~13~

"You don't have to sleep so close to the edge." Bryan said quietly, looking across the bed at Kieran.

It would have been weird to turn away from him plus who knew when he would get the opportunity to ogle a  shirtless Kieran again.

If he didn't know better, he would say that Kieran looked a little flustered.

"I wanted to give you your space?" He raised a brow, turning to look at him.

Bryan quickly backtracked on his thought of Kieran being flustered. "I don't mind you in my personal space." He muttered, looking away from Kieran's piercing gaze.

His words came out bolder than he had thought them but by then it was too late to swallow his words.

The bed dipped when Kieran moved even closer, agreeing without hesitation even though every of his working brain cells were screaming for him not to

Bryan looked up at this point to find Kieran merely inches away from him, staring down at him with an inscrutable look in his dark eyes.

The quiet tension that had been subtly thrumming between them the entire night flared up, Bryan getting trapped under his gaze.

The bed wasn't very big to begin with so there hadn't been a lot of space between them.

His eyes widened further when Kieran didn't stop moving closer, fighting the urge to move backwards.

"Sure you still want me in your personal space?" Kieran drawled when they were almost touching. 

Bryan bit back his witty response at this half threat, he had literally kissed him, what was he going on about?

"You're barely in it." Bryan tossed back, letting his eyes flicker down to Kieran's bare upper body and back to his face again.

He had no idea what the fuck was going on but he wasn't about to put a stop to it.

Kieran winced when his plan to unnerve Bryan backfired, when did he get so ballsy?

Before the moment in his car, he had always seen Bryan as someone easy to get flustered. He felt like he had missed out on a lot.

He wasn't about to back down when he was the one that started this, he probably should though, this was turning out to be such a bad idea.

Besides this wasn't about who got to unnerve the other more but an inescapable pull between them. He had fallen into the rabbit hole when he said nothing and hadn't rebuffed Bryan's kiss.

Bryan's eyes widened when Kieran slid right into his personal space, their skin brushing. Was he in over his head here? Because what the fuck?

His heart thumped in his chest when Kieran placed a hand over him on the bed beside him, trapping him beneath him.

Kieran had planned to tease Bryan and then roll over to sleep but Bryan had to look up at him like that and now he was fucked.

Bryan gripped the sheets, bracing himself, this was the last thing he had been expecting. What changed?

Did he finally manage to get through to Kieran?

He wished they could talk about this first. He might have never been in a relationship before but he had read and written enough books to know that this was the fastest way to run a thing between two people to the ground.

"K-Kieran?" He stuttered in a quiet voice, staring directly into his ravenous dark eyes.

This was the first time he got a chance to inspect Kieran's eyes from this close up, he had been expecting swirls of lighter colors but Kieran's eyes were still that impenetrable black up close.

It made Bryan wonder what secrets he hid behind them.

He really shouldn't have said Kieran's name in that manner because it seemed to make whatever hold he had on himself snap.

Bryan gasped when he surged forward, pulling their bodies flush against each other, Kieran's hands found their way into his shirt, a hand slipping behind his neck to pull him closer.

"W-Wait…" Bryan started to say, not really wanting Kieran to stop but also not wanting to jump head first into whatever this was.

But it was too late, he doubted that Kieran even heard him, soft lips claiming his and he was gone.

What was he worried about again?

His eyes immediately slipped shut, his lips parting open as he held on to Kieran's bare arms. This definitely had to be a dream.

He had probably fallen asleep while trying to get some arranging done and had been dreaming all along.

It was the only logical explanation for why Kieran was in his bed right then, kissing away what was left of his sanity.

Bryan barely held on for the wild ride, throwing his head back on a gasp when Kieran broke off from the kiss and moved down the column of his neck.

Bryan could barely get a breath in, it was all happening too fast, he buried his hands in Kieran's hair, unconsciously arching his neck backwards for better access.

"Ah! Kieran." He sighed when he felt the older man nip his neck a bit too sharply.

He never considered himself on the short side but something about Kieran pinning him to his own bed made him feel very small, he didn't hate it because it was Kieran.

If he thought Kieran was relentless before, it didn't brace him for when Kieran slipped a hand in his hair to tug harshly on it, a firm grip around his bare waist that was sure to leave a mark.

His lips catching on to a nipple to bite down a bit too hard, causing a strangled sound to leave Bryan.

He didn't want it to stop though, molding his body to Kieran as he welcomed the sharp pleasure.

He moaned out Kieran's name when pleasure singed through him as Kieran wrapped his lips around a nipple, his back arching sharply.

Kieran froze up at this, leaning back with something similar to terror on his face.

Oh shit.