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Charlie moaned as he wiped the curls off his forehead and stepped out of Nick’s car to stretch his back. It wasn’t a long distance so far today but they had taken their time enjoying the views of coast and then redwoods as his boyfriend smoothly followed the curves of Highway 17 into the greater San Jose area with its population packed into a bowl between hills already golden instead of green here in June. He was ready to get some lunch before they finished the day’s miles at his friend Devon’s in the Castro tonight.
Nick leered at him as he came around the car to link their hands and walk over to the front door facing the street. “I know this place works for your meal plan but I can’t wait until we go to Thorough for real croissants tomorrow morning!”
Charlie laughed. “Trust my man to be more excited about a French bakery than all the gay bars in the gayest city in America!” Nick just tilted his head to consider the statement and then nodded happily. Charlie hummed at him as they passed into the air conditioning shoulder to shoulder. “And, yes, this may be a banal chain restaurant but it’s safe and easy so here we are.” Nick smiled warmly at that and made small talk with the waiter as they got sorted and seated.
They chatted a while about the menu and the blonde pointed out what he wanted. “Nick, it’s smothered in barbecue sauce AND bacon AND cheese?! Oh god no!”
“What?! It’s from Monterey and yesterday was really nice there and I wanna preserve the memory of it!” The brown eyes begged for approval and the blue ones just rolled back in Charlie’s head. Nick wrinkled his nose a moment, his eyebrows drawn. Then he jutted out his bottom lip and blew his bangs up with a sharp exhalation. “Fine, you don’t have to like it but that’s what I’m ordering!”
Charlie just laughed at him as he closed up his own laminated monstrosity, full of pictures perfect for hungover patrons to order by pointing. He looked around; the weekday lunchtime crowd was sparse and all the waitstaff looked bored. He narrowed his eyes as the glimmer of an idea popped into his mind.
When the food arrived, he ate his salad methodically and bantered with Nick constantly, grateful for the routines they had developed over four years of dating. He couldn’t wait for their new apartment to be ready for move in when they got back from this trip. He liked waking up next to him every day, even if this low-budget adventure had meant it was mostly air mattresses in the living rooms of their friends and family. His knee twitched as he thought about how long it had been since they’d had any privacy and he turned to identify the hallway leading to the restrooms.
When he looked back, Nick’s face was canted to one side again, a question written there in the tiny movements of muscles. Charlie let his lips widen seductively and watched the kind eyes grow large as a result. He placed his fork down carefully next to his plate and raised an index finger towards the host station to indicate he wanted their check brought to their table. Nick blinked and gulped down his last bite of chicken breast.
Charlie made sure to tip very generously and thanked the waiter profusely. As they both stood, Charlie grabbed Nick’s hand and lead him back to the men’s room where they both emptied out and tidied up before bumping hips at the sinks. They made eye contact in the mirrors and Charlie saw the same twinkle in both of them.
He dried his hands and then captured Nick’s waist so he could press up on his tiptoes to nibble along the solid jawline. “Ummmm, do you wanna,” he started to murmur as he felt the broad fingers dig into the small of his back, “hmmm, yeah, grab one of these stalls for a bit?” Nick just pressed them tighter together and huffed softly in the affirmative.
They stumbled into the nearest one and Charlie made sure to latch the flimsy door behind him. Nick then pushed him up against it and crashed their lips together. They were both frantic with desire immediately, pulling shirts up to their chins and dragging bare chests against each other. Charlie was the first to start fumbling with the drawstring on Nick’s sweatpants and he was gratified to find his boyfriend’s cock already mostly hard by the time his fingers could drop inside his briefs.
Nick groaned into the curls on the side of his head and shifted them so he could latch his lips onto Charlie’s neck without impeding what the drummer’s hands were doing so skillfully. But soon the dark head was bending as he reached the end of what he could manage without lube and Nick lifted a hand of his own to bite as his boyfriend’s mouth engulfed him.
His other hand tangling carefully in the back of Charlie’s hair, Nick leaned against the wall of the stall and shuddered until he was curving around the smaller man and convulsing into his willing partner. Charlie straightened up with a proud grin and swallow before slumping against the wide torso and panting there a minute.
As soon as he could without wobbling, Nick lowered himself into a crouch and made short work out of freeing Charlie’s throbbing dick from his skinny jeans. He looked up to gauge his lover’s preferences and the younger man giggled quietly.
“Down and dirty please, sweetheart; I’m just as desperate as you were,” Charlie whispered. Then he threw his head back with a startled yelp he tried to pull back into his throat; Nick was already gleefully humming around him and covering him with spit so he could wrap his cock in a tight ring of finger and lips. The other hand was squeezing into the crack of his ass just enough to draw friction a little deeper and Charlie let his arms flail against the burly slopes of Nick’s shoulders.
He looked up without seeing, the fluorescent lighting buzz growing into a roar as his perceptions expanded like the origins of the universe and then narrowed into the singularity of his beloved’s mouth. Everything went white as his hips jerked and Nick consumed the waves of pleasure radiating out of Charlie’s core, adding a salty dessert to that indulgent meal.
Then the blonde was looming above him again, gently tucking both of them away properly and folding him into a tender embrace full of breathless noises. They sighed into the post-coital glow together, wrapped in their love… even for a few minutes… in one franchise of the 26th most successful restaurant chain in the United States.