Their Love
It was a cool Friday evening in Fall. The wind blowing through the sprawling university campus carried away the warmth of summer and the leaves from the trees, though it lacked the bite of winter's cold. Classes had just finished for the week; most of those who remained on campus- students and teachers alike- walked about with the quiet haste of people looking forward to better things. Few of them looked upward, and none of them paid much attention to the worn top of the library. If anyone had done so, they would have seen a raven soaring towards it.
"Hey! 'Sup!" Nathan said as he landed on the roof of the library, his winged arms fluttering in the wind. Between his black denim jeans, black feathers and his grey university sweatshirt, the raven's shape was so dark it actually made him stand out more in the daytime.
Jake looked up from his phone, pleasantly surprised to see the dark-feathered form of his boyfriend. A smile formed on the gecko's muzzle, lit by the pale blue glow of his phone's screen. "Hey!" he replied, sitting up against the heating unit behind him and adjusting the straps of his backpack. The gecko was wearing a ragged pair of jeans and a t-shirt under his half-open coat; despite the cold weather he was almost sweating from the hot air blowing over him from the nearby vent.
"Mmm... good to see you again, cutie," Nathan replied with a smile of his own, putting his satchel to the side and kneeling next to Jake. The raven wrapped his wings around himself and scooted up closer to the heater, shivering slightly in the November cold. "Brrr! You know, we should really try and find a better place to hang out between classes..."
"Hey! We met here! And don't you like the ambiance?" the gecko jokingly replied, sweeping one of his peach-scaled arms over the vents and pipes that decorated the weather-worn rooftop.
"Ambiance? Well, I don't know about that, but I guess it's ours... and the view is nice..." Nathan said, sighing wistfully. The corvid's dark eyes met the reptile's, and then scanned out across the campus under them. It was almost evening now, and the bustle and noise of students walking to and from class had been replaced by the peaceful, pregnant calm of the weekend-to-be. Only a scattered handful of students were going about their business below. Concealed by the worn stone parapet and the height of the building, no one ever seemed to notice them.
"Well... how was your day?" Jake asked, adjusting his glasses and wiping some condensation from them using his sleeve.
"Quite good, actually. I think I have a pretty solid topic for my policy paper and I'm ahead on my reading for everything. Guess I should start looking for something fun to do this weekend, eh? How about you?"
"Oh, okay I guess. Operating systems is not... nice. I'm going to pass, I think, but it's not going to be pretty," the gecko replied, frowning. "The professor hardly teaches anything! He throws us assignments and then makes us learn everything ourselves! I mean, I know we're supposed to be learning how to do stuff independently, but then what the hell are we paying for?"
"But you think you're going to be able to make it, right?" Nathan asked, moving forward so that their knees touched.
Jake's frown faded for a half-second before reforming. "Uh-huh. I guess. I don't know. I still like programming and stuff, it's just... well, it's a lot of work... gets a little tiring staring at my computer for half the day. It's... well... I don't think I'm going to have time to work on the campaign at all..."
"Aw, come on! Don't worry about D&D, my geeky little gecko," the raven said, abruptly adjusting his feathered bulk so that he sat atop the lower part of Jake's legs. "How about you take it easy tonight, knock that work shit out on Saturday and then play on Sunday?"
"That's impossible; I wouldn't have the time to..." the gecko began to reply.
Nathan interrupted Jake before he could get started. "Ah... you would, if I ran the game. I think I could come up with a pretty nice sidequest or two for the party to do, make sure the other party members get to use their backgrounds, maybe even make my famous game night chili..."
"Really!? Oh, thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Jake blurted, pulling the raven into a tight hug. "I owe you one Nathan; really!"
"Oof!" Nathan grunted. "Hey, hey now! It's no big deal; you know my classes are pretty light this quarter. But any time you need help and I can provide it, you'll get it."
"Heh, yeah... I mean, I know," Jake said, relaxing his hug. "It's just that I'm still trying to get used to the idea of having... someone like you."
"Whatdya mean?"
"I mean, well, a boyfriend. I just... I don't know," Jake mumbled, his words slowly trailing off. The raven sitting atop his legs tilted his head to the side and gave him a quizzical look.
"Love, you're being a bit, er, cryptic..." Nathan said.
"I... I didn't think I'd ever have one, I guess. I didn't think I was... I mean... I never even told anyone I was g-gay..." the gecko quietly stuttered, his eyes tilting towards the ground.
Slowly, Nathan reached over and took Jake's glasses off, setting them on top of the heating vent. "You know, you're selling yourself pretty short. I don't know if I told you this, but I've never had a boyfriend either. I was... waiting for someone worth it... and you were the first person to meet the metric. The only one, too."
"But... why me?" Jake asked, smiling back faintly.
"What sort of question is that! You're smart, you're compassionate, you're into the same books and games as me... and you're cute as all hell. I like your little pawsies..." Nathan said, pulling his boyfriend's hands into his own and gently rubbing their ridges. "I like the way you blush when you say something naughty... I like your tail... I like your cooking..."
Jake's hands went limp as he looked up at his boyfriend, already developing the blushing, coy reticence that the raven found so cute.
"I like the way you curl up in my wings when we watch movies together... I like how patient you were when you helped teach me calculus... I find your imagination endlessly fascinating; you run the best tabletop games, think of the coolest, craziest things..." Nathan continued, emotion slowly trickling into his voice. "You know what did it, though?"
"Uhm..." Jake mumbled, a twinkle in his eyes and a broad smile slowly forming on his muzzle. "N-no?"
"It's funny, it wasn't even something all that big, I suppose," Nathan said, quietly deliberating his words before he spoke them, giving his boyfriends hands gentle squeezes. "Around when we first met, I was having a really bad week between work, my grandpa's health and class, and then you came over. You sat and played video games with me, sympathetically listened to me mope and bitch about the shittiness of my life all night... hell, offered some good advice, too, and... and after that... it didn't seem so bad. That was when I felt something special..."
Jake gave a long, wistful sigh, blinking to clear his misty eyes. "I... I don't know. I've had a lot of bad week in high school... I knew you needed a friend, and... I wanted to be that..." he said, smiling and on the verge of crying at the same time.
"Well, you're always going on about what I do for you, but... no one else does that for me..." Nathan said, leaning forward so that his beak rested right under the reptile's scaly snout. "It's funny, ain't it? When we share bad times together, they don't feel so bad... and when we share good things, they feel so much better..." he continued, slowly beginning to drag the smooth upper half of his beak across Jake's neck, rubbing the loose scales tenderly.
Jake tensed up slightly as the raven's beak began to caress him, before relaxing and letting it happen, his broad paws pulling his boyfriend back into a gentle hug. Tears rolled down his cheeks and his voice cracked with emotion as he spoke, "It's true, and... I... I want to... I mean, you're the only person in the world I want to share everything with. Everything about who I am... who I want to be... my fears, my dreams, my... my sexuality..."
"...and I want to help with every one of those..." Nathan said quietly, his beak just next to the gecko's earholes. "I want to share my life with you, too..."
For a long time, the two lovers shared nothing more save the heat of their bodies, the quiet sound of their breathing and the feel of each other's touch. Nathan rubbed the long feathers of his wings against Jake's flushed cheeks, while the gecko slipped the tip of his tail between the corvid's strong talons.
"T-there's something I wanted to do with you, Nathan. Maybe when we get back to your apartment, we could..." Jake said quickly, breaking the silence before letting his words trail off into a coy smile.
"Aww, don't tease! What do you want to do, my cute little velcro lizard?" the raven responded, sitting up and sliding his hands onto Jake's shoulders and giving them a playful squeeze.
"I-I don't know if we should do it on the roof..." Jake began to say, his tan cheeks blushing a dark shade of pink. A second later, a guilty smile flashed onto the gecko's muzzle, and with a speed that belied his own reservations he put his hands on the inside of Nathan's thighs.
"Oh, I see..." the Nathan said, giving a scratchy laugh. "What do you want to d- mmgh..." he began to say, before his beak was suddenly subsumed in a warm kiss. He heard Jake undo the zipper on the front of his jeans, and then felt one of the gecko's fine-ridged paws slowly sneak its way into his pants. Nathan's breathing became shallow and quick as he felt Jake fondle his sheath through his boxers, suddenly very aware of the people milling about under them.
Slowly, Jake broke the kiss, still rubbing the raven's downy crotch through his pants and undergarments. "Is it okay if we do it here? We can keep our clothes on, and I'll be... nice and quiet..."
Nathan smiled in response, any words of protest having died in his throat the moment they kissed. "Mmm... since when did you get so bold?"
"I don't know... you make me feel like being bold..." the gecko replied, adjusting himself and zipping down his own pants. One of Jake's paws slowly began to stroke Nathan's ravenhood, while his other began to rub the outside of his swelling genital slit. He felt his boyfriend's feathered arms envelop both of them in a warm hug, warding off the chill air blowing around them.
The gecko's hemipenes hastily grew out from his slit as they touched each other, both boy's malenesses meeting one another inside the other's tangled jeans and boxers. Jake seized the initiative again, wrapping his paws around his slick hemipenes, surrounding his boyfriend's cock with his twin members. Holding all three of their shafts together, the scalie began to slowly rub them all together. Neither of the young lovers could form words as their shared pleasure began to rise, the feel of their cocks sliding and squeezing and rubbing together sinfully sweet. The only sounds that came from the pair was their slow, deep breathing and the sound of their jeans rubbing together, Nathan trying to push his ravenhood into Jake's slit, Jake's twin penes making a mess of his boyfriend's pubic feathers. While the corvid was clearly the bigger of the two, his six and a half inch member had to compete with the fact that his scaled soul-mate's had two distinct penes.
As they frotted into each other, Jake could hardly stop smiling. All his life, he had been told to think of love as something that meant buying expensive restaurant dinners and writing mushy poetry, something that meant giving up your life. Something only between a male and a female, preferably of the same species. The reality of it was so wonderfully, terrifyingly different it made Jake want to cry. What he and Nathan shared was so much more mundane and yet so much more special than what he had imagined; it was entirely, uniquely theirs. It meant playing videogames and sharing Chinese takeout and debating the finer points of science fiction novels and, yes, it even meant having sex together on the roof of the library.
The two lovers continued even more boldly, kissing and hugging as their shared passion rose. Jake licked his raven's neckfeathers and the top of his beak relentlessly, while Nathan send one of his clawed hands around back to squeeze the muscular base of his gecko's tail. Their preseed began to freely mix together, their tightly-hugging crotches growing hot and wet as they approached their peaks...
"Ohh, Jake..!" the raven breathed, his beak trembling as the name left it.
"N-N-Nathan..." Jake stammered, barely managing to hold their members together as they both began to cum.
They tensed together, shuddered, let out strained, suppressed gasps as it hit them. All of the frustration and worry in Jake's body seemed to vanish as he felt his hemiepenes spurt cum into his lover's pubic feathers, onto his tangled boxers and across his ravenhood, Jake's members trapping the corvid's cock firmly in place. Nathan reached his own orgasm shortly thereafter, all his seed forced to spurt into Jake's tight, hot slit, coating the base of his hemiepenes and making a mess of the reptile's pants after he could fill the slit no more.
For a few minutes, they sat together catching their breath and hugging each other tightly.
"So... uhm... what do you think about coming out to our parents?" Nathan asked slowly, rubbing his beak against Jake's shoulder slowly. Even though the hot, fresh cum on their crotches was already beginning to cool, he didn't want to break their embrace.
"I don't... I... I mean, my mom..." Jake began to slowly reply, "It's just... I mean... the timing... it's not..."
Nathan half-frowned as he zipped up the gecko's jeans and then his own, both of their crotches still messy and warm with spilt seed. Standing up and idly rubbing one of his talons over the reptile's tailtip, he tried to comfort his boyfriend. "It's okay; you don't have to if you don't want to. I can wait as long as you need, Jake."
Jake slowly stood up, rubbing his crotch as he felt his penes retreat back into his slit. Nathan's cum tingled pleasantly on them in their home, and his lover's feet continued to gently stroke his tail. A great burst of emotion began to well up in the pit of his stomach as he felt those things and heard his lover's words.
"I... Nathan... I'll do it," he finally said.
"Love, you don't have to do anything if you feel..."
"No, no. I need to!" Jake continued, pulling the black-feathered raven into another hug. "I... I need to do it. I didn't tell them before because... well, I didn't think my personal life was their business. But... well... I love you. I can't hide that... I don't *want* to hide that, not from anybody..."
When their eyes met again, Nathan and Jake were both quietly crying. Jake kissed the smooth side of Nathan's beak slowly and deliberately, physical affection for once falling short of his feelings. They held each other until the cold became a bit too much to stand, slowly walking over to the side of the roof.
"Well... we can talk about it later; we better get going before the night's over." Nathan said, calm contentment in his voice. "And there's a lot of things I wanna do with you before the night's out, my sexy little gecko."
Jake walked over to the edge of the roof and casually dropped his backpack over it. A few seconds later, the books and gym clothes in it finished their five-story journey, making a hard thwack as they hit the ground. The gecko began his descent shortly afterward.
"Hmmm... think we should tell our parents we met on a rooftop?" Jake asked his boyfriend, watching Nathan perch on top of the thin stone parapet as he climbed down.
"Maybe. I don't know if we should tell them *everything*. They don't need to know about..."
"...the part where you dropped a joint in front of the library? Yeah, I don't think that's entirely, uh..."
"...pertinent to the story, no." Nathan replied, holding his beak to suppress a small giggle. "Er, anyway, pizza?"
"Oh man, that sounds so good right now! I haven't eaten since noon!" Jake said excitedly.
"You get pizza, I'll get beer?" the raven asked back, nonchalantly stepping off the roof and gliding softly to the grassy ground behind the library. He brushed his feathers down and picked up Jake's backpack, handing it to the gecko just as he scampered off the sheer wall.
"Deal!" the gecko said, taking his backpack and slinging it over his shoulder.
Wordlessly, Nathan and Jake looked each other in the eyes and smiled together. With an ease that would look practiced to a casual observer, they held hands and began walking.