Salubrious chapter 38

The rest of the anime convention went awfully fast and Charlie held Allan’s hand so they wouldn’t accidentally get separated again.

“Fuck, I was so lost. I was screaming for you, like, acting like a loon, yelling, ‘Princess Tutu?’ And I didn’t even notice people thought I was doing some kind of skit. Like one guy told me that all the Princess Tutu’s were meeting in the Duck Anonymous meeting room 2-14 or something, haha, I was like wtf…” Charlie rambled, holding onto Allan’s hand so tight, their hands were sweating.

Allan grimaced at the sweaty feeling, wiping his hand on Charlie’s hoodie. “Eww. Charlie your hand is really gross and wet.”

Charlie laughed nasally. “Dude I think I was sweating bullets the whole time. Don’t even get me started. But, sorry.”

“It’s okay. Anyway, I actually did meet in that conference room for Ducks Anonymous at one point, hah,” Allan recalled, holding Charlie’s hand loosely.

“What is that?”

Allan shrugged. “It’s for all the princesses that are actually an animal in disguise. You’d be surprised but there’s actually a lot of them.”

“Oh wow. I wouldn’t have guessed. Still, you’re the bestest princess here, honestly. I saw an Odette princess and her outfit looked mid. Like, compared to your immaculate details. Shit, you looked like a queen,” Charlie beamed, winking at Allan.

“No offense Charlie but how did you even tell us all apart?” Allan blushed despite his indifferent tone. He tried to hide a small smile behind his hand.

“I can tell my baby. Don’t worry about my shit, Allan. If there were a thousand people dressed like you, I’d still instantly find you.”

Allan giggled. “You’re silly. But it’s cute you’re being so supportive despite your bad experience here. I’m sorry it went so… wrong.”

They went to a booth and Allan talked to a guy who did voice acting for an anime he really liked, getting an autograph.

“Can you sign one for my boyfriend too?” Allan said loudly, pointing to Charlie.

The guy agreed and Allan jumped up and down, excited. Charlie grinned, happy that Allan was doing his thing.

They held hands again. “That’s Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus, dude. God I love him!” Allan gushed. “His voice is so cool.”

Charlie gave his boyfriend a concerned look. “You crushing on him?”

Allan gave him a funny look, shoving him lightly. “What the eff? No. I just like his character.”

“Nah I’m messing around. That’s good.”

Allan rolled his eyes. “Don’t be jealous Charlie. You know that I am with you. I don’t mess around.”

Charlie nodded, squeezing Allan’s hand. “Sorry. I’m still squirrelly after this whole mess of not reading social cues correctly and just being an overall jerk.”

Allan leaned down, gently caressing Charlie’s cheek. “You ain’t a jerk, Charlie. You’re my most favorite character in my entire stor-eee.”

Charlie laughed with a bit of stress coming up, his eyes watering, “That sounds so nice. You really know how to butter a fellow up.”

Allan grinned. “It’s true.”

They stayed a bit longer, doing a Photo Booth, getting more autographs, Charlie buying Allan some comics and art and then just fucking around with the other attendees doing cosplay stuff. Like Allan getting into a dance-fight with the Princess Tutu evil counterpart, Princess Kraehe. Charlie filmed the whole thing, looking mildly amused and confused at the same time.

“That was crazy. You are really good at making dance look scary and dangerous, dude. And you looked fucking hot,” Charlie added in, making Allan blush.

“Why thank you Charlie, you looked so cute trying to find the right angle to film our dance-fight-uh.”

They drove home in peaceful quiet, though Charlie did want to bring up a few things they had discussed on the ride to the anime con.

“Hey, hon? Um, shit. Listen, remember how you brought up how opposite we are, like I want to actually deepen that conversation now. If that’s okay,” Charlie rambled.

“Oh, okay, Charlie. What do you want to say?” Allan messed with his jewelry bands on his arm.

“So, like I thought about it. You’re right. We are complete opposite in terms of what we expect.. like how we set up our homes, cleaning, organizing, dishes. I know it’s a lot. But shit, Allan, I really want you and me to be good. Like, work out.”

Charlie’s speech made Allan feel all mushy inside, and his eyes softened, looking at Charlie with a watery, deep gaze.

“What.. what do we do? Like, what do you think we need to do?” Allan said in a breathy voice.

Charlie heard the subtle change in his voice and felt his own heart beating harder.

“Okay, so my plan is, we don’t edit each other. Like, um, we just do things like clean up after ourselves, obviously. We can do alternative chores. I don’t really care. I can do dishes every week. I can do trash. I, um, I don’t really like cleaning the bathroom, haha,” Charlie admitted.

“Don’t worry about that. I like to clean the toilets,” Allan said with a deadpan tone. Charlie made a face that said disgust but also respect.

“Yeah. Okay. Anyway… so like we don’t need to edit anything about who we are as people. We just… live together, laugh together? Love together?” Charlie laughed nervously.

“Did you seriously just say live, laugh and love? Like those stupid signs people hang up on their walls?” Allan snorted, laughing a bit.

“Oh God, Allan, come on, man. I’m really trying here. I’m also really tired.. I don’t know if I will even have the energy to see Pim tonight. Fuck, I feel forty. My back hurts too.”

Allan frowned. “I can give you a full body massage when we get home. Don’t bail on Pim, dude. He’ll be so disappointed.”

Charlie smiled despite his exhaustion. “Yeah, you’re right. And that sounds pretty good.”

Allan cleared his throat. “Charlie, sweetheart, I just.. I really appreciate you taking the time to say that. I agree, let’s not edit each other. Like if I see the wrong cups put away with the wrong sized saucer plates, I won’t say anything.”

Charlie nodded. “And I won’t get upset that the crumbs I left on the floor to eat later are cleaned up.”

Allan’s eye twitched. “Oh man, wow. I can’t even… okay, Charlie…”

Charlie laughed, “I thought it was my turn to say something weird and oddball. Sorry, dude.”

Allan laughed. “Uh, yeah. This is.. this will work. I believe in us!”

“So, does that plan work?”

Allan nodded. “Of course. But communication is always important. If something isn’t working, we need to talk about it.”

Charlie nodded. “I can do that. I’ve gotten better at communicating. Don’t you think?”

Allan nodded. “Way better than in the beginning. Way, way better. Way, way, way—.”

Charlie gave him a saucy look. “Woah man, that’s a lot of way betters.”

Allan sighed. “Sorry, Charlie. You know how to make things feel less scary.”

“That’s sweet. I’m glad, dude. I feel better. Do you?” Charlie said with a yawn.

Allan nodded with a sweet smile, “I do. You always cheer me up.”

“That’s why I’m a motherfucking Smiling Friend, baby. I’m the best at making people smile,” Charlie said haughtily.

Allan giggled. “So arrow-gant-uh!”

“You make me feel on top of the world, Allan. I’m not bullshitting you. You really do.”

Allan felt giddy at the admission. “You make me feel so safe, Charlie.”

Charlie blinked. The softest sincerity was in Allan’s voice and it made Charlie feel like he was riding a best kind of natural high there was.

“You make me feel like safety was some alien thing that we created and that only exists between us,” Charlie said with a gentle laugh.

“I’m not an al-lie-enn Charlie, but you make the most sense when you talk nonsense. At least, to me.”

Charlie made a clicking sound and pointed at Allan. “You know you like it.”

There was a slight pause as they pulled close, and Allan quickly kissed Charlie’s cheek.

“You know I can feel your heat coming off like some kind of wildfire, dude. It’s insane,” Charlie teased. “It’s like your eyes are doing me, haha.”

“They are doing you,” Allan said seroiusly. “My eyes have powers like that.”

“Haha. That’s cute.”

“It was incredibly attractive how hard you tried to fit into my anime world even though you felt uncomfortable. It was like, so important to me.”

“Was it weird that I kinda enjoyed it too? After finally getting the hang of it.”

Allan nodded. “No that makes you so weird.”

Charlie laughed. “Great. I knew I was a nerd. Haha. But I’m also, you know, your alpha male. I’m not just a cute face,” Charlie teased.

“It is cute,” Allan winked.

Charlie faux-scoffed. “Cute? No. I’m fucking owning this shit, you know you like it too when I am hyper masculine.”

“I do. I like it a lot. I like you a lot,” Allan started saying in a sultry voice. Allan’s hand starts moving toward Charlie’s thigh, rubbing it slightly. “I like your body. I like your legs. I like your fingers. Your eyes. Your dumb smile. Your face.”

Charlie’s breath hitched, sounding uneven and he felt speechless. He blinked as the tone switched to seductive. It had been a few weeks since they last fooled around or even flirted this heavily.

“We.. we need to do something about this..” Allan said in a soft voice, tapping on the seam of Charlie’s pants. “Cause I like that most of all..”

Charlie tried to clear his throat, but it turned into a cough. He felt hot all over.

“Allan, wh-what the heck dude? I’m trying to drive.”

“Hurry the fuck up, then.”

Charlie gulped.

“But don’t get into a car accident. And tighten your seatbelt.”

Charlie laughed. “Fuck. You’re driving me insane.”

They finally got inside their apartment, immediately crashing their bodies into each other. Kissing with a brutal passion, Charlie tried to take off Allan’s dress carefully, making sure it didn’t get damaged. Allan started haphazardly unbuttoning Charlie’s pants, pulling them down aggressively.

“Fuck, babe, can you help me? I don’t want to damage your costume…”

“Why don’t I keep on the dress? I just.. I really fucking need you right now. I’m so.. it hurts, Charlie…” Allan whimpered, his hand shaking as he felt Charlie against his underwear. “God, Charlie, I want you so badly.”

Allan was nibbling on Charlie’s lower lip, making them both tremble and press against each other roughly.

“Fuck babe you haven’t been this bad for me in a while, fuck, I can’t even breathe…” Charlie moaned as Allan laughed.

“You don’t even know the half of it..”

Charlie felt his hat fall off as they went to the bedroom. His mind immediately went to panic mode, thinking if Allan meant what he thought he meant, as they haven’t actually had sex yet.

He decided to break the rules of passion and looked at Allan seriously, “Babe? Babe, hon, listen..”

Allan wasn’t listening. He was kissing Charlie’s neck, taking off his hoodie, licking down Charlie’s chest.

“Oh my God, please give me the strength…” Charlie mumbled, gently pressed his hand against Allan’s face, pulling him forward. “Babe? I need to.. ask you something.”

Allan seemed to snap out of it for a moment. “Huh, what?”

“Allan, as much as I’m enjoying this, uh, we are just fooling around right?”

Allan blushed. “Oh Christ, that’s right. You haven’t made love to me yet-uh.”

“Oh no. I wasn’t asking if we were actually going to do that yet. I wanted to wait for us to be like, actually ready. I wanted to make sure you were okay. Just fooling around right?”

Allan looked at him soberly. “Yes.”

Charlie sighed. “Okay. Good. Um, you sure?”

Allan nodded, looking impatiently at him, “Can we restart now? I’m hurting bad. I wasn’t lying. I’ve been hiding my hard earned feelings all day.”

“That’s weird to say it that way but okay!” Charlie chuckled.

Allan started smothering Charlie with kisses, love bites and nibbles all over his body.

“Trying to maul me? You’re gonna give me permanent scars. Permanent Allan tattoos, haha.”

Allan purred, “Remember we said not to edit each other? I want to mark you as my own.”

Charlie nodded, grinning, his breath going uneven and fast as Allan put his hand down Charlie’s underwear.

“I want to taste you,” Allan declared, taking off Charlie’s underwear.

“Oh, fuck, Allan, that’s good, baby,” Charlie moaned as Allan took his own length in his mouth.

Charlie was, to Allan’s surprise since their early days of fooling around, a very loud lover. He verbalized everything and moaned loudly, which Allan really enjoyed.

Charlie bit his lip as Allan licked him aggressively, lower to his balls, sucking on them. That made Charlie arch his back, crying out obscenely, moaning Allan’s name over and over.

“Your tongue is like a miracle… it’s so long, ugh, fuck…” Charlie said in a breathy whimper.

“You taste like salty ice cream,” Allan said seriously. Charlie would’ve laughed if he weren’t so turned on.

“Fuck you are so weird, but so sexy, so beautiful, so pretty,” Charlie swooned as Allan straddled his hips, taking off his own boxers.

Allan smiled with an intense expression. “You’re so weird and beautiful too, Charlie.”

They kissed softer this time. Allan caressed Charlie’s face, as they pressed their erections against the other.

“Fuck you like wearing your pretty skirt when you ride my dick?” Charlie moaned as they kissed slower, more gently.

“Mmm, Charlie, I wanna look pretty for you,” Allan whimpered, crying out a bit as they started rubbing against each other. Charlie helped grip their erections to get a better friction going.

“Fuck, I don’t think I can la-last much longer…” Charlie kissed Allan on the neck, giving him a small hickey.

“I’ve been wanting to do this all day, big boy,” Allan moaned into his mouth.

Charlie dreamily sighed, as they kissed with tongue deeply, his insides twisting pleasantly.

“God I want you so bad, Charlie… I think about you fucking me all day long, in every ..” Allan moans in a strangled cry. “In every position, in every place, I want to.. I want you to fuck me so hard that I feel you every time I sit down and stand up…”

Charlie moaned loudly, his breath short and fast. “I don’t know if I’m.. I can do every position hon.. I’m not that Coordinated… and I’m a bit fat..ha…”

“I just want you. Every part of you. It hurts so bad that I want to cry, Charlie, please…”

The wanton begging set off something in Charlie as he gently flipped Allan on the bed, spreading his legs. He leaned in, nibbling on the tip of Allan’s erection, licking it, kissing it, before taking him fully in his mouth.

“I love every single part of you baby, I think about making slow, sweet love to you all the time too…” Charlie said in a sweet voice before licking him lower, stroking him roughly as he kissed his inner thighs.

Allan had his eyes closed tightly in passion, moaning loudly and crying out Charlie’s name.

“Fuck, Charlie-I’m .. I’m gonna.. shit…” Allan panicked, tapping on Charlie’s shoulder.

Charlie moved up, “You wanted us to come together, huh?”

Allan nodded. “Yes.”

Allan straddled on top of Charlie, moving his skirt around as they settle in a good rhythm, the friction between them building.

“I love you,” Allan softly blurted out, not matching the tone of the sexual tension. Charlie stopped, looking at him softly, kissing him gently.

“You… Allan, I love you, too,” Charlie said with a sweet look.

They kissed again, the pressure at its highest, as they climaxed. Allan gripped the sides of Charlie’s hips, grinding harshly as he cried, an extended moan with a few breathy whimpers.

“Fuck, Allan, you’re so good,” Charlie moaned into Allan’s mouth, holding onto his back tightly.

They collapse next to each other, feeling the afterglow of their love.

Suddenly their ceiling fan collapsed near the bed, making them jump out frantically, looking at each other in panic and disbelief.

“Damn if that had happened any sooner, I’d blame the universe for denying our love,” Charlie blurted out, eyes widened. He eyed Allan, nervously looking at him for injuries. “Are you okay?”

Allan nodded. “I’m just shocked. I am fine.”

“The fan must not be a fan of our idea of intimacy,” Allan added, making Charlie laugh in a startled manner.

“Why is our life like some weird, episodic cartoon show? I need a drink…” Charlie grumbled.

Allan nodded. “I often feel like we’re just cartoons trying to survive in a crazy world. But I love that I’m living it with you.”

Charlie looked at the fan, just inches away from where they both were laying. His heart was racing, scared beyond words. Not for himself but for his partner.

“Yeah. Me too.”