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It’s a warm day today but the grass needs to be cut, so when Martyn gets out his lawn mower he has already sweated enough buckets to fill a tiny tub. He did already apply sunscreen beforehand, so he can just ditch his shirt if he wants to, hence he decides to keep it off, because set shirt is thoroughly soaked by all his sweating.
The front yard is first on the chopping block and it takes him forty-five minutes to an hour, taking ample breaks in between. He’s thankful he decided to wait a couple of hours before he started, letting the midday heat pas a little. He did get the occasional weird look from a few people, but he doesn’t mind, he got his earbuds in and was listening to music anyway.
When he’s finally done in front of the house, he goes inside to drink something and wipe the sweat off his body. As he’s walking outside again he thinks about jumping in their pool for a second, but chooses against it because he still has his gloves, shoes, socks and underwear still on, besides it will be so much better when he’s finished, a nice reward for his hard work he thinks.
As he’s about halfway done with their backyard he hears something loud, pausing to see what it was, taking out one earbud. When he faces the direction of the sound he sees his husband whistling at him.
“What are you looking at?” He shouts over the sound of the lawn mower to the man on their terrace.
“Can’t I look at the most beautiful man in the world?” Trying to be charming towards the other and slightly failing at it.
“By the way, did you just catcall me? Or in your case dogcall.” He asks in a shocked way. “Anyway, give me another hour and then we can talk by the pool.” And so Martyn turns his attention back to his work while Ren walks inside to take an ice cold shower.
When at last he’s done with the final bit of lawn by the chicken coop, he puts away the lawn mower and is planning to go inside quickly to change, but then he sees Ren walking outside with a platter full of delectable things, like Ren's home-made muffins, cookies and something to drink. “Hard workers deserve treats. Don’t they?”
“Who is the best husband a man can ask for?” He asks in a playful tone.
Hearing this makes Ren perk right up as he asks “Me?”
To which Martyn answers “Yes, it’s you.” Granting his partner a very big smile. If he had his tail on would wag it wildly, instead he gets a very sweaty hug. “Can I go and change now? The pool is calling me.”
Returning outside once more he sees Ren’s also gone to cool off a bit, laying calmly on a pool float. Not able to resist he just sprints over and with a giant splash jumps into the pool, tipping over his unassuming lover.
“Hey!” Ren yelps, rubbing the water from his eyes. "Are you going to pick up my sunglasses?"
“Love you.” Martyn says as he places a kiss on his husband’s cheek.
“Love you too.” Ren says back in a “what am I going to do with you.” way. As they enjoy the rest of their evening together.