Close Shave

Romance short. A barber and his lover alone in the shop after closing.

1.3k, rated M. Lenny has been travelling a while, and now home, Aban welcomes him back with his straight razor. Lots of intimacy and warmth and love and affection, expressed through shaving kink!

It’s late in the evening when Aban pushes Lenny back into the big chair. The barber’s shop is closed, the lights dimmed down and the blinds pulled down, but he has one of the small lamps on for this counter. Looking at himself in the mirror, it almost feels like a spotlight, or like they’re somehow isolated from the rest of the world, what with the rest of the shop dark behind them — all Lenny can see is himself in the chair, and Aban behind him.

Lenny lets himself be pushed into place, the gown fastened around his neck and smoothed down over his arms, his body.

“Been busy?” asks Lenny, as if on autopilot. His voice is suddenly huskier than it was, and he’s surprised by it: he clears his throat as Aban pours hot water into a bowl, and with another whips together a mix for the shaving cream.

It’s good for the skin, he always says, made to his own specifications.

Aban doesn’t do this regularly — he has another handled razor for moulding sideburns or complicated fades, but this, this is a…