Drake awoke, wrapped among his litov – his bedmate, companion, modernly called “friend-with-benefits”. His tail and lower body were wrapped around the man’s legs, pinning him.
He slowly unwrapped the tail and the man beside him stirred. He inched back slowly off the bed, loosening his powerful arms that were also wrapped around the man. Johnny again stirred, opened his eyes, and looked into the slitted blue eyes of a monster.
Both jerked back away from each other, Drake’s wings unfurling, and his body curling below him so that he was rearing up like a snake. “I’m sorry!” Drake said, hissing.
“No, no, it’s…something I need to get used to,” Johnny said, rubbing sleep from his eyes and looking at the blue dragon. He then smiled at Drake, “You have beautiful colors.”
Drake hung his head down and the fins at the side of his head fell back. “I’m sorry, I need to stay this way for a little while–”
“It’s all right. I’ve probably overslept.” Somewhere around them a device announced on cue: “The time is: 8:08 exactly.”
“I have to go,” Drake said, and slithered to the door of the balcony. Johnny pulled on a pair of shorts and escorted him there. Drake opened the doors, letting in some of the chill morning air. He slid out to the balcony and there unfurled his wings fully.
“Will I see you again?”
Drake stared at Johnny. After Johnny saw him in his true form, and immediately scampered away from him, he thought that would have broken the itov – the relationship. Instead, he wanted to see him again.
Drake grinned, though it showed both rows of teeth. “Yes, yes, you will see me again.”
Johnny smiled, and he did something Drake didn’t expect. He gave him a hug. Drake pulled him close, standing taller than Johnny while on his snake-like tail, and he snorted a bit of smoke onto Johnny, sending him his scent and essence. Johnny coughed.
Drake released him, and then took off into the air, careful not to hit Johnny with his spiked tail as he did.