My Roommate Hates Me, So He Only Kisses Me in the Dark novel · Chapter 11 of 24

Chapter 11: Narrow Bed

The bed was too narrow for two grown men, and neither of them cared.

Linus lay on his back with his glasses folded on the desk and the ceiling gone soft above him.

Mattias lay on his side, careful of his shoulder.

One knee lay between Linus's, and his good hand was spread flat over Linus's heart.

"It's going fast," Mattias said.

"I noticed," Linus said.

"You're shaking too."

"Say one more word about it and I'll go sleep on the floor."

Mattias huffed against his neck, and Linus felt it all the way down to his toes.

"I haven't been with anyone since the storm," Mattias said.

"The guy at the party was for show. I looked at you the whole time."

"I counted," Linus said.

"How many?"

"Five glances in ten minutes. Then I stopped, because it was embarrassing."

"You were jealous," Mattias said.

"I was irritated."

"You went upstairs."

"To wash my hands," Linus said.

"Deny me, then," Mattias murmured, with his mouth against Linus's jaw, and Linus laughed helplessly in the dark.

"You're never going to let me forget that."

"No. It was the best line anyone ever hit me with."

He kissed his way slowly along the line of Linus's collarbone.

The flannel pulled loose at the neck, and the first button went, and the second.

Linus put a hand in his hair.

He had read about this in books, in a dozen different ways.

Not one of them had said how loud it would be inside his own head.

"I've never done this," he said.

"I know."

"Did I make it obvious?"

"You held so still the night of the storm." Mattias lifted his face. "I'm not going to rush you."

"Then don't rush. Just don't hold back," Linus said.

"Maki."

"I mean it."

Linus caught his chin and held it.

"You've been careful for ten minutes. I'm not made of glass. I want the person who walked me against a door."

Something flickered in Mattias's face, wonder and trouble in equal parts.

"Mattias," Linus said.

His name did something to him.

His hand tightened in the flannel, and he shut his eyes for a moment.

"Say it again."

"Mattias."

He did not wait to hear it a third time.

The next minutes passed in pieces that Linus would never be able to put in order.

Mattias's mouth, warm and sure on his throat.

The weight of him settling, the creak of the old springs, a blanket kicked to the floor.

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