resting his head on Noah’s shoulder. He felt his presence inside too as his heart skipped a
beat and his lungs sucked in a breath of air.
A strange warmth came to him, forcing the cold chill of his fear back, and he stared at Noah
and his brother, the two people who had touched his heart unlike any other person had. He felt
the love coming from both and he closed his eyes, afraid of looking, afraid that it would be
the last time he would see those two faces and yet as his eyes closed, he felt the warmth,
felt the sudden rise of temperature deep down inside of him and then he could hear the soft
beat next to his heart, the soft gentle beat of not one but of two hearts and he trembled from
the fear of it, knowing that Noah and his brother were both with him now, both of them trying
to see into his own heart, to see what he truly felt; and he panicked at that for a moment or
two, wishing he could jump up and run away but his body refused his mind, and he sat there,
trembling with the fear that they would know his secret, his thoughts.
The sound of his brother’s voice in his ear made him start a little, made his body squirm
too as he heard him talking, heard him asking him why he was so afraid, asking him why he was
willing to be alone when right across from him sat his perfect match, his perfect partner. He
had no answer for his brother as he lifted his eyelids open, to stare into Noah’s face, to
see the powder blue eyes gazing at him with nothing but love inside of them. He could feel his
heart too, the soft gentle beat and once more he felt that moment, felt the wild strange
feeling that had rushed into his body the split second that his hard throbbing pole had
pierced the inside of Noah’s virgin body.
“Then… then I guess we take them on together.”
Noah had sat perfectly still, seeing the way Dakota’s face was all scrunched up as he tried to work it all out inside of him and he didn’t feel frightened now. It was like the war was over and that somehow Dakota would not abandon him. He felt it, deep inside, and he couldn’t explain it but the fear he
