Chapter 31 #2
“My first day working The Hole with you both. It was the way your eyes connected. I could see you speak to each other silently, sending these colorful expressions at each other,” Charlie replied with a smile.
Still sitting on the floor in between us, he twisted my direction and took my hand in his, relaxing his shoulders.
“I hope one day Jimmy and I will get to the point we can do that too.”
Well, I guess that hound is loose now.
No turning back.
I pulled his hand up and leaned down a little and kissed his knuckles, before turning back to Will and John, who were both beaming with joy. There were now two sets of us. I chuckled, “What are the odds, huh?”
“John and I figured you both out fast,” Will said. He lifted his brow in a smug expression, “The night in the bar when Richard clocked David, I said to John, ‘Those two are getting together, mark my words.’ I just knew based on how you two acted around each other.”
“I will speak for the both of us, we were not expecting this to happen,” I said, looking down at Charlie.
His little dimple was pretty deep. It was so cute.
I wanted to poke it. My curiosity got the better of me, knowing how fast Charlie and I were moving and knowing it wasn’t normal, I asked, “How long have you both been a couple? I’ve known you both for so long, you were always together. ”
“We became friends in our first year in high school, but started sneaking around in our last year of school,” John said quietly, fully joining the conversion, now that it was about him.
“When we got the job here, we decided to room together as roommates. Our spare room is set up like it’s mine, my belongs and clothes are all in there, but–,”
“We sleep in the same bed in the master room,” Will finished. Will raised and extended his arm in John’s direction, urging him over. Once close enough, Will pulled him in, his arm around his waist, his head resting on his hip in an adoring way.
Once that moment was passed, Will continued, “How long ago did this,” pointing his finger and swaying it side to side at us, “actually start?”
Charlie looked up at the ceiling, biting the side of his lip and mouth in thought. I tilted my head at him in question when he said, “What? I’m counting the days,” then he giggled at how absurd that sounded. Days. “It was technically the day before you were stabbed. In the mine car?”
I slapped my own face when Charlie dropped that detail into the air.
Oh my God.
I started laughing. John was actually full on smiling which is a rare sight. Will was bug-eyed, “You fucked in a mine car at work!”
“Oh My Lord, NO! We only kissed,” I raised my hands, calming the situation that was vibing through the air.
“Yeah, the day Richard caught us. It’s what made him come to antagonize us the next day,” Charlie laughed with me, even though it shouldn’t be a laughing matter, as it’s what got me where I am now.
“Just a kiss?” Will shook his head, tsking. “If other people ask, tell them you fucked. It will be a better story.”
We all cracked up, even John, who then added, “I guess that explains why he’s been running his mouth about the two of you ever since. The things he says.” He shook his head.
“We haven’t caught wind of any of that since he was arrested. We’ve kind of been holed up here,” I shrugged
“Oh, I bet you have,” Will smirked, swishing his head side to side. Charlie blushed while I gave a chuckle.
“Dad and I did have a run in with Karen at the company store, though,” he said, scrunching his face.
This was new information to me. That woman probably had the biggest mouth of the town.
I was about to ask what happened when Charlie started to laugh, knocking me off kilter.
“She was going to make a scene, but Betty showed up.”
Oh shit.
“I’m not pulling your leg when I say, Betty slapped the insults right out of her mouth. I felt it in my bones. She was great,” he continued to laugh. “Dad didn’t know what to do with her.”
“Oh, I bet,” I laughed thinking about Mike, witnessing the work of Betty. But it still worried me that Karen would approach either of us at this point with how much shit they were in. Will and John were chuckling, probably thinking the same thing as me.
“Speaking of your dad, Charlie,” John broke in when the laughing died down. “I’m assuming he knows? About you and what is happening here?”
Charlie looked up at John with a sweet smile, “Yes. He’s known about me for a while. Which is a whole other story for another time. He is good with it.” He reached and took my hand again, squeezing, “And us.”
“David also knows. He is supportive, but still wrapping his head around it a bit, I think.” I paused before adding, “And obviously Betty knows, too. She figured it out herself when we visited the library.”
“And I think Tom knows and has known from the beginning,” Charlie said, gnawing the side of his mouth.
“That doesn’t surprise me,” Will broke in, understanding in his face.
“Tom knows about us. He is the only one. Unlike you both, we can keep a secret,” he laughed.
“Tom doesn’t give a damn. His younger brother, Jack, is like us.
He and Tom left home together when their parents were kicking Jack out onto the streets when he was a teenager.
Tom was out of school but still living at home.
They never looked back. Jack is in New York now, living with someone too. Good men, the both of them.”
This was all starting to overwhelm my mind.
I never thought I’d ever have another all-male couple to socialize with leisurely, let alone having this little community grow with all this detail.
I obviously knew there were more of us out there in hiding, look at the men that come to The Underground.
But knowing and seeing them there, and knowing and seeing others outside in the world is completely different, even if it shouldn’t be.
We got off topic while finishing our dinner.
We talked about the mine some, some gossip that I was missing about some of the other miners.
Paul was already in overdrive about his upcoming baby with Linda.
And Steve was thrown out when he got caught stepping out on his wife.
It was a big to-do with her tossing his shit out on the path.
Will also told us the company was in trouble financially.
There have been talks to shut it down and seal it all up with explosives.
Plus, apparently the city is proposing a big roadway project and would have them tunneling into the mountain and out the other side.
But we can’t be up and running if they want to do that.
They have already started planning to construct new bridges by ordering the steel necessary to build them from the plants in the area, which we had learned from Mickie.
Once everything was cleaned up and packed, Will surprised me by wrapping his arms around me in a hug.
He whispered in my ear, “I am so happy John and I aren’t alone anymore.
” I could feel the happiness mixed with a little sorrow in that statement.
Being in complete hiding your entire life, even with the person you love, diminishes the happiness your soul feeds on.
Maybe this will help sate the starvation.
As he pulled away, he kissed my cheek. John did the same, before they moved to Charlie. We said goodbye, Charlie saying he would see them tomorrow, before we headed up to bed.
My senses and nerves were in overdrive. I was really worked up with all that happened tonight.
I was standing at my closet looking at my pajama choices when Charlie came up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist, his hand cupping my hardening pole, lighting me up like dry kindling.
He massaged me, making me moan, my head falling back.
“I don’t think you will need clothes for what I want to do,” before going up on his toes, nuzzling my neck.
I spun around and pushed him to the bed, quickly stripping him.
I don’t have the patience to go slow tonight.
I haven’t gotten off since he sucked me off the other morning and he didn’t even get the chance to, neglecting himself and me of the pleasure.
He was gorgeous in his completely bare state.
If it was acceptable, I’d have him walk around like this all the time and everywhere we’d go.
His dick was so rigid, it was actually lifting up at an angle away from his stomach, and it was leaking a shiny fluid.
I quickly stripped myself, and pounced onto his cock, taking him down to the base, dry and in one go.
“Oh fuck! Jimmy!” His hands landed on my shoulders, like he was holding onto the handlebars of a bike.
He tasted like a honeycomb, making my mouth fill with saliva. I started to rise and fall, while I made my hands busy with his nuts and puckered hole, winking in invitation. I wanted inside him again. It’s where I belonged. The connection was like any other I have ever felt.
As I was starting to swirl my fingertip around his opening to activate his nerve endings, he moaned and said, “Jiimmmyy. I want you too.”
I looked up at him, his cock still in my mouth.
He was blissed out already, which didn’t surprise me.
It looked like he was already about to shoot his juice from how worked up he already was.
I needed to give him a distraction. So, I pulled off his hot rod with a pop, and crawled up to him.
“We are both going to snack on each other, before I fuck you into this bed.”
Without waiting for a response, I rotated around so we had each other’s dicks in our sights.
I took Charlie back into my mouth again while continuing to tease his hole.
He joined the party, humming around my cock, sending vibrations through me.
He licked under the ridge of my head where my number one pleasure point was located, which he knew I liked, making me groan.