry's face as he was slowly filled with the other man's fingers.
"ohgodharry"
"It's okay, Dan. You're doing fine. Just relax."
Gradually Dan's breathing slowed and he stopped clenching against the intrusive fingers. Withdrawing them, Harry nudged Dan's anus with his cock. It slid inside with infinite slowness letting Dan feel every millimeter of progress. Soon he was filled with an object so foreign and yet so familiar. The sensation mystified him. He wanted to expel it and at the same time he wanted it deeper.
Harry was watching him closely and as soon as Dan finished that thought, Harry pushed forward. He slipped in as far as he could go. Dan opened his mouth and a long low groan emerged.
"Feeels sooo goood."
"Yeah." Harry ran his hands up and down Dan's thighs as the left leg wrapped around his waist. "It does, doesn't it?"
Biting his lip, Dan could only nod.
"Are you ready?"
Another nod with eyes opened wide.
Harry began moving his pelvis back and forth, sliding out a bit then back in. Moaning, Dan moved with him.
At some point, Harry grasped Dan's cock and brought it back to life so that when he reached his peak Dan joined him, and they fell into the abyss together.
The next time they woke up the sun was shining outside.
Harry lay where he'd fallen asleep in Dan's embrace. He lifted his head from his lover's chest.
Smiling dark eyes greeted him.
"I love you, too," Dan said.
Harry kissed him soundly on the mouth.