Warming up

“Berk, are you sure you’re alright?”
“Huh?“
Diana Spacey leaned forward in her chair. “I asked if you’re okay. You’re not lningning to one word I say. Berkley!” Indignantly she followed Berkley’s gaze to where Ryo McLane was talking to Drake in front of the door to Berkley’s office.
Then she looked back at Berkley and watched his face closely. He lifted his cup of coffee, not taking his eyes off Ryo. He sighed softly.
„You slept with Ryo.“
Berkley snorted into his coffee.
„So I’m right.“
„Diana...“
Diana stood up and walked over to the window. With her back to him she asked: “Does Dee know?”
„Yes.“
Surprised she turned around. “And he hasn’t had your hide?”
„mvjhfklh.“
„Pardon?“
Her eyes widened when Berkley blushed.
„He was there.“
Diana gaped.
„And he hasn’t stopped you?“
Berkley looked at her.
„Wait a second.“
Berkley stared into his coffee cup.
„You say...“
Berkley stared at the place where Ryo had been minutes before.
„You have... all three...?“
Berkley blushed even deeper.
„Details!“
Berkley jumped. „What?“
„I want details! When? Where? Why? Spill it!“
„That’s not your business!“
„Ooh, we’re sensitive. Something went wrong?“
„Diana!“
„I want to know!“
„I’ll tell you nothing.“
„Wait and see!“

„Rose! Can I talk to you?”
“Latener. What do you want?”
„In your office.“
Berkley lifted one eyebrow. “Okay.”
Dee closed the door and spun around to face his boss.
„Why did you tell Diana?“ He waved his hand to point out what he was talking about.
„I didn’t.“
„She has pestered Ryo and me the whole day long.“
„I told her nothing. She knows me too well. She found out by herself.”
„She’s pretty pissed.“
„Yes.“
„She threatened to put up a notice at the bulletin board if we don’t spill it.”
„She did what?!”
„Ryo talked her out of it by inviting her over for dinner tonight. Bikky is on a trip with his class, Carol is visiting her pen pal in Texas. He promised her to tell her everything tonight. And he is very angry at you, Berkley.”
“He has every right to be.“ Berkley sighed. “What do we do?”
„We can’t leave him alone with Diana. We owe him to go through this with him. It was us who made him do it…”
“It was my idea, though.”
„Indeed. So it should be you telling Diana. Not Ryo.”
„I owe him a lot.“
Berkley slumped down. „I can’t say that I regret that night, quite the contrary. But that Ryo has to suffer like this because of it… When’ll he meet Diana?
„Seven.“
„I’ll be there.“

At half past six Berkley rang at Ryo\'s door. Wordlessly Ryo led him inside. Dee was already there and handed him a knife, leading him into the kitchen to help cutting vegetables.
„I told Ryo about Diana, but he’s still pissed.”
„I understand. Ryo...“
Ryo shook his head. He was angry and embarrassed that Berkley had, even unintentionally, maneuvred him in this position. His private life was holy to him. This experience had been hard enough to digest for him alone. To share it with an outsider majorly rubbed him the wrong way.
Shortly after seven the doorbell rang again.
“Sorry, Ryo, I couldn’t find a place to leave my car… Oh. You’re here, too.” Diana glanced from one man to the next. Ryo looked ready to bolt, Dee stood protectively between her and him, throwing her a warning glance not to pester him too much and Berkley… She loved this guy, but she thought he had proven to her that he didn’t feel the same way about her. He looked uncomfortable but at the same time he radiated a determination that made her fear that she had lost him completely. The thought that she might have gone too far with this nagged at her.
Dinner, a mix of Japanese and American food, was tense. After dinner, Ryo banned Berkley and Diana into the living room, while he pulled Dee into the kitchen to help cleaning the dishes.
“I never dry your dishes, Ryo!” Dee protested. “You always say that I only mess your things up.”
„I want to talk to you.“
„Oh.“
„You know what Diana feels for Berkley, yes?“
Dee nodded.
„And Berkley likes her a lot, too. Even if he doesn’t show it.”
Dee nodded again.
„And this thing is standing big and bright between them now.“
Dee nodded.
„I have an idea how to get those two together again.“
Dee started to nod, then stared at Ryo. “What? How?”
„Diana wants details. She shall have them. All of them.”
„Dee gulped. „What do you mean, all of them?“
„Everything. As if she had been present.“
Dee got nervous. “And then?”
Ryo blushed. „Then she will be present.“
Dee stared at him. “Will be present…?”
„We seduce her and Berkley. Then they’ll come together and bang. Problem solved.”
„You’re nuts. She won’t play along.“
„You thought that about me, too.“
„Well...“
„I think it’ll work.“
„Ryo?“
„Yes?“
„How much did you drink?“
Ryo blushed again. “Half a bottle of wine. I had to give myself Dutch courage.”
„I love you, Ryo.“
„Does that mean you’re in?“
„This idea is crazy, but yes, I’m in.“

„You wanted to hear a story?“
„Uhm, Ryo, I... you don’t have to... Listen, I’m sorry I pestered you like that. What happened is you private thing and I have no right to know about it. Ryo, I thank you for the formidable dinner, but I think I should leave now.”
„It was after the crash. We finally found a cave for shelter and managed to light a fire. Dee and Berkley had been getting on my nerves the whole day long.”
„Ryo...“ Berkley interrupted.
„Don’t.“ Dee placed his hand on Berkley’s arm. „Let him do this.”
Diana had stood up, but was now staring at Ryo, who had started to tell his story with a blank expression on his face.
„Sit down, Diana“, Dee whispered to her.
Ryo went on telling his experience in every detail.
When he came to the part where he had fled Dee’s erection to run into Berkley’s, Diana blushed. Berkley shifted uncomfortably in his seat. Dee watched Ryo closely. He took over telling how he and Berkley had decided to seduce Ryo. Then Ryo told on.
His tale made Berkley relive the events of that night. The triumph when Ryo made no move to stop him and Dee seducing him. The competition between him and Dee about who could please Ryo better. Ryo’s perfect body in front of him. His surprisingly strong reaction at Ryo’s touches…
Then, like a counterpoint, his encounter with Dee, the sudden wildness, the fight who’d be seducing whom. Ryo’s interruption that had led to something Berkley hadn’t even dared to dream about. He remembered Ryo’s taste on his tongue, the sight of Dee entering his lover’s body, relived like an echo how he had reached orgasm just by looking at that union.
Dee’s tenderness as he pulled Ryo off of him after, how he had cleaned him with his underwear, how he had covered Ryo with their clothes to keep him warm. The taste of his own sperm on Ryo’s skin when he kissed the last traces of his orgasm off his face. Ryo\'s contented sigh when he fell asleep between them.

„You know the rest of the story, Diana.“ Ryo’s words pulled Berkley back into reality. His pants had become painfully tight and he noticed that Dee and Ryo showed similar signs. Diana sat on her chair with a very red face, her legs crossed. Berkley noticed that her hands were shaking. Her pupils were wide and she seemed very nervous.
„Ryo...“ Her voice croaked and she had to clear her throat before she could go on.
„Why did you do that?“
„Why did I let them seduce me?“
„N...no. Why did you tell me all that?“
„Because I know that you’ll feel the same way.“
„I... don’t understand.“
„I wanted you to… share… us.”
„What?“
„You belong to us, Diana. To Berkley, but to Ryo and me as well”, Dee followed Ryo’s thoughts.
„You thought you had lost Berkley, right?“
Diana nodded slightly.
„You won us. If you want us.”
Berkley understood now. “Ryo…”
Ryo cut him off with a wave of his hand.
„Diana, do you understand?“
„Yes...“
„It is your choice.“
Diana looked down. “I don’t want to loose Berkley…”
Berkley stared at her. “Diana.”
„I’m in, Ryo.“
„Diana!“
„Berk, I love you. And if I have to share you, then like this.”
Berkley gaped at her. “I had no idea…”
„No. You never took me seriously, did you?“
„I...“
„Ryo?“
„Yes, Diana?“
„I’m ready.“
Ryo stood up and pulled up Berkley from where he sat. He leaned forward and kissed him hungrily. Berkley moaned softly and answered the kiss. Then he stopped and looked guiltily at Diana. Dee had stood up and put a hand on Ryo’s shoulder. “What are you doing?”
„Dee, do you agree that Berkley fulfils his desires with me?”
Berkley’s head jerked back to Ryo. “What?”
Dee growled. „What are you talking about?“
„Berkley wants me.“
„Yes.“
„And his fantasies about me stand between him and Diana.“
„Yes.“
„I want to act out his fantasies with him.“
Dee growled again. “I don’t like that.”
Ryo shot him a warning glance. “It is my decision, Dee.”
Dee flinched. „Ryo...“
„But I want you to back me up, Dee.“
Dee watched Ryo thoughtfully.
„I love you, Ryo. And I trust you. I… I agree.” The last words he whispered. Ryo smiled at him in relief.
„But that doesn’t mean that I like it!“
„I know. Thank you, Dee.“ Ryo pulled his partner close and kissed him lovingly. Then he turned to Diana.
„Do you understand?” he asked softly.
„Yes. Oh Ryo! You...“
„Shh. Take care of Dee.“
„Grmph.“ That had been Dee.
„I will, Ryo.“
„Berkley?“
Berkley still stared at Ryo with big eyes.
„You want me”, Ryo stated.
Berkley nodded.
„You dream of me.“
Another nod.
Ryo opened his arms. “Tonight I’m yours.”
Berkley moaned and threw himself at Ryo. He kissed him hard, similar to the kiss he had shared with Dee in the cave. He pressed Ryo hard against the wall in his attempt to feel as much of him as he could. Impatiently, he tugged at Ryo’s shirt.
Dee growled at Berkley’s aggressiveness and made an attempt to stop him, but a warning glance of Ryo made him keep back. Berkley had gotten rid of Ryo’s shirt by now and his hands were exploring his upper body, starting to open Ryo’s belt. Ryo grabbed his hands and pulled him in direction of the bedroom. “Come.”
Diana looked down and turned away from them. Dee stopped her. “He’s doing that for you, too.” Confused, Diana looked at Dee. “Come on.” Dee directed her softly to where Ryo and Berkley had vanished.
„But, Dee, I can’t...“
„You can. Come.“
The bedroom was lighted by two small lamps on the bedside tables. Berkley had pushed Ryo down onto the bed and was kneeling over him. His shirt lay rumpled at the foot of the bed and he was exploring Ryo’s chest and upper body with hands and tongue. Ryo moaned and writhed under him. Diana turned towards the door when Berkley again began to fumble with Ryo’s belt, but Dee stopped her. “Watch.”
With a swift movement Berkley had freed Ryo of his pants and boxers. Without hesitation he began to suck at his erection. Ryo lifted his hips and dug his fingers into Berkley’s scalp. He whimpered and panted under Berkley’s attention. Berkley got rid of his remaining clothes and slid up to Ryo until he lay pressed tightly against him. He was panting and kissed Ryo again and again, nibbling his lip and licking his skin while he parted Ryo’s legs and lifted his hips. When Ryo felt Berkley’s erection touching his anus, he threw himself around and pinned Berkley beneath him. “NO!”
Dee jumped forward. “If he hurts him..”
„Dee! I’m okay!“ Ryo panted.
Berkley moaned softly and tried to roll onto Ryo, but Ryo had him safely pinned down. “You don’t want to hurt me, Berkley.”
Berkley froze and his eyes widened. “God, Ryo! What… I didn’t want to…”
„It’s okay. But now it’s my turn.“
Dee gasped. Ryo taking the initiative? That was rare. Fascinated, Dee watched how Ryo worked his way down Berkley’s body with little licks and nips.
‚I don’t like Berkley because he confuses you’, Dee remembered his own words in a discussion with Ryo ages ago. ‘Ryo wants to control him.’ Dee grinned. He knew that Berkley would never be a danger to him and Ryo again after this.
Next to him, he felt Diana shivering. Ryo was busy treating Berkley’s erection with his talented tongue. Berkley’s hands clawed the bed sheets and Dee could see how he strained to not slam his int into Ryo’s face. He shivered in sympathy. He noticed how Diana furtively touched herself.
„I told you it’d be worth it”, he whispered. Diana jumped and hid her hand behind her back. Dee pulled her in front of him and leaned her back against his chest. His hand slid down her curves down to her center. She shivered and leaned heavily against him. Dee let out his breath with a sigh when she rubbed her backside against his straining erection. “I won’t do anything you don’t want me to. I’m Ryo’s”, Dee told her. Then he opened the clasps of her dress and let it slide down to the floor. She wore lace underneath.
Ryo had taken a small tube of lube out of the drawer and poured a generous amount of it into his hands.
“He really thinks of everything”, Dee commented.
Diana looked up at him questioningly. “That stuff is cold!” Guiltily Dee remembered every time Ryo had flinched when he had poured the stuff onto him with out warming it in his hands first. His attention went back to the two men on the bed. Ryo massaged Berkley’s erection with his slick hands, then reached behind to prepare himself. Diana’s eyes widened. “Dee…!”
„Yes?“
„Your clothes...“
Dee grinned. He hadn’t wanted to frighten Diana and was now very happy to get out of his very confining jeans. Without glancing away from Ryo and Berkley, Diana rubbed her back against Dee’s hot body. His hands trailed down her form, unclasped her bra and slid under the wet cloth of her panties. Both held their breath as Ryo slowly sank down on Berkley’s erection. Berkley had closed his eyes tightly and had opened his mouth to a silent scream. Ryo began to move on him, panting loudly. Dee noticed how he shifted his hips to rub at that spot inside that would drive him to completion.
Diana pushed her panties down to give Dee better access to her center. She was panting now and Dee had to hold her close to him to keep her knees from giving way.
In front of them, Ryo and Berkley found their climax with hoarse screams. Dee, fascinated by Ryo’s sight as he groaned in ecstasy, hardly noticed that Diana had reached her own orgasm under his hands, too. She leaned heavily against him, trying to remain on her feet.

„Berkley?“
„Ryo...“
„Are you okay?“
„I... thank you.“
Ryo chuckled and cuddled up to the sweaty and sticky body of the man beneath him.
„What else can I do for you?“
Berkley said nothing.
„Berk?“
„I...“ He blushed.
„Spill it.“
„In my dreams...“
„Yes?“
„You are... inside me...“
Ryo swallowed. „You mean...“
„Yes.“
Ryo swallowed again. Even with Dee he never had been on top like that.
“I never…”
„You don’t have to do that.“
Ryo looked over to Dee. He felt a pang of jealousy when he saw that both him and Diana were naked and that Diana looked as if she would faint any minute. It had been his choice. When he looked back at Berkley he noticed that the man had followed his gaze. He looked guilty.
„Berkley?“
„Hmm?“
„I’ll do it.“
„Ryo...“
„Diana?“ Ryo sat up and reached out to the woman. „Come here?“
„What do you have in mind, Ryo?“
„Wait and see.“
Diana had climbed onto the bed. She avoided Berkley’s eyes and looked questioningly at Ryo.
„Lay down next to us, Diana“, Ryo invited her. Then he looked at Berkley. “Do you remember how you seduced me?”
Berkley lifted his eyebrows. Ryo shifted and kissed Diana softly on the lips. Berkley shivered, then started to touch her cautiously.
“Diana?”
„Yes, Berkley?“
„Is that... okay?“
„Oh yes! Please don’t stop!“
Ryo smiled to Dee when Berkley lost his insecurity and started to please Diana like he had Ryo back then.
„What do you have in mind, Ryo?“ Dee had joined them on the bed.
„As I said, wait and see.“
Ryo looked up at him and pulled him close.
“I love you, Dee.”
„Oooh, Ryo! I can’t hear that often enough, you know?”
Ryo chuckled and kissed Dee hungrily. Dees hands wandered over Ryo’s body and woke up his erection once more. Ryo moaned under Dee\'s ministrations, but kept his distance. “Wait, Dee.”
Berkley, next to them, prepared to enter Diana.
„Berkley, stop.“
Berkley looked up at Ryo, puzzled at this command.
„Your dream, remember?“
„What...“
Ryo let go of Dee and knelt down behind Berkley. Dees eyes widened as he suddenly understood. Wordlessly, he handed Ryo the lube. Berkley groaned as Ryo prepared him for what was about to come.
„Tell me if I should stop.”
Carefully he entered Berkley’s tight opening. He sensed how Berkley d tod to relax his muscles. Ryo had to restrain himself not to pound into Berkley with full force. He grabbed the man’s erection instead.
„Diana?“
Diana lifted her legs and crossed her ankles behind Berkley’s back. Together with Ryo she guided Berkley inside her. Now Ryo no longer held himself back. He began to thrust into Berkley, long hard strokes that made all three of them groan.
Dee had watched the preparations and moved to kneel over Diana’s face. He grabbed Berkley’s hair and lifted his head. With a choked breath, Berkley opened his mouth and took Dee in. Dee noticed quickly that Berkley was able to suppress his gag reflex and when the man’s concentration weakened, he slowly began to thrust into his mouth. Und this assault to his senses, Berkley was the first to climax. Ryo and Diana followed only seconds later. Berkley had thrown his head back to not bite down onto Dee and this way left the black-haired man hanging on the edge of his own climax. With desperate whimper Dee grabbed Ryo and turned him around. Without any preparation he entered his lover and reached his orgasm after a few hard strokes.
Exhausted, sweaty and sticky all four fell asleep in a tangled heap of limbs.

Tiredly, Bikky entered Ryo’s apartment the next morning. His class had had to break off their trip two days early because of a burst pipe in the house they were staying in. They had driven back the whole night long. Bikky was hungry, edgy and disappointed. He woke up a bit, when he noticed that the table in the living room had not been cleaned up. Normally, Ryo was tidiness personified. Critically Bikky looked around. And noticed Ryo’s rumpled shirt on the floor. Who would’ve guessed. He was away for a few days and Dee took the change to jump Ryo. Bikky grabbed the next pillow and stormed the bedroom with a shrill “DEEEEE!”
Dee woke with a start. Even before he was completely awake, Bikky’s pillow whacked him in the face. He searched for something to hold on, found nothing and fell out of the bed with an undignified thump. Ryo sat up and stared at Bikky in shock. Next to him, Berkley had grabbed a book from the bedside table, ready to hit the intruder before he recognized Bikky. Diana had sat up, too and was now gathering the sheets around her to cover her breasts. Bikky stood in the middle of the room, gaping.
„Bikky?“ Berkley directed the youth’s attention to him.
„Huh?“
„You’re dreaming. Go to sleep.“
„’k.“
Like a sleepwalker, Bikky turned around and closed the door behind him.
Ryo still sat frozen on the bed and stared after his adopted son.
„Ladies and Gentlemen, you just witnessed Bikky McLane\'s uncanny talent to burst in on one at the most embarrassing times.“ Dee sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
Ryo slumped together suddenly and started to shake.
„Ryo? Are you okay?“ Diana lead over to him in worry.
Dee glanced up into Ryo’s face. Then he waved her away. “He’s fine. Just a laughing fit.”
Ryo slumped back into the pillows. Tears of laughter ran down his face.
„I think all this has been a bit too much for him...“ Dee leaned over him and pushed a few sweaty strands of hair out of Ryo’s face. “God, Ryo, you look adorable when you laugh…”
„Does he do this often?“ Berkley inquired.
„Not nearly enough.“
„What do we do now?“
Ryo calmed down slowly. “Shower, Breakfast. Panic.” He leaned against Dee’s head, who was still sitting on the floor.
Dee looked at the alarm clock behind him. “Then come on. It’s time to get up anyway.”
He stood up without paying attention to Diana’s and Berkley’s looks at his naked body. He pulled the covers away and helped Ryo to stand up. Then he shoved him in direction of the bathroom. He winked at Berkley and Diana. “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, too!”

Under the hot water of the shower Ryo began to panic. “What will Bikky think? What shall I do?”
Dee embraced him from behind and kissed his ear. “Everything’ll be fine, Ryo. Bikky’s not going to condemn you. He loves you too much.”
„But...“
„Take things as they come to you, Ryo. It won’t help to rack your brain about it now.”
Dee sensed clearly how Bikky’s surprise visit had worn out Ryo. He knew better then to try anything sexual now, as tempting as it might be. He lathered Ryo up, massaged his back and rubbed him dry. While Ryo tried to dry his hair with a second towel, Dee went back into the bedroom to search for some clean clothes.
Berkley and Diana were talking when he entered. “The bathroom is free. Diana, if you want to you can have a pair of mine or Ryo’s undies.”
„Thanks...“
Ryo came out of the bathroom, a towel around his waist. Berkley chuckled. “You don’t have to hide from us, Ryo.”
Dee threw him a look. “Leave him be, he’s worried about Bikky.”
Berkley nodded and went tot he bathroom with Diana.
Wordlessly, Ryo and Dee got dressed and went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. When Dee was setting up the table, Bikky came in.
„Morning, Ryo! Dee.“
Ryo tensed.
„They had a burst pipe in the youth hostel. We had to come back early.”
He yawned.
„Boy, I had a strange dream...“
Then he noticed that Dee had set up the table for five people. Diana and Berkley chose this moment to enter the kitchen. Bikky froze.
Then he attacked Dee. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO RYO!!!”
Dee needed both hands to keep the boy at arm’s length. Ryo winced. Berkley grabbed Bikky’s arms. „Calm down, boy!“
Dee saw how Ryo gathered his strength. He turned around to Bikky and looked him in the eyes.
„Bikky, listen to me.“
„Ryo! What has this screwball done to you?!”
„Bikky! What has happened has a long backstory. One I won’t tell you.“
Diana blushed.
Bikky swallowed.
„And it hasn’t been Dee’s decision, but mine”, Ryo concluded.
Bikky slumped down. Berkley let go of his arms.
„I... I understand. I think I’ll better pack my things, then.”
„What?“ Ryo stared at him.
„Well, you’ll need the space...“
„Bikky!“ Ryo grabbed the boy and turned him around to be able to meet his eyes. “You think that of me? That I’d send you away like that?”
Bikky avoided Ryo’s eyes.
Ryo pointed his chin at Bikky’s room.
„That is your room. And it will be that forever. You are my son, Bikky!”
Bikky glanced up at Ryo. He had noticed how hard he had hurt Ryo with his assumptions. He threw himself into Ryo\'s arms and cried. Ryo held him tight and rocked him slightly. Diana wiped a tear out of the corner of her eye.
„Well, after that is all cleared out...“ Dee grinned and rubbed his hands, “Time for Breakfast!!!!”