#ovir

Ovi gestured to the path before them, empty enough for them to walk side by side at their own pace, but bustling enough to keep an ear out for cyclists zooming by. “Hope you didn’t have a hard time finding the place,” he commented as his hands found his pockets, his gaze taking in the leaves rustling, civilians chattering and so forth. “Dev and I bring my baby brother here sometimes when he gets a little too energetic and cooped up in the house. He really loves that dog statue over there so we always start our walks at this entrance.”

Contentment was not enough a word to describe what Tahir felt as him and his handsome date sat once again in the back patio, where earlier that day they’d met to have breakfast. To think - this had all been the same day, when to Tahir, it felt like weeks had past since their little escape to the family chateau. Like majority of the night’s events, especially after joining Tahir’s parents for dinner, drinking and laughing were covered with consistent activity. He’d already lost count at the amount of times he caught himself chuckling along with Ovi, unable to remember why he had even been laughing in the first place. It went to show just how infectious Ovi’s blissful energy had really been.

Sitting in their own chairs, Tahir interlocked fingers through the top of Ovi’s hands, sneaking moments where he would let go and lightly caress up the man’s forearm and back to find his fingers once again. Since they moved outside to watch the glorious sunset from the back porch, the two of them had been passing a bottle of wine Tahir’s mother Elodie opened in recommendation. After taking a sip straight from the bottle, with his free hand, he handed the bottle over to Ovi, since it was his turn to take a swig. “Here.” He spoke softly, still sunk in a cool, relaxed high. As a man of few words, even he was still able to come out with the important ones. “I am really happy you came today.”

For Ovi and him, another date on a beautiful Saturday was not very unusual. And even while on the date, Tahir could wholly summarize his pure intentions with the fact that he’d missed his boyfriend this week. 

When an occurrence as rare as both of their schedules not lining up for the weekend happens, Tahir’s levelheadedness and resourcefulness is charged into higher gears. He remembers that conversation, offering up a weekday outside of their usual date and time, especially considering he offered to work from home the following day. And Ovi didn’t exactly say no, but it did sound like he would be kept too busy to be able to fit him in at all. So it was much to his surprise once he really thought about what Asha said to him, about Ovi’s inevitable plans that night. It’s something that’d been haunting him like the buzz of a nearby mayfly. 

It’d been so early into their relationship. Tahir was hoping there weren’t already issues he wasn’t in the know about, as communication was always something big for him. It was a characteristic that many of his previous partners lacked, even though he specifically yearned for that open honesty. He practically relied on it. And Tahir knew Ovi missed him just as much, or at least that’s what he said countlessly. Tahir could have easily come over and stayed the night if he knew Ovi had time free for him. If Ovi only said the word, he would’ve been there within his next heartbeat.

Something about this situation just didn’t feel right. It’d been in the back of his mind for the last few days and Tahir wasn’t someone to not directly address how he felt. And now that they were back in each other’s presence, it was a better time than ever to lay it all out. After he’d made dinner for the two of them at his apartment in Paris, Tahir sat on his sofa, cradling Ovi close in his embrace. They’d been talking back and forth casually for half an hour, and in a lull of the conversation, after a few minutes of them feeling the rise and fall of each other’s breath, he asked, “Ovi, can I tell you something?”

截至2018年八月為止，台灣人抵達吉爾吉斯的五個工作天內，還是要去辦住宿登記的！

辦住宿證明的地方叫 ЦОН (俄文)，ЦОН 的全名是 Центр Обслуживания Населения。