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Opening one's eyes was always the hardest part of waking.
The morning sunlight slotted itself through the blinds and drew streaks of gold across the sheets, lines disjointed and scattered, sending patterns scattered across the rumpled fabric.
Taehyung's eyes remained shut as he basked in the warmth, both from the summer air that seemed to slip through the windows and the walls, and the light that painted his skin a shade of gold. He could feel the morning breeze whispering over his skin and painting it a another shade of cool and content through the window that was left open a crack.
As the minutes passed, Taehyung drifted in and out of the place between consciousness and sleep, a drowsy haze tugging him coaxingly into dream land. It was a tug of war between the drowsiness threatening to pull him under, or the sunlight tugging lightly on his eyelids and urging them to open.
Taehyung gave in.
It was soft, warm breaths leaving parted lips murmuring over his skin, facial muscles relaxed and unstrained by stress, a slight quirk to the lips, as if smiling in the midst of slumber. It was silky hair mussed and rumpled, fanned across the pillowcase, and long, dark eyelashes brushing the tops of cheeks. It was the cupid's bow and cheekbones highlighted by the morning sunlight that streamed through the curtains, scar prominent - This was the sight that met Taehyung's eyes as he opened them, and an unconscious smile tugged at the corners of his lips as something warm washed over him.
It pounded at his sternum and it tightened in his stomach, it made his heart beat faster and his hands twitch.
Jeongguk was breathtaking.
Taehyung sighed softly as he reached out with a hand to gently push Jeongguk's hair out of his eyes and away from his forehead. The silky strands of the young man's hair slipped through his fingers like fluid, flowing and free.
Jeonnguk stirred, eyelashes fluttering softly as he reached a hand up to catch Taehyung's wrist, pulling it down to press a soft, sleepy kiss to his palm before lacing their fingers together.
"Did I wake you?"
"Yeah." A soft sigh from soft lips that shone from a brief lave of the tongue. "It's okay though."
Jeongguk reached with his free hand to curl it over the sharp curve of Taehyung's hip, and the older man slid closer. He allowed Jeongguk to bury his face in the crook of his neck, using his free hand to stroke through his dark hair as he dozed, still not quite awake yet. Taehyung could feel Jeongguk's nose against the skin of his neck as the young man nuzzled it sleepily.
"Morning."
"G' morning," Jeongguk mumbled, as he pulled his face back a small distance from Taehyung's neck and began sponging soft, featherlight kisses along his collarbones. Taehyung's tanned skin was hot as he trailed his lips along it. "How'd you sleep, baby?"
The words came as a drowsy slur painted with sleepiness and a shade of something warm like fondness and they were pressed into Taehyung's skin with gentle lips and warm breath flitting over his chest.
"Good," Taehyung replied, threading his fingers into the dark hair and letting the strands fall through the spaces between, marveling over how soft Jeongguk's hair was. "I always sleep well when I'm with you."
The smile Jeongguk pressed into the side of his neck felt like a shy expression of appeasement.
"And you?"
Jeongguk squeezed Taehyung's hip before massaging his thumb in circular motions into the flesh there, pulling his face away from the older man's neck and pressing their foreheads together, eyes searching the dark pools of warmth for a moment, eyes flitting over the surface of Taehyung's face and the way his hair hung in his eyes and the bottom lip caught between teeth as if suppressing a smile.
"Perfect," Jeongguk replied quietly, the syllables of the word nothing more than a soft whisper or something closer to a quiet exhale, causing a dusting of a flush of pink across the tops of Taehyung's cheeks because it was clear to him that the young man was not just describing how well he slept the night before, not with that sparkle in his eyes and that upwards quirk of his lips.
Taehyung stared at the young man, quietly in awe of the steadiness of the warm gaze with the flecks of something like dark gold and something more reassuring, and the slight tilt of the lips upwards and an expression that looked like fondness washed over his facial features as he watched Taehyung.
"What are you staring at?" Jeongguk murmured, gaze unwavering and sure.
"You're beautiful when you sleep." Taehyung had said this as a breathless confession, an awed observation and a soft declaration all in one.
"Only when I sleep? What am I when I'm awake?" Jeongguk pouted, a spark of amusement in his eyes as he searched the older man's face.
Taehyung smiled and allowed his eyes to wander the planes of Jeongguk's facial features, following the slope of his nose and the point of his cupid's bow, the sharp line of his jaw and the warm liquidity of his dark eyes as they held his gaze, the slight sheen of his parted lips and the freckle placed just so underneath his bottom lip.
"Unreal," Taehyung breathed. "You're absolutely, unbelievably unreal."
Jeongguk blushed, a pretty pink flush dusting his cheeks as he averted his gaze bashfully, a shy smile tugging at his lips as he squeezed Taehyung's hand.
"Stop it," he said quietly, with a light voice painted with a shade of soft laughter and an undercurrent of bashfulness and exasperation. Taehyung smiled as he pressed a kiss onto the middle of Jeongguk's forehead, brushing his lips down the line of his nose and across eyelids that fluttered shut at the contact.
"Gorgeous," Taehyung breathed, kissing the corner of his lips. And when the older man kissed him full on the mouth, it was a hard kiss, almost bruising in force and it stole Jeongguk's breath away and sent it fluttering in the space around them as their lips slanted over and over, the intensity never slowing. "Breathtaking," Taehyung gasped when they pulled apart.
Jeongguk was breathless as his eyes flitted over Taehyung's face, and felt his cheeks go warm with the way the other young man was staring at him, the look on his face making him look as if he didn't believe that something, or namely someone, like him existed.
Taehyung looked at Jeongguk like he had been the one to put the stars in the sky and the sun in their universe and Jeongguk couldn't help but think that maybe he hadn't put the sun anywhere at all and had instead kept it for himself because it was in his arms in bed with him at 9:57 AM with a smile on his lips and sparkle in his eyes.
Jeongguk pulled the man on top of him, and Taehyung let out a surprised sound as he did, splaying his hands over the young man's bare chest and fringe flopping into his eyes. Jeongguk reached up and pushed the other man's hair out of his eyes and smiled when Taehyung caught his hand a pressed a kiss to his wrist.
Taehyung sat up to straddle Jeongguk's hips, both hands interlaced with the young man's as he leaned down to press a soft kiss to his lips, sucking Jeongguk's bottom lip into his mouth before releasing it with a soft pop. He sat up and looked down at Jeongguk, whose eyes were locked on his, something so incredibly gentle in his eyes, in his expression and the relaxed muscles of his face.
Jeongguk marveled at the sight of Taehyung above him, the older man's hands laced with his, and the unwavering gaze. The sun streaming through their windows caught in the lighter parts of Taehyung's hair, catching on the high cheekbones and highlighting his face with a golden glow. The old stretched t-shirt of his that Taehyung was wearing was slipping down to expose his collarbones, and he had his bottom lip caught between his teeth as he looked down at Jeongguk in a way that had heat crawling up his neck because it was still so odd for someone to look at him like that - soft and sure and measured, with trust and contentment.
There was something else too - something that Jeongguk used to not dare to allow himself to believe was what had Taehyung smiling at him like that, had him waking Jeongguk up in the middle of the night for a walk in the city and to look at the stars or had Taehyung kissing his wrist or the junction between the base of his neck and shoulder.
Jeongguk sat up so the couple was chest to chest, pressing his mouth against Taehyung's in a slow kiss, swiping his tongue along the other man's lower lip. As the kiss deepened, Taehyung untangled his hands from Jeongguk's and slipped them into his hair instead, tugging on strands and pulling a low groan from him.
"Lie back," Taehyung said softly, kissing Jeongguk again before placing his hand on the younger man's chest as he lowered himself down against the pillows. Taehyung leaned down at began mouthing at the line of Jeongguk's jaw, sucking hard just at the junction between the sharp curve and the skin beneath his ear and marking it pink, drawing a sharp intake of breath as his fingertips brushed tantalizingly over the planes of Jeongguk's chest. Taehyung gently laved his tongue over the mark before moving down the side Jeongguk's neck, shamelessly sucking dark pinks and reds along the column of his throat.
"I won't be able to cover those up," Jeongguk breathed, his voice slightly strained.
"I know," Taehyung smiled against the base of his neck, before sitting up a little to place a soft kiss on Jeongguk's lips. "Relax, Guk." Taehyung leaned down again and mouthed at his collarbones. "I'll take care of you, baby." His words were muffled against the younger man's hot skin, the vibrations of the spoken syllables raising goosebumps. "Just relax."
Jeongguk found it hard to relax with the way his heart was pounding so loudly against his sternum as if trying to escape the cage it's been set in, and his breath came labored between his lips as if he had been running for miles when in reality the man he was in love with was kissing his chest with such worshipful fervor, it took Jeongguk's breath away. "Taehyung," Jeongguk managed, reaching a hand up to caress the back of the older man's neck, only to be stopped, and his brows furrowed in confusion.
"No touching, Guk," Taehyung said softly, with a small smile. "Hands at your sides for me, okay, babe?"
Jeongguk almost wanted to protest, but the words died on his lips when he caught sight of Taehyung's gentle smile. "Okay."
Taehyung mouthed his way slowly across Jeongguk's lower abdomen, and the young man had to suppress the urge to run his fingers through Taehyung's silky hair as he nudged his nose at the soft line of hair that trailed into the waistband of his sweats. Taehyung began tugging Jeongguk's sweatpants down, and the younger man lifted his hips to make it easier. Jeongguk sucked in a sharp breath as Taehyung began tracing over the stitching of his briefs along the outline of his cock with his fingertips, the light touch sending shivers up his body. He was already half hard as Taehyung began mouthing over the fabric.
"Please, Tae, let me touch you, I want to touch - " Jeongguk gasped as Taehyung began kissing his way up the inside of his thighs, marking him with deep pinks and laving his tongue over them.
"Not yet, baby," Taehyung said softly, leaning to pull down the waistband of his briefs slightly and kiss along Jeongguk's hipbones. "Soon, I promise." Taehyung pressed the syllables of the words into his skin and Jeongguk shivered with want. He marveled at the way Taehyung's lips seemed to caress his skin with featherlight pressure almost as if he was afraid of breaking Jeongguk. He trailed his lips over his upper thighs, sucking and grazing his teeth over some spots.
"Jeongguk," Taehyung murmured softly, sitting up and gently palming the young man to full hardness, eyes never leaving his face. "I love you. And I'm going to take care of you, okay?" he whispered, leaning down to take the waistband of Jeongguk's underwear between his teeth and slowly drag the briefs down to let his cock spring free. Taehyung ran his thumb over the head, collecting the precome there, licking his finger clean, and Jeongguk couldn't tear his gaze away. "Always." Jeongguk shivered, propping himself up on his elbows to watch as Taehyung leaned down and nuzzled his length.
"I love y-you too," Jeongguk managed, gasping as the other young man licked up along the bottom of his cock.
Taehyung kissed along Jeongguk's length, fingers massaging his balls gently, before taking the head into his mouth and swirling his tongue over the slit, drawing a low groan from Jeongguk's lips. Taehyung moaned, sending the vibrations of the sounds into Jeongguk's skin and causing Jeongguk's breathing to quicken as Taehyung swallowed more of him down, wrapping a hand around what he couldn't manage. Jeongguk's lower belly thrummed with a low, slow burn of want as he watched Taehyung bob up and down on his cock, so intent, so determined to make him feel good and Jeongguk swallowed hard in attempt to stifle the heady fire growing inside of him.
As Taehyung swallowed down even more of him, nose almost touching the dark hairs curling at his base, it was all Jeongguk could do to not thrust up into the other man's tight heat.
"Tae hyung," Jeongguk moaned, throwing his head back as the tightening in his belly threatened to snap, fisting the sheets. "Babe I'm going to - " Taehyung pulled off with a vulgar, wet pop , kissing around the head of Jeongguk's cock and licking his lips and cleaning them of precome, before reaching over into the nightstand and pulling a bottle of lube and a condom out, dropping them onto the bed.
"I'm going to ride you," Taehyung said breathlessly, voice hoarse and Jeongguk couldn't help but think how beautiful he looked like this, with his lips swollen and red, slick with spit, and eyes half-lidded with desire. He leaned in and kissed Jeongguk for a long moment, and Jeongguk could taste himself in Taehyung's mouth. "Is that okay?"
In lieu of a reply, Jeongguk leaned in and kissed Taehyung hard, enough to have the other man gasp in his mouth as he ran his fingers along his back and into the divots of the muscles in his shoulders. Jeongguk pulled away, pressing his forehead against the other man's, breathing hard, before he was pecking Taehyung's lips and pulling away completely. Jeongguk pulled the lube towards him and clicked the bottle open. He watched as Taehyung shucked off his sweatpants and underwear in one piece, tossing them aside with such a characteristic flourish that Jeongguk couldn't help the smile that played across his lips as he sat on his haunches, waiting.
Taehyung crawled forward, kissing the corner of Jeongguk's mouth before lying on his back, legs spread wide open as he stared up at Jeongguk expectantly.
"Am I allowed to touch you now?" Jeongguk asked softly, raising an eyebrow and laughing quietly when Taehyung gave him a flat look.
Jeongguk's mouth watered at the sight of Taehyung's cock, hard and standing straight up in arousal, weeping with precome. Jeongguk set aside the bottle of lube in a split-second decision. "You're a mess for me already, baby," Jeongguk murmured, and another bead of precome slipped down Taehyung's cock before he leaned down to lave his tongue over the head of Taehyung's length. The other man sucked in a sharp breath, eyes fluttering shut for a moment before snapping open quickly.
"N-no, don't," Taehyung managed, and his voice was strained, the words said through gritted teeth, and it seemed to Jeongguk as if the other man was fighting against what he actually wanted in order to say this.
But regardless of what it seemed to him, he stopped.
"What's wrong, babe?" Jeongguk asked, leaning forward and propping himself up above Taehyung and reaching down to smooth his Taehyung's fringe back and out of his eyes.
"Nothing!" Taehyung replied, wrapping his long fingers around Jeongguk's wrist before slipping down to tangle their fingers together. "But it's my job to make you feel good toda - "
"No, no, no baby" Jeongguk interrupted him, sounding slightly distressed, eyebrows furrowed in seriousness. He squeezed Taehyung's hand. "Baby, it's not your job to make me feel anything, okay? Just because we're in a relationship and we have sex doesn't mean it's my job or your job to do anything." Taehyung was quiet, his eyes slightly widened. "I'm going to suck you off because I want to, not because I have to. And vice versa." Taehyung swallowed thickly at this, and at a quick glance, Jeongguk could see more precome dripping from the other man's length. Jeongguk pressed a kiss to Taehyung's forehead. "Okay?"
"Okay," Taehyung said quietly.
"So, can I suck you off?" Jeongguk asked gently, moving down and mouth at Taehyung's collarbones, sucking particularly harshly in one spot and drawing a moan from Taehyung that he swallowed down with a slant of the lips. He moved down so he was no longer propped above Taehyung's chest, instead, was with his face directly above his cock.
"Y-yes," Taehyung murmured.
Jeongguk began to kiss along Taehyung's length before he took it into his mouth and began to swirl his tongue along the bottom of his length as he bobbed up and down, Jeongguk felt the other man tangle his fingers in his hair as he hollowed his cheeks, swallowing Taehyung's length down as much as he could.
"Fuck, Jeong guk ," Taehyung moaned, fingers tightening their grip on the younger man's hair, causing Jeongguk to groan, the sensation of the vibrations from his mouth pulling a sharp breath from Taehyung's lips. "Guk, baby, I'm gonna come - "
Jeongguk pulled off, strings of spittle and precome following his lips and Taehyung moaned quietly at the sight of the younger man licking his lips clean. He pressed soft kisses along Taehyung's sharp hipbones, marking him with harsh reds and pinks. As he kissed his way up the inside of Taehyung's thighs, he grabbed the bottle of lube. Jeongguk pulled away to squeeze a generous amount onto his fingers. He circled Taehyung's entrance, eyes never leaving his face as he pushed in one finger gently.
"Gukkie, cold ," Taehyung whined, words coming in a gasp. Jeongguk leaned down and kissed the older man's kiss-swollen lips.
"I'm sorry baby," Jeongguk said softly.
"More, Jeongguk."
"Look at me, Tae," Jeongguk murmured, Taehyung's eyes fluttered open as he added another finger, sliding them in an out, curling and scissoring in order to stretch him open carefully. Taehyung's mouth dropped open as Jeongguk's fingers grazed his prostate.
Little breaths escaped Taehyung's lips as his eyes fluttered, and he dragged his teeth over his bottom lip, muffling the small sounds that slipped out.
"Tae," Jeongguk said softly, voice low with desire as he used his thumb to pull the other man's lip out from between his teeth. "I want hear you, okay?" Taehyung nodded brusquely, gasping. Jeongguk added a third finger, then a fourth, sliding in and out, twisting and curling until Taehyung was keening, mouth wide open.
" Gukkie ," Taehyung gasped, grasping the arm Jeongguk was using to prop himself up. "I-I'm ready, Guk, sit back. A-against the headboard." Taehyung's words came stilted, gasped, and he let out a quiet whining sound as Jeongguk slipped his fingers out, clenching around the emptiness.
Jeongguk rolled the condom over his cock, watching with half-lidded eyes as Taehyung slicked hims generously with lube, eyes fluttering shut for a moment at the sensation, it almost being too much for him. He watched with heady arousal as Taehyung crawled over, swinging a leg over his lap, lowering himself on shaking thighs, sinking down on his cock.
"Fuck," Jeongguk moaned, grasping Taehyung's hips firmly in his hands, "I don't know how long I'm gonna last like this, baby." Taehyung leaned in and kissed him deeply for a moment, before pulling back and resting his forehead against Jeongguk's, as if readying himself.
Taehyung began to raise himself up and down, slowly at first, his bottom lip caught between his teeth and muffling the low moans that threatened to escape. Jeongguk reached up and used his thumb to release Taehyung's lower lip.
"I want to hear you," Jeongguk managed, watching as Taehyung's let his head fall back, lips parted, moans escaping him in tandem with his bounces.
For a few moments there is nothing but the sounds of skin meeting skin, and the pants and moans falling from their lips, intermingling and becoming one. Taehyung had his arms around Jeongguk's neck, and in the position they were in, Taehyung's throat was directly in front of his face, and he took the opportunity to press sloppy kisses to it.
Jeongguk reached down and wrapped his fingers around Taehyung's cock, pumping in time with each of his bounces, drawing louder moans from the older man's lips. The burning in Jeongguk's belly was no longer a low, tamed flame, but a raging blaze that threatened to engulf at any moment, and he let out a low groan.
"Fuck, fuck, Taehyung, baby," Jeongguk struggled to say, lifting his hips to thrust into Taehyung as he rose up. "Baby, b-baby, I love you so m-much," he gasped.
"I love y-you too, Gukkie, fuck ," Taehyung moaned. Jeongguk thrusted upwards again, only to have Taehyung grasp at his waist. "N-no, baby, let me do this," he gasped, "I'm going to come, Guk."
Taehyung looked so beautiful like this, bouncing in his lap with his tanned skin glistening with sweat, pretty pink lips parted and eyes with impossibly long lashes fluttering.
"Let go, just let go, Tae," Jeongguk managed, falling in love all over again at the way Taehyung's eyes fluttered shut and his mouth fell open, his eyebrows furrowed as he came all over the two of them, painting their bellies white. Jeongguk knew he wouldn't last much longer after that, moaning deeply as Taehyung continued to bounce in his lap even through the aftershocks.
All it took was Taehyung's rough tug on the hair at the back of his head to have him coming and painting the inside of his eyelids white with the bursts of something like bright light as he filled the condom inside of the other man. Taehyung continued to rise up and down, Jeongguk through his climax until it was over.
Taehyung slumped forward, breathing hard and labored as he rested his forehead on Jeongguk's shoulder. They stayed like this for as long as it took for their breathing to relax and their hearts to slow, Jeongguk murmuring sweet little nothings into Taehyung's ear, fingers stroking his dark hair, while the other man ran his fingers over Jeongguk's arms. After a few minutes, Taehyung pulled off and collapsed next to Jeongguk on the bed, eyes already closed.
Jeongguk pulled off the condom and tied it off, dropping it into the small trashcan beside the bed. He had to force himself to get up and walk with shaky legs to the bathroom and grab a small towel. He dampened it with warm water before returning to the bed, gently wiping Taehyung as clean as he could, before wiping himself down and dropping the towel onto the floor.
As soon as he laid down, Taehyung was curling into Jeongguk, arms coming to wrap naturally around his middle and tuck his head into the crook of his neck, lips brushing the skin there.
"M' tired," Taehyung mumbled, voice slurred and sleepy as he began to drift off.
"Sleep, babe," Jeongguk whispered as he wrapped his own arms tight around Taehyung, kissing the top of his head before burying his face into his soft, dark hair.
It was 10:34 on a warm summer morning and Jeongguk was lying in bed between rumpled white sheets with the sun in his arms and love in his eyes and the words on his lips.
Opening one's eyes was always the hardest part of waking, but closing them with the person one loved was always the easiest part of sleeping.