Alex opened the door of Noah’s Apartment and was not surprised that there were hardly any light fixtures and no television.

Noah got in his apartment and moved around without any assistance. His beautiful and small body moving around the house with his grey eyes and no sunglasses would have fooled anyone that Noah wasn’t blind.

Alex picked the bags of used clothes and placed them in the laundry room and carried his overnight bag to the bedroom. A large airy room with large grilled windows and an attached bathroom. Everything was child proofed with corner protectors. Noah used the washroom, cleaned the surface, switched on the hardly used bathroom and bedroom lights and walked to the living room to get water for Alex.

Alex found the bathroom to be sparse but efficient with an integrated bidet system, an open shower with plastic soft floor separator, to ensure the water didn’t flow to the bathroom. Everything was locked into place at the sink with no mirror. Alex had taken off his clothes and was in his underwear when Noah walked back with bottled water and iced tea. He had a spec of toothpaste on his lips. Alex took the bottles from Noah, kept them on the top of the chest of drawers and licked the spec off Noah’s lips.

Noah moaned and smiled, “You are my first …uh… man in this bedroom!” He faltered in naming their relationship. Noah had stayed back with Alex for two weeks after the cyclone and then three days for the wedding at the countryside and Alex was to stay over at his place for the weekend.

Monday, Noah started teaching the next term and Alex was heading back to serve his notice to the restaurant.

In these three weeks, Alex had spoiled Noah with affection and attention. They had gone around town and shopped. Alex had taken him to the restaurant he worked in and also to the best food places around the city. They had amazing sex and Alex made him feel sexy and wanted after such a long time.

“Boyfriend!” Alex kissed Noah, “Will you be my boyfriend? Can I be the boyfriend you brought to your apartment for the first time?” Alex kissed Noah again, holding his soft face between his large hands.

Noah nodded, “Yes!” He smiled and felt Alex’s face with his soft hands and kissed him passionately. “Alex… huh… do you want to…” Noah was hard, aroused and buzzing with sexual energy, he wanted Alex, and he wanted Alex inside him.

“Want what, Cutie pie?” Alex covered Noah’s face and neck with kisses. He raised the thin shirt Noah was wearing, got to his knees and kissed the soft belly and chest. He took the small nipples in his mouth and sucked them till they were deep red and perky. Noah grabbed Alex’s head and felt the soft buzz cut with his small hands, he pushed forward touching his hard-on to Alex’s chest. Alex took the shorts down and made Noah step out of it, “What do you want? Tell me Sweetheart!” He rimmed and sucked at the belly button, making Noah whimper and stand on his tip toes, pressing Alex’s head closer to him. As Alex started raising his shirt off, he noticed light bluish marks on Noah’s soft white unblemished hips and back. They were his finger marks, made in the hotel when he had raised Noah off the floor and taken him.

Alex touched the marks softly, “Noyee! Did I hurt you?” He said softly and touched his lips to the marks, one by one.

“I want you to do it again!” Noah finally demanded, whispering and moaning.

Alex took Noah inside his mouth and drew him in his throat, pressing his lips tightly on the base before bobbing on it, making him moan in his small voice. He made Noah lie on the bed, face down and stuck his tongue deep in his hole, slicking it for penetration.

Alex stood straight with his feet and shoulders width apart, He picked Noah off the bed with his back to him by the hips so that he was completely open. Noah encircled his arms around Alex’s neck as he felt the large dick enter his small hole from behind, he pressed his feet on the bed, with Alex hands under his thighs. He was taken from behind, suspended by his large boyfriend, as he was kissed, licked and gently bitten on his neck, ears and back. Alex grunted and picked him off the bed, fucking him mercilessly, slapping him against his hard body, his dick leaving the small hole almost completely before being slammed inside.

Noah came, spurting everything in front of him with his cum.

Alex wasn’t done with his boyfriend. He laid Noah on his side on the bed with his one leg straight and second leg bent at the knee and slightly lifted. Alex got on the knee between Noah’s thighs and planted his second leg on the floor. Noah stretched out his arms as Alex caressed the inner thigh of his lover and helped to hold his raised leg in this position and fucked him sideways. Noah felt intense internal stimulation on the prostate, with his free hands he touched and played with his nipples and then jerked himself to another shattering climax as he felt Alex pulsating and cumming inside his guts.

****

Noah shut his eyes with the pleasure and satisfaction of having incredible sex with someone who loved him. “I love you! Alex!” He mumbled groggily and fell asleep. Both boys steered in their sleep and snuggled closer as a cold breeze blew in from the open windows. Alex gathered his boyfriend to his chest and covered the small body with his arm and leg. Noah mewed in the warm cocoon of hard muscles and smiled. “I can stay like this with you all my life!” he murmured satisfyingly. “Noyee! I want you to see me!” Alex said without thinking. Noah stiffened and was startled awake. He pushed Alex as hard as he could, straddled him and started hitting the hard pecs with his hands, clearly upset with Alex. “Don’t say that! Never say that!” He kept repeating.

“Noyee! Noyee! What? Stop!” Alex held both of Noah’s wrists in one hand, raised them above his head and sat up, with his other hand he wrapped Noah’s tiny waist, stopping him completely.

“What are you doing?” He demanded angrily and Noah started crying.”Baby! Why are you crying?” His tone softened, he let go of his wrist and hugged the small boy to him, “What did I do?” He felt Noah’s heart beating loudly against his.

“Never say you want me to see you! I don’t want to see you Alex! Never! You can leave me and live a good life! I will be at peace with that but never say that you want me to see you! Please X, I would rather die!” Noah sobbed in Alex’s arms. Alex didn’t think his casual statement would cut Noah deeply. “Baby! I am sorry! I didn’t mean it that way! I am sorry! I wanted to say, you should see how happy you make me. I am sorry for being stupid!” He kissed the wet cheeks and hugged Noah to him, realising that Noah was truly in love with him and promising himself to protect Noah at all cost.

“You have to get used to me saying stupid things! It’s part of the manual!” He said and hugged Noah tighter, their naked bodies merging.

“Please X! Please don’t leave me!” Noah kissed Alex on his neck, shoulders, face and chest.

“Babe!” Alex mumbled in Noah’s ear. “Hmmm!” Noah smiled knowing what was happening.

“I know this is a very intense moment and all, but hugging and kissing has made me really hard.” Alex adjusted Noah’s body over his. “Ya! Can’t waste good wood, can we?” Noah raised his hips and slowly lowered himself on the huge black dick.

“You are the best thing that happened to us!” Alex sighed and kissed Noah, as the small cowboy moved over him.

****

“Baby! I got it… I got it… got a call from the head chef… I am coming to you!” Alex was shouting on the phone at 1 am. He had landed home that morning and was finishing his shift when he got the call.

“Hmm… X! I miss you!” Noah smiled in his sleep, “Love you!” he said and hid under the duvet with the phone, “I love you, Baby!” Alex said, making kissing sounds. Noah got up and sat on the bed as he realised what the news meant to them, “Can’t believe that you’re moving here!” He whooped. Alex smiled, “Don’t forget I am the Pastry Sous Chef! After meeting you, all my dreams are coming true!”

Noah went quiet and stiffened suddenly, “X!” he whispered, and “I can hear someone!”

“You okay, Baby? What is it?” Alex knew Noah was feeling or seeing someone around him.

“Orazio! She is calling for Orazio and something else and keeps repeating ‘Ucciso’!” Noah whispered and hid his face, all alone and frightened.

Alex knew he had to deal with this but he didn’t know how and he was so far from Noah. “Orazio is Ori! The Groom! Des’s brother!” He stammered as Noah’s voice started trembling.

“She wants to talk to him? Is she there? Ucciso means kill in Italian, I just looked it up” Alex started pacing the alley outside the restaurant and tried to be understanding even though he had no clue how to react.

“No she’s not here, she is haunting where she was killed but I can hear her… She is looking at Ori right now but I don’t understand why I am hearing her from so far away? Do you think she wants him dead? We need to help him!” Noah whimpered.

****

Des, Orozio, Kira, Kay and Rob were seated around Noah and Alex in a circle on Noah’s carpeted living room floor, sharing details on the Lady in Red.

Ori was visibly unwell, he had lost weight in the past seven days, and he looked pale and weak. Kira had dark circles from lack of sleep and constantly worrying about her husband. Des was lost with what was happening and kept thinking that all this started after Alex met Noah.

Rob was there because Kay was there and Kay was there to collect her camera which she had left in Noah’s closet when she had come to meet him last evening, to check if Noah was okay and get all the juicy details of his weekend with his hunky chef.

Alex held Noah’s shivering hand and kept it on his thigh, not wanting for him to go through it alone this time. Noah was sick with a splitting headache and bouts of nausea every time he heard her rusty and jaded voice.

“So! Why is she angry with a thirty year old man, who doesn’t even know her?” Des was exhausted with this constant discussion since the incident with Ori and Kia.

“She said something like…uh…avidita!” Noah said.

“Greed! Avidità means greed” Des said, making him believe in Noah’s ability and on his theory about Noah and his connection to the paranormal was somehow putting his kid brothers, Ori and possibly Alex in danger

Kay got up, wanting to leave because she felt like everyone but Alex was hounding Noah for answers, which he didn’t have, but now that Alex was here, she didn’t want to interfere. “I will collect my camera and then we will leave. I have to work with the pictures for the new background for the pre-launch storyline.” She gestured to Rob to get up, with her eyes.

As she came back to the room with the camera, Noah suddenly groaned with pain and covered his ears, startling everyone and worrying Alex. “She is loud! Make her stop!” Noah whispered.

“Oh! Fuck!” Kay exclaimed and looked at the camera, “I have pictures of the railway crossing and the tracks in here! That’s how she found Noyee!” She gingerly kept the camera on the kitchen island, everyone looked scared, as if it would explode in flames.

Alex didn’t care about a ghost or people or hauntings, Noah was in pain and that was enough to scare him. He held on to his small boyfriend’s shivering body, trying to protect him from the world.

****

Alex kissed a sleeping Noah’s forehead as the group surrounded his laptop connected to the camera on the kitchen island, looking for pictures of the railway crossing.

Alex sat next to Noah on the bed, brushing his hair away from his forehead as they kept falling over it making Alex smile, he couldn’t take his eyes off his cute Noah with his eyes closed, hair falling on his forehead, almost to his eyes and his lower lip pouting as he slept.

Alex walked up to the group just when Kay selected the first picture around the railway tracks from the thumbnail. She had taken hundreds of pictures of the place. She slowly pressed next, waiting long enough for everyone to scan each picture thoroughly for any sign of the Lady.

Suddenly Noah shouted in his sleep, “STOP! It’s her!”

Kay stopped at the picture and everyone stepped back, terrified of the picture and Noah’s connection to her. Alex ran to Noah, but he was still sleeping but had thrown away the blanket and was covered with sweat, as if breaking a fever.

Des followed Alex and stood behind him, both looking at the small, thin and beautiful boy. “He is really extraordinary, huh!” Des said quietly. Alex nodded, not able to speak as his voice caught, feeling helpless in helping his Noah. “Hmm!” He sighed.

She was there, standing on the tracks, her feet not visible but every other detail exactly like Ori remembered from that night, the picture was sharp but the lady wasn’t, as if she was under a thin moving veil. She wasn’t there in any other picture, only this one.

Ori sighed, finally showing everyone what he had seen, accepting and being accepted that he wasn’t crazy or hallucinating.

He felt relieved but his heart went out to Noah, just thinking how he faced this back to back, the negation from your own consciousness, the ridicule from everyone around you and the fear that either you are crazy or in danger, made him sad for Noah.

He hugged Alex tightly till he hugged him back, two men who knew love and now how Noah felt. “Take care of him, please. He deserves better than all this terror surrounding him.” Ori wiped his eyes as Kiya gathered him in her arms and Alex stared towards the bedroom, where the magical blind cowboy was sleeping.

The boy who made Alex believe in love at first sight, in soul mates and good luck, in paranormal and ghosts.

“Noah!” he mumbled as his heart felt squeezed and his body felt warm with love.