“Of course he can,” Dad said, and I reminded myself to thank him… later. Archie was already on the sofa, sitting next to Dad, with Rex right by his legs, soaking up all the attention he could get. My plans never came together this easily, and I kept wondering when the nuclear bomb would hit to mess everything up.
“I have snacks and things all set up in the kitchen,” I told Dad, who smiled and nodded, his attention fully engaged with Archie. “Okay, then.” I turned to Dell. “Shall we?” I headed for the back door, and Dell followed me.
“Where are we going?” Dell asked as I headed out back and along the path that skirted the field behind the house. This was one of my favorite places as a child, and that afternoon, I had discovered that it hadn’t changed much. After some exploration, I found that I remembered all the rocks and the places where the path turned.
“I wanted to make it up to you for the last time. I know you—”
Dell took my hand and stopped. “No. You were right. I was rushing things, and it was a bad idea….” He tugged me toward him. “I just got carried away. I seem to do that when you’re around.” The night was cool, but not cold, and heat surrounded us as Dell drew me into a kiss.
“I have the same problem.” I kissed him and wound myself around Dell, getting as close as I could. Then I backed away, still holding his hand, and led him farther down the path. “You were so wonderful to arrange dinner and a nice evening, that I thought I’d do the same.” We continued into the field, the last light of the day showing us the way.
“Are we nearing the creek?” Dell asked as we found our destination. The path turned, and I led Dell to the canopy I had set up earlier in the day. “What’s all this?”
“A place for just you and me,” I told him, turning to Dell and sliding my arms around his neck. “I know you’re a parent and you don’t get much time for yourself. And I thought that since things didn’t work out at Dad’s and they weren’t going to where you live, I’d create the next best thing.” God, I hoped that I hadn’t read the signs wrong. Judging by the way Dell’s arms clung around my waist and how he pressed me down onto the bedding of straw that I had covered with layers of heavy blankets, this was okay. “It’s a little makeshift….”
“It’s perfect,” Dell growled. “Sometimes you talk way too much.” He ensured I’d stay quiet with his kiss, and I couldn’t think of anything I wanted more. “A little cool out here maybe…,” Dell whispered. I reached above my head and pressed a rolled-up blanket against Dell’s chest. “Looks like someone thought of everything.”
“I really tried,” I whispered, and Dell flipped the blanket out and over us before kissing me again, while his magic hands divested me slowly of my clothing.
Sometimes during our under-blanket maneuvers, a breath of cool air slipped underneath. As Dell’s skin pressed to mine, the occasional chill only heightened the excitement, and I pushed closer, desperate for Dell’s warmth.
“It’s been awhile. I may be a little rusty,” Dell said softly as he slipped my jeans down below my hips. “Good God,” he hissed, his hands sliding over my skin. “You aren’t wearing anything under those jeans.” He quivered, and I smiled to myself. “God, that’s sexy.”
“Haven’t you ever gone commando?” I chuckled as Dell pushed my jeans lower before disappearing under the blanket. In the quickly fading light, all I could see was the bump that was Dell moving over me. Dell pulled my boots off, and my pants followed. He worked his way back upward, but stopped, and I gasped as he took me between his lips. “Dell!” I cried out, my voice carrying out across the land.
“I take it you like that.” His voice was muffled by the blanket, but I didn’t care.
“Of course I did. It was you, and….” I closed my eyes as Dell once again slid his lips over my cock, sucking me slowly, deeper and deeper. I wanted to scream and then let go. He and I were well away from anyone. The two of us were able to be free, with no interruptions or others around.
There was something completely joyful about that idea, and I went with it, pouring all my energy and passion into what was between us. And when Dell joined me, I kissed him like I had been walking through the desert for a week and he was a drink of water. I tasted some of myself on his lips and drew him close, my hands sliding under his open shirt.
“Someone is wearing too many clothes.”
Dell chuckled and squirmed until his shirt and pants joined mine somewhere at the end of our love nest. I sighed as the two of us came together, skin to skin, heat to heat, for the first time. Dell was everything I had ever expected, and more. Hard muscle stretched under smooth skin that I couldn’t get enough of. My only wish was that there was enough light to see him, but that was fading quickly, with darkness slowly creeping in around us. I had packed a lantern, but I didn’t want to stop and get it, nor did I want to break the spell. There was something to be said about the curtain of night closing us in until it was just the two of us.
“You feel amazing, and I love that I have to feel my way around,” Dell whispered. “It lets my imagination fill in the details.”
I drew him down, the kiss intense as Dell’s weight pressed against me, solid and hot. The blanket under me was soft, the straw a little bunchy, but I could care less. All that mattered was that I was here with Dell. “This is like a dream come true.”
Dell stilled. “Oh God, the pressure,” he rumbled from deep in his throat.
“There is none. I’ve wanted you since I was sixteen years old and first figured out about gay sex and what parts went where.” I didn’t tell him any of my specific fantasies, but there was always a camping one, and this was about as close as the two of us were going to get now.
Dell slowly rocked back and forth, his breath hitching. I moved with him, easily finding a rhythm that seemed to work for both of us.
After a few minutes of breathlessness, Dell paused, his hand caressing my cheek. “I want you forever.”
I didn’t want to torpedo the mood. “How can you know that?” I entwined his fingers with mine. “It’s—”
“Sometimes you just know. I knew the very first time I saw Archie that I would love him forever. Those perfect blue eyes looked at me in the delivery room, and I just knew my life was never going to be the same going forward. And I felt that exact same thing when I saw you in town.” He squeezed my fingers and drew closer, his breath on my cheek. “Then you went with Archie and me for ice cream.”
“Of course I did… I….” Wouldn’t anyone?
“You don’t get it. The last guy I dated, which wasn’t for long and was maybe six months after Archie was born, actually asked me when I was going to give up the whole daddy thing so that he and I could have a normal life.”
“You have to be kidding.” I was shocked.
“I’m serious. Some people are real shits, and you took to Archie with ease.” Dell nuzzled my neck. “You can’t tell me that you didn’t feel some of what I did. That there isn’t a connection between us. When things didn’t go well the other day, look what you did to try to make it right. All this can’t have been just to get laid.”