Lucifer stared into the ceiling. His eyes were heavy, yet it was impossible to sleep.

Not when the sound of banging against the wall was so loud it felt like it was inside the room rather than coming from the next one over.

“How the fuck can anyone sleep when they’re being this damn loud? And how the fuck are they still going? It’s way too hot for this.”

This summer was becoming too hot even for him, he didn’t get how anyone could keep at it for this long at this temperature. It’d been so many hours at this point.

 

The snort beside him made him tear his eyes away from the heart-shaped lights hanging from the ceiling.

“I can go for longer than that.”

He stared at Angel, voice flat as he spoke. “I know you can, you almost killed me last time.”

“I thought ya couldn’t die.”

“I can’t. That’s how much you fucked my brains out.”

Angel slapped the mattress between them as he laughed. “And I’ll do it again.”

“Surely we weren’t that loud though, were we?”

“Nah, those two got like, impossibly strong lungs, I don’t think I could be that loud even if I tried.”

 

Lucifer hummed in consideration, fiddling with his fingers. For a while, they fell into silence again, though the room was still drowned in the sounds coming from the nextdoor neighbours. Their moaning was so loud it might as well have been directly in his ear.

It made his cheeks burn, even as it annoyed him to no end to be unable to go to sleep due to it.

 

“Wanna get back at’em?”

Lucifer raised an eyebrow. “By doing what?”

“Fuckin’.”

“If we do that I will pass out. And so will you, I know you’re warmer than I am.”

“Killjoy.”

“Fuck me in the sea later, I’ll make it up to you.”

“That a promise?”

“As long as it’s not quite as hot as it is now, then sure.”

Angel whooped, leaning in to press a quick kiss to his lips. Any more contact than that and he might actually burn him.

“I’ll hold ya to that.”

“I know you will.”

 

As he settled back down, a particularly obscene moan made Angel snort.

 

“What?”

“I don’t know ‘bout volume, but that’s definitely how obscene ya sound when we’re doin’ it.”

“I do not.”

“Nah, ya definitely do. Maybe I should record it and show it to ya.”

Lucifer would have thrown his pillow at him had he not already tossed it to the floor hours ago, and had it not been too hot to make any sudden moves.

“Please don’t.”

He heard Angel giggle, watching him blow him a kiss before he too started to settle down again.

 

His eyes met Angel’s, who tossed him a smile as he pushed his sweaty hair out of his eyes.

 Maybe he would watch him instead, for a while. He was certainly more fun to look at than the ceiling.

Maybe tomorrow, the heat wouldn’t be as mindnumbing, and they could go to the beach.

He was already looking forward to it.

 

In the meantime, he could only hope that the neighbours would shut up soon, so he wouldn’t be too exhausted to keep his promise when the moment came.

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