Life Isn't A Fairytale

Before you get into the story, I just want to say thank you to everybody who has read the story. When I started writing this nearly 12 months ago, I never thought I would share it with anyone let alone even finish my first full story. Thank you for all the comments and support on this one.

Over the next few weeks, things get back into a sense of normality in life. My focus goes back on graduating from University which I have let slip to the back burner during this whole situation with Liam. Things are getting back on track mostly to the point of where they were before the last few months, Liam was lucky enough to get his job back and I organised a few gigs for him to get some extra money so that he can cover the rent on his new place after being told he wasn’t welcome back at his old place after the damage Chris and his lads caused.

At least for Liam, he’s got a much better roommate and landlord now who doesn’t care much what the roomies are doing together unless they get too noisy which has caused more than one issue at breakfast time making things pretty awkward between a certain father and his son.

Life will never be 100% perfect anymore from the past with mum gone, but I feel much happier about myself and I see Dad smiling a lot more and being more social which is what anyone could ever have wanted especially Mum because I’d know she would be so disappointed that we were on the brink of shutting our lives down after she left us.

I sit there reflecting on everything that happened before being rudely brought back to life by Liam who kicks me in the back, “Stop daydreaming otherwise you’ll be late for uni alright” he says standing over the top of me. I get up and kiss him “I love you so much Liam” breaking from the kiss before heading inside to get my uni stuff for the final day of classes. “What are you up to today?” I ask Liam who picks a few apples off the tree.

“I’m just going here and there, seeing a few people about things that don’t you really need to know about yet” I look at him suspiciously, “Liam… you better” he interrupts me by kissing me “Trust me, once I’m done, you’ll be ecstatic”. I never know what he’s going to pull out of his pocket but I guess that I’m going to have to trust him.

The last day of Uni is revision day for the exams and getting ready for the final presentation which is due next week. I sit there and go through everything and after class, I sit down for a minute to reflect on my life at uni. I started Uni with big expectations and knew it wouldn’t ever be easy, but at the end of the day, nobody thought how it would play out.

From the time Mum first got sick through her battle until passing away last year and then having to deal with the fallout from that which then lead to all the issues with Liam. I keep sitting there just reflecting on everything when Marion walks up to me “I’m not keeping you hostage here Benjamin, you can go home”. I shake off the daydream “I know, I’m just reflecting on everything that’s happened over the past few years and especially in the last 12 to 18 months”. 

Marion takes a seat next to me “Benjamin, the way you’ve come through everything in the past 12 months and kept your standards high and to a level beyond what even the best students have when things are going alright”. She smiles at me “I know everything hasn’t been easy for you, but you should be truly proud of the fact that you’ve managed to come all this way during this time”.

I nod “Thank you very much Marion for your support and kind words over the past 18 months and the extra support that I’ve had”. I get up and wander out, Marion’s words mean a lot to me as she has the reputation of being the Dragon Lady with her short and fierce stature.

After class, I do some more prep work on my presentation in the library and start to head home when I get a text from the manager at work “Hey Ben, there’s a function on upstairs tonight, and would you be able to drop by and help with things at about 6:30, smart casual wear is fine”.

I read the message “Why would they need my help and not in the work uniform?” I shrug and think it’s weird but not the first time that we’ve been short-staffed and someone needed to come in. I drive home and change because I went to uni in just a Nike T-Shirt and shorts. I get home and don’t think of anybody being home, I knew that Dad had meetings and Liam was doing things and going to work in the afternoon for a staff meeting and picking up his new roster.

I change and sit down for a few minutes and unload my things, I put on a white t-shirt with a Denim overshirt over the top of it and my good jeans and head to the pub. I park out the back and see that the pub is relatively empty and enough people around to set up for the function which is strange.I head upstairs to the function room and when I go to open the door, I see that it’s locked, I get out my keys and open the door to see that it’s pitch black. I turn the light on, “SURPRISE” I hear everybody yell with banners all over the function room. 

Looking around, I see everyone stand there with Liam and Dad standing next to each other smiling at me and I look around the room seeing family and friends all there happy with banners celebrating my finishing at uni.“You know that I still haven’t graduated from Uni yet you know,” I say to everyone. Liam walks over with Josh and Dad “Yeah, we all know that but you finished all the classes, and after everything you’ve done for everyone that you deserve a party”. I start to cry and get embarrassed by everyone being here just to celebrate for me. Liam gives me a big hug as I wipe my eyes and he kisses me.

I walk around talking to my family who have all come from different areas to be here which is amazing because I haven’t seen a lot of them since Mum’s funeral and I spend plenty of time talking to them. Reconnecting with the family is good because I can talk to my cousins and my aunt and uncle.

As the night goes on, I get a chance to talk to Josh alone for the first time, while I see Dad and Liam talking about something over in the corner. We head outside for a minute “I wanted to see how you were doing, I know everything came with a total shock when you saw me sitting there with Liam”.

Josh looks at me “I’m doing good and happy that you and Liam are together because I know how much you love him and how much he loves you”. I smile hearing Josh say that and smile at the fact he’s saying that he’s doing ok with things; We quickly head back inside and grab a drink each and sit outside so that we can talk.

“Have you spoken to your family like you’ve wanted to lately?” I ask Josh, we talked about the fact that he wants to talk to his family again which he has had difficulty with of late. He nods “I spoke to Mum the other week, it wasn’t exactly the most overwhelming of conversations but it was nice to hear her voice and learn about what’s going on in the family”. He looks at me “Dad still doesn’t want to talk to me but I’ve got all the family I need up here with Dan, the boys on the team plus after talking to Liam over the past few days and your Dad, I’ve got the family I need”.

I look across at him “You’ve been talking to Liam… and my Dad?” I sit there getting worried, “Yeah, at the pub Liam gave me his number so he could get to know me and we hit it off and I helped him organise all this with your Dad”. I punch Josh’s arm annoyed that he got involved in setting that up.

“Really, you got involved in setting up all this nonsense?” I look at him, laughing about all the fuss that is going on for me. Josh nods “Why wouldn’t I be involved; you deserve all this for the person you’ve been through all this”. I give him a big hug and we head back inside.

I stand just to the outer of the party and take everything all in and cannot believe that this is all just for me, Deep inside of me I don’t think that I’ve been that good a person, I mean that I went behind Dad’s back even if it was for the right reasons which he acknowledges, I lost trust in Liam and was considering shutting him out. I didn’t think that I was handling things that well with losing Mum but I thought I was only doing what I could to help Dad out.

Wandering back into the party, I talk around with the guys from the team who are always in the bar on a Sunday night and can’t believe how good friends I became with them all. I finally get back around to see Dad who has been talking with the family all night. I walk straight up to Dad and hug him, “Thank You for all this Dad” I say squeezing him tightly, “I love you so much and appreciate everything you’ve done for me over the past few months”.

“Ben, you have nothing to thank me for; Everybody in this room is inspired by your strength, determination and your kind heart and we all know that if your mother was here, she’d be immensely proud of the young man that you are”. I start crying at everything Dad says as I think about Mum and just wishing she was here to see everything and that I could just have that one hug with her again.

Not long afterwards, I hear Liam grab a microphone and start to speak “Hey everyone, as you would know I’m Liam, Ben’s boyfriend”. I put my hand over my face, feeling embarrassed that he said it over the microphone, “If it wasn’t for Ben, I would’ve given up on music a long time ago but he kept me going with it so I want to play you a couple of songs I’ve written before I say a few words”. Liam plays some of the most amazing music that I’ve heard him write, I see just about everyone enjoying all the music which puts a big smile on my face.

Liam finishes his songs and steps off the stage as everyone is still gathered around, “Ben, I know I haven’t been the greatest friend over recent times but from the day I held your hand to go into Big School, we have always been best friends, the way you care about me, the way your family made me apart of your family”. I watch as Liam wipes a few tears away from his eyes “You have always looked out for me and I know we never thought of it this way but we fell in love with each other and I know it took me so long to say it but I want the whole world to know that I love you, Ben”.

I wipe my own tears away as Liam comes over to me and gives me a big kiss “There was one other reason why I got everybody close to you here tonight, it wasn’t just to help you celebrate finishing Uni”.

I notice Josh give him something “Ben, as I said you have been my best friend since we were five, our friendship has never ended and I have never ever spent a day not thinking about you and wanting to be with you”. I get a sense of where he’s going “Once I came back, I realised that you are the greatest thing in the world and that’s why I want to ask you to marry me”.

I stand there shocked, as Liam kneels down to propose to me, I look around and see Dad smiling with approval “Of course I will Liam”. I pull him up and kiss him deeply before pulling away as I put on the ring, he got me. I hear everyone clap and cheer for us.

After all the congratulations come to an end and people start to leave, I sit down with Liam for a few minutes “I thought you said you’d never want to be married” he laughs before replying “Well, I never thought I’d meet someone as amazing as you Ben”. I cuddle him and kiss him deeply before I see Dad, Josh, and Dan all wander over smiling.

“Did you guys know all about this?” I ask them, each one looks away shyly not giving me an answer “You’re all bastards you know that”. We all grab a drink, “I want to make a toast, we all might not be related to each other but we’re all family”. Everyone clinks their glasses together and downs the drink.

The night wraps up and Liam has one more surprise for me, instead of heading home we go to the nearby luxury hotel that he organised for us and we head upstairs barely able to contain ourselves, resisting the urge to strip each other naked. We get in the door and he throws me onto the bed, I strip him naked and make out with him rubbing my hands over his soft body which turns me on so badly that my underwear and pants can barely contain my bulge. Liam strips me off and pulls me on top of him so we get some strong skin on skin contact. Our cocks already leaking so much, that we skip the blowjobs and straight away I get his legs onto my shoulders, as I lube my cock up and slide it into his amazing pink hole.

I slowly go in and out, letting him adjust to my cock before I start picking up the speed and his moans get louder. Each moan of his makes me go harder and harder as I thrust in and out of him fucking him hard, my balls slapping on him whilst his cock slaps his abs as I fuck him hard. Eventually, I blow right through his whole, cum leaking out of it even as I keep fucking him. Liam’s hole just oozing cum out of it and I can’t believe that I’m just blowing so much, but every moan of his turns me on. Seeing the tough exterior, moaning, and begging for my cock is just the most amazing feeling ever.

Eventually, I decide to pull out of Liam and fall back on the bed, exhausted Liam finally gets up and moves my legs so he can have his own go at my hole. He slides in, I moan loudly “Oh fuck Liam”, not worrying about how many people could probably hear us. He fucks me, slamming me my whole body shaking after each thrust he puts into me. I moan louder and louder as I feel waves of cum just lining my hole and running all over the bed. Eventually, he leans over and kisses me, and collapses next to me exhausted.

“I love you, Ben,” he says to me in between kisses before he heads to the shower to start cleaning off and no doubt looking for Round 3”. I lay there catching my breath for a minute, just taking in everything that has happened over the past while, I lay there thinking that this journey probably wasn’t the path I would’ve chosen for life at all, but at the end of the day I wouldn’t change anything… well most things at all. I grew a new friendship, I helped to get Dad to get to a comfortable place behind, Helped Liam put his demons and past well and truly behind him but ultimately, never did I think six months ago, that Liam would go from being my best friend to my boyfriend and ultimately my Fiancée.

“You coming or what?” Liam sings out from the bathroom, I quickly get up and head into the shower for one of many upcoming amazing moments with my future husband.