Page 60 of False Start

I packed up my dorm this morning, and after my last final, I drove here to find him after the last final of his freshman year.

It’s summer. And if either of us has anything to say about it, we won’t be spending another day apart. I’m officially no longer a student at KU and now a student at State, right where I belong. I don’t regret the year I spent there, but I also don’t regret my decision to leave either. I’m not missing anything there. I have everything I need here, along with the memories of that school.

He kisses me as I wrap my arms and legs around him, kissing him back and ignoring the hooting and hollering around us. My heart is full, and I’m happy. Truly happy. I pull back from the kiss, grinning at him like a total fool. “Happy summer.”

“Happy summer. You ready to go to our place?” He’s way too excited, but I like it. A lot. Because same. I’m not sure I’ve ever described myself as giddy before, but that’s definitely what I’m feeling right now.

I let myself slide down his body to the ground, taking his hand in mine. “I can’t wait.”

We could have gone back to Big Bend for the summer. I know that’s what our parents—especially our moms—would have preferred, but neither one of us seemed to be in a hurry to do that. Instead, we rented a little house off campus, and Vaughn got a job with the campus landscaping crew while I got a job at the library.

Our parents generously covered the first month’s rent, but we’ll get the rest. We say goodbye to our—yes, our mutual—friends and then haul ass out to grab his truck and mine, driving the couple of blocks to our new place.

We can invite them over later—maybe. I know Jacob plans to go home for the summer, but John is staying here, so we’ll probably see him. It’s crazy to me how fond I am of Vaughn’s jock friends. Letting that judgment of jocks go has been a little eye-opening for me. I try not to judge anyone anymore. We’ve seen Vanessa and her new fiancé a couple of times since she showed up at Vaughn’s dorm to confirm what her mother told her about us. She wasn’t mad at all. She seemed kind of relieved to know that Vaughn was happy. You’d think it would be weird, but it’s really not. I think Vanessa will always be one of our close friends.

We walk into our little blue house on the corner, and I look around, smiling. We don’t have much yet, mostly just what we brought from the dorms, but when I go into the bedroom, I’m surprised to see a new mattress on the floor, still wrapped in plastic.

“They delivered it last night,” Vaughn says from behind me into my ear.

“You didn’t try it out?”

“Hell no.” I turn around in his arms as I wrap mine around his neck. He sounds almost offended I would ask. “It wouldn’t be right without you.”

“You’re such a sap, now that you’re in love.”

He pinches my ass. “I was always a sap, but maybe I was always a little in love.”

“I’m so in love with you,” I say easily. “This is going to be great, except I’m not sure I can deal with your slobbish ways.”

He chuckles, holding my body to his. “We’ll figure it out.”

I kiss him, already nodding my head because I have no doubt we’ll work it out, no matter what comes at us. “We should really christen this place, don’t you think?”

I waggle my brows at him, and he laughs out loud before nodding his head and kissing me hard. Our clothes fly off, and it’s hilarious watching him try to pull the plastic off the mattress, fully naked and fully hard. But he gets it, and my body falls onto the mattress before I pull him on top of me.

“Lube,” I say breathlessly.

“Damn it. I guess we should have unpacked.” He starts to get up, but I can’t let him go. I hold him there, thrusting my hard cock against his.

“This works too.”

He groans into my ear, panting wildly as he reaches between us and strokes our hard cocks together. “Fine, but I’m getting inside this ass later.”

“Promises, promises,” I moan, arching up into him, the head of his cock catching against mine and making me see stars. My balls are aching to come, and I know I won’t last long.

“We live together now. I’m going to live inside you,” he says hoarsely, nipping and biting my bottom lip and down my jaw.

“Yes,” I barely manage to say because words are hard right now.

I wrap around him and thrust against him, chasing that high. His free hand moves under my ass, and he squeezes hard, setting me off, my cum spraying between us. He uses it to stroke himself until he comes, biting into my neck and likely leaving a mark.

I smile at the thought.

We lie like that for what feels like forever, not wanting to let go of one another.

“I love you, Austin. I’m completely and totally in love with you.”

I lean into his ear, whispering, even though I don’t need to. “Thank you for loving me. I love you too.”

There’s no need to move right now. We’re both where we want to be.

In each other’s arms, where we belonged from the start. Maybe it just took being apart for me to gain some courage. Maybe I borrowed some of it from Vaughn.

It doesn’t really matter how we ended up here, just that we did. Starting our lives together and settling into our beautifully chaotic, codependent-as-hell future.

The End

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