Zany About You - Ch. 8 (Be The Father Of This Child! Side Story, Patreon Exclusive) (Patreon)

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Chapter Eight – Letting You In

The weekend with Jett had been quite fruitful; Zane had to admit that their conversations had helped him figure out some things, too. If he really liked Dan, if he wanted to introduce him to his parents, then he needed to man up for real.

So, as it happened with all things, they had to be done in proper order. Zane called Dan on his way back home. 

“Hi,” Dan welcomed him, the moment he picked up. “Are you back? Can I come over?”

Just like a puppy, he sounded overly excited over the idea of having his owner back. Not that Zane considered himself Dan’s owner or anything, but it did warm his heart whenever he thought of Dan being his boyfriend, for real.

He grinned, although he knew Dan couldn’t see him. “I’m almost home. I just need to take a shower but come. I missed you.” The words left his mouth without him being able to stop them.

But it was all fine.

“I missed you, too.” The words hadn’t been spoken flippantly. It was clear that Dan put his heart into them.

“Just let yourself in if I’m still in the shower when you’re here.”

Making Dan a copy for the key to his apartment had seemed like a good idea, and it had come naturally from the start. While Zane didn’t pay visits to Dan’s place that often, it had been a tacit agreement between them to hang out more at Zane’s home.

“Okay. I can’t wait to see you,” Dan whispered into the phone.

Were Dan’s parents wondering what it could be that took Dan out of the house so often lately? Maybe Dan already spent a lot of time outside, given that he was a fan of physical activities, but Zane could bet that not many, if anyone, suspected what sort of activities Dan was into these days.

Zane would help Dan work out the courage to tell his parents and other people important in his life about who he really liked, but it was a decision for Dan to take and no one else. Until then, Zane had plenty of steps to walk himself.

He threw his knapsack in a corner and went straight for the shower. Even if he had managed to subdue a very angry Jett, which, in itself, was an astounding accomplishment, his best friend had gotten him good a few times, too. 

Zane let the warm spray hit his back and moaned in delight. That was working wonders for his tired muscles. It was just what he needed. He soaped his body thoroughly, feeling a slight sensation of arousal only by thinking of how it would all go down with Dan. He could bet the guy would be so surprised once he learned Zane was down with putting his ass up.

He was lost in thought, so he missed the door opening silently. One big rough hand slapped his ass, making him jump.

“Fuck me! Are you secretly a ninja or something?” Zane grinned, although he could feel the slap on his ass stinging a little. 

Dan’s eyes were hooded, and he stepped into the shower with Zane with his t-shirt and jeans on. 

“You know, you could’ve taken off your clothes if you wanted to join me in the shower,” Zane pointed out.

“No time,” Dan murmured and pulled Zane into a rough kiss.

Someone must have missed the other quite a lot. Zane was impressed, and he felt a bit off-balance, but not in a bad way. It was all right to allow his boyfriend to take the reins sometime. Now was as good a moment as any, especially seeing what he had in mind to propose later.

It took him, however, all his strength to push Dan slightly away so he could take a good look at him. “Wow, you really did miss me,” he said with a smirk.

“Yeah. I had no idea I could feel lonely without your bad jokes,” Dan replied, with a grin of his own. 

“Lonely? You were lonely?” Zane asked, quirking an eyebrow.

Dan looked away for a moment in embarrassment, but then his pretty eyes set on Zane. “I’ve been thinking.”

“Okay? About what?” Zane grabbed the hem of Dan’s wet t-shirt and pushed it up so that he could tease the naked skin underneath. 

“I like you for real, Zane. I like you more than whatever I felt toward April.”

“And now I know that you’re just pulling my leg,” Zane said. His blood was running hotter suddenly, and it wasn’t because of the warm water pelting his back.

“I’m not,” Dan said with a serious expression on his face.

“Okay. Elaborate,” Zane said and pushed one finger against Dan’s pec. 

Dan sighed one time, and from the heart. “At first, I thought you were a bit of an asshole.”

Zane’s eyebrows shot up, but he was obviously amused. “All right. Let’s say that I understand you.”

“And then, you began showing me stuff, and you really, really made my head go all --” Dan illustrated his words by moving one hand in circles while pointing it at his temple. “And I thought it would be so bad for me to fall for such a bad boy --”

“Fall? For me?”

Dan blushed. It was incredible how he could still blush after all they did. “Yeah.”

“Wow.” Zane felt his jaw going slack. Was that a confession he was hearing? Damn, it was surely a confession, and quite the confession if he thought about it.

“Yeah,” Dan said again. “I thought you should know that, um, I didn’t exactly follow with the plan of not falling for you.”

Zane smirked and pulled Dan closer. “Come here.”

“Wait.” Dan stopped him with one hand placed on his chest. “I have a bunch of things to tell you.”

“Can’t they wait? I feel like I need you more than anything right now.”

Dan laughed, embarrassed, but then he schooled his face into a serious demeanor. “No, they can’t wait.”

“Okay, but I hope it’s nothing bad. You’re looking pretty solemn right now.”

Dan shook his head. “I just want you to know that, um, I like you anyway. That it’s more than, um, like.”

Zane stopped for a moment. “Wait? Do you mean like --”

“Yeah,” Dan said quickly. Even though he had gathered the courage to speak so far, it looked like he didn’t have the guts to say it out loud. “Like that, yeah.”

Zane looked Dan up and down.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? You make me a bit nervous,” Dan said.

“It must be because I feel the same about you, and I don’t know how to say it.”

“You? You don’t know how to say it?” Dan was genuinely surprised.

“Hey, it’s not like I go around, telling guys that I love them,” Zane protested.

For a brief moment, they both stared at one another, eyes wide. Apparently, the L-word had been dropped, regardless of their hang-ups. 

“You … you …” Dan made serious efforts to get the words out, “love me?”

Zane crossed his arms over his chest and looked away. “Yeah. Is that so hard to believe? Wait, wasn’t it the same thing you wanted to say?”

Dan began laughing.

“Oh, shit,” Zane said. “Now, I’m the fool.”

“You’re not,” Dan contradicted him right away. “It’s just so completely unexpected! And I wanted to say the same thing?”

“So say it,” Zane said in a challenging tone, putting his chin up.

Dan scratched his head, looked down at his wet clothes, pulled at the hem of his t-shirt, and then mumbled, “I love you.”

“I’m not sure I heard you,” Zane said teasingly.

“I love you.” This time, it was a little louder.

“Oh, I think that I got water in my ears.” Zane began making a show of trying to get imaginary water out of his ears.

“I love you!” Dan shouted this time.

Zane stopped his antics and opened his arms to pull Dan into a tight embrace. “I love you, too, puppy.”

“Puppy?” Dan asked, visibly surprised.

Right. As much as Zane had been thinking of Dan as a puppy, he had never let those thoughts out of the bag. Now, they were out in the open, so maybe he had some serious explanations to give. However, that could wait until later, and he planned on offering a credible reason for why he saw Dan that way.

“Yeah. I just love dogs,” he said for the moment.

“And I’m like a puppy to you? Not like a Doberman or one of those big breeds?”

“Nothing like that. You’re just too cute.”

Dan groaned and rested his forehead on his shoulder. “You have the weirdest ideas about me, Zane. Hey, I have some other things to say to you.”

“All right. Now that the awkward moment of confessing is out of the way, I guess I can listen to whatever you want me to say. Unless it’s the end of the world, I can’t promise that I’ll care too much, though. I feel too stupidly happy right now.”

“I just wanted to tell you,” Dan sighed, “that it doesn’t matter that if you only want to top. As much as I want to know how it would feel to be inside you, I can live with --”

Zane kissed Dan loudly on the neck. “You don’t have to live with anything. I also have some things to say.”

“Okay,” Dan said solemnly. “I’m listening.”

“When I’m thinking about the next step in our relationship, I’m not just talking about taking you to mom and dad.” Zane allowed a couple of seconds for the meaning of his words to sink in. It appeared that Dan wasn’t that great at using his intuition. His face was blank. “I’m talking about putting my ass up for you, puppy,” he whispered into Dan’s ear.

“What?!” A surprised shout was the immediate reaction.

“Yeah. I mean, I thought about it and --”

“Let’s go,” Dan said and pulled him by the hand out of the shower. “Do we have everything we need? I mean, do you, because I --”

“We’re making a mess on the floor,” Zane protested.

“Since when do you care about cleaning and stuff? I get to top you!” Dan’s enthusiasm was contagious, so Zane decided it would be for the best not to stop him.

But Dan stopped short of coming out of the bathroom and grabbed a towel, which he used to rub Zane’s head vigorously.

“Ouch. You’re pulling all my hair out.”

“It will grow back,” Dan said.

Zane was pretty sure Dan hadn’t meant for that to come out as a joke, but he laughed anyway. Dan pouted and began rubbing his hair even more viciously. Zane decided to surrender. “All right, all right. You made your point.”

Dan didn’t stop at his hair and rubbed his entire body. Only after he was convinced Zane was reasonably dry, he began dragging him to the bedroom once again.

Zane laughed when he was pushed on the bed, with Dan between the legs. He just gestured for the drawer where he kept his supplies, and Dan went to grab them. There was such a serious look on his face. 

“Wait. You should undress, too,” he pointed out.

Dan nodded and pulled his t-shirt over his head. It was funny as hell to watch him do that, while he kept the condom and the lube he had gotten from the drawer tightly in his fist, without showing any signs that he wanted to let go.

“And the jeans,” Zane said and put his hands behind his head as he took in the scene in front of him with amused eyes.

Dan’s cock bounced out of his jeans, and Zane’s smile died on his lips. Damn. As caught up as he had been in their mutual confessions and everything, he had forgotten why he had been so scared in the first place about bottoming for his boyfriend.

Now, there was no turning back. He couldn’t act chicken, either. Dan put his condom on and rubbed a ton of lube on it. Then he looked at Zane, and his expression changed. “You changed your mind, didn’t you?” he said, evidently deflated.

“What? No! It’s just that, well, you’re quite big. And I’m a little chicken.”

Dan snickered. “For real? You’re afraid of something? You?”

“Hey, you pack a real gun between the legs,” Zane protested.

Dan considered for a moment what was going on, by the seriousness of his face. “Just guide me. You must know a ton about how to make it all good for a guy who’s bottoming. So teach me.”

“Okay,” Zane said, somewhat hesitantly. “Wait. You’re not going to tell me that we could wait a little and all that?”

Dan was confused, but only for a second. “Do you mean it? I mean, okay, if that’s something --”

Zane couldn’t bear to see his boyfriend so disappointed. The hard cock bouncing up and down as Dan climbed on the bed was a clear argument against any kind of waiting. Nope, there was no time to wait. “Come here, and I’ll take you through it.”

Dan smiled like a kid promised the perfect gift on his birthday and then climbed on top of Zane. They began kissing, and Zane sensed some of his worries melting away. It wasn’t like he was a total ass virgin, right? He just needed to relax a bit. Of course, Dan’s body, large and heavy on top of him, didn’t make him feel relaxed but aroused, and that was good, too. With the proper lubrication and preparation, he had to be sure that he would be able to accommodate Dan’s tool without too much trouble.

Dan devoured his lips. It was clear that he had been dreaming about this. Zane was more than happy to make his dreams come true, even if it meant that he would feel, at least, some discomfort along the way.

“I think I should put myself in position,” he said gently. “You know, on all fours.”

Dan frowned. “But, I want you like this.”

“Really? Missionary?”

“Yeah,” Dan said with conviction. “I want to look at you so that I know that I’m not hurting you.”

“Ah, I see. You’re such a good guy, Dan.”

Dan snickered in reply. “And you’re not that much of a bad boy, after all.”

“Don’t push it. It’s not like I’m soft or anything, even though I quit my job.”

“I don’t care about that. I care about how you are with me. And you are good,” Dan replied.

Well, that was a good point. Zane didn’t care to argue. He adjusted his position, bringing his knees up. “Then, as the good guy that I am, I should present my ass to you.”

Dan smiled and pushed himself back so that he could stare at Zane. There was something intense in his eyes, and Zane couldn’t quite recall if he had ever seen that expression on his boyfriend’s face before. Tentatively, Dan touched his cock, and then he grabbed it firmly. Zane began to move his hips slightly off the bed, meeting the touch. 

“I hope you don’t plan on taking this path. I might just come,” Zane said in a playful tone. “You know that I love your hand very much.”

“How about my mouth?” Dan asked directly.

Zane looked at him, craning his neck so that he could observe Dan. This time, Dan’s face was unreadable. “Well?” he asked, unnerved by the silence.

Dan shrugged, while his move on Zane’s cock didn’t stop. “I don’t know. It just occurred to me that I haven’t been a very good boyfriend.”

“How is that?”

“I mean, I’ve never properly done this,” he said, and then he moved fast, landing on his belly, with Zane’s cock right in his face. 

Zane said nothing. His mouth was dry, and he couldn’t quite believe his eyes. Dan took one deep breath, and he began lapping at his cock. It was like the impatience from earlier was gone. Dan stopped after a couple of minutes of pure heaven. “I’ll do you completely later,” he said in a raspy voice. “I want you too much now.”

If that had been a plan to distract him from what would follow, it had worked like a charm, Zane thought. He lay on his back and let Dan caress his balls and cock before aligning himself for entrance. He closed his eyes, determined not to say anything unless it hurt really bad. 

“Am I hurting you?”

Zane opened one eye and stared at Dan with it. “You’re not even close to my ass. Come on, Dan, let’s fuck this century,” he said teasingly.

Dan nodded and went back to work. 

Zane decided to encourage Dan a little. After all, he was the one new to it all. “Hey, don’t worry. I won’t start crying or anything.”

His joke had the desired effect. Dan snickered, and then, he finally found his way to Zane’s hole. Zane bit his bottom lip as he felt a blunt thing at his back door. It was fine. It would be fine. After all, bottoms he fucked were always told to relax, and by no other than him. So, he could tell himself the same things.

Dan caressed his face slowly. “You’ll tell me if it’s too much, right?”

Zane grinned, without opening his eyes. “Just go ahead and wreck me already.”

“I don’t want to wreck you.”

“Hush. Just do what you want. I can tell my ass wants you badly already.”

Dan leaned in and kissed him, and then he began entering Zane slowly, giving him time every step of the way. Zane wasn’t sure if he had ever been THAT careful with his lovers. But that was Dan, a gentle guy who just happened to be in love with him, something that was making Zane happy beyond belief.

Dan began moving faster and faster, and Zane linked his legs around him, taking him all in. It really wasn’t that hard, the penetration and all. He could hardly recall why he had been so stressed about it all. Dan’s cock was good inside him, and it must have been that Dan had paid proper attention to the lessons Zane had given him, albeit unknowingly.

“You’re awesome,” Zane encouraged his lover, and met him thrust for thrust, to the best of his abilities in that position. If he was a great top, he also wanted to be a great bottom for Dan, and that was almost new territory for him. Yeah, his ass was stretched, and he could feel Dan everywhere, but he had started to sense something new as his boyfriend’s pistoning continued.

He grabbed his cock and began pumping it. It was all he needed to get to the point of no return. “Oh, fuck!” he shouted.

His sudden release must have taken Dan by surprise because there was an instant guttural sound coming from him. Dan increased his rhythm, now in berserk mode. Zane let his mind go blank as he felt Dan pushing inside him.

A couple of minutes later, they were both on their backs, staring at the ceiling, most probably because they couldn’t do anything else.

“That was amazing,” Dan whispered. “Like nothing I’ve ever felt.”

“Well, then you know exactly how I feel when I’m on top. You’re still going to let me top, right?” Zane said, only half-joking.

“Sure. I love you on top,” Dan replied right away.

There was honesty in his words, so Zane didn’t question them anymore. 

Dan stretched out one hand and let it rest on Zane’s chest. “Can I ask you something?”

“Shoot,” Zane said.

Dan snickered. “I just did.”

“What do you know? You can even joke now. I should have let you top earlier.”

“Yeah. Like much earlier.”

“All right. Point taken. What did you want to know?”

“How come you decided to let me, you know, fuck you?” There was a bit of hesitation there, although not much.

Zane smiled. “I just had an interesting conversation with Jett. And then, I just realized that I wasn’t letting you in.”

“Like, in the physical sense.”

“That, too. But you talking about April was on me, too. I guess I thought myself not ready for a real commitment and all that.”

“Wow, you know the word ‘commitment’.”

“And what do you mean by that?” Zane pretended to be scandalized.

Dan laughed. “I’m just teasing you. So, now, what are we?”

“What do you mean? We’re boyfriends.”

“And in love,” Dan said with a satisfied sigh.

“And in love,” Zane agreed. “So, ready to catch some shuteye?”

Dan didn’t say anything for a while. “Or maybe we could do it again?” The questioning mark was hopeful.

Zane pulled his loving boyfriend into his arms. “Come here. We can do whatever you want.”

Four years later

“So, can you believe these guys?” Zane pointed at the happy couple posing for an umpteenth picture, this time with a group. “Tying the knot and all that.”

Dan clinked his champagne glass against his. “Actually, I believe them. It was expected. I heard it through the grapevine that Jett had proposed a while back. And that April had said ‘yes’.”

“Yeah, I know. But it’s still something, right?”

Dan observed him from the corner of one eye. “I have a feeling this conversation is going somewhere.”

“It doesn’t,” Zane protested right away.

“I know it does. Deny it all you want. Do you want me to be the one to say it?”

“Say what? I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

Dan hooked one arm over his shoulders. “We’ve been dating for four years.”

“Yeah.”

“And our parents are like best buddies or something.”

“Not that surprising. They’re all pretty easygoing people.”

“And we live together.”

“Yeah.”

“We have a budget, Zane, for fuck’s sake. For groceries. Joint budget. And for everything else.”

“No need to swear at a wedding.”

“I was just trying to get your attention.”

“Okay, you got my attention. Now what?”

“Why don’t we get married?”

It was so like Dan to be so direct. Zane tried to hold in a smile. “Married?”

“Yeah. We won’t change anything. All right, there may be a name change, but that’s it.”

“Name change? Do you want me to take your name?”

“Or I yours.”

“How will we decide?”

“Coin toss,” Dan said simply.

Zane was pretty sure Dan had prepared for this moment because a coin materialized from his pocket. 

“Heads or tails?”

“Heads,” Zane said with a shrug.

The coin flipped through the air, and then it stuck in the soil at their feet. 

“Now that’s a bummer,” Dan said with a sigh. “Again?”

“Nah, no need. I have a better idea,” Zane said. “We can just join our names like we joined our budgets. What do you say?”

“Okay, but whose name goes first?”

“Maybe we’ll have to toss the coin again.”

Zane didn’t wait for Dan to agree or disagree. He just pulled him into a deep kiss, until someone not far away started whistling. Whoever that was, they could keep at it all they wanted. Zane wasn’t going to let go of his boyfriend, soon to be husband, that easily.

THE END

Author's note: And this was, my dears, Zane's and Dan's story! I hope you had fun with the boys! There are many other stories that await, and soon enough I will introduce you to some new characters! Thank you for all your support!