by S. Bridges
“Do you – would you like to stay?” I asked.
He smiled crookedly and looked at me from under his eyelashes. “I would, actually,” Daiki said. “I can’t stay the whole night. Oji-san will worry – but I can stay a few hours?” I smiled at the hopeful look on his face.
I slid over so that there was room for him on the bed next to me. He grinned widely and darted across the room to slide under the blanket with me. I found myself returning his grin with one of my own, before moving over to rest my head against his naked chest. His heart beat steadily beneath my ear. His skin was still so much warmer than a regular human’s. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close, and I let the soft, steady rhythm of his breathing lull me to sleep.
Epilogue
I woke up to soft sunlight streaming through my window. I was alone, but the side of the bed where Daiki had slept was still warm. I pressed my face into the pillow and breathed in his scent.
On the bedside table beside me, there was a piece of paper lying on top of my phone. I reached over, feeling a pleasant ache in my muscles from last night, and grabbed the note. A phone number was written in spiky handwriting, right underneath the words: Don’t walk down any dark alleys.
“Oh, that would be so creepy coming from anyone else,” I said to myself, typing the number immediately into my phone and smiling in a way that Mama would describe as ‘twitterpated’. I was twitterpated, alright, and I didn’t regret it for a second. I glanced over at the canvas still set up next to the bed. I would call Daiki later that day, I decided, and ask him out on a real date. One that didn’t involve muggers or home invaders.
I still had some time before classes that day, so I rolled out of bed and wrapped myself in a fluffy dressing gown. I ran my fingers through my messy hair and stepped up to the canvas with its half-finished outline of Daiki’s back and wings. A soft blush rose on my cheeks when I remembered the way they had beat lazily while he’d ground into me.
Taking up my charcoal, I sat on the edge of my bed and set to work finishing the outline.
THE END
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