Chapter 51 (2/2)

Xu Ping fluttered his eyelids. He felt hot everywhere except his calves.

Slowly, he opened his eyes and saw his brother’s face that had tanned in the past few days and the short stubble along his jaw.

“What time is it?” he asked hoa.r.s.ely.

His brother pulled him closer into his arms.

Xu Ping lifted his head from his brother’s shoulder to find the sun leaning west. The previous blue sky had become lighter like a pair of old, washed jeans.

“The sun’s setting…” he remarked quietly.

Xu Ping lowered his gaze and saw that both of them were naked. His brother was sitting against the rocks with him in his embrace.

He jerked his legs to find them submerged from the knee down.

“The tide’s rising. Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“Gege fainted,” Xu Zheng answered.

Xu Ping’s face reddened and he didn’t push any further.

For some reason his brother was very excited today, clutching him by the waist and thrusting into him ceaselessly with a member that seemed larger than usual. His brother didn’t show any signs of stopping even after Xu Ping had come on the reef several times. In the end, Xu Ping was so exhausted and his entrance was so sore and stinging and hungry that tears starting flowing.

He twisted his head back to beg his brother, “Stop, Xiao-Zheng, stop it. I can’t take it…”

Upon hearing this, Xu Zheng paused slightly, and Xu Ping felt the member buried inside him growing even bigger and harder before his little brother pushed himself into his body once, and then again and again.

After that, Xu Ping’s memory went black like a screen being unplugged.

“Gege is so weak,” Xu Zheng said hugging him. “I’m taller than Gege. My arms are thicker. I’m stronger than Gege.”

“Okay. Then what?” Xu Ping asked.

“I want to break Gege. I want to keep doing it until Gege is broken.”

Xu Ping stared back with spooked eyes.

“I’m scared,” Xu Zheng continued.

“Gege fell asleep. I hugged Gege.” He lightly touched Xu Ping’s eyes, nose, and mouth and then spread his fingers out. “I want to swallow Gege whole. Here, here, here…”

He lowered his head and took Xu Ping’s fingers into his mouth one by one.

Xu Ping’s eyes widened and slowly brimmed with tears.

He looked down, and the tears. .h.i.t the reef.

He grabbed his brother’s hand, spread his fingers out and took them into his mouth.

“You know,” he mumbled. “I do, too, Xiao-Zheng.”

The tide slowly submerged the lower rocks as the sun leaned farther west.

Xu Ping faced away from his brother while dressing himself. “Are you hungry?”

But his brother answered a different question, “So hot.”

Then he plunged straight into the water.

Xu Ping yelped, “The tide’s coming in. It’s really deep now. Don’t go in!”

The only response he received was the waves slapping against the reef.

The ripples that Xu Zheng created soon disappeared. The wind kept the surface of the ocean uneven. Birds cawed as they flew towards the island.

Xu Ping stood on the skerry for some time.

Splas.h.!.+

His brother’s head popped up ten metres away as the man started to paddle back to the skerry.

He clung to the edges of the rocks and stuck out his right hand. “For you, Gege.”

It was two clear marbles. Maybe some tourists had lost them while scuba diving.

Xu Ping took them and smiled. “Thank you.”

He grabbed Xu Zheng by the arm and hauled him out of the water before wiping him dry and dressing him.

“We come again tomorrow!” his brother said.

“We have other plans tomorrow,” Xu Ping replied.

“Oh.”

The ten-day holiday pa.s.sed by in the blink of an eye. It was almost time to say goodbye.

Xu Ping patted the sand off of his brother’s pants and straightened his t-s.h.i.+rt.

He looked up with a smile.

“Do you like it here? This island?”

His brother considered for a while before nodding.

Xu Ping didn’t continue that conversation. He picked up the backpack on the rocks and said, “We’d better go back now. It’ll be harder to tell the direction when it gets dark.”

He untied the hawser, pulled the boat closer and hopped in.

He had put on his life jacket and grabbed his paddle when his brother jumped into his own boat.

“I’ll race you,” he said to Xu Zheng before pus.h.i.+ng off the skerry and sliding into the water.

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