He laid down in his bed and tried to get to sleep, but every time he got comfortable, the cough would start up again–mild at first, but after a few minutes he got going and couldn’t stop. There was something in his lungs that he had to get up. He thought it was mucus at first, but it felt…alive somehow, squirming about inside him, until with a last hack, smoke gushed out of his mouth and nose, and hovered in the air in front of him. He tried to wave it away and disperse it, but all he managed to do was sever the connection between him and the small cloud of smoke; when he did, the cloud pulled in tighter, and created a shape hovering a few inches from him. In the dark room, he couldn’t see very well, but it looked like the lower part of a face, from the upper lip down, and seemed almost scruffy or hairy–perhaps it was just the nature of the smoke that made it seem that way. What he did see, in the dark, was the lips of this strange, floating face turn up in a smirk, before the cloud drifted closer and planted itself on his mouth…kissing him, somehow.
It was warm, and it was alive. It didn’t feel like flesh at all, but it was solid, and quite forceful, a dry, whispy tongue prying open Douglas’ mouth and exploring it, leaving the entire surface coated with a fine layer of ash, but as disturbed as he was, as terrified as he was, as certain as he was that this was all some hallucination or fever dream, Douglas liked it. He shivered as the mouth licked it’s way down, nibbling at his neck, pushing him back so he was lying on the bed, the smoky mouth hovering a moment over each nipple, warming them with its heated breath, before dropping lower still, until it was licking and sucking at the head of his cock. What he felt then–it was difficult to describe.
The mouth was drawing his cock like Douglas would draw his cigarette, pulling air through it–not that there was really air in his cock, but something was being pulled out, and whatever it was, it felt amazing. Each time the mouth inhaled, Douglas would spasm, groan and quiver in pleasure until after a few minutes he came in a monstrous gush, with more force than he could remember having. He clutched the sheets of his bed as it overwhelmed him, allowing it to ebb back–he raised his head, expecting to see his cum everywhere–but his body, the floor, the sheets– all were dry as a bone, aside from his sweat. The mouth was gone, or almost gone. One last wisp of smoke remained visible, as it slid into his urethra before vanishing back inside him, like it had never even been there at all. Had it been there? Everything seemed so hazy, and more than anything he wanted a cigarette, but the mere thought of putting smoke inside him suddenly made his stomach turn. He got back into bed and tried to forget about what had happened, telling himself it had just been…nothing at all. He was still coughing a bit, but not as violently as before, and he fell asleep soon after lying down.
The next morning at around ten, he woke up feeling like he had five days into his last attempt to quit cold turkey. Shakes, nausea, irritable and angry. He grabbed his cigarettes from the table, threw on a shirt and some pajamas, before heading down and out into the backyard for a smoke he desperately needed. Even though the sky was clear it was chilly out in the shadow of the house–he smoked one cigarette quickly, and when that barely took the edge off, he started right in on a second. Thinking that might be enough, he went inside and joined his housemates for a cup of coffee, as they were just then waking up as well, but halfway through the cup, the itch started up again, and he was back outside for a third, and then a fourth cigarette. What in the hell was wrong with him? He’d been cutting back pretty well, managing to keep to about half a pack a day–but it wasn’t even noon and he’d blown through a fifth of a pack already. He felt gross, but the itch was already ramping up again.
“Don’t you ever give those things a rest?” Douglas looked over and saw Pete had stepped outside and joined him. “I was going to do some studying in the sun, but don’t really want to if you’re going to be smoking all day.”
Douglas sighed, but didn’t reply. Pete had shown himself to be the health crusader of the house. Howard and Steven hadn’t put up much of a fuss, but Pete made sure to get at least one jab in at his smoking every day. “Calm down, I’m almost finished, and you can have the patio to yourself.”
Pete sat down at the table there, and Douglas moved to the other end of the concrete, making sure he was downwind as he exhaled a lungful of smoke and…watched it blow away in the completely wrong direction, into the wind. He looked over and watched it, confused, as the plume formed a snaking trail through the air towards Pete, formed itself into a hand, gave Pete’s cheek a gentle stroke, making him flinch, before, sliding gently into his nose and mouth–Pete’s head falling forward as it did, and then, Douglas watched Pete’s head swivel over and stare right at him, but something was wrong. His eyes–they seemed cloudy, like his irises and pupils were coated with a layer of smoke. Pete stood up, a bit unsteady, and started walking towards him.
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