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The first time Buck notices his hot new neighbor is on a random Tuesday night. He has just gotten home from a twelve hour shift so the sun has already set and he’s exhausted. He opens the light in his loft, illuminating most of the space, and drops his duffle bag on the floor near the bar stool at his kitchen island.
He has half a second floor which is basically just his bedroom and his bathroom. He walks over to the windows to close the curtains as they’re all wide open from being open all day. He closes one half but as he’s about to close the other, he sees him.
Buck’s building is facing another that’s just like his building— he’s in phase one and the one across is phase two. Phase two is new and finally finished being built so this is the first time he’s noticed life in the apartment directly across from him.
Buck can only see one man— who’s probably the hottest guy Buck’s ever seen and he’s not even up close to him— and it’s enough.
Like you’d even have a chance with him.
He shushes that part of his mind and focuses on his neighbor. The guy is probably just shy of six feet if not six feet, he has dark hair that looks like it’s been run through— a strand falling onto his face, and he looks fit. He’s wearing black shorts and a black tank top.
The guy picks up a water bottle, drinking from it before he puts it back down and gets back to punching a bag that Buck’s now just noticing as he was way too focused on just the man in the apartment.
It looks like the guys got a similar layout to his except he can see that it’s bigger since there aren’t any stairs like in Buck’s loft, he must have at least two bedrooms in his space.
Buck realizes he’s still standing directly at the window watching his neighbor like some kind of stalker so he moves away from the window and goes about doing what he normally does after work. He does leave that curtain open just in case before grabbing his duffle bag and heading up to his bedroom. He undresses, tossing all his dirty clothes in the hamper and heads to the washroom to take a quick shower.
After his shower he changes into gray sweatpants and a dark blue t-shirt. He heads back downstairs and takes a beer from the fridge and walks back over to the window which is also the door to his balcony.
The guy is no longer working out— dammit— but he is making his way back into his living room with wet hair and in just black sweatpants that hang low on his hips and no shirt.
“Jesus,” Buck moans to himself.
The guy looks like a Greek God and Buck wants to lick every single ab on his body and not stop until the man is begging for release.
It’s a warm night so Buck decides to head outside onto his balcony to sip his beer and watch his neighbor for as long as he can without being caught.
Buck’s not a stalker. He really isn’t. He’s just never been this attracted to someone he’s never met before. He can just not watch his neighbor but what fun is that especially when he hasn’t gotten laid in three months.
Buck immediately feels weird sitting outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the guy especially since all the guy does is turn on MMA on his TV and only gets up a couple of times.
Buck finishes his beer quickly and heads back inside, shutting the curtain and heading up to his room. He feels embarrassed at how down bad he feels for a man he’s never met but he’s also never been so turned on by just watching someone do regular things.
Buck can feel his dick twitch in his pants just by picturing the man working out. He ignores it and tries to get some sleep.
*
Buck sees his neighbor in his window every day for the rest of that week. Usually the guy is either working out or watching something on TV. He never sees anyone else in the apartment so he thinks he may be single— hopes so anyway.
Buck can’t help but watch him and he knows he shouldn’t keep spying on the guy but he’s developed a crush on the guy and he knows nothing about him other than some things he likes to watch on TV and that he likes to work out and has a killer body and face.
It’s Sunday afternoon and the guy has his window open, a nice breeze while he’s working out— again— and Buck sits outside again enjoying the sunshine and cool breeze on his day off— and enjoys the view.
The two buildings are not super far away from each other but still far enough away that Buck can’t hear anything so knows that his neighbor doesn’t hear him either.
He’s hitting the same punching bag that’s still hanging up in the space between his living room and his kitchen and looks like his table was pushed off to the side a bit to make room for it. He must put it up and take it down often and it makes Buck wonder why he doesn’t have it in the second bedroom since he’s only seen this man living in the apartment the past few days.
He finishes working out and brings the bottom of his tank top up to dab at his sweaty face and Buck sees his abs again.
Buck groans to himself, his dick twitching in his shorts at the sight in front of him. The guy takes his shirt off slowly— a little too slowly— before balling it up and tossing it on the floor. The guy slowly takes his shorts off and is standing fully nude in the middle of his apartment.
Buck can’t take his eyes off him and now he’s fully hard at the sight of the man naked and sweaty. His dick is big from what he can see and it’s not even hard.
Fuck.
Buck rubs at his now aching cock through his shorts, eyes glued to his neighbor.
He turns around and Buck sees his ass— the most perfect ass Buck has ever seen. It’s big and perfect and Buck just wants to shove his tongue deep inside of it.
Buck grabs his dick through his shorts, trying hard not to jerk off in broad daylight on his balcony but this man— God, this man.
The guy looks over his shoulder out the window and for a second Buck thinks that he can see him watching him.
He turns back around and his cock is now half hard, starting to stand tall from where he’s still standing naked in his apartment. He grips the base of his cock and strokes himself.
He looks right at Buck and moans— he can see his lips part— and fuck, he’s doing it on purpose. He knows Buck’s watching him and he’s putting on a show for him.
“Holy shit,” he mutters to himself as he sees the guy get fully hard, stroking himself and looking right at Buck from inside his apartment.
He stops after a minute and picks up his discarded clothing and leaves the room.
Nooooo.
Buck waits a moment, hoping he’ll come back and continue but after five minutes he doesn’t come back so Buck heads inside to take care of himself, thinking about what he just saw as he cums hard into his fist where he’s laying on his bed. He cleans himself up and then heads back downstairs.
He passes by the window and the guy is back but now he’s showered and fully dressed in some light wash jeans and a beige loose tank top. He looks so good and that strand of hair that falls onto his forehead really does it for him.
The guy is answering his front door and Buck can see a woman who’s just a few inches shorter than him and there’s a kid by her side who’s also quite tall for what Buck assumes is maybe ten years old at most.
His neighbor kisses the woman on the cheek and then the kid on his head before he makes his way inside. He has crutches and he looks like such a cute kid, he wonders if that’s his neighbor's kid.
The woman comes inside just to drop his backpack off on the table and Buck notices the punching bag is gone and the tables back in the center. He realizes that he must put it up whenever his kid isn’t around and puts it away when he’s there.
The woman— Buck can see is beautiful with dark brown hair and bangs that frame her face nicely— says bye to the kid before squeezing the man’s arm and heading back out the door leaving the kid with the guy.
Buck decides to get out of the house for a bit so that he’s not focusing too much on what’s happening with his neighbor. He goes to his sister Maddie’s house so he can tell her all about his hot new neighbor— he just hopes Chimney isn’t there or he’ll definitely make fun of him the entirety of their next shift together.
*
Eddie moved to LA a month ago from El Paso with his ex-wife and their almost ten year old son. He never thought this would be his life at twenty-eight years old— in the best and weirdest way possible.
After he knocked up his high school girlfriend, Shannon, their parents forced them to get married and then their son, Christopher was born and he panicked— he enlisted in the army. He realized it was a mistake and when his tour ended, he went back home to El Paso to beg Shannon for forgiveness and another chance. He thought that was the right thing to do but Shannon had other plans— she filed for divorce.
Eddie felt relieved and in that moment, he knew he wasn’t in love with her. They had a very amicable divorce— went through a mediator and managed to come to an agreement about custody. They decided to do a week on slash week off— one week Eddie had Chris for the whole week starting on Sunday afternoon then the next week would be Shannon’s week, and spending major holidays together and Christopher’s birthday.
They’re still friends— she was always Eddie’s friend before she became his girlfriend when they were seventeen. They try to not ask each other for help with Chris when it’s not the other’s week but can if they can’t get anyone else. It’s been working well for all of them for the past four years living in El Paso. Eddie decided to get a job at the dispatch center there since has medic training in the army and it was going really well— apart from his parents constantly shitting on how he and Shannon live their lives like this and it’s not good for Chris who had also been diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
A few months ago, Shannon’s mom got really sick. She went to go see her in LA and stayed with her for three weeks before coming home and telling Eddie that she needs to move to LA to help her.
Eddie’s immediate thought was that he would go with her to LA, that he’ll find an apartment close to Shannon’s moms house and they’d make this work, they’d find a good and accommodating school for Chris, he’d get a transfer to work at the LA dispatch center, that this could all work out.
It took a couple months of planning and getting everything together to go and so they did.
Eddie found an amazing apartment in a new building that was a fifteen minute drive to Shannon’s moms house where she’s living and so is his son for half the year. He started at his new job two weeks ago and he thinks it’s going well, it’s always crazy though. His coworkers are great, well, except one who kind of gets on his nerves— Josh. He’s just too much sometimes and it kind of irritates him. His favorite coworker is Linda— she’s such a ray of sunshine, he loves chatting with her in the break room. Maddie is also great, though he hasn’t spoken to her much yet.
It’s a Friday evening and Eddie is at home, looking through the thousands of movies on Netflix trying to find one to watch while he waits for his take out to get here. His weeks without Chris are weird. He does like having ample time to do whatever he wants but he also hates not being with his kid. It’s just— Eddie doesn’t really have any friends.
He didn’t really have any in El Paso either but he was still living with Shannon and Chris even after they got divorced because she needed his help with him and couldn’t do it alone, so he slept in the living room.
Having just moved to LA not long ago and not really going out hasn’t really left Eddie with anyone to hang out with on his Christopher-less weeks. He did start at a new gym and met a couple guys there who spar with him but not to the point where they hang out outside of the gym, and most of the colleagues he actually likes are married women.
That’s how he’s on his second Christopher-less Friday at home, waiting for his Thai food and not being able to pick a movie.
His phone rings— it’s the front door of his building so he picks up and buzzes his delivery in. A few minutes later there’s a notification saying his contactless delivery has been made. He gets up from the couch to grab his food from the door. He walks into his kitchen and puts the big bag down on the counter.
He gets everything out— beef and broccoli, vegetable stir fried rice, peanut butter shrimp dumplings, and some crispy spinach— and grabs a plate and utensils. He makes himself a plate, brings it to the living room and realizes he forgot a drink so he starts to walk back to the kitchen when he looks to his right out the window. He forgot to close the blinds. He walks over and looks outside of his balcony door that’s all glass and he sees the building across from his— the first phase of his building— and sees a few windows illuminated with light. The sun is setting just off to the side of the building.
He notices movement in the apartment right across from him and his eye catches the sight of the most beautiful man he’s ever seen. Eddie’s heart beats faster the longer he looks at him. He’s sitting at what looks like his kitchen table, on his phone but looks over at the window every so often, so his chair is angled away from the table and more so towards the balcony door which is just like Eddie’s.
Is he looking at me?
The guy gets out of the chair and Eddie can see that he’s tall. He’s wearing basketball shorts and has a few scattered tattoos on his legs. Oh wow . He’s also in a hoodie and he just looks so big and comforting.
What is going on?
The guy moves and Eddie realizes he’s been watching him so he turns back around and goes about his evening as he had planned. He grabs a beer and heads back to the living room to put on a movie and start eating all the while thinking about the man living across from him.
About an hour later, he goes back to the kitchen to clean up and passes by the window again, this time purposefully seeking out his apartment and finding him walking from his kitchen with a beer of his own.
Eddie can see the guy go sit in the same armchair and looking out the window, sipping his beer. He’s definitely been watching him and he doesn't think the guy can tell that Eddie can see him. Eddie decides to test this theory out.
He first cleans up then grabs another beer and walks by the window again— the guy still there. He goes into his living room where the window there also has a view of the guy’s apartment and his curtains aren’t drawn shut.
He changes Netflix to Spotify and puts on something fun to dance to. Eddie starts dancing in his living room and making his way back into the dining room— where he pushes his table to the side when Chris isn’t here so he can hang up his punching bag. He looks out the window and can see that the guy came outside and is leaning over his balcony railing, fully watching him, sipping his beer.
Eddie doesn’t falter, doesn’t let it be known that he knows the man is watching him, and he realizes he doesn’t mind, not one bit.
Why doesn’t it bother him that some random guy who lives across from him is watching him? How long has he been watching him? Why does his dick twitch in his pants at the thought of this very attractive man watching him the past few days or maybe even longer?
Eddie’s out of breath so he stops, putting his hands on his knees, laughing to himself. He can feel the sweat on his forehead and on the back of his neck. Eddie removes his long sleeve shirt, his tank top underneath riding up slightly as he does so. He looks out the window and sees the man still watching him, shifting slightly from where he stands watching him take his shirt off.
Oh.
He goes to bed that night and jerks off knowing his hot neighbor is probably doing the same thing— at least he really hopes he is.
On Sunday, he finally gets confirmation.
He teases him, makes it known that he knows he’s been watching him so he jerks off in front of him. He can see the guy reaching for himself in his pants from the movement of his arm as his eyes stay fixated on him.
Then Eddie stops. He wants to tease him. Make him ask for it. Maybe do something back. But he can’t now. Shannon’s going to be here after lunch with Chris and it’s his week with him so he’s going to have to put the hot neighbor on pause.
He can tell he’s still watching him when he answers the door and lets them inside but then Shannon leaves and he doesn’t see his neighbor again that day.
Throughout the week he spots his neighbor every day looking at him but not watching as intently as he had the week prior. He can obviously see that he’s no longer alone and probably thinks it’s invasive to watch him with his kid but knowing he’s still checking in makes him feel good.
Eddie spends a great week with Chris and he’s so grateful to have found Carla, an amazing caretaker who’s been helping him and Shannon with Chris especially since Eddie usually works later than school ends and sometimes has some overnight shifts but he tries to get those scheduled more so on his weeks without his son. Linda remembered an old colleague mentioning her name, she had been helping her mom.
It’s Sunday again and he brings Chris back to Shannon’s mom before heading back home. If he immediately looks out the window to see if his neighbor is home then that’s his business.
He is and Eddie smiles. He’s now been thinking about him as his secret boyfriend— so secret the guy doesn’t even know.
Eddie never thought about his sexuality until the moment he saw this man and it made him rethink everything and made him realize he’s gay. He hasn’t told anyone yet— still trying to process it all but saying that word to himself felt big in itself to Eddie.
He can see the guy spot him from his window and smile. The guy puts his hand up and waves his fingers at him.
Oh.
*
Buck decides to make contact. He’s missed being able to be teased by his neighbor all week but he gets why. He has a son and obviously can’t play fun games with him through the window with him there.
It’s Sunday and he saw them leave together earlier and now he’s back— and alone— so he must alternate weeks with the kids' mother.
The hot neighbor waves back the same way Buck did and smiles shyly.
Oh. Looks like Buck is going to have to take control of this— whatever this is— today.
Buck isn’t exactly sure what to do— this is all new to him. He’s never flirted with a man from across the building. He’d be much better at this if they were in the same room.
Buck removes his shirt slowly and can see that he’s still watching him. Buck points at him hoping he sees that he wants him to do the same.
He does.
He takes his shirt off, tossing it to the ground. He’s so fucking hot— so fit and his arms are big but not as big as Buck’s. He’s got a slutty little waist that looks perfect to grab onto as he pounds him from behind.
Buck cups himself through his shorts, the friction making him moan softly in the quiet, empty space.
The guy does the same and fuck— they’re both getting hard just from looking at each other and thinking about what they wanna do to each other.
Buck slowly pushes his shorts down and steps out of them— now he’s completely naked standing in his loft looking out the window at his neighbor who’s doing the same thing.
The guy fully moans as he wraps his hand around his hard cock, watching Buck do the same thing.
Buck removes his hand and spits right into his open palm— eyes never leaving the guys— and he can see his cock twitch from here. He liked that.
Buck strokes himself imagining everything he wants to do to him— the way he wants to suck on his neck and mark him up. The way he wants to bend him over that kitchen table and fuck him so hard that it moves on its own. The way he wants to hear how fucking delicious he sounds when he moans and how he screams his name into the quiet apartment. The way his hole tightens around Buck’s big cock as he thrusts in and out of him hard and deep.
“Fuuuuck,” Buck moans loudly, precum making the glide up and down his cock that much easier.
He can see the neighbor picking up speed too and he wishes he knew exactly what he was picturing. Is he also thinking about Buck fucking him? Does he wanna bend Buck over and devour him? Fuck— Buck will take anything and everything this man gives him. Wants to see those big hands wrap around his neck as he fucks him hard.
“Jesus,” Buck moans loudly, caught off guard by how quickly and hard he comes into his hand.
He looks up and through the window and can see the man watching him, smirking, waiting for him to be done before he also cums hard into his fist, his other hand bracing himself up against the window.
Holy shit, that was so hot.
Buck takes his cum covered hand and pops a finger into his mouth, licking his own cum off of it, teasing him, showing him exactly what he wants to do to him.
The neighbor is watching him intently, his cock twitches even though he just came. He wants him so bad and that could easily get Buck hard again right now.
Buck winks at him before heading to the kitchen to wash his hands. He returns, putting his clothes back on and can see that the guy did the same but he’s not back at the window. He’s moving around his apartment before he heads out.
Buck already misses him.
*
Eddie has never cum that hard before just from jerking himself off— nor has it happened that fast. Seeing his hot neighbor in all his glory— his huge arms with some scattered tattoos, one even matching the one on Eddie’s forearm, and seeing his huge cock as he stroked himself, seeing him cum so fast satisfied Eddie more than anything.
He got an idea while that happened so he left immediately, needing to get to the store before it closes for the day.
Eddie buys himself a dildo. He’s never owned any toys before but now that he knows what he likes and what he wants to try— he figured why not have a little fun before the real thing.
He keeps the dildo in his car as he’s supposed to have dinner with his abuela, grateful she moved to LA a couple years ago, it’s nice having some extra family around, someone who actually loves Eddie unconditionally unlike his parents.
Eddie comes out to her at dinner. He doesn’t plan it but it happens when she asks to set him up with some nice Latina girl named Marisol.
She smiles and takes his hand and tells him that she loves him no matter what and that she’s happy if he’s happy. He tells her that he sort of unofficially met someone who does make him happy even though they don’t really know each other yet. She tells him to make a move— to go for it— especially if he thinks it’ll bring him joy.
He asks her not to tell anyone, she’s the first person he’s told, which makes her feel special. He promises her that he’ll make a move on the guy he’s crushing on and that when he’s ready he’ll tell Christopher and Shannon and then eventually he’ll tell his parents— one day.
Eddie gets home and checks the window for his neighbor who’s curtains are still open but it’s dark in the apartment, he must be out. His plan will have to wait for tomorrow.
The next day, Eddie’s making himself a coffee to go when he looks over at his window and can see his neighbor making his way into his apartment, tossing a duffle bag to the ground. He can spot an LAFD sweater on him.
Oh my God, he’s a firefighter.
He can’t help but wonder if he’s ever dispatched his station before to a scene he answered the call for— maybe even heard his voice over the radio.
He must have done an overnight shift but he knows firefighters usually do twenty-four hour shifts so he’s wondering why he only did the overnight part.
Moments like this make him hate that they don’t actually know each other.
His coffee finishes so he pours it into his travel mug and can see his neighbor walk over to his window so Eddie does the same. He waves at him, holding his coffee up and the guy smiles softly, waving back.
Eddie heads to work and hopes his neighbor will be home when he gets back just after five.
It’s lunchtime so Eddie heads to the break room to grab his leftovers from abuela’s and heats it up in the microwave. Josh and Maddie make their way inside as well, already mid conversation.
“So Chim’s doing better?” Josh asks her.
She sighs softly, “Yeah, finally, he’s been so sick for a couple of days and thankfully he was able to get his twenty-four hour shift covered yesterday. Hen took the first twelve hours then Buck covered the overnight.”
“Must be nice that your brother works with your husband,” Josh tells her.
“Yeah but also scary— I’ve already gotten calls from Bobby and had to ask which one,” she informs him.
Eddie shouldn’t be listening but he can’t help it— they’re right there talking openly in the small break room— and that part about Buck covering her husband for overnight has him wondering if he’s his neighbor.
“Didn’t know your brother and husband were both first responders,” Eddie chimes in, both of them immediately looking at him. “That must be tough.”
“Yeah,” she says softly. “It’s definitely not easy but they’re both great at what they do.”
Maddie rubs at her belly— she just informed everyone that she’s pregnant with her first child.
“What station are they in?” Eddie asks, taking his food out of the microwave.
“The 118,” she tells him. He nods and sits down at the table with his food. He looks over at her and she tilts her head looking at him and says, “I feel like you and my brother would get along really well.”
“Oh yeah?” Eddie asks, keeping his private thoughts to himself. If his neighbor really is Maddie’s brother then yeah , they get along well, more than what Maddie must be thinking.
She smiles at him coyly and he questions what she actually knows— no way she’d know he’s living across from her brother even if he did tell her about him, right?
Eddie pushes the thoughts aside and eats his food. Maddie and Josh do join him at the table and they eat together but Eddie doesn’t do much talking. His mind is racing with thoughts that his coworker’s brother might be who he’s been jerking off with and to for the past couple weeks.
The remainder of his shift goes by quickly— a lot of calls and some even dispatched to the 118 but he knows Buck isn’t working and is at home right now, hopefully thinking about when he’ll be back home.
He gets home twenty after five and goes right to his bedroom to change. He puts on one of his tight black tank tops and his dark blue sweatpants that he knows makes his dick look even bigger when he doesn’t have any underwear on— which he doesn’t.
He takes his new dildo and heads back out to where he hopes Buck is waiting for him.
He’s just going to think of him as Buck because he’s about ninety-five percent sure Maddie’s brother is who he’s been jerking off with and crushing on based on the information he heard today.
He puts the dildo— still in its packaging— on the kitchen counter with the lube he also bought at the sex shop and walks over to the window. He sees Buck sitting outside sipping on a beer and scrolling on his phone.
He knocks on his window to see if that’ll get his attention— it does.
Buck puts his phone down and focuses all his attention on him, waving at him much like he had the day before.
Eddie waves back before holding up one finger telling him to wait a minute.
He opens the package and washes the dildo and dries it off. He walks back over to the window and shows it to Buck, a blush spreading across his face when he can tell that he notices what it is.
Buck is also blushing before making his way back inside. He puts his beer down before coming back to the window, standing right in front of it before he slowly pulls his shirt over his head and immediately pulls his sweatpants down too— he also has nothing on underneath— and he’s already half hard.
Fuck.
Eddie’s dick starts to fill, getting harder the longer he watches him. He really wants to tease him so instead of stripping down just yet, Eddie takes the dildo and brings it to his lips, making sure he’s close to the window for him to see him lick the head of the dildo before taking the head in his mouth.
Eddie’s never done anything sexual with another man so this is all foreign to him but he’s finding that he actually really likes it. He imagines it’s Buck’s hard cock that he can see across the way.
Eddie takes the dildo further into his mouth as his mouth salivates watching Buck jerk himself slowly to Eddie sucking on a fake cock.
Eddie teases him like that for another minute or so before stopping. He bought the kind of dildo that can be stuck onto things so he attaches it to the window and that gets Buck moaning and stroking himself a bit faster before realizing he’s gonna cum too soon and slows it back down.
Eddie smirks— he loves how he can drive him insane even from this far away. He strips down to nothing then walks back to the kitchen counter to grab the lube.
He puts some into his hand and wraps his hand around his own aching cock— hard as fuck from sucking on the dildo and watching Buck stroke himself.
Eddie then moves his hand to circle at his own rim with his slicked up fingers. He pushes past the tight ring of muscle with his index finger and moans loudly. He puts his other hand against the glass window as he starts to move his finger in and out of himself, crooking it to get the right angle before adding a second finger.
He looks at Buck who’s stroking himself, his other hand also on his window, bracing himself as he moans, watching Eddie fuck himself on his fingers.
Eddie’s fingers brush against his prostate and his cock jumps, a loud moan escaping his mouth, “Fuuuck.”
He thinks he’s ready for it, doesn’t know that he can wait any longer, so he removes his finger slowly and slicks up the dildo that’s still stuck on the window. He put it at the right height for him to bend over and back up onto it so that’s exactly what he starts to do before he winks at Buck.
“Holy fuck,” Eddie moans out loud. He bought a pretty big dildo, wanting to find a similar to size to what his neighbors looks like so he can really imagine it’s him fucking him.
He sinks down onto the dildo before turning his upper body to the side so he can look back and see how this is affecting Buck .
He’s stroking himself faster and he looks like he’s a moaning, blubbering mess as his eyes are glued to him.
Eddie thinks he can make out the words, you look so good.
Eddie starts moving— thrusting back and forth on the dildo, wrapping his hand around his leaking cock.
He looks back at him and the movement of how he’s turned and how he slams back down onto the dildo makes it hit his prostate and he moans out loud, eyes on him the whole time.
He’s sure he sees him say, fuck yeah harder baby.
Eddie can’t stop, he keeps going harder and harder, faster and faster, as deep as he can take it. He looks over at Buck and sees him stroking himself so fast and hard, he must be close.
It looks like he says, come for me, before Eddie’s coming hard into his fist, moaning loudly.
He can see him come hard also into his fist and a bit onto his window before Eddie slowly starts to remove himself from the dildo. He turns around to face the window and sees Buck looking at him with a big smile on his face. Eddie blushes under his gaze before they go clean themselves off and get back into their clothes.
They’re both decent again, in front of their windows, then Buck goes outside onto his balcony, waving for him to do the same.
This is it. They’ll finally speak to each other.
Eddie steps out onto his balcony as well and the distance feels just a bit smaller now that they’re both out in the open.
“Hi,” he can hear him say but it isn’t that loud.
“Hi,” he says back, a bit louder, hoping he hears him.
He chuckles awkwardly which makes Eddie do the same. They’re both smiling so wide— it feels like they’ve known each other for years.
“Have you eaten?” He hears him ask.
“Not yet,” he says back.
“Come over? I can make us dinner and we can— um— actually get to know each other?” He says but it comes out like a question— he can tell he’s nervous, maybe he’s scared of being turned down? That this is all about the anonymous sex for Eddie?
“I’d love to,” Eddie says with a shy smile.
“Great,” he grins. “Oh! Uh, apartment 104, come when you’re ready.”
“Okay,” Eddie says simply before they both head back inside their apartments.
Eddie decides to change— he puts on a pair of light wash jeans and a long sleeve black Henley. He pushes his hair back making sure it’s not too fucked up— one strand keeps falling onto his forehead so he just leaves it— and he sprays on some of his good cologne.
With his shoes on and his wallet, keys, and phone in his pocket he grabs the four beers left in his six pack and leaves his place to head to the other building.
He gets inside and sees all the listed names to each apartment and he sees it next to 104— E. Buckley.
So he was right, his neighbor is Maddie’s firefighter brother Buck. He thinks about earlier today and how Maddie gave him a coy look— could she have figured it out this afternoon? What exactly had Buck told her about them that would make her realize?
He hits the buzzer for 104 and waits as it rings, it’s on the third ring that he hears the unlocking of the building door. Eddie goes in and up one flight to where apartment 104 is.
Eddie knocks and then there he is opening the door and he can see every detail of his beautiful face up close.
Buck smiles widely and says, “Hey, come on in.”
Eddie smiles, following him inside, closing the door behind him. “Nice place,” he notes, looking around, finally being able to see more of it.
Buck smirks, “Thanks. Uh— I’m Buck by the way,” he adds.
“Eddie,” he says, putting the beers on the kitchen island. He hands one to Buck who takes it, their fingers brushing and Eddie can feel the tension between them.
“Nice to put a name to— all that,” Buck says awkwardly, gesturing to the window.
Eddie chuckles, “Yeah.”
“Sorry if that like got to be too much or—“ Buck starts to apologize and Eddie stops him.
“Don’t— I— uh— liked it,” he tells him honestly.
Buck sighs a breath of relief and says, “Okay, good.” After a moment of silence he adds, “I’m making pasta by the way— I tried out a new recipe with my captain— oh I’m a firefighter— and he’s been teaching me to cook—“
Bucks rambling and making his way back towards the stove and Eddie can’t help but smile watching him, listening to him— he likes him way too much already.
“—and he just gave me this recipe for ricotta gnocchi and rosé sauce so I had some leftover gnocchi that we made together that I had in the freezer so I’ll just quickly make a sauce then the pasta will only take a few minutes to boil,” he finishes.
“That sounds good, thanks,” Eddie tells him, walking over to go stand near him.
Buck looks at him with a soft smile, noticing how close he is to him now.
“There’s something I wanna do first though,” Eddie tells him, stepping closer to him which makes Buck turn so his back is up against the counter near the stove. Eddie closes the distance between them, stepping right in between his legs, reaching his hand up slowly to cup Buck’s face softly. “This okay?”
Buck nods once and lets out a soft, “Yeah.”
Eddie smiles, he loves how he affects him. He presses his body against him, revelling in how they feel pressed together and the soft moan that slips out of Buck’s mouth.
“Eddie…” he breathes out before Eddie presses their lips together, kissing him soft but hard all at once.
Buck’s arms wrap around him, keeping him in place as Eddie slips his tongue into his mouth, devouring him the way he’s been dreaming of for two weeks.
Eddie’s arms wrap around Buck’s neck as he gets onto the tip of his toes and Buck easily lifts him up into his arms and walks him back to put him onto the kitchen island. Eddie moans into Buck’s mouth, his dick already getting achingly hard in his jeans just kissing him.
Buck’s hands run up and down his thighs then back to squeezing his hips as they devour each other with their mouths.
Buck moves his lips down to Eddie’s neck and he pants out, “You don’t know how long I’ve been wanting to do this.”
“How long before I noticed?” Eddie asks, pulling Buck’s face up so he can kiss him hard on the lips again.
“A week,” he says between kisses. Eddie moans, pulling Buck closer. “Mmm,” Buck hums into the kiss, pulling back softly, “You like that? The thought of me watching you without you knowing for an entire week?”
Eddie moans again when Buck’s hardness presses against his through their jeans. “Yes— yeah— so hot,” he stutters.
“You don’t know how fucking sexy you are. The way you work out, the way you push your hair out of your face but that strand keeps falling back, the way you just walk around your apartment. God— and the way you teased me, touching yourself like that then stopping. The way you sucked on that dildo before and fucked yourself with it— I’ve never seen something so incredibly sexy,” Buck tells him, kissing him all over his face and neck.
It makes Eddie blush and his cock leak with precum. “That was my first time,” Eddie blurts out. Buck looks into his eyes and Eddie adds, “Pretty sure seeing you for the first time made me realize I’m gay. The dildo— I just bought it yesterday and sucking it and fucking myself with it— that was the first time.”
He doesn’t know what it is about Buck and the way he looks at him but it just makes him want to tell him everything— every dark secret, every thought he’s had.
“Fuck, Eddie…” he says softly, his eyes so fond and tender. “I think I might be in love with you.”
They both laugh— it’s ridiculous but also not.
“Shit, I might be too,” Eddie tells him through laughter.
Buck kisses him again, this time slower, softer, then he asks, “You hungry?”
“For you, yeah,” Eddie flirts. “Pasta, not so much now.”
“Thinking the same thing,” Buck says between kisses before he scoops Eddie back into his arms and puts him back on the floor.
Buck takes his hand and leads him up the stairs to his bed where they easily undress each other and fall onto the bed together.
Eddie doesn’t need much prep before Buck’s pressing his cock inside of him where he hovers above him.
“This feels so much better than the dildo,” Eddie tells him, making him chuckle.
“Thank God because the way you looked earlier, I was afraid I wouldn’t live up to it,” Buck teases, snapping his hips forward and hitting his prostate.
Eddie moans his name loudly, clenching around Buck, his nails digging into his biceps. “You’re perfect— this is— fuck— you feel so good, never felt this good before, baby.”
“I wanna make you feel good all the time,” Buck tells him, kissing his neck and up to his jaw and lips.
Eddie moans, head thrown back exposing more of his neck where Buck sucks a small mark right at his pulse point. “I want that— so bad, Buck,” he finally gets out.
“Say you’re mine,” he tells him.
Eddie is way too quick to comply. “I’m yours— I’m all yours, Buck,” he says desperately.
Buck moans deeply, burying his face in Eddie’s neck. “You close, baby?”
“So close, Buck, please,” he moans.
“Come for me, baby,” Buck says hotly into his ear and Eddie’s coming hard, untouched, between their slick and sweaty bodies. Buck is right there with him, coming hard inside of him.
They lay next to each other, panting, trying to regain their breaths before Buck turns to look at him, smiling.
“What?” he asks softly, blushing.
“Just really happy you’re here,” he says. Eddie smiles and blushes more before he kisses him on the lips.
“You know, I started to think of you as my secret boyfriend,” Eddie tells him. There he goes again wanting to tell him everything.
“That’s really fucking cute and honestly?” he says before adding, “So did I.”
“Shut up,” he says, smacking his chest before Buck moves closer, pulling him to him. “You did not.”
“I did! Eddie, I haven’t been with anyone in a while and since I spotted you across the way, you’re all I’ve been able to think about,” Buck tells him honestly, making Eddie feel better knowing he has not been alone in feeling this way.
Eddie kisses him again, hard on the lips, wrapping himself into him, hoping to show him just how much he feels the same way.
*
They spend the entire rest of the week together when they’re not at work and when they are they’re texting every chance they get. They talk about everything— their families and friends, their jobs and dreams. Eddie tells Buck everything about Christopher and Buck says how much he loves kids and he can’t wait to meet him when Eddie’s ready for that.
They make it official on that Friday when they have their first proper date out for dinner. Buck asks him to be his boyfriend and Eddie is quick to accept, already feeling like he could be falling in love with this sweet, golden retriever of a man.
On Sunday when Shannon’s going to bring Chris over, Eddie asks Buck to stay so he could introduce him to them. He secretly tells Shannon that Buck is his boyfriend and to Chris, he introduces Buck as a new friend who lives in the building across, not until he knows Chris likes him. It takes all of one afternoon before he and Buck are the best of friends— and he asks them if they’re boyfriends.
“Would you be okay with that?” Eddie asks him. He will never do anything to make his kid uncomfortable.
“Sure,” he shrugs. “Does that mean Buck will be here a lot?” he asks with a hopeful smile.
“Yeah,” Eddie tells him.
“Cool!”
They chuckle and that night after Chris is in bed, Buck tells him, “That’s one cool kid you got.”
“I know, I’m really lucky to have him,” Eddie tells him, taking Buck’s hand and leading him back to his bedroom where they spent most of that morning. “And lucky to have you too,” he adds as he pushes him down onto his bed.
Buck smirks up at him, reaching for him. Eddie easily complies, moving together to get comfortable on the bed. Buck wraps Eddie up in his arms and says, “Lucky to have you too, neighbor,” teasingly.
Eddie knows at this moment that he’s in love with Buck and doesn’t care that it’s too fast. He’s going to spend the rest of his life with him and he’s so happy they get to start now.