“Yeah. S'pose. Be nice if we could stay here like this all the time, know what I mean?”
Ryan smiled. “Yeah. I do.”
He sighed and stroked Lee's cheek one last time before starting the car and nosing back onto the road, heading back to the one they'd turned off of. He thought about when he'd first gone to Biddingford to tell Lee his old lady had killed herself, and how Lee had driven them back to the town they'd lived in all their lives. Despite the grimness of where they were headed back then, the uncertainties of what might happen, they also had the knowledge that they'd started the first leg of their life's journey together. Ryan felt much the same now, except they were on their way back to a different place, to the cabin where they'd made their home, to a place where Ryan had once felt safe and now...didn't.
“Reckon we ought to move out of the cabin and start again somewhere else?” Lee asked.
Startled that Lee had read his mind again—though he didn't know why, because hadn't they always had this thing between them?—Ryan nodded and listened to Lee as he put forward suggestions as to where they would go.
“We've still got the majority of my old dear's money. We can use it to pay six month's rent up front. Find jobs. Just...live. No worries. Come on. Pick a town or village, a city even, and we'll look into it once we get back. Anywhere you like.”
Ryan smiled, caught up in Lee's enthusiasm, and thought of where he'd like to go. “What about Ireland? Heard it's nice there. Laid back kind of life out in the country.”
“Sounds good. Like I said, wherever you want.”
“We'd have to check we could go there,” Ryan said. “You know, with the trial and whatnot.”
“Can't see why we can't. It's not like we're leaving the country, is it? Not as though we have to stay here, like we're the ones who've done something wrong.”
“You're probably right.”
Lee leaned forward and switched on the radio, selecting an easy listening station. His fingers tapped against his legs, and a shimmer of desire flickered in Ryan's cock. He loved this guy so damn much it hurt, wanted to spend the rest of his life with him, would travel to the ends of the earth if it meant they'd be together. Live in a fucking shack in the arse end of nowhere.
Bound, that's what they were. Tied together by love and circumstance. An eternity of togetherness waited for them, and Ryan stared ahead, to the right, at the rolling countryside that looked like a painting. It spread into the distance, trees and fields blurred against the horizon, the smudge of an artist's chalk.
Ryan glanced at Lee, who looked back at him, a big grin tweaking his lips.
“You know we said all that romance shit wasn't for us?” Lee's cheeks reddened.
“Yeah...”
“D'you reckon I could say just one thing? You know, just blurt it out, and then we can forget I ever did it.”
“You could do.” Ryan held off a smile, not wanting Lee to think he found this funny. Lee's blush made it clear his lover was struggling to show a side of himself he'd always sworn didn't exist.
“Oh, right.” Lee cleared his throat. “Okay. Well... Fuck. Um, I...I just wanted to say, um...”
“Go on.”
“Well, it's just that I...wanted to, ah... Oh, fuck it.”
Ryan released his laughter. “Face it, man, it's just not going to work.”
“Might come in time, though, eh?”
“Might do.”
“I'll try again. Right. Here we go. I...I want... Ah, fuck it. I give up.”
“Yeah. Me too.” Ryan laughed again, loving the sound as Lee joined in.
Once composed, Lee said, “Ryan?”
“Yeah?”
“Fucking love you, man.”
“Love you too, mate. Always.”
The End
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