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Spring had finally come. There was still a little bit of snow here and there, but you could already see the trees burgeoning. Winter was truly ending and relief could be felt all around. But with it came other responsibilities as Ike surprised him with. “What do you mean, spring cleaning?” Brian asked. “Tomorrow I go to your apartment and we clean it. Put order to it. Freshen it up. Just a little deeper clean than your usual weekly clean.” “Yeah, sure, my usual weekly clean…” “I’m a great cleaner, so don’t you worry I’ll be a great help. We’ll put on the music you like and make this fun, I promise. And hey, that’ll be a change from work, right?” “Right…”Brian wasn’t sure about this. To be honest, having his boyfriend over to clean made him a little nervous. How did Ike not realise Brian wasn’t the weekly clean kind of person? How did he not know that about him yet? He was sure going to figure it out soon though, and Brian was worried about his reaction. “Do you ever clean here?” Ike said after maybe five minutes trying to get them organised for their cleaning day in Brian’s apartment. “Sometimes… When I see enough dirt that it’s bothering me…” “This isn’t… That’s… We’re really gonna need a whole day for this… It’s more work than I thought it’d be.” “I really don’t know what you were expecting.” “You do art projects all the time and you get rid of that mess so somehow I thought you also cleaned.” “You didn’t look in the closet.”The closet was meant for clothes, as any closet usually was, but that wasn’t what was in Brian’s closet. That was where he kept all of his art stuff, but it was neatly organised like he was sure Ike was going to make it soon after he saw it, it was thrown it there as he finished each project. And anything he needed was fished out like going through garbage. “Where do you keep your clothes?”Ike was standing in front of the now opened closet, mouth opened wide in disbelief. “Surely you’ve seen the floor, and the chair.” “Right.”As punishment for this, Brian earned a trip to the store. They bought shelving for the closet so they could organise all of the art stuff and a wardrobe for the clothes. It took all day, but at the end of it, the bedroom was clean and organised, just like Ike liked it. “Proud of yourself?” Brian asked his boyfriend. “Very, look how much better this place looks.” “Yeah, as long as we don’t leave the bedroom.” “We’ll do the rest another day, but, in the meantime, I can think of something we can do in here.” “I hope it’s something relaxing, because today was exhausting.” “Well… sex is more fun than relaxing, but it’ll make us feel good and we can cuddle after.” “Oooh. Of course. You came here today to get laid. A little labour with a sexual favour in return.” “Only if you want to.”As an answer, Brian smiled, pulled Ike down on the bed and started kissing him.