Page 137 of Vespertine

“Mmngh,” Jasper answered, his eyes glassy and his headtilted back. He looked almost as if he was praying.

“Fucking holy, yeah?” Nicky murmured.

Jasper smiled and looked down at him. “Yes, Nicky, beingwith you is always holy.” He lifted and lowered his body until Nicky was buriedseveral inches deep.

“I love you.”

“I love you too.” Jasper rode him shallowly, his face slack,his expression far gone.

“I want to hear you.” Nicky gripped Jasper’s hips and fuckedup hard, pushing into him fully. Jasper grunted, his eyes rolling back and hismouth hanging open. “Yeah. Let me hear you.”

He fucked him harder and harder, and Jasper groaned andgrunted, squawked and cried out, his body taking everything greedily as hiscock flexed between them, wet and so damn hard. When Nicky rolled them over,flipping Jasper to his back to get in deeper, to cradle Jasper’s head in hishands and kiss his mouth, the swearing started, and pride swelled hot in Nicky’schest.

“Oh,fuckNicky,” Jasper cried. “You’regonna make me—Nicky!”

Each stroke in pounded Jasper’s prostate, and Jasper’s assconvulsed. He quivered in Nicky’s arms, and his dick slapped wetly betweentheir stomachs. “Come for me,” Nicky whispered. “Come for me, Jasper. I want tofeel you squeeze me.”

“Nicky, oh, sweet God, it’s good.”

“Mmm-hmm, you’re amazing.” He was on the verge of coming;his body was strung tight and he could feel it pulling through him. “Are youclose? I’m close.”

Jasper reached between them and gripped his dick, his handflying over it fast. “Oh God, oh, holyfuck,Nicky!”His voice was hoarse and his ass clamped down hard, locking Nicky in place asthe first spasm of orgasm took him. Jasper held his ass hard, pulling him intight, and fell apart under him.

Nicky didn’t last any longer. Collapsing on Jasper, heshoved in deep as he could and came, burst after burst of pleasure in his headand heart and groin. “Love you,” he grunted as the scent of come filled hisnostrils. “Love you so fucking much.”

“Love you too,” Jasper said between small convulsions. “Loveyou too.”

The next morning, breakfast was a bowl of honey nutcereal and eggs that Jasper fried up while wearing nothing but tightie whities.Nicky slouched around in Jasper’s sweatpants and entertained all kinds offantasies about seeing whether the eggs would burn if he pushed the tightiewhities down and stuck his tongue in Jasper’s favorite spot. But in the end he’dbeen too exhausted to try it. Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day. He didn’t haveto rush anything. He could have Jasper forever.

Afterward, they got dressed. “This is harder than it looks, huh?”Nicky said, leaning against the wall in his freshly washed jeans and T-shirtthat smelled of Jasper’s detergent. He was watching Jasper go through hiscloset, pulling out the black pants and shirts and putting them aside.

“We need to take you shopping for a new uniform,” he said,putting his arm around Jasper’s slumping shoulders. “Unless you want to take itback? Maybe this was the right uniform for you, Jasper?”

Jasper shook his head and nuzzled Nicky’s neck before pullingdown the tight pair of jeans he’d worn to the Blumfelds’ house for dinner and ablue short-sleeved golf shirt. “I guess you’re right. I’m not sure I even knowwhat I want to wear. I’m used to wearing the same old thing nearly every day.”

“We’ll get you up to date in fashion. I’ll hire a stylist ifyou want.”

Jasper laughed.

“C’mon, feed the vanity a little.”

Jasper kissed him, and they spent some time taking theirclothes off before they put them back on again.

In the late morning, Nicky fielded some phone calls with hisfor-shit agent in order to issue a press statement confirming his status asalive and well. He then got Jasper to show him how to get on Twitter, where helet his fans know he was okay and apologized for the mess up and their grief.It was overwhelming to get literally hundreds of responses within minutes ofmaking his first social media post.

@NicoBlueLives I love you. So sorry foryour loss. Stay safe and sober!

@NicoBlueLives ur my favorite! I cried 4hours! So happy ur okay!

@NicoBlueLives Dude, last time I sawyou, you looked pretty dead.

@NicoBlueLives, U rock, bro!

@NicoBlueLives, so sad about Mick. Takecare of yourself!

“How do you know how this all works?” Nicky asked, watchingas Jasper made the privacy selections for his account.

“We have one for Blue Oasis. I usually let the kids handleit, but I needed to make sure it was safe for them to use.”