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            James couldn’t help but grin ear to ear as he built the pillow fort with Pär by his side, both men were quietly giggling to themselves like small children as this was something that they both hadn’t done in a long time and had been dying to do it together!

With their dream finally been granted, they took a hold of the opportunity rather quickly and found a suitable spot in the large shared home and slowly began to set everything up.

Chairs served to help prop up the ‘walls’ of the fort, a soft furry rug underneath for them to lay on top of, with a large blanket and plenty pillows to share.

Speaking of pillows, they had acquired an obscene amount of them to help form much softer walls and a comfortable floor to them to lay on. Luckily, when it was all finished, they had created the ideal ‘nest’ to retreat into after a rough day.

“Dude” James whispered to Pär, he had to keep his voice down as people were sleeping upstairs, “Did you buy snacks like I told you to?” he asked, eyeing his boyfriend up and down in a quizzical manner.

Pär chuckled and nodded, he grabbed the book bag that he had dragged on along with him and zipped it open, there he revealed a massive array of snacks for them to share! Pär had brought everything from: chips, cookies, soda, popcorn, candy, you name it and he’s likely got it!

James’ eyes sparkled at the treasure trove of snacks before him, mouth hanging open, he turned to face Pär who only winked and placed a single finger over his lips, indicating for him not to say anything.

With another quiet laugh, James pulled out his laptop, plugged it into the wall socket, and began to input the address of the pirated movies website, he loaded up the film of choice and got comfortable at Pär’s side. The two huddled in close as Pär gently wrapped a blanket around both their arms, then one of the first bags of treats was opened for them to share.

Tonight, was to be a night of nothing but pure bliss and tasty delights…

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            James came home with a tired huff and an annoyed grunt, he sat down on the nearest couch and groaned inwardly at himself. Nearly tearing at the hair on his head from the irritation of what had happened outside on his daily bike ride.

            James hadn’t watched where he was going, did a stupid maneuver and             ended up falling over and off of his bike, scraping and bruising his legs bad          enough to cause the skin to tear and bleed.

            Thankfully enough, the bike hadn’t suffered any serious damages and was        still fully functional.

            The same however, couldn’t be said about James’ pride…

Still sitting on the couch with a tired and pained expression on his face, James quietly sulked about what had happened to him. He was beating himself up for not paying close enough attention to what he was doing.

The sounds of approaching footsteps made James look up just in time to catch Thobbe walking in to the room, he saw the look of confusion and concern on his face and it made James reel back slightly.

“Holy shit man, are you alright? What happened?” Asked Thobbe who came at his side in an instant, eyeing the various scrapes, cuts and bruises on his knees, legs and the few that decorated his arms.

James mumbled something out but Thobbe hadn’t caught it in full, “What did you say?” he asked again.

“I-I….I-I said I fell…”

“Fell from your bike?”

“Yeah…”

“Are you okay?”

“No…”

Thobbe got up from his sitting position in front of James, he set down his cellphone on the nearby coffee table and before he left he spoke up, “Stay here, I’ll be right back-“ and rushed off upstairs.

Within minutes, James heard him come back downstairs, but this time with a medium sized red bag that had a single white cross on the front.

The med kit.

Thobbe opened it and quietly worked on patching up his boyfriend with careful and surprisingly quick fingers, something that James’ hadn’t seen from him before in all the years that they were together.

By the time it was all done, James was patched up, his wounds cleaned, disinfected and wrapped up to prevent an infection.

James quietly looked up to his boyfriend with a tired and deflated expression, Thobbe only offered a quiet and sympathetic smile in an order to get him to smile back. When one didn’t reach him, instead he pressed his forehead firmly against his and held his hands.

“I’m sorry you got hurt, babe…” Thobbe spoke, his voice soft and gentle as ever.

“It’s okay, it’s not your fault… I should’ve-“ he sighed, “I-I should’ve just payed more attention…”

“It happens to the best of us…” Thobbe reminded him.

And together the two sat in idle silence, not really sure of what to say next, Thobbe simply pulled his boyfriend in for a firm yet loving hug and kissed the top of his head.

He loved him more than he could ever know…

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            If James was being honest with himself, he’d admit to you that his heart was skipping several beats right now…

In the bedroom, all was quiet except for the open window that let in the sweet summer breeze and the gentle songs of the birds outside, that and the sound of passionate kissing.

James had a hard day at work today and had wanted to come home to his boyfriend and rest with him, just be in his calming yet warming presence to ease away the troubles from the day off of his mind.

What he didn’t anticipate was to be tackled by him in their shared bedroom and begin a furious kissing frenzy…!

James was currently pinned down on the bed by his handsome and beloved boyfriend Antti, who was very busy kissing him.

Antti didn’t leave any spot of his boyfriend’s face or neck without a kiss, all of it was beautiful and he wanted him to know that for a firm fact.

After several minutes of that, Antti finally got off of James and cuddled up with him at his side, his face was flushed pink as he eyed him, James’ face was cherry red which made him giggle.

“Pffft- You’re so cute when you’re like that, kultaseni…” Antti commented.

James was about to reply but another kiss, this time to his lips, had firmly stolen all his words away.

With his brain now completely turned into mush by his handsome boyfriend’s kissing, James could only happily giggle away like a schoolgirl as Antti laughed at his boyfriend’s cuteness.

Oh, what a pair these two are…!

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            James was already fast asleep as his boyfriend Emil spooned him, he felt at peace with everything around him and for the first time everything made sense to him.

As he slept, Emil, who was behind him was dead asleep as well as dead to the rest of the world. The man sleeps like a corpse!

In the middle of his deep slumber, James felt Emil’s arm sneak up to his side, he smiled when he felt him pull him close to him. It made him smile softly to himself…

If James hadn’t been so quiet, he wouldn’t have had caught what Emil said to him,

“Minä rakastan sinua…”