In The Dark (Cliff's Story)

When Gray got back to the inn that night, we ate dinner together. We relished the fact that Kai was gone for the summer. Then Gray upset me a little by saying he would leave Mineral Town when his blacksmithing apprenticeship was up. The idea of losing him broke my heart. He realized that I thought he meant to leave without me, and he assured me that he would take me with him if and when he left. That was more than all right with me. The only thing attaching me to this town was him. Home was wherever Gray was.

We got in the shower later, where Gray teased me by attempting to wash my hair again. Being so much stronger than me, he was easily able to force me under the water. In an attempt to make him forget about it, I dropped to my knees and began to suck at him. He groaned in pleasure, but was focused on torturing me. He covered my head in shampoo, creating a large amount of lather as he rubbed erratically at my head. Suds started to drip into my eyes, and I looked up at his face, squinting one eye so as not to get shampoo in it. My mouth was full of him, but I managed to mumble out a distinct threat: “I’ll bite you.”

Gray reared back, removing his manhood from my mouth as quickly as he could. He widened his eyes at me. “You crazy bitch!” he hissed, but I could tell that he was about to start laughing.

I got back to my feet, and leaned back into the flow of water. I ran my fingers the best I could through my tangled hair, and rinsed the suds out. “You’re the crazy bitch!” I giggled, and Gray burst out into laughter as well. He gave me an apologetic smile, reaching out his strong arms for a hug. He pressed his slightly rough lips to my smooth ones, then parted his lips and thrust his tongue into my mouth. The warm shower water tasted sweet as it ran down our faces, into our mouths. I sucked on his tongue, and hummed happily.

After a moment, we brought our faces apart. He smiled warmly down on me. “All right, all right, I won’t wash your hair. But, uh, how about…?” He brought his hand to the back of my head, pressing lightly to urge me to go back to what I had been doing. I smiled back at him, narrowing my eyes, and I kneeled in front of him. I stroked my fingers gently over his thick hardness, then wrapped one hand around it. I could feel it throbbing slightly against my hand, and I sighed happily as I brought my mouth forward, licking at the tip. It was sweet and very wet from the shower.

Gray leaned into the shower wall, groaning in desire. He admonished me playfully, “No biting!” Just to mess with him, I bared my teeth a little and scraped them against his firm flesh. A surprised squeal escaped Gray’s lips, and he shivered with delight, but warned me nonetheless. “I can…still reach the shampoo from here…” I went back to behaving myself, licking at it gently as I tried to act innocent. I did not want him washing my hair any more! “Mmm…that’s more like it…” Gray moaned. I increased the speed of my sucking, and took him all the way down my throat. He hissed with delight, raising one hand to his head and slicking back his short hair as he rocked his hips lightly against me.

I could tell he was getting closer, so I brought my mouth up to the head, sucking hard at it as I stroked the shaft furiously with my hand. His groaning got steadily louder, and the taut muscles in his thighs trembled as he climaxed, bursting his sweet release into my mouth. He cried out my name brokenly, and I shuddered with pleasure. I pulled my mouth off carefully, swallowed, and then stroked him gently, coaxing the last drops of release out of him. I lapped them away with my tongue as soon as they appeared, and Gray looked down on me with half closed eyes, murmuring in satisfaction.

I stood up slowly, and he pulled me into his chest. I could feel his heart pounding as I nuzzled my face against him. He kissed the top of my head, and we both sighed happily. After a few moments, we pulled apart. He was still in that blissful post-orgasm state, and he soaped up the washcloth slowly, washing my body sensually.

The way he was looking at me with sexy, satisfied eyes made me start to get hard. As he washed me below the waist, he leaned in and kissed at my neck, whispering, “Shall we take care of that?” into my ear. I just nodded dumbly, and he dropped the washcloth, stroking my length with his hand. I wrapped my arms around his neck, moving my body in close to his as he caressed me. His knuckles grazed lightly against my stomach with each stroke, and I moaned happily, leaning my forehead to rest on his shoulder. He knew just how to touch me, and within a minute I was releasing, spurting out in short bursts. Some landed on his stomach, some ran down his fingers, and I gasped for breath as I looked down at it. The water washed it all away. Gray tilted my chin up with his free hand, and kissed me softly. “I…I love you…” I whispered.

“I love you, too, baby,” he replied, gazing into my eyes. I just leaned into him, overwhelmed with happiness. The water became slightly colder at that moment, and I shut it off. We dried off our bodies, still staring lovingly at each other. I turned to the sink to brush my teeth.

Gray opened the bathroom door, and looked back at me over his shoulder. “Since Kai is gone, I can do…this.” He removed his towel, hanging it by the door, and entered the bedroom completely naked. I smiled at him, toothbrush in mouth, and watched him walk. By the Goddess, his body was perfect. Just perfect. He was pure lean muscle, with smooth, healthy skin. He walked over to the dresser and got a clean pair of boxers, slipping into them. I rinsed out my mouth and followed him into the bedroom.

He turned to me, his eyes twinkling. “So…my bed, or yours?”

I smiled. “Maybe we can push them together.”

Gray nodded, then frowned. “I’ll have to move the nightstand. Do you think Ann will mind if we move the furniture?” I shook my head. Ann knew all about us and seemed to have no problem with it, and Doug never came up to the rooms. The bar and kitchen was his domain.

Gray walked up to the nightstand, grasping it in his strong hands and tugging at it. He looked confused, and the nightstand didn’t budge. He leaned over, looking at the wall. “It…it’s bolted to the wall! Can you believe it?” I clucked my tongue in disappointment, and we both slipped into my bed.

He cuddled up behind me, wrapping his arms around me and sighing happily. I pulled the covers up over us. “It’s been so long since we shared a bed…” I whispered.

“Yeah…I’ve missed it.” He kissed the back of my neck.

“Gray?”

“What is it, baby?”

“Do you think one day we’ll have our own place?”

He hugged me a little tighter. “Yeah…with a big bed. And a nice kitchen where you can cook me lots of food…” I murmured happily, my eyes getting heavier. I heard his breathing slow down, and he fell asleep with his face buried in my hair. I drifted off to sleep soon after.

Two nights later, we settled down into the bed once more. I turned to face him, kissing him softly. He moaned happily, parting his lips and intensifying the kiss by moving his tongue into my mouth. I traced circles around it, and reached up, stroking his hair with one hand. I broke away from his mouth to kiss a trail down his muscular chest. I flicked my tongue out to lick at his stomach, and he growled with desire.

I reached down, squeezing at him through his boxers. I stroked my fingers lightly at him, reaching down below his manhood and caressing there as well. Then I brought my hands to the waistband of his boxers, and tugged them down, freeing his hardness. I lowered my mouth onto it, sucking at him happily. He tasted so delicious, that I could never get enough of it.

My hair was loose, and it fell forward as I worked at him. Gray moaned a little as he reached down, tucking the stray piece behind my ear. I smiled as much as I could with my mouth full, and continued to work at him, squeezing him with my hands as my mouth moved over him furiously. I was stroking him with one hand and my mouth was slightly off of the head when he climaxed, and it spurted up. I moved my mouth to catch the explosion, and Gray gritted his teeth and groaned with delight. “Ah…that looked so fucking sexy…” he moaned as I licked him clean.

When he had caught his breath, he stood up from the bed and I laid down in it, removing my underwear as I did so. He straddled me at the knees and took me into his mouth, his hand pumping furiously below. I climaxed easily, and he swallowed the release with a smile on his face, then snuggled up next to me.

“It’s so wonderful…just you and me…” I yawned, as I fell asleep against his chest.

A week later, I was washing dishes in the kitchen when Ann rushed in. “Oh, Cliff…Gray’s grandfather just died!”

I wheeled around, my wet hands dripping soapy water onto the floor. “Huh?”

She paused for breath, clutching one hand to her chest. “Popuri just saw Doctor leaving the smithy’s, and he said that Saibara died of a heart attack.” My mind reeled, feeling worried for Gray. I knew it was probably terrible, but I couldn’t care less that the old man was dead. All I cared about was how Gray was taking it. I hoped that he didn’t have to watch his grandfather die. That would be awful.

I waited anxiously for him to return home. I was once again in the kitchen, washing more dishes, when Ann came in. “Gray’s home,” she murmured, taking my place at the sink as I dried my hands off and headed for our room.

He was lying on my bed, a crumpled, exhausted heap. I laid down behind him and held him, kissing the back of his neck. I didn’t try to say anything, because I knew that all he needed right now was just to not be alone. I heard Gray start to gasp, and then he began to sob. I just hugged him more tightly and let him get it out. After a while, he stopped and laughed. “Why am I even crying for that old bastard?”

“Because you’re human,” I responded. We laid together for a while, then I helped him get a shower. I rubbed his back afterwards, and he fell deep asleep. I draped my arm across his back as I laid next to him, watching him sleep.

The funeral for his grandfather was held the next day. The whole town was there, and I stayed beside Gray the whole time, comforting him the best I could. When it was over, Gray was just as exhausted as the day before, and fell asleep once again after I helped him get a shower.

The day after that, I was roused from sleep by Gray. “Hey, I need you to help me clean up my grandpa’s place,” he whispered at me, and I got up and dressed so that I could go with him.

I scrubbed and washed everything I could for the entire day. Gray was busy hauling out loads of trash. His grandfather was apparently a packrat. When it was all clean, we returned to the inn, and I started to take my clothes off to get a well deserved shower.

“Why don’t you wait until we get back home to do that?” Gray asked me.

I thought maybe he was so tired that he was confused. “We are home,” I replied.

Gray stood up, coming over to me. “No, we’re going to live at the shop now.”

I couldn‘t believe my ears. “You and me?”

Gray smiled broadly. “Yep, you and me.”

I squealed happily, hugging him tightly. We packed up everything we owned, and went down to tell Doug we were moving out. He took the news rather well, and we worked out an arrangement where I would still come and help out for a small salary.

Gray and I walked down the road to the shop, and I was grinning like an idiot the whole way. I was so happy that we were finally going to have our own place! When we got there, I put my clothes in the large mahogany dresser, and looked around.

I had already washed the sheets on the bed, and I plopped down onto it, testing out the springs. “Wow, this bed is huge! I’ve gotten used to us being crammed in a twin bed! What will we do with all this room?”

Gray laughed and came over to me. “I can think of a few things…” he purred as he pushed me back.