Rei yelped, or rather, he tried to as a whine escaped his lips. “No! Don’t!” He pushed uselessly against Sho, torn between enjoying Sho’s loving and his anxiety.
Sho felt Rei nibbling on his shoulder and neck, clearly enjoying their close proximity despite his protests. “Rei, tell me,” Sho whispered, almost breathless from pleasure. “Tell me where to touch you.”
“Sho!” Rei jerked, grinding his erection against Sho’s lower body. “Sho! Just… not…” His words ended in shallow panting and a restrained moan as Rei tried to control his vocal cords. Unable to speak, Rei instead took Sho’s hands in his and guided his hands, letting them glide from just above his navel, across his chest, and back up to his neck and face.
Hearing Rei’s soft moans as he brought his hands to explore his body, Sho couldn’t resist sticking his fingers into Rei’s open mouth. Rei readily sucked on Sho’s fingers, moaning with renewed gusto as Sho teased his sensitive nipples.
Distracted by Sho’s fingers and tongue, Rei all but stopped riding Sho. Deciding to take over, Sho removed his fingers from Rei’s mouth and held him tight as he brought Rei to the floor, positioning under him. Nudging at his blindfold with his shoulder, Sho managed to bring sight back into one eye.
As his blurry vision adjusted to the reintroduction of light, Rei’s flushed and distressed face came into focus and Rei pushed his hands to Sho’s face. “No! Don’t look!” he moaned, both aroused and upset at the same time. “I beg you! Please don’t look down!”
Rei’s pleading tugged at Sho’s heart, making it ache. He couldn’t understand Rei’s discomfort but he could comply with Rei’s wishes. Crouching down, close to Rei, Sho looked at him in the eyes and said, “I won’t. I promise you I’ll do as you ask. All I want is to see your beautiful face, and to know I’m not hurting you.”
“Sho…” Rei was close to tears. As his hands reluctantly shifted away from Sho’s eyes to caress his jaw, Rei drew Sho into another kiss, wordlessly giving Sho his permission to go on as he is.
Hugging Rei, Sho began thrusting into him. Rei moaned and writhed under Sho as he felt the pleasure intensify. True to his word, Sho kept his eye on Rei’s face, forcing himself from looking elsewhere. Closing his eye, Sho pressed his face into Rei’s skin, nuzzling against his neck and shoulders as Sho, too, felt a swell of pleasure building in him.
With Sho in reach, Rei bit down on his shoulder, stifling his moans as he came. Listening to Rei’s constant murmuring of his name, Sho felt his own pleasure overwhelm him, making him gasp as he quickly pulled out and spilt his ejaculation over Rei’s thighs.
Propping himself up on one arm, Sho shared a moment with Rei, looking at each other for a long while before he blinked and looked away, snapping out of his trance as he pulled off his makeshift blindfold. “I’m… sorry… for the mess,” he muttered, choosing to stare at the dying embers in the hearth, suddenly feeling awkward. He had never actually done it with a man before, after all.
Rei moved and Sho felt a kiss on his cheek followed by a hand caressing it. “Thank you,” Rei whispered.
Keeping to what he said, Sho continued staring at the fire, only grunting to acknowledge Rei’s appreciation as he slowly stood up and left to clean up. Left to himself, Sho found himself stuck with his feelings, unsure of how he truly felt, and unsure if he was just a passing fancy for Rei. He could hear the beginnings of a storm outside as the wind continued to rattle the storm shutters, imitating his inner turmoil in sound.
Cool fingers touching his cheek brought Sho back to reality and he looked up at Rei. He had a soft smile on his face, one resembling contentment. Aside from that, he looked the same as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Understanding his cue, Sho nodded and got up, taking his turn to clean up. When he came back, Sho found Rei settled in the bed, staring at the shutters with a pensive expression as he waited for Sho. Noticing Sho’s return, Rei cast that expression aside and welcomed him back with a warm smile and open arms. Sho returned the smile and settled in with Rei, letting him rest on his chest as they slowly drifted to sleep.
It felt like time barely passed when Sho woke suddenly to the rumble of distant thunder. It was still dark. The fire was now even dimmer than when they fell asleep though. Rei was fast asleep on him, but the blanket has somehow been tossed aside. When Rei murmured something and shifted, a glint of light caught his eye. Sho’s eyes were naturally drawn to it, to what he now realised was Rei’s leg sticking out from under his robes and entwined with his own legs.
Frowning, Sho stared at the gleam in the dark. It reminded him of the iridescence from Rei’s robes under sunlight, only that it was now on his skin. He shook his head in small movements, careful to not wake Rei. His mind was still much too bogged down by sleep. Moving carefully so as to not wake Rei by accident, Sho reached for the blankets and covered both of them with it again. Once warm and comfortable, it didn’t take long for Sho to fall back asleep with his face in Rei’s long dark hair.
Journal
Day 25
The sea is kind to me.
That’s what Rei said when he came back from fishing this morning.
The storm grew overnight. When Rei slipped out through the shutters, the wind that came in through the gap was so strong that it felt like a typhoon had come in. It honestly felt like a miracle that Rei came back unscathed AND dry. Only his hair was a little damp.
He wasn’t clear about where he went for the food nor about how he got it. The only thing he said was that “the sea is kind to me”. In his own words, whatever he needed or wanted the sea has always provided. Like a mother, he said.
Needless to say, I didn’t step out today. Just hearing the winds and the thunder, it sounds like an apocalypse out there. And the fact that Rei went out…
I guess there’s a reason why he’s alive.
Day 26
The storm hasn’t let up. Rei went out again and came back with shellfish and crabs. He checked on the boat and said that it was fine too. Thankfully. He also said that based on the weather patterns, the winds should change in our favour soon.
I asked him a few things about himself. He seemed more willing to divulge after that night.
He’s apparently been here his whole life. His first memory was waking up in the waters around here as a child. But he’s never even met the original inhabitants of this place. Whatever he shared about them was gleaned from old records that he found in some of the other houses over the years. The ability to read and write apparently came to him naturally.
The only other humans (he emphasised on this word a lot, for some reason) Rei has ever met were the ones who got washed up here. But no one has ever managed to leave the island. That he has mentioned before.
That’s honestly troubling. Maybe that’s why he’s so worried about my wellbeing.
After that question, he grew unwilling to say more. And he started asking about me instead. So I told him about my childhood, growing up near the coast, going to school. About my family’s trading business, travelling around and making deals when I grew old enough. I suppose that was enough to satisfy him. He didn’t ask any more.
I can’t imagine how lonely he must’ve been through all his years here though.
Day 27
The storm is still raging. Rei hasn’t returned. Maybe he went back to the cave and got stuck there.
Day 28
He’s still hasn't come back. I hope nothing bad happened. He should be capable of