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We were burning like a blue flame in a furnace
I could have powered the city every time you kissed me
When you think about it, I hope you blush
Just a little bit
~Matt Nathanson, Blush
Friday, 16:35
Pen: Colin I am so bored. The book signing ended at noon. Why is my flight at 20:05?!
Colin: ….because that was the only direct option available in the afternoon? And you hate connecting flights?
Pen: Yeah. I guess. Way to point out facts when I just want to complain.
Colin: Ah, okay, why didn’t you say so? Did you want to complain or do you want entertainment?
Pen: Both?
Colin: Got it 🫡
Colin: Where are you now?
Colin: Wait, let me guess. I’ll paint the scene and you tell me how close I get.
Colin: You’ve set yourself up in an airport pub. You’re at the bar, but you’ve found the coziest spot to the side, not too close to anyone else, with enough room to store your carry-on next to you. You found a plug for your laptop and you’ve ordered a…hmm, you’re in America, so probably a California red? Cabernet?
Pen: …..
Colin: The bartender asked you if you wanted a 6 or 9 ounce glass. You pretended to dither just for appearances then said 9.
Pen: That is disgustingly accurate. Did you plant a microphone on me somewhere, you obsessive freak?
Colin: 
Pen: You know what, don’t answer that. And for the record, the wine is from a vineyard on Long Island, not California. (Which isn’t as good 😒)
Colin: Well, I applaud you for trying to go local 👏
It took some time before the next reply, and Colin leaned back on his bed (their bed), resting his arm behind his head and taking a deep breath.
They’d been dating for almost a year now, but Colin knew their relationship dated far earlier. The fact that it took them almost ten years of friendship before a stupid game of spin-the-bottle made them kiss when he was twenty-six (and way too old to be playing such a dumb game).
Once they’d kissed it was all over for him.
Alert the presses, front page news, he’d been done.
Friday, 17:05
Pen: I tried writing for twenty minutes but can’t focus, I give up.
Colin: Sounds like it was a valiant effort. Take a break, you deserve it.
Pen: But what am I supposed to do for the next THREE HOURS 😭
Colin: I can ask you random questions
Pen: Isn’t it super late there?
Colin: It’s 22:00, Pen.
Pen: 
Colin: 🙄
Colin: Well maybe I took a nap earlier and had an espresso so I could stay up with you. Ever thought of that?
Pen: …did you really? 🥹
Colin: 
Colin: What fictional character do you have beef with?
Pen: Oh okay we’re just starting
Pen: LFG
Pen: and you already know this - Charlie from Twilight.
Colin: - Charlie from Twilight
Pen: how did he NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON
Pen: Edward was the biggest fucking red flag and he’s just like
Pen: 
Pen: and don’t even get me started on Renesmee creepy fucking baby
Colin: Okay, whoa whoa settle. Take a sip of your mediocre New York red
Pen: It’s already almost gone
Pen: Your fault for making me think about that dad-of-the-year 🙄
Colin: Alright, alright, moving on. What is the most important kitchen appliance?
Pen: Easy. Dishwasher. Next.
Colin: Wow, okay.
Pen: You know how much I detest doing dishes. If our dishwasher broke I’d just smash the plate after using it rather than wash it by hand.
Colin: That’s not dramatic at all, but alright.
Colin: Who’s your favourite Marvel superhero?
Pen: Thor
Colin: Any reason?
Pen: 
Colin: What’s the reason, Pen?
Pen: 
Colin: 😡😡😡
Colin: He doesn’t even have chest hair here, Pen! REAL MEN HAVE CHEST HAIR.
Pen: 
Colin: don’t try to distract me with selfies of you looking hot, it won’t work!
Colin: Fuck, it worked. Why are you so sexy. I miss you 🥺
Colin: What’s your favourite color for a bedroom?
Pen: Um, huh?
Pen: That’s oddly…specfic?
Colin: Just answer the question.
Pen: Erm - a light blue I guess? Periwinkle, maybe?
Colin: 
Colin looked at his phone, a frown taking over his face, which wasn’t common when he was texting with the love of his life. He took a deep breath — in and out, slowly — then wrote back.
Colin: Ask for some water, love ❤️
Once they were officially together, it’d taken him a few weeks to convince her to move into his flat (it was so much bigger than hers, why wouldn’t she?), and now they lived in harmony in their one-bedroom that was a few minutes away from Bridgerton house.
Except he was ready to move them somewhere that was more…their own.
Just them, Colin and Pen.
Friday, 17:55
Colin: Alright, update Featherington, where are you?
Pen: At the same bar, but maybe I should leave.
Colin: Why would you leave?
Pen: The bartender just gave me free chips and topped off my wine with a wink 🙂
Colin: LEAVE!! Who is this man I will fight for your honour
Pen: Colin — free chips
Pen: Except, you’re not actually here
Colin: …
Colin: I’m booking a flight
Pen: OH MY GOD COLIN DO NOT
Colin: I want to
Pen: Colin Christopher Bridgerton you must swear on the holiest thing available which I know from previous conversations is my pussy, so swear on my vagina you will not book a flight to New York right now!
Colin: ….
Colin:. ….
Colin: Yeah, I swear.
Colin: How dare you make me swear on the Penussy
Friday, 18:17
Colin: For real though, you should move bars.
Colin: Did you move?
Colin: Pulling up Expedia
Pen: OH MY GOD you are such a drama queen
Pen: Yes I moved, I was using the bathroom you nut
Colin: *puts away British Airways credit card*
Pen: You know you keep threatening that but you’d actually get to NY after my flight already left, realistically
Colin: 
Pen: You’re ridiculous
Colin: Yeah but you need me. How much time left until your flight departs
Pen: UGH TOO LONG
Friday, 18:34
Colin: Does this look good here?
Colin: 
Pen: Where did that couch come from? Is that my grandmother’s knitted blanket?
Colin: Don’t worry about it. Do you like it?
Pen: Colin whose house is that, I thought you were at our flat?
Colin: Maybe I’m just perusing Pinterest to entertain you. Photoshopping our stuff in for realism.
Pen: ….weird flex but okay
Pen: And yes that looks good. Looks like a cozy couch.
Pen: Weirdo
Colin: Yeah but I’m your weirdo
Colin: What are you doing now?
Pen: Reading fanfic and drinking water
Pen: and wine
Colin: Good, hydration is important.
Colin: Is the bartender treating you respectfully?
Pen: She is
Colin: 
Colin: If you were a stripper what would your stage name be
Pen: 🤔
Colin: I’ll go first. Dick Strongcock
Pen: a little on the nose there, huh
Colin: I tell no lies 🤷🏻♂️
Pen: Diamond Sugartits
Colin: 7/10
Pen: Rude
Colin: I just know you can do better
Colin: You’re a writer, Pen
Pen: Over it, next
Colin: 
Colin: do you like this lamp?
Pen: Okay Colin seriously what is going on
Friday, 18:58
Pen: COLIN
Pen: COLIN
Pen: COLIN I’M ABOUT TO SHOW A MALE HUMAN BEING MY TITS
Colin: 
Colin: what’s his name I will murder him
Pen: I knew that would do it
Colin: Pen that’s mean
Colin: You know protective I am of Lily and Rose
Pen: still in awe that you named them and correspond the first letter with left and right
Pen: truly psycho behaviour, my love
Colin: 
Pen: Should I get another? I still have 45 minutes until boarding
Colin: More like 35 minutes since you’re boarding early
Pen: Why, Colin?
Colin: *shrugs*
Pen: WHY, Colin?
Colin: Look, I had to do it. The fact that the publishing company didn’t upgrade you themselves is tragic. You’re their diamond of the first water, or whatever shit they said in the Regency era.
Pen: You upgraded me to first class
Colin: 
Colin: You deserve it though
Colin: You deserve all the things
Colin: Also first class comes with free WiFi so we can keep texting 🙃
Pen: JFC did you take a hit of coke or something? You are not staying up with me all night to chat
Colin: Nah, I’m too old for that nowadays.
Colin: Just espresso, a six-pack of lagers, and Netflix
Pen: Colin, you don’t need to stay up with me
Colin: I know, but I want to. Plus I’m just excited today in general.
Pen: 👀
Pen: Seriously, what is going on Colin
Colin: Nothing! I’m excited for you to come home
Pen: 
Friday, 19:25
Pen: Got a tiny bit of writing done (it’s all trash). Gonna go head to the gate.
Colin: Godspeed. Text me when you’re all cozy in your seat.
Pen: Will do 😘
Friday, 20:02
Pen: 
Colin: You’re settled in?
Pen: Yup
Pen: Thank you for the upgrade. I owe you a blowjob.
Pen: 🍆
Colin: Goddammit
Colin: You don’t owe me ANYTHING, but if you think now I’m not picturing it and getting hard you’re wrong.
Pen: Are you gonna make me sext on a plane
Pen: because I’m actually sat - with this upgrade my BOYFRIEND purchased, I have plenty of space to myself
Colin: Fuck yeah he did
Colin: You must have a really great boyfriend
Pen: I do
Pen: He’s so hot
Colin: 
Pen: Oh okay we’re taking off I’m gonna put my phone away. Electronic devices and all that
Colin: Pen that doesn’t mean something small like a cell phone
Colin: Pen?
Colin: You put it away, didn’t you 🙄
Colin: Alright well just so you know I’m at a halfstack just thinking about you giving me a blowjob. Your sweet, plump, pink lips wrapped around my tip.
Colin: Ah, fuck, now I’m picturing it even clearer
Colin: I love so much how I’m almost too big for you to take. When I’m watching you take my cock in your mouth and I see how your lips stretch around the edges. Then when you move slowly forward, and I have a hand on the back of your head. Not forcing you, no, you’re a good girl you love it. But just guiding you, holding you, my fingers in your soft hair as you guide my thick, long dick down your tight throat.
Colin: Shit I’m touching myself now
Colin: Oh god, I’m getting close. Shit, Pen, I hope you pick up your phone soon.
Friday, 20:14
Pen: OH MY GOD
Pen: I am dripping
Pen: DRIPPING in my knickers, Col
Colin: Fuck, thank god, I’m hanging on by a thread here, Pen.
Pen: Send me a photo
Colin: Jesus fuck, Pen
Colin: {censored photo}
Colin: shit, shit, I’m gonna come soon
Colin: tell me more about your soaked knickers, please
Pen: I wish I could touch myself right now, Col. That photo. I want to wrap my lips around you, I want you to come down my throat
Colin: oh FUCK
Colin: you’d swallow me down, wouldn’t you dirty girl
Colin: you’d swallow every drop of my fucking cum, wouldn’t you
Pen: I’d lick it clean. You know I love your cum.
Pen: I want it so bad, Col, I want to lick your dick clean
Colin: Fuck
Colin: fuck
Colin: oh god
Colin: oh god i’m
Pen: Shit Colin I’m so fucking wet 😩
Pen: Col?
Pen: Show me
Pen: show me what you made for me
Colin: 
{Photo is a dramatization}
Colin: You’d eat it for me baby, wouldn’t you?
Pen: Christ
Pen: you realize I have seven hours before I can do something about this, don’t you?
Pen: That’s downright cruel
Pen: …and yes of course. My mouth is watering just looking at that. I’d lick up every last drop.
Pen: You know how obsessed I am with your cum.
Colin: I looked it up when I upgraded you
Colin: you have a pod. You can pull a privacy screen up and you have a blanket
Pen: Colin, I’m not masturbating in an enclosed space in the sky
Pen: what if someone hears me and I can never show my face in public again
Colin: but what if they don’t?
Colin: I know you. I know you’re aching for it right now.
Colin: you just want to sink your fingers into yourself, you feel empty, you want to be filled
Colin: they’re not as big as my fingers or my cock, but maybe three will come close until I can get there
Colin: as soon as you get home I’m giving you my dick. I’m gonna fuck you so well you won’t be able to sit for a week
Colin: you’re going to feel where my cock was, you’ll never forget
Colin: fuck I’m gonna get hard again
Pen: Don’t, not yet
Pen: They’re coming around with food and drinks for first class
Pen: I’ll text you once they shut the lights off
Colin: Fuck, I’m gonna need to do something else to distract myself
Pen: Clean our flat
Colin: ….sure
Pen: 🤔
Friday, 21:33 (somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean)
Pen: that took forever. But first-class dinner is the tits
Colin: your tits 😏
Pen: Ah, so you are still awake
Colin: told you I’m here
Pen: they just dimmed the lights, encouraging us all to sleep
Pen: I pulled up the privacy screen and the blanket
Pen: but I don’t want to sleep…does that make me a bad girl
Colin: oh god yes, fuck, such a bad girl
Colin: this alone makes the upgrade pay for itself
Colin: please touch yourself sweet girl, you’ve earned it
Pen: I’ve got one hand on the phone and one under the blanket
Pen: what should I do?
Colin: fuck, fuck. What are you wearing? I need context
Pen: Leggings. Blue knickers.
Colin: shiiiiiiiiit the blue ones. I know the ones.
Colin: slip your hand underneath the waistband. Do it slowly, you don’t want anyone to know you naughty girl.
Pen: I did it. It’s under the blanket. Now what?
Colin: pull up the photo I sent you earlier. Remember that cock was hard for you. Only for you.
Colin: so hard, cum fucking spurting out as I just remember your tits and your pussy
Colin: move your fingers to your sweet hole. Is it wet for me?
Pen: it’s wet, it’s been wet since you narrated your jerk-off, Colin 😫
Colin: okay, okay sweetheart we’re going to get you taken care of
Colin: gather up some of that sweet, delicious arousal and lubricate your fingers.
Colin: talk to me, Pen, did you do that?
Pen: yeah
Colin: good girl. Now push two in your sweet pussy
Pen: two right away?
Colin: yes
Colin: you can take it. You’re so soft and wet, I know it
Pen: oh
Colin: good?
Pen: you were right. I needed it. Maybe three
Colin: hold back for now, we’ll get there. Gather some of your cum on your thumb and bring it up slowly to rub your clit.
Colin: curl your fingers inside you, start tapping your g-spot
Pen: I can’t reach it like you can 😭
Colin: I know you can’t darling, my fingers and my cock satisfy you more than anything don’t they
Pen: my clit feels good though, I’m rubbing a little harder
Colin: focus on that then, you’re going to come for me aren’t you
Colin: Keep your fingers inside you though, you need to be filled with something while you come
Colin: I know you need it. I hate to think of you empty.
Colin: fuck as soon as you get back I’m going to keep you filled with my cock, never let that pussy be empty
Colin: just full of my dick, stretching that sweet cunt like only I can
Colin: shit I’m hard again
Pen: Colin, I miss your cock so much
Pen: I’m biting the pillow
Pen: I had to take my fingers out so I could rub my clit better and still text
Pen: I’m empty 😭
Colin: FUCK
Colin: I want you to keep texting but I also want you to come so hard
Pen: I’m going to focus on my clit
Pen: I’d rather be connected to you
Pen: are you touching yourself again?
Colin: fuck, yeah, I’ve got my dick in my hand
Pen: how hard are you?
Colin: so fucking hard
Colin: can’t believe how hard I am, I could cut diamonds
Colin: my cock is dying for you, love
Colin: I have this warming lube and it’s just sad. I need the warmth of your pussy
Pen: fuck
Pen: I’m getting close
Pen: being quiet is so hard 🥺
Colin: christ knowing you’re getting off in the first-class seat I bought you
Colin: so fucking hot
Colin: talk to me, Pen, please
Colin: I’m tightening my first, stroking faster
Pen: I’m
Pen: fuck
Pen: it feels so good
Colin: fuck yes, yes, Pen feel good
Colin: my fist is flying over my cock now, I’m just picturing your sweet pussy
Colin: I want to taste it. That’s what I’m thinking right now as I’m touching myself
Colin: I’m thinking about licking your cunt
Colin: how good you taste
Colin: how you feel when you’re coming on my tongue
Colin: how I just want to make you come over and over
Colin: I want to suck your clit into my mouth and oh fuck fuck
Colin: Pen?
Pen: shit
Pen: I just came three times
Colin: WHAT
Pen: Colin you were talking about eating me out
Colin: shit that’s hot so hot
Colin: Christ, fuck
Pen: ….
Pen: did you just come
Pen: it’s been a full minute, you just came didn’t you
Colin: yeah
Colin: so fucking good
Colin: I’m a mess, I have cum all over my left hand and it’s stuck in the hair on my belly
Colin: I miss you 🥺
Pen: 1) you don’t have a belly
Pen: 2) you’re my mess
Pen: 3) I can’t wait to taste your cum as soon as we’re together again
Colin: christ, alright sex kitten get some rest
Colin: I’m going to take a nap then meet you tomorrow at the airport
Pen: I love you
Pen: also, seriously, what was with the weird photos of someone else’s house. You gonna explain that?
Colin: I love you
Colin: go to sleep 😘
Saturday, 8:03 GMT
Pen: Just landed
Colin: I know, I’m tracking it 🙃
Pen: did you sleep at all?
Colin: I did!
Colin: Not a ton
Colin: but I did - how could I not after two orgasms
Pen: such a dirty boy
Colin: this dirty boy is about to drive you home, so watch it.
Pen: home to the new place you’ve been arranging for us this whole time? 😂
Pen: that’s a joke, right Colin?
Pen: Colin?