"Let's go, Habibi!" I gave Aahmes a big grin as I left the Grinch's room.
"You seem to be in a good mood?" he asked. "Did Dr. Gregorio tell you the news about the SGT Kits?"
"Yup!" I placed an arm over his shoulder. "There will be a meeting next week to go through the legal stuff before we start production. In the meantime, the Grinch told us to take the rest of the week off! That means we can stay up all night."
"We have the same thing in mind," replied Aahmes who slipped his arm around my waist.
We went right upstairs when we got home. I was about to enter our room when Aahmes grabbed my arm.
"You haven't bathed for three days," he said while pulling my shirt over my head.
"Three days? Didn't I take a bath yesterday?"
"Yesterday, you told me you still smelled as fresh as a newborn baby. Then you called Reubert over to tell him your plan."
"Ah, that's right, then Nathan woke up this morning and we had to stay out all day."
"It was a good plan, professor. This is the first case I know where a dominant omega have found his fated pair. We can document their relationship as it progresses."
"You do that. I don't want anything to do with your experiment, remember?" I lift his head and gave him a quick smack on the lips. "Good luck on your study. Just tell me about the juicy parts later. Something tells me my idiot nephew won't let himself be dominated that easily."
I pulled Aahmes towards the half full bathtub. I Laid inside before sitting him in front of me and enveloping him in my arms.
"Ahh... at long last, I finally have time to relax with you..."
"Right... the past two weeks have been very exhausting." Aahmes took a deep breath and turned around to face me. "Do you plan to stay away from the lab, though?" he asked. "You haven't been there since Friday last week, the interns are starting to miss you."
"Really, now?" I couldn't help but laugh, "I seem to remember them begging me to take a vacation so you can take my place as the Omega Division head!"
Aahmes snuggled on my chest with a sigh, his eyes closing.
"I could never take your place, professor," he said, "nobody is good enough to be on par with your brilliance."
Woah, my Habibi really knows how to flatter me!
"Is that so?" I asked with a grin. "Then I guess we don't need to leave even after the SGT project are in full swing? Should we stay in Universal labs until we're old and decrepit?"
Aahmes' eyes suddenly fluttered open.
"Are you saying that you are finally willing to come with me?" His wide eyes seem to change color in delight.
"You don't want to?" I asked with a grin.
"Professor!"
He lunged at me with a hug. When he looked up at me again, his eyes glittered even more with held back tears.
"We'll go around the world, professor!" he exclaimed. "I'll show you so many things I've seen in my travels! So many studies, so many cultures, we can go anywhere you want to go... But first, I'll show you my home is Cairo, I'll take you to the main Universal Laboratory branch there... they would be thrilled to meet you! Then we can go anywhere you want to go! Would you like a tour? We can visit the pyramids, and see the Sphinx, or walk the Valley of the Kings, or..."
"Habibi," I cupped his glowing face with my hands. I couldn't help but laugh at his excitement. "I'll be happy no matter where you take me. Just promise you won't leave me in the middle of nowhere, or I'll end up lost forever."
"Why would I ever leave you?" he said with a pout.
"I know, Habibi, I know..."
I kissed him then.
Aahmes' face blushed as he smiled sweetly at me.
I ran my fingers through his silky hair and held him tightly in my arms.
"Professor, I can't wait to introduce you to my family!"
"As your respected professor?" I asked with a grin.
"No," he looked up at me. "As my preferred mate."
That took me by surprise!
"I've been meaning to ask you this, professor," he continued, "but just what, exactly, would you like our relationship to be?"
"H-ha?" I didn't know what to say.
"You told Dr. Perez that we were going out, but I can't really tell if you were serious about it, or if you're just trying to keep him away from me, so..."
"I-isn't it obvious already?!" I blurted out, looking away, "I-isn't it enough that we live under the same roof and take a bath together in the same tub?"
I could feel my face burning!
"But you have never really told me you love me, professor," he said, the lovely expression on his face fading away.
"Don't I call you Habibi everyday? You think that's just a joke for me?"
"Yes," he quickly replied with his stoic look back.
"Really, habibi? That may have been true from the start, when I was still paranoid about you, but now... don't you know that now..."
I couldn't tell him what I wanted to say.
Just what is it that makes it so hard for people to say what they truly feel inside?
And why am I sounding like some mushy poet?
Ugh...
"I will never know until you tell me properly, Professor," said Aahmes, his eyes locked on me like a hawk. "How can I tell if you really love me, or if you're just after my body?"
"H-ha? As if I would do something like that to you!"
I sat up straight on the tub and placed his firmly on my lap so we could face each other properly, then I held his shoulders and took a deep breath.
"You know damn well that I hate horny alphas who take advantage of omegas, don't you?" I asked him with a frown. "So how can you ask me if I'm doing something like that to you?"
"I didn't. I was just stating a theory."
"Well, your theory is inconclusive! In fact, it is total rubbish! How could you even think that of me?"
"Well, I have long concluded that you simply cannot put your feelings into words," he argued, "but I am the kind of person who takes things quite literally, and as such, I would like to hear from you, professor," he went on. "What do you feel about me?"
"Y-you..." I stammered. "You are my moon!"
I caress his satin cheek, brush his hair behind an ear, stare into his prismatic eyes...
"1Sa mundo ko'ng nababalot ng dilim, ikaw ang nag-iisang liwanag na dumating at nagbigay buhay sa akin."
"I used to wake up each day to pay for the sins I've committed, now I try to wake up early each morning to watch you sleeping beside me. To spend the whole day with you, drink your lovely coffee and hear your gentle voice, even with your consistent nagging and that weird cackle you make that sounds like a constipated goat suffering an asthma attack..."
The both of us broke out laughing.
"Yet you love to make me laugh just to hear me cackle."
"That's just how much I love you..."
Aahmes looked surprised. Even I was shocked by what I said.
How corny!
"There, I finally said it. No more repeats!"
"Why not?" he asked with a pout.
"`Coz my head's gonna explode if I say it again!" I mumbled, covered my burning face.
"But I want you to say it again!" Aahmes gently pulled my hands away. "Say it again, professor, please?"
I glared at him.
Looked away.
Pouted and snubbed the other way.
Yet Aahmes kept his hopeful look at me and I guess there's no backing out this time.
"2Mahal kita." I mumbled.
"I did not hear that," whined the crazy little vixen.
"Mahal kita," I repeated. "Mahal kita, Aahmes. Now, is our relationship clear to you?"
Aahmes' face broke into a bright smile. He hugged me and nuzzled his face on the base of my neck.
"I love you, too!" he said. "Mahal din kita, Eric."
I was surprised when he called me by name, making my heart flutter in equal measures of joy and embarrassment, that I couldn't help but tear up a little.
As I was fearing, my head blew up due to extremely cringy emotions.
It was the only explanation I could think of as our surroundings flared up in bright lights and I felt myself floating in a cloud, reaching 9th heaven as we held each other tight.
"Let's get out of the bath, professor," he said after a while, "I want to continue this in bed."
I pulled him towards our room after drying ourselves. We didn't even bother putting clothes on. He pushed me to the bed as soon as we got inside, and rode on top of me.
"Looks like you have no plan to sleep tonight?" I chuckled.
"Of course. Didn't you say earlier that we can stay up as long as we want?" he smiled mischievously. "I want to make love to you until the sun comes up."
"Ahh... I don't think I could last that long..." I moaned as he rubbed my chest.
"Don't worry, I won't let you fall asleep."
Aahmes leaned down to kiss me. I met his luscious lips halfway, savoring the addictive sweetness. He took my hands and placed them on his hips. I grasped at him, kneading his thighs as he raised himself, while he reached back to rub my hardness against himself.
"Are you ready already?"
"I'm always ready for you, professor," he gasped. "Always..."
He slowly slid down on me. Warm fluid dripping down to the base of my shaft, though he isn't even in heat yet.
My moans escape my lips as he starts to move up and down, his face flushed, lips parted, glazed eyes fixed upon me.
"Aahmes..." I gasp, "my beautiful moon... that feels... so good..."
"Call my name more... Eric..."
"Aahmes... Aahmes..."
His moves go faster.
Harder.
"More, Eric... call my name..."
"Aaah! Aahmes! I'm almost there..."
"Wait for me... Eric..."
And he moves even faster in the burning heat, driving me crazy, drowned in ecstasy, until I could hardly hold on to my sanity...
"Ahh... aah... Aahmas...!"
"I'm cumming... Eric... I'm..."
"Ahh!"
Our harmonious moans fill the room.
Aahmes' body falls to my heaving chest.
We both lay there, gasping for breath, yet Aahmes hasn't had his fill yet. He showers me in kisses as I held him in my arms.
"Woah, you're so aggressive tonight!" I joked.
"Of course, we're officially mates from this day forth, I want to burn this night into our memories."
"Ahh... every moment with you is already a precious memory to me..." I reply, my brows rising up and down, "In fact, I have a whole collection of our sex-capades in my head, my favorite being 'The First Night Habibi Ravished Me After a Party'."
Aahmes playfully slapped my chest.
"You said you hated it!" he pouted. "You said you could hardly remember a thing!"
"As if I could forget our first night together?" I kissed the tip of his nose and laid him beside me on the bed. "You already know that I'm all talk, but truth is, I've been fascinated with you since the first day I saw you. You were so brilliant... so bright... so out of reach..."
"Yet, you didn't want me to get too close to you?"
"Of course," I admitted, rubbing the frown between his brows. "How could I possibly believe that someone as perfect as you would actually want someone like me?"
"But I do love you... though it took me so long to realize it..."
"And even then, I knew, I wanted you too, even though I couldn't make myself admit it."
"I guess we were just two idiots who were too smart to fall in love too..."
"I guess... and now I've completely fallen in love with you..."
Damn...
Is this really me speaking?
How could I be so cringe?! So cheesy I wanna puke!
But as I held Aahmes in my arms, as I kiss him and place myself between his raised legs, I knew that this is what I really feel.
This is my whole truth.
This is where I want to be.
As I pushed inside my Habibi... his hot body enveloping me... everything feels so right that I couldn't believe I ever tried to turn away from it.
Truly, we are meant for each other.
These thoughts fill my head as I make love to my habibi.
Mine.
Mine forever more.
"Eric..."
"Aahmes... Aahmes, I love you..."
"I love you too... Eric..."
"Mahal kita...mahal..."
And as we melt as one, I realized how stupid I have been to let four years pass without saying these simple words.
These words that sum up everything I feel for my beloved.
What was I so afraid of?
How could I not have trust in Aahmes when I know that he loves me just as much?
"Aahmes!"
"E-Eric... hold me tighter!"
"Naaah!"
He accepted my everything.
And as we lay on the bed, spent, I place my face on his chest and drew a deep breath, avoring him.
"Sorry, Habibi... sorry for taking so long..."
"It's okay, my love," he gently tussled my hair, "We've got forever to make up for it... we've got a whole lifetime..."
That's right.
"I shall keep the memory of this night with dozens of others, but I doubt any other memory would be more profound than tonight, when we finally confessed out true feelings to each other.
No smile would be sweeter than what I see in my habibi's face right now.
No caress, more gentler than the way he's wiping the tears of happiness dripping from my eyes.
And I would ask for nothing more than to spend the rest of my life beside him, as we promised.
My habibi.
My Aahmes.
Nothing else would ever take your place.
Nothing.
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1I want to preserve this line - "In this world enveloped in darkness, you are the only light that came and brought me to life.
2Mahal kita – literally, you are my precious