“I, uh, I'm not a fan of public displays of affection.” Alexander's words were soft, but he tried his hardest to make sure his meaning was firm and clear to Julian. The knight made a sarcastic chuckle before releasing the blond. “I'll be careful.” Alexander said louder as he took a few steps away from his knight, boyfriend, and went toward the swimming pool once more.

Julian crossed his arms in an irritated away as he watched the blond. The loud blare of a horn startled him, his hands gripping his arms tightly as his entire body tensed. Then over a mechanical speaker system came a woman's voice in a practiced affable tone, “We'll be departing port in five minutes to get our cruise underway! Five minutes! Please make sure you're seated when we disengage from the docks! The shaking can be quite thrilling!”

Julian glared above him toward the ceiling. “Fuckin' lady. Give a warning that doesn't result in heart attacks. Assbag.” As he looked back to Alexander, he saw the lordling had gone and found a group of young men standing beside the pool to talk with. “Absolutely no sense of danger in this kid's bones.” He grumbled before striding up to the group. The group of men laughed at some joke one of them had said before Julian got into range of hearing it. The knight forced a calm expression on his face as he went up behind Alexander and wrapped his arm around his neck, and pulled him back to bump against his chest.

Alexander yelped, having been completely startled by the action. “Oh,” He blushed when looking to see it was just handsome Julian, his knight. “These guys were just telling me that as soon as we get out of the bay, the temperature will drop for a day while we make our way north.”

“Right,” said one man with red hair. “I didn't expect it at first on my first cruise. I was out here at night trying to swim and suddenly the air got freezing cold!”

The man next to the red-head's right laughed. “What tipped you off? That you couldn't jack off as much as you wanted?”