Brody bought a bag of pink and blue candy floss for the journey home before they had left the carnival. Choosing to walk with just the two of them, they separated from the group and told them they'll go their own way. This was met with no protest from anyone as nobody was bothered by it at all.

Strolling through their route home, they took time feeding each other the candy floss.

"So..." Brody ripped another piece of candy floss and fed it to Adrian who happily accepted it, "How was tonight as a non-date date?"

Adrian had finished chewing the candy floss when he asked. "What's a non-date date?"

Brody shrugged his shoulders as they kept walking back to the hotel. "Well, we spent all this alone time together. Hanging out, playing games, eating food, all the normal date kind of things. Just without the official formality of asking you out on a date."

"If you put it like that, tonight was super fun." Adrian answered back. "For a first non-date date I really enjoyed everything about tonight."

Brody smiled so much at that. "Really? I'm glad. It's not what I originally thought our first date would turn out, I mean our first non-date date, but I loved every minute about it too."

Adrian tapped Brody on the side with his elbow as he began to tease him, "You had a plan for our first date? What was it going to be?"

Brody looked down nervously, feeling shy and slightly embarrassed before speaking again. "I thought we could start with something physically active like mini golf or maybe rock climbing."

"I've never done a rock climbing wall before, is it hard?"

"There's different difficulty levels." Brody fed him another piece of candy floss. "Then we would go to get some fancy dinner, like some food I probably couldn't even spell out correctly."

Adrian smiled at that. "Sounds nice."

Brody nodded as he continued. "And then there's this late night movie event in the park. We would sit on the grass with our picnic blanket, get cosy and watch the movie on this big projection."

Adrian envisioned the whole night with the way Brody planned it, and he was swooning over the whole idea of the amazing date he had planned. "Sounds amazing."

Brody couldn't help but lighten the mood more. "And of course make out every now and then, you know, the normal romantic stuff."

Adrian barked out in laughter as he shoved Brody. "Very smooth there, Sinclair."

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The pair made it to the elevator back at the hotel as they were heading back into their room.

Alone in the elevator with no one around, Adrian turned to Brody and grabbed his face with one hand before kissing him.

Brody was surprised and happy at the same time when Adrian had pulled back. "What was that for?"

"Just felt like it."

The elevator door opened up as they both made their way to their room.

"Are those our bags?" Adrian pointed at several duffel bags outside their room.

Brody rushed to open their door and once he turned the lights on, they were both completely shocked at the scene.

The first thing Brody saw was someone blindfolded and strapped to his bed with handcuffs around his wrist. In his same line of sight a woman was looming over him with a whip and she was sitting right on top of him. The guy had several red patches all over his body and other toys were spread out on the bed.

It was too late as the image of the older couple was burned inside their heads. Brody quickly tried to cover Adrian's eyes as the woman finally seemed to notice the pair at the door.

"What are you doing in our room?!" The older woman yelled as she pointed at them with her whip.

"What? Who's there?" The older man called out.

Adrian's eyes were still covered. "This is our room, our things are right outside the door. Why are YOU in OUR room?"

The woman removed the man's blindfold and got off the bed. Addressing Adrian and Brody, "Look kids, the room was cleared by the time we got up here. He paid for this room and so we're using it."

"This is ridiculous, how do you just take our room?" Brody asked them.

The older woman was fed up as the conversation was going no where. "Stay and watch or leave, I don't care. I'm getting paid by the hour and I'm not wasting any more time." The older woman moved the blindfold back onto the man. "Go to the reception and find somewhere else, it's not our problem anymore."

"Is she a hooker?!" Adrian blurted out loud without thinking.

Brody quickly dragged Adrian out the room as he closed the door behind him.

"What the hell did we just walk in on?" Adrian was perplexed at the sight he just saw. "Did a kinky hooker just steal and kick us out of our room?"

Brody couldn't help but make a joke out of the situation. "So did that, like, awaken something in you or something?

Adrian punched Brody in the arm. "You're so bloody weird."

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The lobby was empty when the pair had made their way to the reception desk. Carrying all of their things with them, they approached the desk.

"Excuse me?" Brody spoke to the receptionist. "We went to our room and a couple was already in there, doing the dirty. They said that it was never ours even though our bags were inside and we had checked in earlier today."

The receptionist was typing away on her computer. "I'm sorry about that, let me see if I can check what's happening."

Whilst she was on the computer, Adrian whispered to Brody. "Do we need to tell our Coach about this?"

"I mean as long as we get a room I don't think it really matters."

The receptionist turned back to the pair as she seemed to have finished checking her computer. "There seems to be an error with our computer system and it seems like my colleague must have gave your room away by mistake. We do have a different room available we can offer you."

Brody accepted the offer. "That would be great, thanks."

The receptionist handed them their new keys as Adrian and Brody grabbed their belongings before going back to the elevator.

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When they got to their new room, they dropped their bags by the door and looked around.

"This is definitely a room upgrade." Adrian had noticed how the room was a lot bigger than their old room, even their bathroom was twice the size. Adrian also saw how their beds were different from their last ones. "Just one queen sized bed..."

Brody looked underneath the covers and also underneath the bed. "It's definitely just one bed." He had thought it could have been two twin beds pushed together but it wasn't.

Brody wanted to address the situation with Adrian. "For such a nice room there's no couch. I can go back downstairs and try to get another room if that makes you more comfortable."

Adrian felt a little shy about their situation again, they were both grown men and they didn't have to be so nervous around each other like this. "No there's no need-"

"I can just take one of the blankets and sleep in the bathtub-" Brody had offered but Adrian interrupted him.

"Brody you don't need to distance yourself that far. We can both share the bed without things being weird or anything."

Brody carefully looked at Adrian. "And you're sure about this? I can like sleep on the floor or see if I can room with Adam or something. I just don't want to make you uncomfortable and think we have to share a bed together."

"I really appreciate how you're trying to be considerate and caring like that," Adrian moved closer to Brody, "You always are like that, but I'm sure." He quickly placed a kiss on Brody's cheek. "You go ahead and use the bathroom first."

Brody nodded as he then made his way to use the bathroom first.

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Adrian had just finished drying his hair in the bathroom as he had a quick shower when he got in. Putting on the complementary bathrobe, he brushed his teeth and looked back in the mirror again.

It was different this time, staring back at the mirror once again. Only this time Adrian didn't feel as nervous or panicky. There were still little butterflies flying around his body but after considering everything that happened in the other bathroom, as well as the day at the carnival, Adrian felt a lot safer and reassured.

'We're going to go at our own pace and everything will be great, just like every other day with Brody.'

When he left the bathroom, he saw Brody was waiting for him in their bed.

Shirtless...

'Still so sexy.' Adrian couldn't help think as he thought about how appealing Brody looked, in their bed, that they were going to be sharing.

Brody turned when he heard Adrian leave the bathroom, he offered him a smile which Adrian shyly returned one back. "You okay?"

Adrian awkwardly coughed before he nodded. "Yeah, of course. I just didn't expect to see you shirtless when I got out."

"I did say I sleep in my underwear also." Brody nervously scratched the back of his neck.

Adrian could only nod along as he got in the side of the bed which Brody had opened up for him.

Brody saw Adrian tapping his fingers together, seemingly waiting for time to pass and not looking sure what to do next.

"I'm going to put the bathrobe on to sleep." It was natural for Brody to shed his clothes when he was going to sleep every night, back home. But now he was sharing a bed with someone and it didn't cross his mind that the other person may not want another naked guy in the same bed.

Adrian rested his hand on top of the covers to stop Brody from moving. "You should be comfortable too, and if that's you sleeping in your underwear then that's you in your, underwear." Adrian nervously shifted in his spot as he finished the sentence.

Adrian went to lie down on the bed as he quickly turned the lamp light off. "Let's get some sleep."

Adrian couldn't see Brody because his back was towards him, but he felt the bed shift so he knew Brody was also lying down too.

It was now dark in the room as they both could only hear each other breath, no more words coming out of any of their mouths.

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Several hours later and Adrian still couldn't sleep longer than half an hour. Adrian took his bathrobe off as he thought it might help him relax, now he was only wearing his thin t-shirt and he was also in his underwear.

Adrian kept shifting around in the bed, now he was on his other side. Adrian watched Brody who had his eyes closed, facing him as his breathing was steady.

"Adrian?" Brody groggily whispered.

Adrian seemed to startle at Brody who was seemingly awake now.

"Yeah, sorry. I can't sleep." Adrian asked.

"So you thought waking me up would be better?" Brody smirked, eyes still closed as he was smiling while looking like he was asleep.

Adrian attempted to hide the blush by turning back around, feeling shy and slightly embarrassed at his behaviour.

Adrian wanted to be held, he felt a lot more relaxed whenever he was in Brody's arms and he liked the comforting idea of Brody wrapping him up in his arms.

"What's up?" Brody asked genuinely.

"You can say no but," Adrian paused a little before he continued. "Could you, just, hold me? I liked it when you were holding me earlier. There's this calming presence when you're around."

Brody also enjoyed holding Adrian earlier, he also liked the fact that Adrian seemed to enjoy it as well.

Brody shifted himself closer towards Adrian and had wrapped his arms around him. Adrian felt Brody's legs graze his own as he was a lot closer to Adrian, now spooning him. They were so close that Brody could smell the scent of the soap from behind his neck.

"This okay?" Brody checked with Adrian.

"Yeah, this is good." Adrian felt himself become more at peace as he was relaxing with every minute he was being held by Brody.

Sleeping became a lot easier as Adrian soon fell asleep in the comfort of Brody's arms.

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