"Oh, man. I had such a good time tonight." Avi says crashing on the bed of the hotel they had rented.

"Yeah, it was awesome. Thanks for supper, by the way." Tim chuckles. "Best steak I've ever eaten."

"Man, those ribs were the bomb." Avi laughs, rubbing his stomach.

"You're gonna turn into one huge bbq rib." Tim laughs shaking his head as he lays down on the bed.

"Then would you eat me." Avi smirks.

"What? What the hell." Tim laughs loudly raising his head up from the pillow.

"Sorry." Avi laughs as he crawls up beside Tim and lays down. "I just couldn't resist it."

"You are something else." Tim laughs as he wraps an arm around Avi.

"You're doing it aren't you?" Avi asks as he snuggles up to Tim.

"Doing what?" Tim asks, looking down at the smaller man.

"Finding me irresistible." Avi smiles.

Tim puts his hand over Avi's mouth. "Go to sleep."

Avi licks Tim's hand.

"Ugh!" Tim says as he wipes his hand on Avi's shoulder.

"Good night, Timothy." Avi giggles.

"Good night, Avriel." Tim smiles.

"Wait. Tim?" Avi asks raising his head from Tim's shoulder.

"Hmm." Tim answers as he was almost asleep.

"We're not sleeping in our clothes, are we?" Avi asks.

"It wouldn't be the first time." Tim mumbles.

"Well, we don't have many clean clothes left and not to mention, it's a little uncomfortable." Avi says.

"True." Tim says through a yawn.

After getting undressed, except for their boxers, they lay their clothes neatly to the side and crawl back into bed. Quickly falling to sleep.

~~

Tim begins to wake up with the feel of hot breath on his face. He slowly starts to open his eyes to find himself lying face to face with the green-eyed man next to him.

Avi smiles at him.

"It's kinda creepy that you are watching me sleep." Tim mumbles, closing his eyes again.

"You sleep weird." Avi smiles.

"Weird?" Tim asks, opening one eye.

"Most people sleep with their mouths open. But you don't. And you don't snore at all." Avi says.

"You sleep with your mouth open." Tim comments, closing his eye.

"So you watch me while I sleep?" Avi smiles.

"You're snoring keeps me awake." Tim smirks.

"That's not nice." Avi pouts glancing down at Tim's chest.

"You sure not have much hair on your chest." Avi observes.

"Uh, what?" Tim asks. Avi's weird statements always seem to shock him. He looks down at his chest.

"You only have this little bit right here." Avi says as he touches Tim's chest.

Tim huffs as he rolls over with his back to Avi.

"I would imagine God was saving all the chest hair for you." Tim says, pulling the covers up around his shoulders. "You're as hairy as a chimpanzee."

"Jealous?" Avi chuckles, placing his chin on Tim's shoulder.

"Get that Brillo pad off my back." Tim smirks.

"Your beard is thin too." Avi giggles.

"Sorry, if I don't look like the guys from 'Duck Dynasty'." Tim mumbles.

"That's what I'm trying for." Avi laughs when Tim looks over his shoulder at him.

"Please don't." Tim says. "Well, since you don't plan on letting me go back to sleep, we might as well get up and get ready."

"Where to next?" Avi says throwing the covers back.

"Nashville." Tim yawns and brushes his hair back.

"Can I drive?" Avi asks as he heads for the shower. He looks around when Tim doesn't answer to see his road trip companion had fallen back to sleep.

An hour and a half later, they had both showered, got dressed, ate breakfast and was leaving the city of Memphis.

"So, just stay on I-40 and it will take us right into Nashville." Tim says as he looks at the road atlas.

"You are so cute with glasses on." Avi smiles, glancing over at Tim then back to the road.

Tim rolls his eyes and shakes his head as he studies the map.

"And you are so weird." Tim mumbles under his breath.

"Can we go to Opryland while we're in Nashville?" Avi asks.

"Uh, I hate to be the one to inform, Avi. But Opryland closed down 20 years ago. There's a mall called Opry Mills there now." Tim says as he puts away the map.

"Well, that sucks." Avi huffs. "Can you sing?"

Tim chuckles and shakes his head.

"What?" Avi asks with a smile.

"It's hard to keep up with your train of thought." Tim laughs. "You jump from one subject to the other."

"Well, can you?" Avi asks.

"I don't know, Austin said I could but he was probably just being nice." Tim says as he watches out the window.

"Come on, let's sing. It'll help pass the time." Avi smiles. Tim chuckles and shakes his head as Avi begins to sing a song that just happened to be from one of his heroes, Johnny Cash.

"The taste of love is sweet,
When hearts like ours meet,
And I fell for you like a child,
Oh, but the fire went wild."

"Come on, help me sing." Avi says as he starts to sing the course and Tim laughs but joins in.

"I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire."

Avi stops singing and points to Tim.

"Yeah love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire."

"I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher."

"And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire
The ring of fire, the ring of fire."

"HOLY MOLY!! WE'RE AWESOME!" Avi laughs as he high-fives Tim. "Austin was right, you are really good."

They pass a sign that reads 'Nashville City Limits.'

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