Love Me Harder (Taynew)

Chapter 1: Of dreams and reality

"So, are you a photographer?"

Tay opened his eyes tiredly and feels the bed shifted under him. He threw unamused glance at the guy sitting other side of the bed, chest bare without any clothes with a DSLR camera in his hand. His favourite camera. Grunting loudly in irritation, Tay snatched it away.

"You need to learn asking for permission" Tay glared at the guy who called himself New, voice laced with exasperation, frown kept intact on his eyebrows. He never likes people touching his stuff without his permission. Especially a guy with doe eyes.

"What a coincidence, I'm actually working as a model" Tay just shrugged off his shoulder and put down the camera in his lap, not really listening. Despite his behaviour, New doesn't seemed offended, only bloom a bigger smile on his plush lips while doe eyes shines, looking at him animatedly.

Tay wasn't quite sure how he ended up in bed, naked with the fair-skinned guy.

All he remembered was he needed a distraction. It was probably somewhere between the loud bass of beats and blaring sound of electronic music in the club, Off had dumped him to go flirt with a guy in the corner of the bar right after shoving the sixth glass of alcohol in his hand. Tay was tipsy on his toes as he struggled to keep his eyes open.

It was probably when his brain was too tired to function before someone crashed on his back, nearly making him dropped the glass in his hand. Preparing a deathly glare, Tay had turned and found a guy looking at him with eyes smiling, lips grinning as he bowed down and looking far from apologetic.

"I'm so sorry" he guy said, cheeks flushed in pink colours, eyes shining bright and his glare dropped instantly.

Like a miracle, his distraction came in a form of a guy 176 cm tall, doe eyes, cute button nose and red puffy lips. The guy is probably around his early 20s, Tay couldn't tell by his tall height but there is a trace of baby fat on his face that made him appeared slightly younger.

The guy had offered to buy him a drink a bit later or was it him was the one who bought the guy a drink (?) Tay wasn't sure. But it started to get a little hot the moment the guy invaded his space that they were almost sharing a breath. He doesn't remember what they talked about or how they seemed to lean against each other but the next thing Tay knows, they were already taking a cab back to his house, tongue down in each other's throat and hands groping everywhere they can reach.

"By the way, how do you use this thing?" New poked him in the stomach, shaking him from his trance. Tay found himself enveloped with warmth as New moved closer, leaning against his shoulder. The guy rested his head on Tay's shoulder and curled around him as if getting comfortable, like lovers. It threw him off. Not the kind of behaviour that he welcomed from one night stand.

"Have you used a camera before?" Tay asked. New shook his head, eyes blinking innocently. He pushed himself up, straighten against the headboard and draw a space between them.

"Hold it" he flicked the switch on button and put the camera in front of New.

"This, is the shutter while, the ISO is this one right here" Tay pointed out and tried to explain the functions calmly without using any practical words. No longer than a minute, bare skin was sticky against him again, warm.

Musky smell of sweat and sex lingering in the room, Tay restrained from pulling away. New seemed confused with the camera in his hand. Those lips pouted, long fingers dancing along the body of the camera as his eyes scanned it like a toy, trying to figure out the function.

"And...you click this one to get a shot" his hands are touching against New's with chest meeting the other's back. Breath were fanning hot against the other's ear. It tingles, leaving New shivering a bit. Tay tried really hard not to stare too long at the expanse of neck inches away from him and wondered what kind of reaction New would give if he licks a stripe along his nape.

"Give it a try" His voice dropped low as he found himself distracted.

Click.

"What the hell?" Tay cursed, blinded by the sudden flash in his eyes. He rubbed and snapped his eyes open, only to glare at the guy who was in a giggling mess next to him. Tay doesn't even give a second thought before he pounced on the other guy, grabbing New by his hips and rolling them over so he could be on top.

"Ugh, let me go. You're heavy" New tried kicking Tay off him, grunting when a knee knocked his shin so Tay grabbed New by his thighs, hiking it over his waist and pulled both of his hands, pinning it above his head.

"Who's laughing now?" Tay smirked. Tightening his grip on New's wrists, he pushed his hips forward, making New whined as both of their crotch brushed against each other. His eyes flickered to those half-lidded eyes instantly, gulping down the temptation to roll his hips again.

"You know, if I didn't know better, I would have thought you're flirting with me" New said breathlessly and licked at his chapped lips.

"But then again, you don't even tell me your name" Shining eyes looking at him. Tay doesn't like it, it's so distracting.

"Aren't you awfully chummy to a stranger whom you just fucked with" Tay narrowed his eyes. New has long stopped struggling and Tay let his fingers slides from his stomach over his broad chest to place his arms around Tay's neck, pulling him close instead. Mixed breath hovering their lips.

"Can't help it. You're pretty attractive" New nudged his nose, smiling cheekily. He is a perfect distraction. Tay doesn't find himself any better options except to tilt the jaw and leaned in, capturing those lips into a bruising kiss.

By the time he woke up to a ray of sunlight shining his room, New was nowhere to be found. His favourite DSLR camera was placed back on its original spot. There is no note or name card on his bedside table. Just Tay alone in a cold bed, clutching on bit of warmth from comforter. He closed his eyes and ignored the weird twist in the pit of his stomach.