Is Yet Slash Yaoi Original Fiction Novel Story

Epi had no interest in stopping. He teetered on the edge of his own release. It was watching Nick fall apart, his face open and unmasked, eyes squinted tightly shut, that undid Epi. It caught him off guard, how strongly seeing, feeling, Nick release below him effected him. It shocked him to let go and his body writhed, pressing tighter to Nick as he came a moment after his friend. Nick moaned deeper and Epi was too lost to pleasure to understand his grip had tightened further as he lost control.

He didn’t understand until some sense slowly returned. Epi drifted down from the intoxicating high of a really good and really needed release to find he was half laying on Nick, his hand sticky inside of the stronger man’s pants and his fingers still curled around his slowly softening cock. He knew he should pull away, retreat before sense returned to Nick and the reality of what they’d just done arrived but Nick was holding him too tightly too move. Below him, Nick was gasping for breath, his eyes still shut tightly and he didn’t appear to be in any hurry to move.

“Nick…” Epi finally whispered and he shifted his grip on Nick’s now flaccid length.

“Shhh. Stay…please…” Nick whispered and the hand in Epi’s hair slipped down to briefly catch and restrain Epi’s wrist and prevent him from removing his hand form inside Nick’s boxers. “Just for now…please…”

Just for now. Epi could do just for now. He nodded and let his body sag in exhaustion against Nick’s chest. As the high wore off he expected his mind to swirl in circles about what a mistake he’d just made but instead he fell soundly asleep. His head stayed pillowed on Nick’s chest, his hand still lightly cupped Nick’s cock. He drifted away to the feel of Nick still desperately holding him as close as Epi would allow.

For the first time on their mini little vacation, Nick woke up in an empty bed. Not just empty, but cold and deserted. It was the emptiness that woke him up more than an alarm clock would have and it surprised him how quickly he’d gotten used to sleeping in the same bed with someone else. That was odd because he’d never been comfortable when lovers spent the night, but in less than a week he found he really missed Epi’s warm body curled up tight with his own.

That was when he remembered how Epi’s warm body had curled up against his own far tighter during the night. What had felt like a slightly too vivid dream crashed back as very clearly a real event. He’d had a bad dream, Epi had been sleeping close to him and it was Epi that had woken him up. That had been startling enough but Epi kissing him had made it all the better. It had been worth a nightmare to have Epi suddenly pouncing, demanding and wanting more.

There was something exceptional about Epi being aggressive. It suited the man’s temperament to simply take what he wanted, but Nick was surprised at how much he enjoyed being what the man wanted. All he had wanted to do was take Epi closer in his arms, strip away his sleepwear that he covered himself up in. He’d tried, needing to touch Epi’s bare skin, but the slender man had pulled his hands away. Any other time he would have protested that because Epi’s continued self consciousness seemed absurd to him. He hadn’t pushed the issue because he’d been scared silly Epi would stop completely.

Only Epi hadn’t stopped. When Nick gave in and let the man do what he wanted he had very much not stopped. The memory of the darkness shrouded contact made Nick blush a little, a flush to his face and neck that made him grin stupidly. It had felt ridiculously good. So good Nick worried it maybe had been all some vivid wonderful dream.

Except his boxers were hiked down too low and clung to his hips. He reached down to pull them back up where the waist band should be and made a face. There was no doubt it had been real, there were dried crusty spots on the fabric. Not just where it should be for him should it all have been a very nice dream but on the side of his hip where Epi had writhed, rubbed and came against him. That was a wonderful moment, even if Nick would have preferred to been a more active participant. It had been good, very good, and left him feeling warm and good.

Only, he’d woken up alone. Epi, for the first time, had woken up before him and crept away. Which wasn’t an easy thing for a one legged man with a balance issue to do. Nick was used to casual, he took pleasure where and how he could find it but Epi had made it a point to be very clear that he didn’t do casual.

“He started it…” Nick groaned. The last thing he wanted to deal with was Epi being pissed off at him for something the other man had initiated.

That was a thought that made Nick want to stay in bed. He might have too if they weren’t leaving shortly after lunch to make the long trip back home. As it was, there was no choice but to get up and face the day, and face Epi.

“Not going to say I’m sorry.” Nick vowed as he stepped out of the shower. He hurried up and shaved, dressed and quickly got ready to face the day. The fancy, expensive watch sat waiting for him and he put it on to be nice but it felt odd on his wrist and he didn’t even want to think about the laptop.

Nick’s day didn’t improve after the happy warmth of waking up. Epi was unusually social, spending all his time talking with his siblings when he hadn’t been during the days before. Nick even caught Epi sitting, talking with his father when he tried to catch him alone after lunch. There was no doubt about it now, Epi was avoiding him, so much so that every time Nick caught Epi’s eye the other man quickly looked away. Cold avoidance was annoying but better than Epi being pissed off. The last thing Nick wanted to do was fight about a little groping in the middle of the night.

Time slipped away before Nick could get Epi alone and before he knew it he was carrying their suitcases back out to the car so Jerry could drive them back to the small airport. There was no time as they said their goodbyes and Nick thanked the family again for their generosity and warm welcome but his focus was soon devoted to getting Epi into the car and settled.

He thought he’d have a moment to talk to Epi at the small airport but they were running late. By the time they got Epi through the security checkpoint, this time with far less hassle than they’d been given at the larger city airport, they had to hurry to catch their flight. The smaller flight was too noisy and too crowded to make talking about such a private issue possible so Nick held his tongue.

The day slipped away in a bustle of crowds and deadlines. Nick was worried as the silence grew between them. At most, Nick was able to get a single word answer to direct questions and he didn’t know if it was because of what had happened or how exhausted Epi was becoming. He didn’t care, he stayed quiet and focused on getting them from point a to point b and figured talking about their sex life wasn’t something he needed to do in an airport. There would be time for that on the drive home.

Only Epi was asleep, or faking being asleep, almost before they were out of the parking garage. Nick just sighed and didn’t try to rouse him. If he wanted to avoid the issue so badly he’d fake being asleep Nick was going to leave him alone. If he was actually that tired, he’d be callus brute to wake him up just to talk about an issue Epi had obviously refused to deal with. After the long day of traveling, he wasn’t sure he wanted to bring it up when Epi didn’t want anything said. Nick drove them home in silence.

It was dark when they finally pulled into their driveway and it wasn’t until the car stopped that Epi woke up. If he’d been faking sleep before, the fake had turned into reality during the drive. Nick was tired too, worn out from the trip and the tension of what wasn’t said and he left Epi sitting in the car as he took the luggage up to his house and inside. Cats came running at him meowing and Nick smiled for the first time all day.

“Missed us huh? Dad not petting you while we were gone? Poor fluffballs.” He placed Epi’s bags down and went back outside to help Epi out of the car. “You going to make it?”

Epi nodded and stiffly got to his feet.

“Let me get my bag upstairs and I’ll be in to get yours up the steps too. Okay?”

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

Nick hauled his bag out but put it down. “Epi?”

Epi froze. “Yeah?”

“About last night?” He glanced over and caught how Epi’s shoulders tensed up.

“Nothing happened.”

“But…”

Epi shook his head. “Nothing happened, okay?”

Nick drew a deep breath and nodded. “Okay. Nothing happened, deal.” He didn’t like it but he couldn’t force Epi to acknowledge what had happened. He didn’t even know if Epi regretted it. He wasn’t happy pretending nothing had happened but he could deal with it.

Nick took his bag upstairs and slipped off the expensive watch. As soon as the weight was gone from his wrist he felt more like himself. It wasn’t that he didn’t like it, it was a fine watch and if money wasn’t an option he’d likely have picked it out for himself. It just didn’t feel like him, to have something so fancy. The laptop he could dismiss as work, as it would let him work from inside Epi’s house or if they went on a trip again somewhere else but the watch was pure luxury and he wasn’t used to that.

He gathered up the surprise he had waiting for Epi and braced himself to go into the main house. Just because Epi wanted to pretend nothing had happened didn’t mean things hadn’t changed and he was worried. The lights were on in the house but Epi had moved into the living room. Nick found him sitting on the sofa surrounded by cats and smiling softly.

“I know we said we weren’t gonna do the Christmas thing but…” Nick moved the present he’d made around front of him and moved to hand them over to Epi. “Isn’t much.”

Nick stood there as Epi looked up from the cats and stared in surprise at the two canes Nick had made. Epi accepted them and ran his hands over the carvings. The smile fled from Epi’s face as his fingers slipped up and gripped the handles.

“Jamie’s been saying after we’re back from the holidays she’s making you give up the crutches. I asked her what you’d need in a cane, she suggested the wider base on the bottom. They’re walnut too, they’ll stand up to a lot of abuse. I didn’t want to make them fussy so I just carved that wave into the stick. Kind of faked a twist in it than stained it. Thought you were more of a dark wood sort. I’ve some ideas for some inlays but didn’t want to make it too fussy to start. If you hate it, I’ll understand, it was just…I thought it would look nicer than a medical cane.” Nick heard himself babbling. He’d spent hours working on the design and style to make it useful and still elegantly simple.

“No, it’s…they’re beautiful. Thank you.” Epi almost whispered as he ran his hands over the smooth wood. Carefully, Epi stood up.

Nick nodded, the height was good and the grips were good. “Can you balance with them?”

Epi took a few careful steps and grinned. “Yeah, I can. Nick this is amazing. Jamie said it would be okay?”

“She wants you on the crutches until she sees you again but I showed her them and she approved. Didn’t see a reason why you couldn’t go to them instead of something…well…”

“Ugly.”

“Yeah.”

“Thank you.”

The sincerity in Epi’s voice surprised Nick. “Welcome.” He nodded and let Epi walk past him, moving carefully with the help of the new canes. Nick had to grin a little because they looked even more handsome with Epi using them.

Epi returned from the dining room and handed an envelope to Nick. “Consider it a New Year’s present.” He grinned as he moved to sit down.

Nick watched as Epi continued to quietly admire his handiwork before he turned to open the envelope. When he pulled out the card from inside he grinned. “A subscription to Men’s Vogue.”

Epi smirked. “Thought you might enjoy it.”

All the tension of everything that did happen and wasn’t spoken about from the whole day snapped and Nick laughed. “Yeah, well, thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Epi?”

“Yeah?”

“We’re okay right? I mean last night…we’re still friends right?”

Epi’s smile softened and he nodded. “I would deeply regret if we weren’t. I don’t know what I’d do if we weren’t friends.”

Nick grinned. “Good, now, going to take your bags upstairs and going to go sleep. You have rehab tomorrow.”

Epi groaned. “Thanks for the reminder.”

		Is Yet Chapter Thirty
		Epi had no interest in stopping. He teetered on the edge of his own release. It was watching Nick fall apart, his face open and unmasked, eyes squinted tightly shut, that undid Epi. It caught him off guard, how strongly seeing, feeling, Nick release below him effected him. It shocked him to let go and his body writhed, pressing tighter to Nick as he came a moment after his friend. Nick moaned deeper and Epi was too lost to pleasure to understand his grip had tightened further as he lost control. He didn’t understand until some sense slowly returned. Epi drifted down from the intoxicating high of a really good and really needed release to find he was half laying on Nick, his hand sticky inside of the stronger man’s pants and his fingers still curled around his slowly softening cock. He knew he should pull away, retreat before sense returned to Nick and the reality of what they’d just done arrived but Nick was holding him too tightly too move. Below him, Nick was gasping for breath, his eyes still shut tightly and he didn’t appear to be in any hurry to move. “Nick…” Epi finally whispered and he shifted his grip on Nick’s now flaccid length. “Shhh. Stay…please…” Nick whispered and the hand in Epi’s hair slipped down to briefly catch and restrain Epi’s wrist and prevent him from removing his hand form inside Nick’s boxers. “Just for now…please…” Just for now. Epi could do just for now. He nodded and let his body sag in exhaustion against Nick’s chest. As the high wore off he expected his mind to swirl in circles about what a mistake he’d just made but instead he fell soundly asleep. His head stayed pillowed on Nick’s chest, his hand still lightly cupped Nick’s cock. He drifted away to the feel of Nick still desperately holding him as close as Epi would allow. For the first time on their mini little vacation, Nick woke up in an empty bed. Not just empty, but cold and deserted. It was the emptiness that woke him up more than an alarm clock would have and it surprised him how quickly he’d gotten used to sleeping in the same bed with someone else. That was odd because he’d never been comfortable when lovers spent the night, but in less than a week he found he really missed Epi’s warm body curled up tight with his own. That was when he remembered how Epi’s warm body had curled up against his own far tighter during the night. What had felt like a slightly too vivid dream crashed back as very clearly a real event. He’d had a bad dream, Epi had been sleeping close to him and it was Epi that had woken him up. That had been startling enough but Epi kissing him had made it all the better. It had been worth a nightmare to have Epi suddenly pouncing, demanding and wanting more. There was something exceptional about Epi being aggressive. It suited the man’s temperament to simply take what he wanted, but Nick was surprised at how much he enjoyed being what the man wanted. All he had wanted to do was take Epi closer in his arms, strip away his sleepwear that he covered himself up in. He’d tried, needing to touch Epi’s bare skin, but the slender man had pulled his hands away. Any other time he would have protested that because Epi’s continued self consciousness seemed absurd to him. He hadn’t pushed the issue because he’d been scared silly Epi would stop completely. Only Epi hadn’t stopped. When Nick gave in and let the man do what he wanted he had very much not stopped. The memory of the darkness shrouded contact made Nick blush a little, a flush to his face and neck that made him grin stupidly. It had felt ridiculously good. So good Nick worried it maybe had been all some vivid wonderful dream. Except his boxers were hiked down too low and clung to his hips. He reached down to pull them back up where the waist band should be and made a face. There was no doubt it had been real, there were dried crusty spots on the fabric. Not just where it should be for him should it all have been a very nice dream but on the side of his hip where Epi had writhed, rubbed and came against him. That was a wonderful moment, even if Nick would have preferred to been a more active participant. It had been good, very good, and left him feeling warm and good. Only, he’d woken up alone. Epi, for the first time, had woken up before him and crept away. Which wasn’t an easy thing for a one legged man with a balance issue to do. Nick was used to casual, he took pleasure where and how he could find it but Epi had made it a point to be very clear that he didn’t do casual. “He started it…” Nick groaned. The last thing he wanted to deal with was Epi being pissed off at him for something the other man had initiated. That was a thought that made Nick want to stay in bed. He might have too if they weren’t leaving shortly after lunch to make the long trip back home. As it was, there was no choice but to get up and face the day, and face Epi. “Not going to say I’m sorry.” Nick vowed as he stepped out of the shower. He hurried up and shaved, dressed and quickly got ready to face the day. The fancy, expensive watch sat waiting for him and he put it on to be nice but it felt odd on his wrist and he didn’t even want to think about the laptop. Nick’s day didn’t improve after the happy warmth of waking up. Epi was unusually social, spending all his time talking with his siblings when he hadn’t been during the days before. Nick even caught Epi sitting, talking with his father when he tried to catch him alone after lunch. There was no doubt about it now, Epi was avoiding him, so much so that every time Nick caught Epi’s eye the other man quickly looked away. Cold avoidance was annoying but better than Epi being pissed off. The last thing Nick wanted to do was fight about a little groping in the middle of the night. Time slipped away before Nick could get Epi alone and before he knew it he was carrying their suitcases back out to the car so Jerry could drive them back to the small airport. There was no time as they said their goodbyes and Nick thanked the family again for their generosity and warm welcome but his focus was soon devoted to getting Epi into the car and settled. He thought he’d have a moment to talk to Epi at the small airport but they were running late. By the time they got Epi through the security checkpoint, this time with far less hassle than they’d been given at the larger city airport, they had to hurry to catch their flight. The smaller flight was too noisy and too crowded to make talking about such a private issue possible so Nick held his tongue. The day slipped away in a bustle of crowds and deadlines. Nick was worried as the silence grew between them. At most, Nick was able to get a single word answer to direct questions and he didn’t know if it was because of what had happened or how exhausted Epi was becoming. He didn’t care, he stayed quiet and focused on getting them from point a to point b and figured talking about their sex life wasn’t something he needed to do in an airport. There would be time for that on the drive home. Only Epi was asleep, or faking being asleep, almost before they were out of the parking garage. Nick just sighed and didn’t try to rouse him. If he wanted to avoid the issue so badly he’d fake being asleep Nick was going to leave him alone. If he was actually that tired, he’d be callus brute to wake him up just to talk about an issue Epi had obviously refused to deal with. After the long day of traveling, he wasn’t sure he wanted to bring it up when Epi didn’t want anything said. Nick drove them home in silence. It was dark when they finally pulled into their driveway and it wasn’t until the car stopped that Epi woke up. If he’d been faking sleep before, the fake had turned into reality during the drive. Nick was tired too, worn out from the trip and the tension of what wasn’t said and he left Epi sitting in the car as he took the luggage up to his house and inside. Cats came running at him meowing and Nick smiled for the first time all day. “Missed us huh? Dad not petting you while we were gone? Poor fluffballs.” He placed Epi’s bags down and went back outside to help Epi out of the car. “You going to make it?” Epi nodded and stiffly got to his feet. “Let me get my bag upstairs and I’ll be in to get yours up the steps too. Okay?” “Yeah, that’s fine.” Nick hauled his bag out but put it down. “Epi?” Epi froze. “Yeah?” “About last night?” He glanced over and caught how Epi’s shoulders tensed up. “Nothing happened.” “But…” Epi shook his head. “Nothing happened, okay?” Nick drew a deep breath and nodded. “Okay. Nothing happened, deal.” He didn’t like it but he couldn’t force Epi to acknowledge what had happened. He didn’t even know if Epi regretted it. He wasn’t happy pretending nothing had happened but he could deal with it. Nick took his bag upstairs and slipped off the expensive watch. As soon as the weight was gone from his wrist he felt more like himself. It wasn’t that he didn’t like it, it was a fine watch and if money wasn’t an option he’d likely have picked it out for himself. It just didn’t feel like him, to have something so fancy. The laptop he could dismiss as work, as it would let him work from inside Epi’s house or if they went on a trip again somewhere else but the watch was pure luxury and he wasn’t used to that. He gathered up the surprise he had waiting for Epi and braced himself to go into the main house. Just because Epi wanted to pretend nothing had happened didn’t mean things hadn’t changed and he was worried. The lights were on in the house but Epi had moved into the living room. Nick found him sitting on the sofa surrounded by cats and smiling softly. “I know we said we weren’t gonna do the Christmas thing but…” Nick moved the present he’d made around front of him and moved to hand them over to Epi. “Isn’t much.” Nick stood there as Epi looked up from the cats and stared in surprise at the two canes Nick had made. Epi accepted them and ran his hands over the carvings. The smile fled from Epi’s face as his fingers slipped up and gripped the handles. “Jamie’s been saying after we’re back from the holidays she’s making you give up the crutches. I asked her what you’d need in a cane, she suggested the wider base on the bottom. They’re walnut too, they’ll stand up to a lot of abuse. I didn’t want to make them fussy so I just carved that wave into the stick. Kind of faked a twist in it than stained it. Thought you were more of a dark wood sort. I’ve some ideas for some inlays but didn’t want to make it too fussy to start. If you hate it, I’ll understand, it was just…I thought it would look nicer than a medical cane.” Nick heard himself babbling. He’d spent hours working on the design and style to make it useful and still elegantly simple. “No, it’s…they’re beautiful. Thank you.” Epi almost whispered as he ran his hands over the smooth wood. Carefully, Epi stood up. Nick nodded, the height was good and the grips were good. “Can you balance with them?” Epi took a few careful steps and grinned. “Yeah, I can. Nick this is amazing. Jamie said it would be okay?” “She wants you on the crutches until she sees you again but I showed her them and she approved. Didn’t see a reason why you couldn’t go to them instead of something…well…” “Ugly.” “Yeah.” “Thank you.” The sincerity in Epi’s voice surprised Nick. “Welcome.” He nodded and let Epi walk past him, moving carefully with the help of the new canes. Nick had to grin a little because they looked even more handsome with Epi using them. Epi returned from the dining room and handed an envelope to Nick. “Consider it a New Year’s present.” He grinned as he moved to sit down. Nick watched as Epi continued to quietly admire his handiwork before he turned to open the envelope. When he pulled out the card from inside he grinned. “A subscription to Men’s Vogue.” Epi smirked. “Thought you might enjoy it.” All the tension of everything that did happen and wasn’t spoken about from the whole day snapped and Nick laughed. “Yeah, well, thank you.” “You’re welcome.” “Epi?” “Yeah?” “We’re okay right? I mean last night…we’re still friends right?” Epi’s smile softened and he nodded. “I would deeply regret if we weren’t. I don’t know what I’d do if we weren’t friends.” Nick grinned. “Good, now, going to take your bags upstairs and going to go sleep. You have rehab tomorrow.” Epi groaned. “Thanks for the reminder.”
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