Starry

Published on: September 10, 2021

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"Aren't you gonna talk to me??" mew tapped on steering while driving...

"You literally pulled me out of the bed at four in the morning, stuffed me in a car like luggage, and now we are heading towards some unknown place, with all forest around, and you want me to talk"

He nods his head understanding, "So, you are on thunder mode"

Gulf rolled his eyes,"Where are we going, i am in shorts",

"You look amazing in shorts" he nudged his shoulder, spanking on his thigs lightly, his hand stayed there rubbing him.

"I have schedule today"

"Aahhh and about your schedule, I talked to your manager, he agreed to give vacation"

"What??"

"Great, you made plans on your own" Gulf huffed and laid back,

"But I made them for both of us"

He rested on his head, "I am taking a nap"

Mew nods his head, slows down the music, took out his cig placed it between his lips, and lighten it up, Gulf sense the smoke, and snatched out the cig from his lips, crushed it, "not in the car"

Mew nods and stopped the car on the side, "Not even outside the car"

Mew pouts, "Just two puffs I swear",

"You are not getting a single one", "It is five in the morning and we are surrounded by good air, and you want tar in your lungs"

He pouts more, and tapped on his steering, "you are talking witty Gulfiee, tar and stuff huhhh"

He hides his blush hitting on other's shoulders...

"It is s*xy"

He got one more hit... Mew sighed and started driving again.

"What did you said to P'Mild??"

"Nothing, you need to see his face when he saw me"

"How did you saw his face, did you met in person??"

"No, we face call"

"How did you face call him??"

"He was calling you, you were in the shower, you told me to pick it up, so I did"

"And??"

"And he froze for few seconds, checking whether he called the right person, then questioned why I have your phone"

"I told him you are my boyfriend, and he relaxed first and then got stiff again when the words process into him"

"Can you imagine, he thought you are sleeping around"

"It is not funny"

"Yaa sorry, but his expression was funny"

"So I just told him, I wanted a vacation, so he gives it with little bargaining"

"What bargaining??",

"He invited me to meet your Aunt"

"Mew??"

"So, are you still on thunder mode, am I gonna receive lighting hits or what"

Gulf chuckles, "focus on the road, what if some wildie came in between, and where are we heading to in this forest"

"I have one wildie with me", "and it is secret where we are going"

"Stop being cheesy"

"But you like cheesy though"

"It is five in the morning and you are flirting here"

"It is good for health, I learn from the best"

Gulf rolled his eyes, and rested on his back, he didn't realize he zoned out

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"We are here, Gulf wake up"

Gulf looked at his surroundings they are not anywhere, they are in the middle of the road.

"Where are we??",

"We need to walk, here give me your arms"

Gulf give his arm rubbing his eyes with other one, it is hot summer days, Mew pulled out the sunscreen and poured a generous amount on his arms, he pulled out his other arm,

"Stop rubbing" and poured sunscreen on his arm...pulled out his legs and put some on them..

"Close your eyes", Gulf compile without any complaint, and got cream on his face, he was looking like a ghost with the amount Mew had put on his face, but there is no one to look at him, and it is better than sunburn...

They started moving on the link road, to the hill,

"you really know the road??"

"Yaa I do, take this" he threw a banana in his direction, "eat it, we need to walk a little"

"What about the car??"

"It will be fine"

"Like in the middle of the road"

"Yaa"

"Are you sure??"

"Yaa"

They walk for like a half-hour,

"How much more??"

"We are almost there"

"You are repeating it in every five minutes"

"Then stop asking the same question in every five minutes"

"I am dying"

"Drama queen"

"I heard that"

"Good, now move your ass"

Gulf ran faster in front of Mew and stopped in middle not sure of where to go...

Mew chuckles and ran faster, holding his hand,

Gulf wined, "It is hot", but hold his hand tight putting his weight on Mew's shoulder

"want some water" Gulf shakes his head, "Apple", shakes, "cookies" shakes, "how about chocolate bars,

"Just make me reach the place, I will eat everything",

finally, they reached the top, Gulf just plopped on the ground, it felt nice. The summer breeze tingling on his sweaty body.

He chugged on water, and then laid on the ground again... huffing finally he opened his eyes and noticed his surrounding, mew was there laying on his side, smiling like an idiot looking at the blue sky...

"Mew, your car is there"

"Where??"

"In front of that house"

Mew chuckles, "Are you sure??"

Gulf stood up and approached the house, the nearer he goes he can see the car,

"It is your car"

Mew chuckles again, "we are gonna stay here for a week"

"What??"

"You mean, it is the cottage, we are living in"

"It is my vacation house, we are living in, and I called the butler to take the car"

"We could have reached here in a car??", Gulf asked with an arched eyebrow..

"Yaa of course"

"and you made me pour tons of sweat and walk like miles"

"Where is fun in that??"

"Where is fun in that huhhh" he ran after Mew, "you are gonna be beaten to death Mew suppasit jongcheevevat"

Mew laughed and ran faster, Gulf keeps on chasing until Mew surrender and willingly get beaten up...

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After taking good three-four-hour sleep and a nice cold shower Gulf came out..

"What are you doing??"

"Arrangement for the night"

"What is that??"

"We are gonna have camping"

"Where??",

"here outside", "can you pick that bag with you", Gulf nodded and picked up the bag, following Mew, to the backyard, and there was a camp and bonfire on the side,

"We are gonna eaten by mosquitos and every kind of bloodsucker"

"No we are not", "here" he again picked his arms and starts applying repellent on his body...

Gulf looked at the surrounding, the place was on top of the small hill, so it makes gives view of the whole valley.... the sun was setting and it looks beautiful, spreading the last rays of light... he looked at the backyard, it was wide and there were few vegetation on sidewards, with a sitting area around the corner, one can enjoy the view as well as the piece of silence, it was nice.

Mew slapped on his butt, "Now you are free from bloodsuckers"

Gulf wanders around exploring the area...

"What is that??"

"That is the surprise"

"It looks like a tripod to me"

"wait" he went inside and bring out a big box carefully...

Placed the cylindrical object on a tripod kind of thing...

Mew hanged his arm on the neck, "what you think??"

"It looks like some fancy telescope"

"Hmmm reflector telescope"

"Wowww, really "Gulf's interest hikes, he sees Mew setting the telescope, and other things, he was adjusting.

"It has been a while"

"What are you doing??"

"I am balancing it, Gulfie"

"But you are rotating it like fidget spinner"

Mew chuckled, "It may look like that but I am balancing it, It is EQ mount so it looks like rotating"

"what are we gonna see??"

"What you want to see"

"We can see the moon, planets, nebulas whatever you want"

"We can see planets"

"Yaa"

"I want to see pluto"

"you can't see pluto, it is way too far", "you like pluto??"

"Just curious why they throw it out from calling it planet"

Mew nods his head...

"How about Saturn??"

"Yaa, you can"

"Like Saturn with rings, and all moving"

"I can't say the ring would be moving, but ya you can see it"

"This is so exciting"

"can you pass me, a little lens you see in that box"

Gulf nods and excitedly looked at the box, and picked out what he thinks looks like a little lense, "is it this one??"

"yaa, bought a new one, it is should be better than the previous one",

"what are you doing now???" he was asking questions like a kid got fascinated.

"Aligning the eyepiece Gulfiee", "we need to adjust, the pic will be too massive and it will look blurry"

"and this one is erecting prism"

"ooooo, Erecting Prism nice name" Gulf wiggled his eyebrows again..

He chuckles, "silly" he ruffled his hair, "it is for so we don't see things ups and down"

"we can check out other things, but we need to wait for Saturn and Jupiter, they will be up on horizons after 11:30 most probably....

Gulf nods his head, "so moon first"

"okay"

they keep on looking at the stars, and other things in sky....and when there stomach growls, they settled on blanked...

"What is the other word you said we can see??"

"Nebula??"

"Yaa that, what is that??"

"It is kind of cloud of dust in space, I love to see them"

"What is beautiful in dust??,"

Mew chuckles, "you will see, and then you will fall in love with dust", "but it looks beautiful with time lapse", "with naked eye it is just some blurr black and white figure, we will take time lapse"

They fell silent

"When did you started??"

"I was a kid when my grandpa bought me binoculars, and just out of curiosity I looked at the sky with them, and I was mesmerized"

"Then I bought a refractor, the one with the longer nozzle the typical kind we see in movies"

"That was good, but then I kept on upgrading and now I have this giant here"

"You bring your every experiment here??"

He pulled him closer, "I did, but no one did stargazing with me"

They had their snacks, chatted a little bit more, soon the night embrace the surrounding...

Mew ran inside and switched of the lights... only the working areas was lighten and apart from that there was no light...

Gulf was already standing beside the telescope, feeling excited.

"Is Saturn up", "I like Saturn"

Mew chuckles and nod his head, "Let me change the focal length, and adjust this finder, Wait for a sec, okay here it is, can you see the dot here"

"Is that Saturn??"

"It is??"

"Whatttt, let me see once again", "It is not clear, it is blurry"

"don't look directly into it, look a little upward"

and finally, the image gets clearer

Gulf gets enchanted, it was magical, it felt so near yet too far at the same time.

"And where is my Jupiter"

"Ahhhh, wait", "Here it is", "And do you see the little round things on its sides", "They are Jupiter's moon"

"Whattt???", "They are cute little pretty things"

"I am not sure about little Gulfie", "but ya they are pretty"

They did some stargazing, Mew let him know about the constellations they saw, and finally, they settle on a blanket under the stary sky

They were just looking at the sky, without a telescope, looking at the twinkling stars in pitch-black night, you can't see this kind of starry night in cities.

"You know they are dead"

"What do you mean??"

"They are far far from earth, so far that it takes light several light-years to reach on earth, so the sparkles we are seeing right now, he might be dead"

"That is miserable, am I enjoying someone's death"

"It worth though, they bring light even when they die"

"Yaa they did"

they fell in peaceful silence again....

"Mew"

"hmmmm"

"Why are we here??"

"You don't like it"

"I do, but why suddenly, i mean you took vacation urgently what is it"

"Nothing i want to be with you"

"You think i am gonna buy this"

"Hope so, did you"

"No", "So what is the truth"

Sigh, "I saw the reports a few days ago"

"You did??"

"Why didn't you told me"

"I was about to"

"When??"

"soon"

Sigh......"So, it is kleptomania??"

"Yaa, they say it is" he mumbles

Mew took his hand in his squeezing it, he kissed and nibbles on his fingers,

"I pick nose with them"

He got a bite on his fingers, "Aaaouch, that hurts", Mew kissed his fingers again,

"And I scratched my butthole with them"

Mew again bite on them, pulling him closer, "I know what you are trying to do here", "I am well aware of all these distractions"

"I am not doing anything"

"Gulf"

he hides his face, "It is embarrassing"

"And talking about butthole is not"

"Everyone has butthole, Everyone scratch on them but nobody talks about it"

"Gulfieee" He pulled him and made him settle on his chest...

"It is embarrassing"

"It is not",

"It is Mew, it won't change the fact, I am a thief, I am stealing things, and and even if I scold you every time and deny from it, but that doesn't change it, I am a thief"

"so, does it change the fact that you love me"

"No, I love you" he kissed on Mew's chest

"so, does it change the fact that i love you"

"Maybe"

"you have doubt on me" Mew eyed him at that..

"I don't but, you could"

"you are not a thief babe you are not", "okay put it in your brain"

"we are gonna work on it, and you would be fine"

"it is not curable, there is no guarantee"

"Then it is okay, i will present every sparkle to you, like today, i will give it to you so you don't get the urge to pick it up, you will already own it"

"you are gonna spoil me"

"No we will be here under these starry nights, every weekend, or maybe we will updown from here, or something, we will think about it, and.. and"

"Mew" he squeezed on Mew's cheeks

"what if i keep on going like this, what if I embarrass you.... just because of me, what if"

"I will never be embarrassed by you" he pulled him closer

"But I am embarrassed by myself", "it is... it is like i..."

"shhhhh i told you we will deal with this"

they fell silent after a while,

"Isn't it Cool though??"

"What??"

"You get the fancy word"

Gulf chuckles, "yaa I did"

"Is it bad??"

"No it is not", "It is better to know the problem we are facing, then closing our eyes towards it"

"You will be fine, you said I sparkle the best, I am your pixie focus on me", "and remember the only thing you had ever stolen is my heart"

"Cheesy" he hit on his shoulder

"you like cheesy"

"I don't, I like pixie",  Mew smiled at him

"But Mew??"

"Don't think much, don't stress out, next time if you pick something don't hide it....", "Let me know, we will find a way", "you will progress and even if you don't then we'll come here every weekend to get the brightest sparkles ever..."

Mew looked at the sky smiling at the stars... Gulf faced Mew, smiling at him

"What??"

"I am looking at the brightest sparkles"

Mew chuckles "Now who is being cheesy",

"I need to keep up with my student"

Mew snuggled closer to Gulf, looking at the stars, "we are gonna be fine, we can do it"

"We can??"

"We can, and we Will" he kissed on top of his head, and like that he give every sparkle he could give as he promised...

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