Ben slipped up behind Jake. His concentration was taken up by the Excel spreadsheet and the tallying up of rows and columns. "You find that interesting," Ben insinuated, gazing down on the man's bald spot and rubbing it for good luck.
Rolling his eyes, Jake pushed his glasses up his nose, and chastised the interruption, "Someone has to be the grownup and do the bookkeeping. Not everyone can make cardboard box forts all day and take a pre-lunch break for amusement value." He swatted at the hand rubbing his head, but closed out of the file.
"But you are ignoring what today is?" Ben badgered, and played at doing a comb-over on Jake's head.
Jake growled, "You are taking way too many of those vitamins. What's come over you?" but he pushed his computer chair out to let Ben distract him so the computer would be left alone.
Ben sat down on the edge of the computer desk and folded his arms over his chest in an impromptu pout and raised an eyebrow.
Jake looked the man up and down, and scratched at his beard. It wasn't their anniversary or a birthday. His phone would have chirped warning him of an event that demanded a gift and feigned remembrance. "Okay, I'll bite. What did I forget?"
"Since you asked,.." Ben drawled.
"Yes, since I asked," Jake played along with the game.
"Today is the first day we're alone in the store without the boy." Ben rubbed his hands together.
Jake laughed, "You interrupted me in the middle of a billing cycle to tell me that?" He pushed his computer chair further away and settled a foot on Ben's lap, tapping his heel on Ben's knee that was trying to dislodge him.
"Fine, you old codger," Ben miffed, and sulkily pretended to look away at something on the wall above Jake's head.
Jake forced his heel in between Ben's legs and tapped at his groin. "Am I acting like an old codger, now?" he inquired, beating out a 4/4 rhythm on Ben's dress slack's swelling bulge.
"Yes you are," Ben huffed, but looked down at the foot with a modicum of interest.
"So what did I do wrong...this time?" Jake toyed with Ben by letting his foot fall to the floor so the man was left squirming for no reason.
"So into the new and modern. Computer over me, huh?" Ben pulled his legs together to maintain the upper hand in his argument.
Jake shook his head at the words leveled at him. "Fine clearly I've done some or haven't done some cardinal sin?"
Ben smiled at his acquiescence of crime not committed. "Before we took in the boy, you and I would have slipped into the back room and done it by now. You're not so old you're dead yet are you?" Ben angled his crotch to show he still had some life left to burn off.