Page 81 of Voices

A soft smile crosses his face as he makes his way back onto a solid road. “A professor I had sophomore year told us about it. She grew up out this way and the way she described the peacefulness that lake brought her, I had to see it for myself.” He chuckles lightly. “I missed that dirt road entrance three times because she never specified where it was. But once I pulled up, it was like my stress instantly disappeared. I remember taking in the deepest breath and holding the fresh air in my lungs until I couldn’t breathe.” He glances at me with a sweet smile. “It became my escape for when I need a break from life for a little while.”

As he merges onto the highway, I take in how beautifulheis. Inside and out. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Shane.”

He switches his hands around to hold the steering wheel with his left as his right lifts my hand to his mouth, kissing myknuckles. “I’m glad to be part of your life, beautiful.” He rests our hands on the center console for the rest of the ride back.

When we exit off the highway he stops at the red light and looks left then right. “Which way? Left to your place or right to mine?”

I don’t hesitate. “Right.”

He kisses my knuckles again as he turns towards his condo.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Shane

Iwake to a naked Charlie spread out over me. His left half is on me with his right side connected to me from chest to toe with his face buried in my armpit. He must really like the smell of my deodorant if he seeks it out in his sleep.

I hold his hand that’s resting on my chest as I recall yesterday. The day was perfect from start to finish. I got Charlie to smile and laugh and just relax for the whole day. I’m still shocked he asked me to fuck him. I wasn’t going to ask him, but I am glad that he didn’t wait too long.

But then that brings me to the moment when I found those scars on his inner thighs. There are so many. Most of them are scared over and a shiny pale pink color but he has a handful that have fresh scabs on them. I’ve never been around someone who cuts so I’m not sure how exactly to go about asking him about them. Or do I even ask him? Will being asked about them trigger him to cut again?

I’ll have to do some research later.

I also noticed all the little round indents along his arms. They look like burns from cigarettes. He has a few random tattoos that cover some of them, but it looked like the inside of his elbows and the side of his bicep that touches his ribs have the ones that are the reddest.

Then there’s that little fact about his mom supplying his pills. Are they his prescriptions that need to be filled by his therapists and she drops them off while he’s away at school? He said they help quiet the voices in his head and go numb. That doesn’tsound like he’s taking the right amount, more like too much if they make him numb.

And knowing that he has a troubled past, I think he uses the pills to blur the memory of whatever happened. I wonder if Benji knows what happened and if he’d even tell me. He didn’t seem happy to see Charlie at our game…for me.

Whatever. He can think whatever the fuck he wants as long as he doesn’t hurt Charlie.

Charlie shifts and turns his head. He’s still asleep with his face tilted up, giving me the perfect view of his slightly parted lips, long black eyelashes, and a sea of freckles. I lightly follow the smattering on top of his cheek and over his nose. His nose twitches at my touch followed by his eyes fluttering open, gracing me with those golden-brown beauties.

“Good morning, beautiful.” I go to kiss him, but he turns his face into my pec before I can. Chuckling I smooth back his wild dark hair. “What’s wrong?”

He says something but it’s muffled. He peeks up at me before he lifts his head up looking adorably shy.

“I have morning breath.” His cheeks turn a light pink as he bites that damn bottom lip.

I tug it free then pull him up, so his face is level with mine. “I don’t give a shit about your breath, baby. Kiss me.”

He hesitates for a second before pressing his lips to mine. He doesn’t open his lips, so I trace the seam with my tongue until he opens, and I surge forward, thrusting my tongue into his mouth. He lets out a soft whimper as he rocks his hips into my lower stomach. With him laying on me, I tilt my hips so he can feel the tip of my dick nudge his ass cheek. He rocks back and slides it between his cheeks and holds it there.

I reach between us and find his leaking cock. I smear his pre cum down his shaft and give him a firm squeeze.As I get to his base, the sexiest moan slips through his lips.

“Slide down and line your dick up with mine. I want to show you something.” I kiss him before reaching for the lube that’s still out from yesterday. His soft skin rubs against mine as he moves down to straddle my hips.

He positions himself so the underside of our shafts are touching. I pour lube into my hand then wrap both of us in my grip. I rub the lube all over us then start stoking, being sure to rub over his slit. He’s about half the size of me so it’s a little awkward. He starts rocking his hips as I move my hand faster, making his tip hit the sensitive underside of my head.

“Fuck that feels good, baby.”

He rocks faster, sliding up until our cock heads are touching. I tighten my grip on the up stoke, adding a twist over our heads that are both leaking like sieves.

“Ahh…ohhh…Shane,” he pants as I keep my hand around our tips, shortening the stroking to right below the flared heads and back up. He’s breathing rapidly with each stroke, looking down at my hand. On my next upstroke, I drop my dick and rub my thumb up his frenulum and over his slit. He thickens as he snaps his head up and looks at me as he cries out and cums.

“Nuugghh…Sh-Shane…” He drops forward, his face in my neck as he continues to pant with little tremors shaking his body. After he’s recovered enough to sit up, he looks down at my still-hard cock. The head is a deep red and I can feel my pulse in it.

He scoops up his cum and uses it as lube as he wraps both hands around me, stroking up and down while twisting his wrists. He bends over and takes my tip into his mouth and sucks. I let out a long deep moan as he rubs his tongue over my slit.

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