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solid plan.”
“Which translates into, It’s crap. Of course it is. Because I don’t know how to be impulsive. A plan is the exact opposite of what I want. I’ve always been the one who’s reasonable and follows logic every step of the way. For once, I want to be spontaneous. Live in the moment. Carpe diem.”
“Why don’t you, then?”
“My conditioning has been so successful that I don’t know how. Whenever I’m about to do something, I go through a checklist in my head. Is it a good idea? Is there a possibility of injuries occurring? Is it safe? How far away is the nearest hospital? How risky is it?” Noah closed his eyes for a moment. “It’s exhausting. I’m eighteen. I should be at least a tiny bit reckless from time to time.”
Alex thought about it for a moment. “Okay. Do it.”
“What?”
“Be reckless. Right now.”
Noah laughed. Startled. Incredulous. “I can’t just… do it.”
“Ah, grasshopper, I’ve got so much to teach you. Yes you can just do it. That’s the whole point. You just go ahead and do whatever your brain cooks up, and you don’t stop to think if it’s a smart thing to do. Trust me, you can take my word for it. All I do is reckless shit. So go with your gut. What do you want to do right now? Go and see if you can drift in Carl’s truck? Go streaking in front of the police station? Tip a cow? Spray-paint the barn neon green? Go—”
But Alex couldn’t finish whatever he was about to say because suddenly, as if spurred on by Alex’s words, Noah’s lips were on his. Noah’s body was tense, like he expected to be shoved off any moment now, but even though Alex’s mind screamed at him to stop, every other molecule in him had received the order to continue full steam ahead.
Instead of pulling back, which would have been the smart thing to do, Alex immediately licked over Noah’s lips, coaxing him to open. The guttural groan Noah let out went straight to Alex’s balls, and like a good soldier, his cock straightened to full mast as soon as Noah’s lips opened, allowing Alex’s tongue to push in. The smell of grass that surrounded them and clung to Noah’s skin drove Alex wild.
Alex’s fingers pushed into Noah’s hair and grabbed onto the strands as he rolled them over so that Noah was lying underneath him. He planted his forearms down on either side of Noah’s head, bracketing them away from the outside world as he kept kissing Noah, hot and hard and possessive.
He pulled away for a moment to catch his breath. Noah was panting underneath him, lips swollen, eyes half-lidded, a perfect depiction of lust.
Mine!
Alex’s plan to devour Noah in the next two minutes came to a screeching halt at that one-worded thought. What the fuck was he doing? They’d been here before. He already knew how this night was going to end for him. Any moment now, Noah was going to come to his senses, which would result in blue balls and frustration and loneliness for Alex.
Alex looked down at Noah just as Noah licked over his top lip. Alex imagined he and Noah shared the same wild, turned-on expression, but where Noah was clearly prepared to throw caution to the wind, Alex wasn’t willing to take another gamble to see if this time Noah would stay.
He rolled himself off Noah and onto his back on the ground. Moments passed in silence. Minutes that felt like days as Alex tried to force his body to calm down.
“Why did you stop?” Noah asked.
Alex pushed himself up and dragged his hand through his messy hair. All of a sudden, he was uncharacteristically pissed at everything: this day, the situation he’d put himself in, his fucking dick that just refused to calm down. But most of all at the guy lying on the ground next to him, who still looked turned on as hell.
“What is this for you? Some kind of a bicurious summer experiment? Because the last time we did this, you made it pretty clear that you weren’t interested,” Alex snapped. “So why are we back here again? Aren’t you straight?”
Noah stared at him levelly, not even a shred of confusion in his gaze. He was breathing harshly. Every sharp intake of air made his tanned, golden muscles flex. “I never said I was straight,” he said quietly. Then he looked at Alex, and his jaw clenched before he got