James and Andrew were an item. They had miraculously met at university and had been together ever since. It was miraculous because both of them were very introverted and if they had not met as they had, they would likely have spent the rest of their lives alone. They had been assigned to the same software project team that was a requirement of the final year of undergrad. They had dreaded the software project because in four years of uni, they had both pretty much avoided any contact with the other students. Four guys who had not self-organised into teams, the left-overs, were assigned to the final team.
They both had Grindr profiles with obscure photographs and they occasionally hooked up with guys for casual sex when they were really horny. It was at a late night coding session with their team. Andrew and James had nothing to do while they waited for the other guys to fix some bugs in their objects. They were both checking Grindr. They both messaged an interesting guy that was only 50 metres away. Actually the guy was less than 5 metres away. They realised that they were chatting to each other pretty quickly. The other guys wondered why their faces were almost purple.
Five years after completing their masters, their lives were now even more intertwined than the average middle aged married couple. They were paying off a joint mortgage on a nice apartment. They had their own consultancy company but not even their parents understood what they did. It was something to do with programming and "burning" chip sets that ran devices like modems, security systems and washing machines. Whatever it was, they were being paid good money.
They had sex once or twice a week. James was top, Andrew bottom. They had tried it the other way around but didn't like it. James always used a condom even though they never saw anyone else. He tore off exactly three squares of paper towel and laid them to the side while preparing for sex. It always the same position. When it was over, he used one square to wrap up the cum filled condom and the other two to clean up Andrew's anus.
Their apartment had a huge LED flat screen TV that could show 3D blue ray. Shelves held hundreds of DVDs of various Star Trek series and other sci-fi movies, but they never played them. There were all saved onto their storage system accessible from their computers, all of which were accessible from the TV. Everything in their apartment, even the clock on the microwave, could be controlled remotely from an iPhone app that they had developed themselves.
They occasionally went on holidays together. Conferences were counted as holidays, but they also loved touring limestone caves, visiting museums and watching musicals. They didn't play any kind of sport or go to a gym but they had bicycles and always rode to the mall and sometimes to where they were working if it wasn't too far. For many of their projects, they could do most of the work from home.
They were working on a project for the manufacture design of a small blue-tooth speaker that had a programmable LED light display. They had been called in at short notice to replace programmers who had been fired because of slow progress and poor quality. They were being paid a huge bonus to get the project back on track. There was a very tight deadline to receive the bonus, but Andrew and James felt confident that they could get the job done.
However, Andrew received a call from one of their previous clients. A home alarm system that they had worked on had developed a fault in testing but the production run had already begun. James agreed that he could complete the work on the speaker while Andrew flew to Sydney to work out what was going wrong with the alarm system.
They were very rarely apart and relied very much on each other for confidence. James drove Andrew to the airport early the next day. They hugged but wouldn't dare kiss in a public place. James returned to the speaker manufacturer and as soon as Andrew's plane landed in Sydney, he received a text that he had arrived.
It only took Andrew twenty minutes to determine that there was nothing wrong with the chip set programming and he also determined that the cause was an incorrect voltage on a tamper sensor, even though that was not his responsibility or supposed expertise. He had booked a hotel for that night in Sydney, but cancelled it and booked an earlier flight home. He called James and told him what was going on, though he still had a few hours to kill. He told James he would go and watch a movie at the cinema.
However, something about him being away from James made him feel unaccountably horny. He walked to the nearest cinema but found nothing he wanted to see. He checked google for a gay bar but found that there was a gay sauna only a block away. James and Andrew had each other on Find-My-Friends on iPhone, so he knew James would only have to look at his phone to see on a map where he was. He texted James that he was going in to see a movie, and then put his phone into flight mode.
Nervously, and feeling guilty, he walked the fairly short distance to the address of the gay sauna. The outside of the premises was very discrete so he was able to go in unselfconsciously. However inside he found a staircase at the top of which was a sign. "This is a gay and bisexual sex on premises venue. If you are offended by this, please do not enter," followed by warnings that if you have drugs, you will be asked to leave and banned for life.
At the top of the second flight of steps, there was a window. Andrew was greeting by a smiling young man, "twenty dollars please". Andrew handed over the money and was given a towel and a locker key. Then the door beside clicked and started buzzing. Andrew entered though it.
