I had probably gone a bit over the speed limit but I was worried. A fire at the restaurant? What had happened?

Thank god, Yari had gone in earlier in the morning like he always does to prep the dough.

It was still early in the morning, the restaurant wasn't opened yet since we open at 11 am and it's only 9 am now.

As I turned the corner onto our street, my heart started pounding as firetrucks and cop cruisers were blocking the street.

"Oh my god." I exhaled taking in the view.

I peeled into the sidestreet and parked my car.

"Tobias and Gwen are on their way. They'll be here soon." Dad said tucking his phone into his pocket.

I nodded my head. "Okay, good." I breathed. We'll be okay. Tobias is coming.

Dad and I hopped out of the car and jogged over to the restaurant doors where firemen dressed in their gear were walking in and out of the front doors.

"How bad is it?" Dad shouted, running up to the front doors.

"Dad!" I yelled out. Thankfully, one of the firefighters grabbed him before he burst in and held him off to the side.

"Sir, this is a crime scene. Please stand back." A Police officer came up and grabbed my Dad on the arm.

I rushed over to them. "This is his restaurant," I called out.

"You own this place?" The Police Officer asked, looking at him.

"Yeah, I'm the owner, this is my son. Listen, Officer, we just got back from out of town. What the hell happened?" Dad rushed out. He was practically panting. He was so worked up. I put my hand on his back to steady him.

The Officer, who I can make out her badge now, Officer Stables, looked between my Dad and me.

"Sir, do you know of anyone who would want to hurt you or your property?"

Dad looked shocked. "What? No. We have a tight-knit community here in this town. Everyone loves this place. Why? You think this is arson?"

My heart dropped as I remembered those venomous words.

"I'm going to burn your life down boy."

"Derrick Voss." I breathed, out loud. "I didn't get to tell you, Dad. Derrick came to the lake house a week ago and threatened to burn down Tobias's life down." I yelled.

Dad turned to me. "What? When? Elijah, why are you just telling me this now?"

"Dad, we had a lot going on." I huffed, running my hand through my hair and looking around.

"Okay, this Derrick Voss. You said he threatened you? What's his relation to you both?" Officer Stables took out her notebook and wrote down what I assumed was this information.

"No, he threatened his son, Tobias Voss. He's my... boyfriend's birth father. Derrick Voss is his birth father."

"I'm confused. Why would he want to hurt you both?" Officer Staples glanced between my Dad and I.

"He probably wanted to hurt Tobias and hurting us is the worst way he could do that," I muttered. My heart hurt. Tobias was going to be so upset when he realized that this was Derrick's doing. He's going to blame himself.

"Right. Right." She nodded, writing down more in her book. "Well, we have a suspect, a motive but what we need is some proof. Do you have security cameras we can take a look at?" She said stuffing her notepad back in her back pocket.

"Yeah, we can see the footage from my office," Dad said, walking back towards the door.

"Is your office on the first floor?" She asked.

"Yeah, why?" Dad stopped.

"Yeah, that's not going to work." Officer Stables huffed. "The main floor of the restaurant is completely torched. All that's salvageable is the kitchen and the basement...I'm so sorry." She said, looking down at her feet.

"The dining room...it's...gone?" Dad stammered.

I gripped his shoulder, holding him close.

"Elijah! Dad!" Tobias's voice rang clear through all the other voices around us. I whipped my head around to see Tobias running towards us, with a worried Gwen on his coattails.

"Jude!" Gwen yelled out.

Slamming in hard to my body, Elijah wrapped his arms around my neck, pressing in close. I couldn't breathe but honestly, it felt so good having him here.

"Are you okay? What's going on? We got here as fast as we could. What happened?" He panted, rushing out questions a mile a minute.

Gwen was busy calming Dad down so I knew this was a good moment to explain. I took Tobias by the hand and walked him a little away from everyone else.

"Tobias...the restaurant suffered some pretty bad damage. They think it's arson."

"Someone did this on purpose?" Tobias's mouth gaped open as he looked behind me at the damage caused. The front of the restaurant looked torched and ashy from the billowing smoke. I nodded my head. "But who would've...no" He breathed.

"Tobias—"

"This is all my fault." He said, grabbing the back of his neck and pulling on his hair.

"Tobias, no. This isn't your fault." I tried reassuring him, taking his hand away from his head and holding on tightly.

"If I hadn't pushed him so far. If I had just—"

"He would've done worse. You saved yourself that night and you have nothing to feel bad about. This is Derrick not liking that he lost the best person in his life. So much so that he had to retaliate."

"Did he hurt anyone?? He needs to be behind bars." Tobias breathed deeply. I held his face between my palms to try and calm him down. I could tell he was beginning to hyperventilate.

"We will find proof and we will make sure he gets all the time in prison that he deserves. He's not getting away with this." I smiled, reassuringly.

Tobias breathed, closing his eyes tightly shut.

"You're safe. I'm safe. Gwen and Dad are safe. We're all going to be okay." I rested my one hand over his heart. He quickly dropped his hand over mine and continued focusing on his breathing. I could feel he was beginning to calm down.

"We'll catch him." He nodded.

"We will," I assured him.

We walked back over to Gwen and Dad who were finishing up their talk with Police Stables.

"Telling them about Derrick was a lot of help, Thank you, Eli," Dad said nodding at him. He turned to me with pleading eyes. "I need you to know this isn't your fault, Tobias. You're a sweet boy so I know you're going to beat yourself up about this but you can't. This is Derrick's doing. All his doing and he will get karma for everything he's done." Dad squeezed Tobias on the shoulder.

"Thank you for saying that." Tobias nodded his head. "I'm going to tell the Police everything I know."

I felt an immediate pull to follow him. "I'm going to go with him. Dad, you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm okay." Dad smiled hesitantly. He looked dreamingly back over to the restaurant. I wasn't his only baby. Neither was Tobias. Dad loved this restaurant like another child.

I can't imagine what this heartbreak would feel like.

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Good news, over the course of the next few days, the Police found proof that it was Derrick Voss.

Based on the street light camera, witnesses from the owners of the corner store across the street, and a broken bottle of Jack Daniels covered in his fingerprints (his favorite liquor, according to Tobias) that was thrown through the window to act as a Molotov, they pretty much have his whole crime mapped out.

For a criminal, he sure is shit at it. Actually, for an ex-cop, you'd think he learned a thing or two about crime but nope. Clearly, he must've been wasted when the whole thing went down.

Bad news, he hasn't shown up to work in days. He hasn't been home since the incident and no one has seen him.

Derrick Voss was officially a fugitive on the run.

Tobias seems irritable since there's nothing we can really do except wait.

"We're pretty much sitting ducks." He said one night in my room, lying on my chest. I was combing through his hair with my fingers, staring up at the blank ceiling as "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star played on my sound system.

Jude and Gwen were already asleep in their rooms. Now that I think about it, Dad has been going to sleep pretty early all summer. He must be tired.

The stress of the restaurant and Derrick probably weighs so heavy on his shoulders and he has enough to worry about. Cancer and all.

"Hey. Elijah. Where'd you just go?" Tobias lifted his head to look into my eyes.

I swallowed deeply. "I leave to go back to school tomorrow," I said in a hushed voice.

He looked away. Clearly, this has been weighing on him too. "I can't believe how fast it's come up." He said softly.

The thought of leaving him, My Dad, and Gwen was making my heart hurt so badly. I tilted my head to look away too. Tears streamed off to the side, off my nose, and landed on the bed.

"I don't know if I should go. It doesn't feel right leaving...with everything going on." I choked on my words.

"Hey." Tobias moved my face back to look at him by gripping my jaw. "You'll be back for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas and New Year. It won't be so bad." He tried to reassure me.

I could tell he was holding back his own tears. He didn't want me to go either, it was plastered all over his face. His beautiful, handsome, chiseled, adorable, face.

I pulled him in and snuggled him in close.

He wrapped his arms around me and tangled his legs with mine.

"When did everything get so sad? Could we go back to the beginning of the summer now?" I sounded muffled, my face was nuzzled into his neck.

"You mean when you hated my whole life and tried to turn Dad against me?" He laughed, biting me softly on my ear.

I laughed softly. "You've been calling him Dad." I looked down at his lips.

He bit his lower lip softly and his face began to blush. "Yeah...is that okay? He told me I could and it feels right."

He smiled at me, ducking his head back on my chest.

"It feels right for me too." I smiled, rubbing his back.

"Does that mean I get to call you my brother?" He wiggled in my arms.

I laughed. "I knew you were as twisted as I am," I said squeezing him tightly. "As long as you use it in a dirty sentence." I bit my lip, gripping him around his waist to hold him closer to me.

"Like, 'I never knew you had such a big dick, big brother.'" I changed my voice to sound all moan-like.

This made Tobias cringe, laughing and pushing me away. I tightened my hold so he couldn't get away. "Or, 'Big brother, I never knew you could fuck me so well. Do it again, big bro."

"Why do you keep saying Big Bro? I'm older than you." He laughed, rolling over which forced me on top of him.

"Oh, so you want me to say it?" I asked. He threw his head back into the pillows to laugh which gave me the perfect opportunity to bite softly at his neck. Sometimes he was sensitive there which made him squirm. I loved it.

"No! Please no!" He laughed, trying to wiggle himself free of my hold.

"Your little brother is coming to suck your dick!" I said evilly, cackling like an evil scientist, poking at his sides.

"Elijah, if this is supposed to be turning me on–" His laughter cut out as he stopped struggling under me. I was fully straddling over top of him and he looked lovely underneath the soft dim of the soft light illuminating from the little lamps around my room.

"What? Is it working?" I asked jokingly. But as soon as I took in the look on his face, the energy in the room shifted. I swallowed deeply. I looked down at his lap to see his hard imprint in his grey sweatpants.

"Yeah, I think it is." His voice quivered.

I looked back into his eyes, my breathing starting to get choppy. I reached out my hand and slowly passed it back and forth over his lap, tracing the outline of his dick with the palm of my hand.

Slowly, I watched as it grew harder and harder. We hadn't touched like this since we found out the news about my Dad. Truthfully, I was dying for it but it never seemed like the right time.

I gripped him harder, watching his breathing pick up. I looked into his eyes as his hips started rocking into my touch.

"We have to stay quiet," I whispered.

His lips were slightly parted and his eyes looked back at me hooded.

"Okay." He agreed.

I lowered down to connect our lips. His lips were delicious. He tangled his tongue with mine as we fought for dominance. Gripping the back of my head with his hands, he pulled me close to him. I grinded my dick against his thigh as he did the same against mine. We were moving like we were in a frenzy, quickening our paces back and forth. It's like we couldn't have waited for another second.

Flipping me on my back, Tobias towered over me, straddling my hips and pinning me by my arms to the bed.

"Stay right there." He breathed.

He quickly pulled my shorts off, along with my boxers, leaving my dick rock-hard and exposed, resting on my stomach.

"Don't move." He said before he got up from the bed, pulled down his own sweatpants, and climbed back on top of me.

"Aw, I wanted to do that." I winked.

"Where's your lube in here, baby?" He asked, nuzzling his face into my neck. I thought about that for a second as he kept sliding his now bare dick against mine. It felt heavenly. I softly moaned, trying to keep my voice down. "Baby. Lube." He repeated, kissing me on the cheek.

I snapped back into reality. "Oh shit. I must've left it at the lakehouse."

"Damn, you don't have one here?" He said looking around my room.

I shook my head. "Sadly no. I need to run to the drugstore and grab more."

He huffed, looking down at our dicks still saluting each other.

He thought for a moment. "We could do what we did in the shower when we had no lube." He smiled.

I smiled back. "Fuck, yes." I nodded my head.

In an instant, Tobias ducked his head down and slowly licked all the way up my dick before gently sucking my tip.

"Oh, damn." I moaned softly. "Keep going." I ran my fingers through his hair as he kept lathering up my dick with his saliva. Down to the base his tongue went and slowly, took his time all the way to the top. He looked like a porn star...

"Look at me." I breathed. His gorgeous gaze fell on mine which made me feel dizzy. It's like he puts a spell on me every single time. It's like there's no one else in the world that exists than him. "You're everything, Tobias." I panted. His eyes glistened. "Everyfuckingthing."

This obviously encouraged him since he began sucking me hard and slow not long after. He allowed himself to go down as far as he could, making me feel like he was taking me to the back of his throat. The sounds he was making were delicious around my dick and the vibrations he was sending through my body were definitely the cherry on top.

"Open yourself up for me." He breathed before taking me down into his mouth again.

"You want me to what?" I asked.

"Fuck yourself with your fingers." He nodded.

I swallowed deeply. I had never done it to myself before. But, he was asking so nicely and he was sucking me so well. How could I deny him? It's sexy how turned on he gets from watching me do things to myself.

I obliged, placing three fingers into my mouth, making sure they were soaked.

Tobias kept going, pumping my dick over and over again with his mouth. I wasn't going to last much longer.

I positioned my wet hand behind me, spreading open my legs further. Tobias looked down, popping off from my dick to watch me enter myself. I started with one finger first, breaking through the ring of muscle and working myself inside.

"Keep sucking me, baby." I moaned. "You're doing s-so good." I groaned.

He kept going. I could feel his eyes piercing my skin as I slipped in another finger. I was starting to get the hang of this.

Thankfully, the drool that was running off of my dick from Tobias's mouth dripped down my balls and pooled around my fingers too.

"Yes, Tobias. Fuck, yes." I shuddered.

"One more, baby. You're almost there." He breathed before sucking some more.

I added another finger and curled my fingers like Tobias always does until I felt that incredible rush spread through my body. Everything was just so intense. I couldn't hold on even if I tried.

"Tobias, I'm c-coming. Tobias," I repeated his name several more times as I released inside of his mouth. Mindblowing bliss spread all over me, rushing to my head and making me dizzy as Tobias kept sucking, making sure he didn't miss a drop.

"Holyfuckingshit." I breathed, riding back down that wave. Tobias popped his mouth off my dick and got up to walk to the bathroom. I smiled. Always taking care of me.

He came back from the bathroom with a towel in his hand. I looked at him curiously as he used his hands to turn me onto my stomach.

I lifted my hips as he positioned the towel underneath me onto the bed. Sitting up on my knees, ass in the air, I allowed him to spread my cheeks open with his hands.

I was probably in the most vulnerable position I've ever been in but it was Tobias so I actually felt amazing. I closed my eyes and laid my head on the pillow in front of me as I relished in his soft touches, exploring my ass, and running his hands up and down my crease.

"Mmmm, you feel so perfect touching me like that." I hummed. I was still positively blissed out of my mind.

Suddenly, I felt a warm liquid drip onto my hole. Tobias was dropping my come back onto my opening from his mouth. He was so unbelievably dirty and I fucking love it. I felt his fingers sliding around my rim and slowly working my come back inside my body.

"I think I love this a little too much." Tobias's voice was warm and thick and sent a shiver up my spine.

"Show me," I said, turning to look back at him. He had one of his legs hoisted up on the bed to angle himself better behind me. I was amazed to see he was absentmindedly stroking himself slowly. He was in a daze, probing me with his fingers, in and out. "Show me how much you love it." I repeated.

"Come here–" He grabbed my hips, pulling me slightly back so I was closer to him. I could feel himself line up with my hole and slowly edge himself in. "Tell me if it's too much."

I buried my face in the pillow, holding back the loud moans that desperately wanted to escape. He edged himself in more.

"Open yourself up to me, baby." He whispered.

I breathed as best as I could. Tobias kept sliding in and out, slowly. So patient with my body. I could tell it was taking him a lot of composure not to push in right away.

"That's it." He breathed. "You're doing so well." He pushed in more.

"Fuck, Tobias." My moan was muffled by my pillow. I gripped on hard as I could feel the full extent of his dick inside of me now. I felt so damn full.

"You did it. You fucking did it." He panted. He rubbed my back for a couple of seconds, gripping at my waist, and squeezing my ass. He clearly loved this view. "I'm going to start moving now. You okay?"

I nodded my head. "Yes. Please." I begged.

He slowly rocked his hips back and forth, filling me up over and over again.

"Holy shit." I moaned softly.

"Fuck, you're so tight." He gripped my waist even harder. "Elijah, fuck!" He moaned.

"Shhh, Tobias," I whispered, smiling back at him.

He winked at me, biting his bottom lip, pumping into me steadily. He can be such a dirty boy when he's fucking me and it's so so good.

"Don't stop." I quietly moaned into my pillow.

"I need to see you." He whispered. Slipping out of me slowly, he backed up on his heels and I flipped onto my back, holding my arms out open for him.

He immediately fell into them, nuzzling his face into my neck (his favorite spot) and holding on to me tightly by hooking his arms around my shoulders.

Sinking back into me, he continued to thrust into me. We both quietly moaned at the same time as soon as he entered me.

"I love being close to you." He shuddered.

"I love it too." I moaned into his ear, kissing him softly all along his jawline.

He lifted his head and accepted my kisses, soaking in every single one.

He kept brushing against my G-spot which felt exceptional and his abs grazing against my half-stiff dick was amazing. Tobias knew how to make me crazy, burning up with so much want and lust.

He clearly was getting close because his rhythm was starting to falter and his thrusts started to get sporadic.

"Elijah, I–"

"I know, baby," I said, pushing and pulling his hips into me.

"I'm going to—"

"Come for me, baby." I licked his neck from the bottom all the way to his ear, biting it softly right as he came. His fingers dug into my skin as his dick pulsed in me steadily.

He buried his face into my neck and I tilted my hips back and forth to help him ride out his orgasm.

He panted in my ear as I happily soaked in the feeling of his come inside of my ass.

"We're both all mixed up inside my ass right now." I laughed softly, brushing my hair back from my face and positioning my arm behind my head.

He looked down at my dick and spread my legs wide again with his hands.

"Tobias, we just—" I began but he was too fast. Without warning, he buried his face into my ass cheeks, licking and swallowing up both of our come from my hole. "Holy shit." I groaned, realizing what he was doing.

He had no mercy. He was taking everything. I could feel his tongue swirling around, licking every single inch, not saving one drop.

He was feral for it.

"Tobias," I moaned, arching my back. I had no idea how into this I was. How into this we both were. I rocked my hips up into his face, swirling my fingers into his hair.

His head was moving all over the place as he hummed and moaned into my ass. This felt so dirty and wrong and exceptional and magnificent all at the same time. "Tobias, you're going to m-make me—" I couldn't even wait.

Out of the blue, spurts of come flowed out of my dick all over my stomach, all the way up to my neck. I was seeing stars. My eyes rolled back in my head as he didn't let up. He wasn't allowing me a second to come down from this high.

Hungrily eating up every last drop, he finally, backed up from my ass, leaving a trail of wet kisses all over my trembling thighs.

"I can't move," I muttered. I felt like all the life was just drained from my body. He laughed to himself softly, lifting the towel underneath me again and throwing it in the hamper across the room. He slipped on a pair of my black shorts, disappeared for a short minute, and came back, sneakily walking back in with a new, damp towel, a couple of water bottles, and a pint of ice cream with two spoons sticking out of it.

"You're ridiculous." I laughed, shaking my head.

"You love me." He smiled, climbing back onto the bed. He took a moment to clean me up before sliding off his shorts again and climbing onto the bed behind me. Positioning me between his legs, he balanced the pint of ice cream on my stomach as we lay there naked and exhausted.

"I do love you, you know. Not just because you're mind-blowing at sex but because you're a great person." I said softly. I took the spoon and dipped it in the tub. Chocolate, our favorite.

"I love you too. I feel like you've always seen the best in me." He breathed in, taking some ice cream for himself too.

"It's easy to when you're the best...Tomorrow will be hard to say goodbye," I said, my ice cream suddenly becoming hard to swallow.

"It won't be a goodbye. It'll be a 'see you later'." Tobias breathed behind me. He dropped his pint in the tub and instead used his hands to play with my hair.

"It'll be a 'see you later'. I like that." I said softly, my eyes becoming heavy. 

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