• CALEB • “Your smile is contagious.” Jason said it quietly against my neck, his lips brushing over the mark he’d left there, warm and deliberate. Like he wasn’t just kissing skin but something he’d claimed and intended to keep. On the other side, Nelson did the same, his mouth finding his own mark with the same unhurried certainty, and for a moment I just lay there between them with both of them pressed close and the whole world reduced to that specific warmth and the sound of our breathing evening out together. I stared at the ceiling. The marks on my neck still pulsed softly. Not painfully they’d moved past pain into something else entirely, something that felt closer to a second heartbeat, steady and low, like a sound you don’t notice until the room gets quiet enough to hear it. I could feel both of them through it. Not words or thoughts, just presence the quiet, unmistakable awareness of exactly where they were, like two points of light in a dark room that I would always b
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