Blind Love

Noah and his friends had come together for shopping but he had followed an apparition to the basement parking. The apparition was calling out for Alex and then turned around and looked at Noah, beckoning him to follow.

Rene had told Alex that he can find them in the local mall and gave him Rob's number, as he wasn't sure if he should share Kay's or Noah's Number with Alex, given the circumstances. Alex had met a panicked Kay and Rob at the mall lobby when everyone was asked to take shelter from the cyclone. After almost half an hour of being lost, Alex had come looking for Noah in the basement parking of the mall but couldn't locate him in the dark and dingy place, as the cyclone raged through.

Noah's phone started ringing and he pressed the middle button and took it, the sound of static assaulting his ears, from within the noise came a male voice with a heavy accent, "Please help me talk to Alex... Tell him, I called him... Marito!"

Alex called Noah's phone and it started ringing somewhere close. Alex perked his ears and realised the phone was ringing nearby and called out to Noah. As he concentrated on the ringing phone, he could hear Noah call out his name.

"Alex! ALEX!" Noah started crying loudly. Alex responded and started running towards Noah's sound. He found Noah hiding behind the pillar, crying and hysterical.

"Noah! Noah! You okay? Did anyone hurt you? Are you hurt?" Alex touched Noah all over, looking for injuries.

"Who is Marito?" Noah asked between sobs, still looking at the apparition.

Alex let go of Noah's face as if he was electrocuted by him and stumbled and sat back, "What?" His heart started beating loudly and he felt a sudden chill.

"Marito! He is saying that you were his Marito!" Noah covered his face with his hands, he couldn't see his hands but the person was standing behind Alex and visible to a blind Noah.

"What?" Alex looked at Noah, shocked and scared, "Who?" He dragged himself a couple of feet away from Noah, terrified of him and the things he was saying.

"Him!" Noah pointed a few feet above the spot on the floor where Alex was seated. Alex looked behind to his left, where a blind Noah was pointing and again felt the wave of ice cold draft, in a windowless corner of the basement parking lot.

"What?" Alex whispered, wanting desperately to get out of there, his fight and flight response screaming, RUN.

"If you have his number, please call him!" Noah was still sobbing, his tiny body heaving and he begged with folded hands.

The man was still clearly visible, floating next to Alex, his feet a few inches above ground, his neck tilted, looking sideways at Alex with sad eyes.

Alex picked his phone from the floor where he had dropped it when he saw Noah sitting behind the pillar. With shaking hands and tearful eyes he dialled Enzo's number and put the phone on speaker.

"We're sorry! You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service! Ci dispiace! Sei arrivato ad un numero che è stato disconnesso o non è più attivo!" Alex felt relief to hear the familiar message from Enzo's number he had heard a million times he had called him after their last video call.

Suddenly the message got scrambled with static, Noah whimpered and shrunk into a sitting foetal position.

"Marito!" A low voice crept out of the static. "I am sorry!" Alex dropped the phone and moved further away, his back touched another pillar and he stood up using the pillar for support, looking at the phone.

Noah saw Enzo move closer to Alex, who shivered and hugged himself, rubbing his arms with his palms.

"I was a coward to not fight for you!" Enzo's voice seeping with self-loathing. "I was not brave enough to live without you!" He confessed. Alex covered his face, not sure what was happening, but he was right! He should have protected Enzo and gone to him, saved him! He failed Enzo!

"No! Marito! You wouldn't have been able to save me." The garbled voice of Enzo responded.

"He says that after six months of trying to forget you, he ended his life. He couldn't live a closeted false life anymore and had no way to come to you. They had his passport and sent him for eight weeks of religious orientation conversion. Even after mentally, emotionally and physically tortured, he came back more in love with you than before." Noah narrated what Enzo wanted to explain to Alex for so long.

"And rather than taking strength from what we felt for us, you were weak." Alex shouted, "You believed it and chose to hate me and you. You should have called me just once but you chose to run away! It was on YOU Enzo!" The voice came in and out of the static as Alex just stood there sobbing, unable to talk anymore or move, this was beyond comprehension for him.

"We were not a fling! I loved you but I didn't fight for you! I waited all this time to let you know, what we had was real and I wasn't brave enough for us! I will go now! Ciao Marito!" Enzo's voice sounded brighter and clearer, "I love you, Alex! Thank you for loving me and making my life beautiful! I can go now!" His voice disappeared and was replaced by static and the phone beeped for some time and then everything went quiet.

Noah saw Enzo smile his lopsided smile and then everything was dark again. He gagged, puked and fainted. Alex stood there shaken, terrified, relieved and frozen, looking from their phones and Noah, lying on the floor and muttered, "What the fucking fuck?"

****

Alex looked at Noah and thought about Enzo. His mind and heart were fighting each other, trying to find logic in the closure he finally felt with Enzo.

Alex's mind was a whirlwind, 'I brought the most beautiful boy home because I genuinely liked someone for the first time after years. I insulted him, then pimped myself to get his whereabouts and got into a weird séance with him and my dead boyfriend in a mall basement! All this within 50 hours! I think I will have to do credit card fraud to pay through therapy! The whole experience, even though extremely painful, I can't shake away the fact that Enzo was my past. I know we could have been really happy together but I had made my peace that he is with someone else and someplace far away. He should have given us a chance but it feels like both of us got a final closure. In fact all I want is to kiss Noah and hold his soft body.'

He picked up Noah and held him close, feeling happy to find him and guilty to like him, guilty that after such a dramatic experience he still couldn't help but feel extremely attracted to Noah.

****

"What's Noah's deal?" Alex had carried an unconscious Noah to the lobby and now he was sleeping on the floor, Kay cradled his head and Rob and Alex sat next to each other facing Kay, as the storm raged outside, refusing to stop.

"He did feel things all his life, one of the reasons his foster parents found him odd. Once he had woken up in the middle of the night, smelling smoke when there was nothing." She picked at her jeans and Rob took her hand.

"Noah was hysterical and his foster parents with two of their own children and three more foster kids, got out of the house, only to stop the weird one from screaming. As soon as they got out, the oven which had something in it and was left ON, overloaded the circuits leading to an explosion and a massive fire. Noyee was only five, he didn't even understand why he felt hot on a winter night and smelled smoke when there was nothing. That foster family were my parents, their kids, me and Greg. My parents were officially out of the foster list due to the accident and hence Noyee had to go away. I and Noah became inseparable, he shared all his insecurities and worries with me and I, in turn shared my family and love. He lost his sight completely at fifteen but then this thing got developed. You must think he is a crazy redneck and I, the green Mohawk girl, am just fanning his mumbo jumbo!" She gave a dry chuckle and looked at Noah with love.

"Noah has been in therapy all his life because he has a difficult time with abandonment issues, blindness, sexuality and visions. But he just keeps getting stronger mentally and his reserve to become successful and help others like him, drives him ahead. He may have been delivered blow after blow by life but he is not damaged goods. He is gold!" She took Rob's extended hand. "I am a game designer and Rob is a therapist. We had to keep up with Noah!" She smiled.

"He senses people, smells their true nature like aura reading. When he was 18, Greg, my big brother and Noah, fell in love. They were so good together. They were supposed to move in together to Dallas. We lost Greg in an accident and Noah lost everything. That's when he started seeing these apparitions, starting with Greg. First it was difficult and terrifying, but now Noah uses his curse to help these lost souls and their loved ones. That's my Noyee's deal, he is too good to be allowed in this bitchy world!" Kay said angrily.

Alex found it astounding that he and Noah were with the love of their life around the same time. Both thought it was a lifetime thing, both planning to move to Dallas and both their partners were dead! Noah met both after they died! Why? Did Alex meet Noah only because he was to get closure with Enzo? "What is happening?" Alex mumbled.

He looked at Noah and could feel the wave of affection towards him. "Why the basement?" Alex wondered aloud, "Why did Enzo wait all these years there?"

"I am not sure but Noah says they try to be at the place with their best or worst memory, but mostly best. Like you hold on to the happiest moments in times of depression. He says the ones that linger with bad memories get bitter and are dangerous!" Rob said. He was clearly helping Noah cope with everything happening to him. "And he walked away from Kay in the parking lot, not in the basement!" Rob added.

Alex supported his suddenly spinning head with his hands as he realised something, tears flowing again. This was the parking lot where Alex had confessed he loved Enzo. Though Enzo had never said it back, at least not till he was alive, he was waiting at that spot for Alex. It was his happiest memory, he held on to it till Noah helped them get closure.

"Noah!" Alex called and looked at the sleeping extraordinary boy from Austin. Noah the blind boy who saw what no one else did, he saw people who wanted to be seen and heard that one last time, before they were forgotten.

***

Alex had invited the three of them home after all the flights were cancelled and there was no point extending their Airbnb stay. Rob and Kay were in the bedroom, Noah on the couch and Alex on the mattress laid on the floor after.

"You must think I am a man whore!" Alex mused, looking at the white ceiling.

"Hm...Hmm!" Noah responded.

"After Enzo, I thought anyways he used my body, then why not use it for fun!" Alex said making zero sense.

"Hmm!" Noah didn't know what to say, Alex confessed that he slept with Rene to know where to find him, which he thought was a very weird thing to do. But he had just done a three way conference with Alex's dead Italian boyfriend, so he didn't want to be the kettle.

"It's your winter break and all the flights are cancelled for a week. You guys have been here since four days now. Kay has already started her new project and Rob's taking his sessions on Zoom. Stay for your break, I will drop you home!" Alex pleaded softly for the millionth time with Noah. "I know you hate me! But don't forget I smell so good!" He sat up and touched the back of his fingers across Noah's cheek.

"I don't hate you! But why should we drag this?" Noah didn't flinch or move away from the touch, which Alex took as a good sign. "You don't want a freak like me! And I don't need another thing to discuss in therapy!" Noah smiled humorlessly.

"Let's redefine freak because I freaking feel like we are meant to be!" Alex touched his lips to Noah's chin, ever so lightly. He didn't seem surprised, like anticipating it. "Noah! Will you risk it with me? I don't respect my body because no one owns it... you own it and I will be yours, I promise." Alex whispered and held Noah's feet softly, took the sock off and kissed it.

"Please!" He rubbed the small soft foot on his stubble and kissed it again, making Noah moan, his hard-on pushing against his blue shorts.

"Noah! I really don't want to let you go!" Alex slowly took Noah's big toe in his mouth, played with it with his tongue as he massaged his cute ankle. He reached out, snaked his hand through the opening in his shorts and fisted his hard dick. He slowly masturbated Noah as he sucked his foot and licked the sole with long and slow laps.

Noah grabbed the couch arm above his head, bit his lower lip and stifled his voice. Alex stopped jerking him and rubbed his belly and chest with his large hand, as he started playing with his other foot. "Talk to me, Cutie! What do you want! Tell me... I will do whatever you want! Just tell me!" Alex said as he cupped his small pecs and pinched his nipples gently. "Alex!" Noah whispered and arched his back as Alex moved his hand to his shapely throat.

"Alex What?" Alex moved closer and rubbed his lower lip with his thumb, stopping Noah from biting it.

"Alex! Please!" Noah moaned a bit louder as he couldn't stop himself.

"Alex please what? " Alex demanded and slowly took Noah's shorts off him, placed his legs on his shoulders and licked his perineum.

"Alex... uhh... huh..fuck!" Noah said a bit more loudly and sucked in Alex's large thumb.

"Fuck whom?" He moved the thumb around the small mouth and started licking around the small red puckered hole.

"Fuck me!" Noah grabbed Alex's head with his small soft hands and pushed his tongue deeper into his hole. Alex raised his butt off the mattress and took the boxers off, still rimming Noah. He moved back and removed his cut-off and moved over Noah and claimed his mouth. He pushed Noah's t-shirt above his head and got him completely naked, stopping the kiss for just a few seconds.

He cradled his neck and waist and picked him off the couch and placed him gently on the mattress, never leaving his lips. He took Noah's hand in his, moving it over his body, making him touch and feel every part of skin and muscle he had built. He wanted Noah to like his body, to appreciate his hard work in the gym and to tell him what he wanted changed.

"Noyee! Tell me what you don't like in me and I will change it!" Noah touched him gently at first and then with hunger. He followed every touch with his lips, taking tentative licks and tasting Alex. He moved over him, as Alex laid on his back and kissed his way down to Alex's dick.

He licked the navel and bothered it with his teeth and tongue, Alex weaved his fingers in the thick silky brown hair and pushed Noah down to his hard dick.

"Noah! Do you like it? Do you like my big black cock?" Alex raised his neck and looked at Noah, small and beautiful, taking small licks off his head with his pink tongue and then taking the head in his mouth. Alex rolled his eyes and bucked his hips slightly as he was taken almost completely in Noah's hot mouth and wanting throat, "Ohh Yeah!" he whispered.

Noah used both his hands at the base of the large dick and sucked and licked the remaining length, bobbing his head on it. Alex, grabbed him under his arms and brought him face to face, rubbing Noah's soft firm body over his. He kissed Noah, their tongues wrestling and lips mashing into each other. Noah was small, quiet and polite as a person but in bed he was a live wire, Alex had to keep up with his small power bottom.

"I like everything about you! And I love the way you smell... like sunshine and fresh cut grass!" He took a long sniff from Alex's underarms and licked it, making their dicks harder than ever.

Noah sat up and slowly took Alex inside him, moaning quietly and making Alex grunt loudly. He grabbed Noah's hips hard with his fingers, feeling every firm muscle and well-shaped bones under soft supple skin. He dug his fingers deeper when Noah took his 9 inches completely inside him, his small hands rubbing his waxed chest in gentle circles.

"Baby! The condoms are in the bedroom! Let's stop!" Alex didn't move, the way he was feeling being lodged deep in Noah, was pleasurable to an extent of being painful, but this was Noah and he didn't want to make any more mistakes with him. He dug his fingers even harder in the tiny waist, trying hard to not move inside Noah.

"Please! I want you!" Noah whispered, his voice uneven and hoarse. Alex sat up, shoving his dick upwards inside Noah, pressing the prostate and making him buckle involuntarily. He rested Noah's back on the couch and pushed in him again, making Noah buckle and grab his shoulders. As Noah started taking his hands off, Alex put his hands over the small hands, preventing him from moving them away. "Bite me!" Alex instructed quietly, "Bite me! Wherever you want!" He nibbled Noah's ear. Noah wanted to bite his lower lip to stop making any noise but Alex claimed it and the moan escaped him, it was like his songs, sexy and country.

Noah laid his forehead on Alex's shoulder as he pushed upwards and held him at one place, moved down and pushed up again. Noah moaned loudly and gently took a small bite off the skin on Alex's collar bone and licked it. Alex had fucked so many men, so many times in his life, better looking men with sexier physique and more experience, but at that moment with his beautiful small quiet cowboy in his arms, his big dick buried in his tiny, hot channel, the way he bit him gently and then tried to sooth it by licking him, made Alex feel like it was his first time. As he pushed upwards again, Noah moaned and whispered to him, "Alex! Baby!" and laid his head on his shoulders, his body relaxed and pliant to anything Alex wanted. Alex wanted Noah.

He knew he had fallen in love with this small, extraordinary and magical cowboy. He picked Noah off him and made him squat down by bending his knees and leaning forward, his hands firmly planted on the mattress in front of him. Then he got on his knees behind him and pushed his entire length in one go. He slowly fucked him, giving him a sensuous massage and kissing him all over his neck and back. He came deep inside Noah, watching his big black dick locked in Noah's pink and round soft bubble butt. Noah laid on his stomach as Alex exited his dripping hole, red and gaping. Alex turned Noah around and he laced his hands and legs around him. Alex picked him effortlessly and carried him to the washroom.

He took Noah to the washroom, "Noah! I really like you!"

"Alex!" Noah smiled, his nose wrinkling and dimples forming into his cheeks, "Ahh! You need to leave!" He started giggling, making Alex laugh out loud and leave the washroom.

Alex stood outside and sighed, 'I think I have to tell him, I am in love!' he thought and smiled to himself.