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IN FULL FLIGHT by Andrej Koymasky (C) 2005 written on September 17th 1993 translated by the author English text kindly revised by Brian
USUAL DISCLAIMER
"IN FULL FLIGHT" is a gay story, with some parts containing graphic scenes of sex between males. So, if in your land, religion, family, opinion and so on this is not good for you, it will be better not to read this story. But if you really want, or because YOU don't care, or because you think you really want to read it, please be my welcomed guest.
CHAPTER 3 - Love
At 3:15, punctual as a time signal, the door bell rang. It was him! Daniel waited for him on the doorstep. He saw him arrive, climbing the steps two at a time. He was carrying a small package.
"Ciao, Daniel. For you..."
"Come in. Thank you..." the boy said, closing the door.
Giovanni, standing in the hall, looked him questioningly in his eyes: "What's up? What's happened? Problems?"
"Eh? No... come on..."
He led Giovanni to his room. As he entered, the young man stopped and looked around with a pleased air: "I like it here. There's everything of you in this room. Ah, and this is the clock?" he said approaching the work-table.
Daniel, the small packet in his hand, drew closer and asked: "May I open it?"
"Sure, it's for you. But there's something up. Don't say no, I can see it, I can feel it..."
"I... I feel stupid, but... I have something to ask you."
"Out with it then"
"The fact is that... I don't know how to ask you. You said you love me."
"Of course. It's true."
"And that... you also want to make love with me."
"It's only natural. Unless of course... have you changed your mind?"
"Me? No. It's just that... I just wanted to know if... Look, if from now on we become lovers... I mean... Candida, or some other girl, who knows, in the future... You... I mean, us two... it's not like a married couple vowing mutual fidelity."
Giovanni, who had been following Daniel's words attentively but without understanding what the boy was getting at, brightened: "You want to know if I might one day have a girl... or another boy... besides you?"
"Yes."
"Open the packet, then. Your answer is already inside."
"In here?" Daniel asked, unwrapping the packet feverishly.
There was a little box in real leather. He opened it. It contained a little gold pendant, about 2/3 inch square, within a simple frame, also in gold. It was smooth on one side, besides the mark with the goldsmith's and assay marks, and on the other side there was carved a drawing of Sant'Angelo Gate. Daniel looked for an inscription, something, but he could see nothing.
"I don't understand..." he said, puzzled.
Taking it out of his hands, Giovanni said: "Look..." and levered with his fingers.
With a soft "click", the little square came out of its frame, opening like a book. On one of the inside surfaces was engraved "Yours, only yours, forever yours" and on the other surface "D & G 16 May '91", "Oh! But when did you get this made?"
"This morning, instead of going to the university."
"This morning? They did it that quickly?"
"Just the inscription. I was lucky enough to find the pendant already made. So the workshop only had to do the engraving, which they did in a few minutes. Did you see? "Only yours," I wrote. Isn't that the answer you were looking for?"
"Oh, Giovanni! I feel so stupid... Thank you!"
"You shouldn't have had any doubt about it. I'm a serious chap, don't you know?" the young man said with an expression of joking reproach. He at once embraced and kissed him, holding him tight against his chest.
Daniel closed the pendant. "Like this, I can wear it round my neck without anybody suspecting what it contains. But how ever much did it cost you?"
"You know money's not a problem for me, don't you?"
"I don't want you to spend so much on me... I can't even reciprocate."
"You're right. But then... I couldn't NOT do it."
"And me? What can I give you of mine? I didn't even think of getting you a present."
"When you complete it, if you want, this clock."
"Willingly! But I don't even know if it will work..."
"It doesn't matter! You are making it with your own hands, that's enough for me. It will be even more precious than my pendant."
They kissed again. Giovanni's hands caressed the nape of his neck,, the back of the boy.
"And then..." Daniel said.
"What?" Giovanni asked him, lightly kissing him on his nose tip.
"I'm asking myself how this can be possible. We barely know each other. I love you, I have no doubt of that, but so suddenly? Desire, yes, you can desire at first sight. But to love? And what if it's just an illusion? Just a schoolboy crush?"
"I'm not a schoolboy any more, so you don't need to worry..." Giovanni said jokingly, caressing him intimately.
"Come on, I'm not joking. Are we sure?"
"Me neither, I'm not joking, Daniel. I feel I'm in love with you. I know I'm sincere."
"Sincere, yes, I believe you; but..."
"But, but, but! Just how afraid are you?"
"Yes, afraid. Because I feel this is too important for me. I don't want a disappointment, not from you... and not from myself."
"I don't want that either, I promise you. Do you think I haven't been thinking about this, all this time? I've thought of nothing else.. Don't you understand that in choosing you, or better, in accepting your love, I have to break with everything - Candida, though that's not difficult, marriage, having children...? But I'm happy to do so, if you love me..."
"I know I love you. Even though everything has been so fast, so sudden..."
"So then?" Giovanni asked sweetly, pulling Daniel to him and caressing him more intimately. Daniel, trembling, pressed against him, caressing the young man's flanks and legs. "Love, I would like you to... to undress me, now..." Giovanni murmured, excited and emotional.
Quivering with anticipation, Daniel answered in a whisper: "Yes... and you me..."
Soon they were both completely naked, and fully aroused.
"Oh Man! You are so beautiful!" Daniel exclaimed, his eyes widening in admiration before the body that he could at last see naked.
"Just my... cock?" the young man asked slyly.
"No, all of you. From A to Z! Turn around... yes, all of you!"
"Your body is delicious too, you know. Desirable, really beautiful." Giovanni said, brushing it, filled with desire. "Yes, really desirable." he repeated with a dreamlike voice, touching him in a more and more intimate and hot way.
As if in a trance, Daniel led him to the bed. Their two bodies clung together as if magnetized, intertwined, united, belonging to each other, enjoying together a crescendo of passion. With a dreamlike smile, Daniel guided Giovanni inside himself, savouring the long, slow penetration. He loved the feeling of being filled by the man he adored! Then the young man wanted to be taken by Daniel too, until they both exploded at once in an exultant orgasm, their voices and their senses united and melting away like the ending of a symphony.
They lay panting, their hands entwined, their bodies still shaking from time to time with long shudders of pleasure, their eyes bright, the caresses of each other's body telling of their joy and love.
"That was... wonderful, Daniel! Wonderful."
"Oh yes, Love. For me too... it's the first time I've ever felt such a... complete feeling."
Giovanni looked at his watch: "It's 4:30 already! How fast time flies! Don't you think we'd better get dressed?"
"Sadly, yes... But first, lie on top of me, kiss me again."
Giovanni held him tight against himself, wrapped him with his arms and legs and kissed him tenderly. Their members, which had been languidly losing their tumescence, awoke again and became erect and throbbing once more.
"We'd better get dressed, now, or I'll start making love to you all over again..." Giovanni murmured, parting reluctantly from his beloved boy.
They dressed slowly, almost unwillingly. Daniel tidied his bed to remove any trace of their passionate union. Giovanni checked his watch again.
"It's awful always having to watch the time..." Daniel whispered, leaning against his back and lightly biting his ear lobe, "...and having to part so soon. I would really like to be able to spend a whole day with you... and a whole night!"
"You can say that again, Daniel! I'd love to spend night and day with you too! But perhaps... we will be able to, one day. When we can both be independent of our families."
"My God! In that case it'll be ages!"
"If all goes well... I can graduate in two or three years, and then I'll be able to earn a salary. And in the meantime you'll come of age."
"Yes, next year, on August 15th. Then I'll have to go to university too..."
"What will you study?"
"My father wants me to go into Business Administration."
"The way you say it, you don't seem all that enthusiastic. What would you prefer to study instead?"
"Well, I don't know... Perhaps the Fine Arts. In fact I would have preferred to have gone to the art high school, rather than the classical one..." They talked a while, keeping an eye on the time, then Giovanni had to leave. When his mother got home, she found Daniel quietly studying. But the boy's head was far from his books. He was day-dreaming, seeing Giovanni and himself together in their apartment - not huge, but beautiful, luminous, filled with books and art objects. And with a wide bed, maybe round like in the American movies, but the most-used piece of furniture in their home...
For the first time Daniel was thinking about a man not just as a beautiful body (and God, how beautiful he was!), but as a person with whom to partake and share the whole of his life, with whom to build his future.
They would have liked to have seen each other, to have made love every day. But sadly Daniel's mother was in bed with a slight illness, so for almost ten days they were seldom able to meet, and then always in public places. One Sunday, Giovanni invited him to his villa and showed him round, taking advantage of the fact that, apart from the numerous staff, only his brother was at home.
The villa was a splendid 16th century building, surrounded on three sides by a park and with an Italian-style garden in front. Daniel was stupefied by the magnificence of the setting as well as the interiors. But all they dared risk was to exchange a long, hot, intimate kiss in Giovanni's room.
Daniel's mother got better, but now she stayed at home more than before, and their intimate encounters had to become less frequent. This only served to heighten their mutual desire.
Summer came. The two lovers were able to plan ten days together. Daniel, with Pietro's complicity, told his family he was going camping with his schoolfriend in the Cozie Alps. They left Perugia together, but once at their destination, Pietro really went on to camp, while Daniel joined Giovanni in the hotel where he had booked a small suite with two communicating rooms.
They were ten splendid days, a kind of honeymoon. At last they could make love day or night (often BOTH day AND night), without having to watch the time. They never seemed sated with each other's bodies, and vied with each other in giving pleasure to each other with the whole of their bodies. It would have been impossible to tell which of them was the more passionate, which the happiest.
They met Pietro only for meals, but he was not at all unhappy with that, because at the campsite he had met Adam, a pleasant and likeable lad from Aalborg. Their friendship soon led to a physical relationship, so they were soon sleeping in the same tent.
But those ten days too passed by, and soon they had to part. Daniel spent the rest of his holidays with his parents in the Azores. At any other time the boy would have enjoyed the opportunity, and the islands filled with sunshine and handsome boys; but he missed terribly his Giovanni and the sweet passionate intimacy they achieved...
School began again and Daniel started his final-year-but-one. He heard that Pietro was still in contact with his Danish conquest - it seemed they were planning to meet again during the Christmas holidays.
"And your Novio?" Daniel asked him.
"Just the same as before. We like each other, Novio and I. Adam is just a pleasant distraction."
"But how can you love Novio and then cheat on him with another boy?"
"Well... he does too. Our agreement is - never when we are together, but alright when we are on holiday, separated."
"I wouldn't be able... And nor would Giovanni, I'm sure." Daniel said seriously.
Pietro sighed, half jokingly: "Ah, Love!"
"Yes, love!" Daniel assented, still serious.
In November Giovanni had him meet his friends Carlo-Maria and Giulio. Daniel found them likeable. Giulio was a clerk at the Chamber of Commerce, and Carlo- Maria a medical student. They had been living together two years, but had been lovers for five. The same age, they'd been through both primary and middle school together, and being neighbours, a strong friendship had developed. They always did everything together. But though each of them became aware quite early of being attracted by boys, they never told each other, and so never did anything together. Then Giulio went to business school, and Carlo to classical high school, where he met Giovanni. Carlo had his first sexual relationship in the second year, with his tennis instructor, a youth of twenty. Then followed several adventures. During the time they were at high school together, there had been also the short relationship between Carlo and Giovanni. When they went to university, Carlo into Medicine, and Giovanni into Humanities, they almost lost touch.
Meanwhile, at around nineteen, Giulio had his first relationship with a man, a thirty-year-old lawyer. Giulio fell madly in love, but the man wanted just to amuse himself. So, late one evening, when Carlo came home, he found Giulio sitting on a bench outside the gate to their building. Drawing near to greet his old friend, he noticed his red, swollen eyes. Being still really affectionate with each other, Carlo took him for a walk and, little by little, had managed to get Giulio to open up to him. Full of fear and confusion, in a hesitant voice Giulio at last confessed all about himself. Being gay, and having had the one, unsatisfactory, disappointing, short relationship that had ended that very day. By this time, they were now walking in the park, strolling amidst the tall, thick bushes and the ramparts from where, in daylight, it was possible to enjoy a fine panorama. There, taking advantage of the fact that it was almost dark, and anyway at that hour the park was deserted, Carlo embraced him, kissing him sweetly on his mouth, touched to his heart by the fragility and naivete of his childhood friend. And there in the warm night they made love, against the wall of the belvedere. And Giulio fell completely in love with Carlo.
Carlo, though he was physically attracted to his friend, was at first more moved than in love. But, little by little, Carlo too had fallen in love with Giulio. So, after about three years, they'd decided to live together and found an apartment in Francolina Street.
"But... didn't your families make a fuss at the news that you were leaving home to live together?" Daniel asked with interest, thinking of Giovanni and himself.
"Not Giulio's parents. They have always been rather... absent from his life. My parents did a bit, but when they saw I was determined, in the end they let me have my way. They are just pleased I'm not living alone but with a friend. Of course, they don't suspect anything. Only a month or so ago, my mother asked me 'When you get married, will Giulio be leaving the apartment, or will you look for another place?'..."
All four friends laughed.
Giulio was rather shy and quiet, but he was also very gentle and attentive. Carlo, on the other hand, was extrovert cheerful, witty and talkative. But it was heartwarming to see the tenderness with which he regarded and treated his lover.
"But now, tell us a bit about the two of you..." Carlo said, and Giovanni started to tell.
Daniel liked listening to his man talking about them, loved hearing how Giovanni felt, saw and lived their relationship.
At the end Carlo said: "In spite of what happened between us in high school, I would never have guessed that one day you'd have decided to be bound to a man... a boy. I saw you in a regular marriage full of children, like any good member of the upper middle class."
"If I hadn't met Daniel, maybe I would have done that eventually. I would have found an agreeable and likeable woman, intelligent and balanced, and I would have started a family, with the blessing of relatives, friends and acquaintances... I would have had some sort of a life, if not happy, at least peaceful. But I was lucky enough to meet Daniel... And I know that with him, my life will be profoundly happy. Daniel makes me feel really alive, complete, fulfilled beyond my hopes."
"Hey, that's great! I wish you all the happiness in the world. I really see how well the two of you go together. Don't you, Giulio?" Carlo said cheerfully. His lover nodded a smiling assent.
After they'd left their house, Daniel said to Giovanni: "What a nice couple!"
"Yes. But we're a wonderful couple too!" his lover answered sweetly.
"Ah, if we just had a place of our own..."
"We will have it, you can be sure of that. We are going to have our own home..."
"And our own bed..." Daniel concluded with a dreamy expression, squeezing his man's hand with affection and desire.
CONTINUES IN CHAPTER 4
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