The stands and pitch both drained noisily but quickly as the rain started up again. Jake was one of the only stragglers; collecting and grabbing up the equipment bag he finally headed off to the showers. He didn’t get far before Avery came running almost out of nowhere and flung himself upon him – jumping up to fling his arms around Jake’s neck and wrap his legs around Jake’s waist. Jake barely managed to drop the bag so as not to be completely overbalanced; his arms went reflexively around Avery as he stumbled back a step, and he would have made one surprised/indignant noise or another if Avery hadn’t immediately covered his mouth with his own in a heated kiss.
Jake grinned into the kiss before pulling away. “Was that a congratulatory kiss?” he asked him.
“That was a ‘kiss me right now before I bloody explode’ kiss,” Avery responded seriously, looking down at him from his added height. “This is your congratulatory kiss.” He kissed him again, slower and longer than before. Jake made a soft noise as he opened his mouth to the other boy and deepened it considerably – they really hadn’t had time to… see each other yet that day, not since they had pulled themselves from Jake’s bed way too early that morning.
They finally pulled away again, though not by much. Avery brushed back Jake’s rain and sweat dampened hair before leaning his forehead to his, and Jake kissed him again. He shifted, beginning to get a little uncomfortable holding Avery up like that.
“Ox,” he said softly, teasingly, “Can I put you down now?” Avery whapped him on the arm and pulled a face, but unwrapped his legs from Jake’s waist so he could slide down. Jake grinned brightly as they stepped apart, eyes moving over the smaller boy.
“You’re practically as dirty as me now,” he noted, grabbing the dropped equipment bag again. Avery now not only had hints of mud down his front from Jake’s uniform, but all up his trouser legs too from running through it, and the both of them were only getting wetter by the second.
“Good!” Avery replied happily, taking Jake’s hand. He tugged him off in the direction of the locker rooms. “This means I’ll have to join you in the shower then. Can’t be going back up to school looking like this after all, people might get ideas.”
“Right,” Jake said, grinning at him again and pulling him quickly out of the rain and in through to the showers.