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“You should get in the bath. The hot water will feel good.”
Pai is right, which is annoying.
“Let me carry you, it’ll be easier.”
It is easier, which is also annoying. But if Sky gets annoyed at every stupid thing Prapai does, he’ll never feel another emotion again. And not even his bad mood can stand up to so many orgasms in a row.
“Sex addict.” A counselor called him that once in high school, the third time he was caught with a boy behind the gym. It had sounded so stupid then. How could you be addicted to something your body could do on its own? There are alcoholics, there are druggies, and there’s whatever it is his mother was that made her so obsessed with her work that she neglected her marriage until it fell apart.
Sex is different. You don’t get hangovers. It doesn't cost anything. If you're careful, you can walk away from it without anything worse than a few aches and scratches. Sky liked sex, and he was good at it.
And then that bastard had come along and taken that from him, too.
Sinking into the douchey rich guy marble bath, Sky wonders if this is what relapse feels like. There was that time last spring, but that was more like a cheat day. Drinking a single beer at family dinner. It wasn’t falling off the wagon.
Sky can’t help but laugh, imagining what Prapai would think of being compared to family dinner.
“What are you smiling about?”
Pai is lounging on the side of the bath, nude and ostentatious, giving Sky those big puppy eyes. He’s got a baby face, even though Sky can’t imagine he's younger than twenty-five.
“This bath is absurd,” Sky says. He sinks down low enough to cover his nipples. “You could fit my entire graduating class in here.”
“We could try, if you want.” Prpai leans in to flick water at him. “Though Payu might kill me if we invited his boy.”
Sky blinks water out of his eyelashes. “Good luck getting Rain to pay attention to anything besides his boyfriend for more than thirty seconds at a time. He has the attention span of a golden retriever.”
Pai smiles. “The two of you seem really close.”
Sky shrugs. “I’ve known him since orientation. So, as close as you can get in a year and a half.”
“Mm.” Prapai slide into the water. He’s got showy gym-rat muscles, but they look good when they move and, unfortunately, Sky’s dick isn’t immune. At least it won’t be up for much for a while. Like, maybe a month or two.
“That’s about how long I’ve known Payu.” Prapai crowds in close, pushing Sky back against the side of the marble tub. "He's the best mechanic I've ever had."
“Fascinating,” Sky says. He hates how his voice shakes. He doesn’t like being pinned.
Prapai kisses his forehead and eases off. He rests his head on Sky’s shoulder. That’s fine. They’re more holding each other up now, rather than Pai holding him down.
“I want to fuck you in this bath,” Pai says against his ear. His breath is warmer than the water.
Sky shudders, even as his stomach clenches. “You’re not going to fuck me anywhere for a while.” He smacks Pai on the side of the arm. “You were too rough.”
“What?” Prapai grins, leaning in so their foreheads are touching. “You begged me to be rough.”
“Yeah. But you don’t have to do everything I tell you to.”
“Yes,” Pai says, with those big sincere eyes that make Sky want to dunk himself under the water. “I do.”
Sky clears his throat. The heat makes everything sticky. “Just be gentler next time.”
Pai’s smile grows, until it’s all Sky can see. “Next time?” He kisses Sky on the mouth, so quick he doesn’t have a chance to respond. “So that means you want to see me again?”
Sky shoves him away in the water. It’s easier to think straight when Pai isn’t right up against him. “Don’t read anything into it. It’s just an expression.”
Pai is still grinning. Sky doesn’t know quite where to look, but he doesn't resist as he reels him back in. Pai's fingers move over his back, down to the curve of his ass cheeks. Sky squeaks when he feels in between.
“Stop it,” he hisses. His head thunks against Pai’s chest as gentle fingers press against where he’s puffy and sore.
“Did I hurt you?”
Sky shakes his head. “You didn’t.” He rubs his nose against Pai’s solar plexus. He likes the way he smells, warm and clean. “I liked everything you did.”
He says it out of instinct, reassurance. It’s okay, baby. I know you didn’t mean to hurt me. I love everything you do. That was the only possible answer with his ex. But he is shocked to find that he means it.
“I’m sorry if it was too much,” Pai say, holding him tight and stroking his fingers through his hair. “I just like—.”
“Making me come.” Sky looks up at him through his bangs. “Yeah, you said so.”
“I was going to say, I like making you smile,” Pai says. “But that too.”
Sky rolls his eyes. “Hey!” He grabs at Pai’s arms as he lifts him and sets him on the edge of the marble bath. The stone is cold against his thighs.
“Calm down.” Pai tips him backward, spreading his legs.
A sick flash of panic bolts into the depths of Sky’s stomach. “Stop, I told you no, don’t--.”
Ssh. ”Pai is so close he can feel his breath against his skin.
“What are you--ahh!”
The wet, flexible muscle is a shock to the throbbing redness of his hole. Sky arches his back, overworked thigh muscles trembling as he pushes himself up.
Pai’s hands catch him, holding him by his thighs. He pulls away far enough so he isn’t speaking directly into Sky’s asshole. “Tell me if it’s too much.”
“It’s too--” Sky’s voice breaks off as Pai settles back in with a wetly obscene noise of pleasure. Like he’s tasting something delicious. It makes Sky’s face burn. He isn’t virginal by the stretch of anyone’s imagination, but nobody’s ever done this to him before.
“Fuck,” Sky says. He might say it a bunch of other times. His whole body feels tingly and strange. With his head tipped back, he can see out the window to the lights of Bangkok, upside down. What the fuck is his life.
Pai eats him out for a much longer time than seems advisable or comfortable for his neck, and by the time he pulls Sky back into the water, well, his asshole isn’t so much less sore as it is sore in a completely different way.
“Jerk,” Sky mumbles, clinging to the warm bulk of his chest.
"Good?"
"Mm."
"Sky?"
Sky nods. He feels shy, suddenly. Ridiculously.
Pai's smiles. Once again, it's the only thing he can see.