Toby rang my phone after work one evening.
"You could raise that lazy carcass off the couch and come fetch your new coffee table I have finished. I'm afraid it won't fit in my snazzy sports car unless I chop it into kindling, boss."
"No chopping allowed. Guess you need an upgrade to a more versatile and practical SUV. That sports car draws too much attention, anyway. I've seen the heads turn when you go around melting the pavement."
"Showcases my trim physique and my surfer suaveness, dude. No SUV will draw the eyeballs like my baby. And I wouldn't have all those manly rubberneckers to wink at, now would I?"
"As long as they don't wink back," I admonished him. "You'd best not be flirting with anyone but me," I warned.
"No time to flirt or wink since I've been sanding and refinishing your new coffee throne. Hope you found some nice books to display on it. Wait, did you hear that, boss?"
"Hear what?" I asked, mystified. "All I'm hearing is your whining about no time to flirt."
"There it is again! I heard it, clear as day. It was the Purple People Pleaser calling shotgun! I knew it! It wants to ride along with you when you come for the table!"
I groaned, hating I had fallen for his shenanigans. "Maybe I'll just send it solo to pick up the table. Sounds like you need it more than you need me. Hope it helps you load the table, scout," I added, acting like I was going to end the call.
"No way, boss! I need your rippling muscles and your quick wit and your sexy, sweaty self to fetch this here monster of a table. That piddly purple prick just can't compare."
"Flattery will get you everything you want. And probably stuff you don't. Tell you what. Instead of your precious purple prodder, how about I bring Big Blue?"
Big Blue?! What's that, bossman?"
"Oh, just a little surprise. Or make that a BIG surprise. It makes that purple probe look like my little dicklet. Without a foreskin, of course. It's big enough to take on boys like you, I bet. And leave you wanting more. But since you heard the puny purple one calling shotgun..."
"Wait, boss! I can hear Big Blue shouting over the purple one, telling it that it's a pussy, and how he is going to ride with you instead, and that the pathetic purple excuse for a prick can crawl back into whatever hole he came out of. And wither away. Heard it clear as a bell."
"I think you're delirious and delusional," I sighed. "Or drunk. Maybe I'll have to take your temperature when I get there. Anally, of course. And maybe give you a shot of something to make you better."
"I bet Big Blue could help you with that. Hurry on over, now. I think I'm breaking into a cold sweat and my temperature is rising. Along with other things."
"Playing doctor with you will be a first. But I promise it will be a thorough exam. No hole left unprobed. My new medical motto." I hung up and went for my Jeep keys. And I tucked Big Blue under my arm.
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Toby was lying on top of my coffee table stark naked. He grinned up at me with a wolfish sneer. "Time to test out my workmanship, boss. Break in this baby right. See if the legs wobble even a little. Climb aboard, bossman. But you might lessen the load a bit by ditching those duds."
From what little I could see of the table under Toby's sprawled form, it was a lovely shade of blue, a mysterious color that hinted at both purple and green, but very subtly. He had distressed the edges and patches here and there, giving it a timeworn, vintage feel, and had added some antique hardware on its storage drawer, along with some accent corners in the same metal. It was exactly the refurbishing it needed.
"Not sure which is the work of art here, scout. You, or this fantastic hunk of furniture your shapely ass is gracing."
"The hunk would be on top, here," he crowed, massaging his thick chest carpet and pinching his rosy nipples. "Now, are you gonna join me, or just stand there getting that foreskin all wet and dripping for me? That tasty tube needs a little bit of lovin'. And my tonsils need a little bit of your slick stuff right this minute. How about it? Been thinking of your precum popsicle all day. Or maybe I should say popsuckle?"
"Sicle or suckle, I'm in," I agreed, dropping my pants and stripping off the rest of my clothes as quickly as possible. "And here I thought you were just welcoming Big Blue."
"We'll make time for him later. Right now, I'm hungry for tubesteak with lots of gravy. And since it's attached to you, you've gotta climb on up here and feed me my treat."