They had continued like this for the next couple of months and it was driving Akira nuts. He wanted sex. He wanted to have sex with Edward, he wanted Edward to drive him crazy like he had before. Well, he was, just in a different way. They were on one of these so-called driving insane dates as he had started to call them when Akira finally couldn’t take it anymore.

“Oh my god, Edward, if you don’t screw me tonight, I’m going to leave you.” He said, in the middle of a dinner they were having at a decent restaurant. Akira knew it was with stolen money again, it always was, and that in itself also bothered him. “I can’t take any of this anymore,” he said, lowering his voice a bit when he realized people were listening to them. “What the hell is this, Edward?” he asked.

Edward looked almost as confused as the people in the restaurant looked. He sighed, “Aki… can we talk about this somewhere else?” he asked, “I mean, I really don’t think now is the time.”

Akira frowned, “After dinner. No exceptions,” he said and continued to eat and finish up his dinner.

The rest of this date was particularly awkward as both of them were either dreading the conversation that might come up or unable to wait for the conversation that was about to come up. Akira was nearly dancing in his seat all the way home and when Edward got out of the car, Akira headed straight for his apartment and unlocked the door, not stopping. He went straight in the room and turned on his heels waiting for Edward.

Edward stopped at the door and closed it, “Aki-“

“No! You don’t get to talk right now, you get to listen, because when you talk I get distracted and I want to say what I have to say,” Akira said, glaring at Edward.

Edward nodded, “okay, then.”

Akira took a deep breath “I don’t get this, what the hell is all of this stuff? I mean, I don’t mind the dating and I don’t mind going out with you from time to time, but that’s literally all we’ve been doing lately. I want to fuck. I want to have sex. Lots of dirty crazy sex with you. I mean hell, we’ve barely touched the surface of what two men can do together and we completely stopped having sex altogether for the past couple of months. I’ve never had better sex than what I’ve had with you, and god damn it, I was your first man…. It’s driving me crazy,” he said, “and another thing I cannot stand any longer of being taken out on dates. I can’t do it. You’ve been stealing for these dates and I just… I thought I would be okay, as long as it was simple places, but you don’t take me to simple places you always take me to nice places. And though they are so much fun, and I have a great time I can’t help but think that this is wrong because we are going there on someone else’s money. Someone else’s hard-earned money and all you can say is it isn’t a big deal. Well, I’m not having it anymore. I have two conditions to continuing this relationship. One we have sex more. I don’t really care how often, just more than what we have been, and two you stop stealing. If you want to take me out on a date, then we do it at someplace cheap that you can afford without stealing from other people. I’m not having it anymore.” He took a deep breath and crossed his arms, “okay, now you can talk.”

Edward had a strange look on his face. “Have- have you been watching gay porn?” he asked.

Akira looked even more confused “what? No. The hell, Edward, I just lay all that one you, and your first question is if I’ve been watching…” he trailed off, oh, right. He was supposed to not know about this stuff, wasn’t he? He had told Edward he was a virgin, Edward was supposed to be the first he’s ever slept with. Which means he shouldn’t know about all the things that two men could do together without watching porn. He bit his lip, hopefully, he didn’t catch-

“And what do you mean, you’ve never had better?”

Fuck, Edward caught it. Akira fidgeted a bit, “I-“ he bit his lip and rubbed his shoulder.

“Have you been sleeping with other men?” Edward asked, “cheating on me?”

Akira shook his head “No! No, Edward. I haven’t been cheating on you. I… I um… I just wasn’t exactly a virgin when we met.”

“How many?”

“What?”

“How many have you slept with? How much of a ‘not exactly a virgin’ were you?”

“I…”

“well?”

Akira bit his lip and sighed, sitting down, “I don’t know.” He said, “I lost count. Some I honestly don’t even remember, it was… what maybe a few months before I started at the cafe that I quit. So, I don’t really remember all of them.”

“Since you quit?” Edward said the words slowly, “Since you quit what, Akira?” he asked, looking at Akira, his eyes showed a lot of hurt in them. What on Earth had Akira been doing before the café before they met?

Akira looked up at Edward and continued to bite his lip, “since I quit being a sex worker,” he said.

“Akira, you… you just turned 21. Like a few months ago, that would mean you were…”

“Underage? No, I didn’t start until I was 18, but go figure, old guys like it young,” he said. “I mean, come on, even you said that you liked them younger.”

Edward’s face dropped even more “I didn’t mean it like that, and you know that.” He said, “For fucks sake if you had been underage when I met you I wouldn’t have even touched you. I’m a thief, not a pedophile.”

“Well as I said I was 18. So, doesn’t really matter, now does it?” he spat out. “Look, it’s not a huge deal.”

“Not a huge deal! Are you fucking kidding me?” Edward screamed as he paced around the living room. “It is a huge fucking deal,” he said and shook his head, “I mean, my god. You sold your body for money since you were 18. Have you ever been on a date? No wonder… no wonder you were so weirded out by my asking you out on a date. You’ve only known sex and being used for sex, haven’t you?” Edward asked.

Akira huffed, “Yeah, and? You’ve only known stealing and only ever stealing to get what you want? Plus, I quit. You haven’t,” he said, nearly growling at Edward.

Edward frowned, “Fine then. I’ll quit. I’ll quit if you promise me that I’m the only one you’ll ever have sex with again,” he said, looking Akira dead in the eyes.

Akira sat a little straighter when he was told that Edward would quit if Akira promised, well promised to be faithful. “Somehow that kind of hurts. Seeing as I’ve never not been faithful to you.”

“Let me put this a different way. When I say ‘the only one you’ll ever have sex with again’ what I really mean is, will you marry me?” Edward said as he slowly and rather awkwardly got down on one knee.

Akira opened his mouth to answer, that he was still insulted when the man asked him to marry him. “I’m sorry… what?” he asked, instead. “You want me to what?”

“Marry me.”

“I- what?”

Edward chuckled, “It doesn’t have to be right now, I mean we can plan it out and everything, it can even be a long engagement,” he explained, “I just want the promise.”

Akira’s jaw dropped at the idea of marrying this man. He couldn’t say it was all that insane, in retrospect, even though they had done things in a strange order, they had known each other and had been seeing each other for the past year or so. They had celebrated birthdays together, they got to know each other a lot better. Akira still wouldn’t be dating the man had he not liked him. “We’ve never even said ‘I love you’ and you want me to marry you?” he asked.

“Is that all that’s stopping you?” Edward asked.

“What?”

“Is me saying I love you, the only thing that is stopping you?”

Akira shook his head “I- I don’t know. Yes? Maybe? Yeah, okay, sure. That’s the only thing that’s stopping me.”

Edward nodded, “okay then. I love you, Akira Nakamura,” he said, moving over to Akira and kissing him on the lips, “I love you, I’m not really sure when it started, but I love you. It’s the whole reason I want to marry you. It’s the only reason I want to marry you. Will you marry me?” he asked.

Akira looked like he was going to panic until the other kissed him. He hummed lightly at the kiss and licked his lips after Edward pulled away. “Y-yeah okay. I’ll marry you,” he whispered and kissed Edward again.

Edward was being after Akira pulled away from the kiss. He had never been happier to hear a yes from anyone before. He moved so he could pick the man up and swing him around. “Fuck! I’m gonna fuck you so hard tonight!” he screamed, “No, I’m not gonna fuck you, we’re gonna make love.” He smirked and kissed Akira again.

Akira wrinkled his nose when the other said ‘make love’ “Ew, gross, Edward, please do not call it that ever again.”

“What? Making love? That’s what it’s called when there are emotions involved, Aki.”

“Doesn’t mean we need to say it out loud, Edward.” Akira frowned.

Edward sighed and rolled his eyes “Whatever, you crazy kid. We’re gonna go have insane amounts of sex in your room, right now,” he said and carried Akira all the way to the bedroom.

“Edward! Put me down!” he screamed at the man carrying him to the bedroom until he was thrown down onto the bed. He looked up at the man and saw his eyes. They were lust-filled and oh so wanting. He knew he was about to get the fucking of his life. And he did all night long.