Darien glanced around. The party, which was being held at Lance’s house, was in full swing. There were people, quite a few of whom Noah didn’t even know, dancing everywhere, and it seemed like a good ninety percent of them were drunk out of their minds.
Before, he would have been one of those people, but he had something better now. He turned to face Noah, only to find that his lover was already looking at him, pretty pink lips parted and eyes filled with the warmth of a challenge.
“No one would know,” Noah whispered, and Darien softly laughed as he pulled that small, slender body against his own, as he lowered his head and shamelessly plundered Noah’s mouth with his own.
“Here?” Darien murmured, giving him a chance to back out, but he didn’t expect Noah to do so. One thing he’d learned about the other man was that he was sort of a daredevil, in bed if nowhere else. It probably excited him to think about being intimate with Darien in someone else’s bed, with the threat of being caught hanging over their head.
Not that it was much of a threat. With how wild this party was, it would be unlikely that anyone would even notice they were gone. And with no signs that it was winding down at all, it seemed like it wasn’t particularly likely that it would end anytime soon.
Darien tilted his head at Noah, and Noah grinned suddenly, then wrapped a slim arm around Darien’s waist. Without another word, he dragged him toward the stairs, past a couple passionately making out. Hey, at least he and Noah were going to find a bed and then jump each other, that was something, right?
Up the stairs, and Darien pushed open the first door he saw. He’d never been upstairs at Lance’s place, so it felt very daring to open the door, revealing a large bedroom and the most beautiful, lush bed that he’d ever seen, done in a deep emerald green.
Not that he cared, especially not when he felt Noah pressing against him from behind. A table, a couch, a counter, any of them would do. Even the floor, if nothing else were available.
The door safely shut behind them, Darien closed his eyes as he felt Noah press against him, and he felt the swell of his lover’s cock against his ass. Intrigued, he rubbed back against him. They had talked about Darien bottoming, but they’d never gone there.
“Hey,” Darien murmured, and he turned around, only managing to make himself do it because he knew he was going to get something much better very soon. “Tonight’s the night, babe. I want you.”
Noah was smart enough to pick up what Darien meant, and his eyes widened as he searched Darien’s face. It wasn’t that Darien would say that he wasn’t nervous because he most definitely was, but he was also very sure that this was the right thing to do. What he wanted, what he needed, even.
He had shared so much with Noah, and he trusted him enough to give him this, too. So, with his breathing very deliberately calm and even, Darien started to strip them both of their clothing, baring Noah’s beautiful body piece by piece.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” Noah admitted in a whisper, and Darien smiled at him. It was that very attitude that made him so sure that he was making the right choice in this.
“I know. You won’t,” Darien told him, completely confident of that. He took Noah’s hands in his own and placed them on his own body, trying to encourage Noah to strip him in return. “I know you’ll make it good for me.”
Noah nodded, and Darien could still see the sharpness of nerves in his boyfriend’s eyes, but he also saw excitement. Interest. And maybe relief? Yes, Darien thought so. Relief that this was finally going to happen.
As soon as they were both naked, Darien lay down on the soft, plush, yielding surface of the bed, gazing up at his lover.
“I brought a condom,” he admitted. Truth to be told, he had gotten to the point where he always wanted to have a condom with him, because he always wanted to be ready in case he and Noah decided to do, well, exactly this. The urge could strike them at some pretty fun times, and they’d been caught without a few times and had to wait.
Though maybe someday soon they’d be able to go without the condom. He knew that he was clean, and he didn’t see any reason why Noah wouldn’t be.
Noah nodded, then walked, small and beautiful and graceful, over to where Darien’s pants had fallen. He got the foil package, and also a single-use packet of lube which Darien had also brought, and then paused before looking back at Darien.
“I’ve never been with anyone but you,” Noah admitted. “I mean … you know.”
Darien smiled and nodded, propping himself up on the bed, admiring the smooth, clean lines of Noah’s body.
“I know,” he comforted, but it didn’t seem like it was comforting that Noah wanted. With a sort of slow, deliberate grace, Noah put the packets down on the bedside table and then looked at Darien.
“Have you been tested?”
Darien smiled and nodded. He was starting to get the idea that he knew where this was going. Despite being pretty different people, they often had similar thoughts, and hadn’t Darien just been thinking about this very thing?
“I have. I’m clean.” Darien held his breath, hoping that somehow he wasn’t wrong about this. Hoping that Noah meant what Darien thought he did. To have their first time this way be skin to skin, bare and intimate and open.
“Okay. Do you mind if we don’t use this?” Noah gestured to the condom, and all of a sudden, Darien couldn’t keep the grin off of his face. Not for anything. Noah wanted the same thing as him, and there was no way he was going to turn that down.
“No. I don’t mind,” he murmured and then tugged Noah down on top of him so that they were face to face. They kissed over and over again, locked against each other along the whole length of their bodies, their cocks rubbing together as they made out.
There was a brief crackling noise, and then Darien felt his legs nudged aside, felt Noah’s weight settle down between them. He opened his eyes, and got to see his beautiful boyfriend, face utterly focused, lube up his fingers with the little packet and then push those slippery fingers between Darien’s legs.
Darien kept his gaze firmly on Noah, utterly enthralled by the expression on his face. No one had ever taken such care with him before, and Darien smiled down at his lover as he felt the cool press of Noah’s fingers against the entrance to his body.
The lube warmed up quickly to his body temperature, and Darien breathed slowly and deeply, keeping his body relaxed. Not that Noah pushed him, because he didn’t. Just as Darien had known that his lover would be, Noah was careful, only pressing his finger inside Darien as fast as Darien could take it.
