"Let's look properly in here."
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Jude lays on his side, looking at the orange street lamp shining an opaque hue through the thin brown curtains. The bright garish alarm clock glows 00:42. 

Two hours! It had been two hours since it had began. First, the sound of talking, then the laughing, then the awkward moaning and now the constant rhythmic sound of something banging against the neighbouring wall, accompanied by cries of "Yes! God Yes!" 

Jude pulls his pillow around his ears to muffle the sounds, gritting his teeth together and squeezing his eyes closed in the process, but it was no good. The sleazy motel life was living up to expectations. 

Letting the pillow fall, Jude maneuvers onto his back and stares blankly at the ceiling. "Can't sleep either?" Jude jumps at the sound of Milo's overtired voice. He looks to his right to see him laying on his side staring at him.

"No. You?" Jude asks, with Milo responding with a raised eyebrow at the "I'm cumming I'm cumming! Oh my God!" Being hollered through the wall.

Milo lets out a dry chuckle. "They must have got an extra special paper bag." 

Jude turns his body fully to face Milo on the bed, now literally nose to nose. "What do you mean, extra special paper bag?" 

"Like our essentials bag, but you know, extra." Milo smiles. 

"I'm sorry you've lost me." Jude says, now propping his head up on an upturned hand.

Milo sits up, turning on his night light and looks across to the small dressing area where the brown bag sits. He gets out of bed, grabbing the paper bag and bringing it back with him, with Jude now sitting up alongside him. "Let's look properly in here." Milo suggests as he in unscrunches the top. 

"Well..I've already taken out the toothbrushes and toothpaste and I've used some of the shower gel." Jude says, trying to look in the top of the bag, which is resting on Milo's lap. 

"Let's see what else there is." Milo says, now dipping his hand in to see what he will pull out. The first thing is a small bottle of shampoo, apple fragrance. They just look at it as Milo lays it on the bed. This is followed by another small bottle, this time of hair conditioner, then a small deodorant, a disposable sponge and "Oh!"

"What is it?" Jude says, rather keen to know. 

"Oh...it's nothing." Milo says, his cheeks turning red all of a sudden. 

"No...tell me!" Jude says in an almost whine.

"No Jude." Milo says more firmly, trying to pull the bag away from his grasp. Jude manages to grab the end of the bag and starts to pull back. 

The bag suddenly rips into two, causing the remaining contents to fly in the air before landing right in front of the two of them on the bed. 

There, in front of Jude and Milo's eyes were two small items. A travel size tube of lube...and a condom. "Oh." Jude says, his face now as red as Milo's. 

Jude doesn't know where to place himself. These items in front of him and the sounds of the neighbours next door screaming their pleasure, were getting him a little flummoxed. 

"I'll just put these to one side." Milo says in an almost whisper as he clears his throat, picking up the items and placing them on the nightstand by his side of the bed. 

Jude nods in agreement before laying back down in the bed, resuming his original position, gazing once again out of the window, with Milo turning the night light off and darkening the room. 

Jude can feel Milo settle back into the sheets, but Jude feels tense. The neighbours are relentless with expressing their enjoyment. He begins to nibble on his lips pondering an idea. A daring idea. An idea which would not be uncharacteristic in a place like this. An idea which was most definitely throwing caution to the wind. 

He turns, just a little onto his back and whispers ever so softly..."Milo...um are you...um still awak..."

Jude cannot even finish the sentence before Milo is pushing him onto his back.  Milo's lips latching eagerly onto Jude's. His body slowly rolls onto the man beneath him as their lips continue to crash. Jude pushes against Milo's shoulders, making Milo pull his head back, looking down on a breathless Jude. "I...I want to, but... " Jude begins.

"But what?" Milo asks, pushing Jude's fair hair out of his face as he gazes down upon him, in the faint shadowy glow of the orange street light, shining through the window.

"It doesn't feel correct...with you and Hester and..." Jude is halted by a finger pressing against his lips.

"Jude. Ssshh. Right now all I see is you." Milo runs the tips of his fingers over Jude's lips, making Jude lick them at the sensation. "All I smell is you." He leans forward inhaling the scent from Jude's soft skin on the juncture of his neck, making Jude inhale a deep breath, chest beginning to rise and fall "All I taste is you." Milo teases Jude's earlobe with his tongue, pulling the hooped piercing into his mouth, making Jude bite on his lower lip. "And all I want to hear... is you..."