Just a few nights after movie night at Bobby's, I was watching some tv after work when I got a text message, "Hey bro, can you help me out tomorrow?"
It was Bobby, but I wasn't really sure what he wanted so I replied "whassup?" and waited a few minutes for a response. My assumption at first was that he wanted me to help him move something out of his loft space again, which I wasn't looking forward to.
I was pretty sure that was confirmed when he shot back "Nm just need help", but he's always been there for me so I just said "Can it wait until Friday?" and wasn't surprised when his impatient ass said "Tomorrow is better". I decided it's be best to just leave it for now and get some stuff done, so I switched off the TV and started up dinner and laundry for the evening.
While I was folding my laundry I noticed that despite being washed, the pants I'd borrowed from Bobby still smelled faintly of his cologne. I'm not sure if he soaked them in it or what, but now some of my other clothes also smelled like that too. At least it was a decent scent.
My phone dinged from the living room. I assumed he had finally sent me exactly what it was he wanted help with, I went and picked it up, but it wasn't a text. It was a photo. He'd sent me a photo of some plaid fabric with a stain on it, and I quickly recognized it as the PJs I left at his place.
They weren't washed and neatly folded like I'd just done for his though, they were inside out and there was an obscene stain that all men know. "WTF dude?" was all I could think to text back, but I already knew where this was headed. It was confirmed when I got back "Just come help me out tomorrow bro". I couldn't deal with this right now, so I just left it at that.
After getting ready for bed, and then laying there for what felt like forever, I realized I just couldn't get my mind off of it and I was rock hard. I grabbed my phone again and kept staring at the photo. Staring at it had the same effect as when I looked at porn, and it just kept making me harder and harder, so I finally just jacked off and finally having some release I drifted off to sleep.
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When I woke in the morning I shut the alarms I had off. Always being a heavy sleeper, I had both an alarm clock and alarms on my phone, and I had already dismissed like 4 of them to sleep for 15 minute intervals for no reason.
The last one that I dismissed was on the phone, and when I did I noticed I already had a new text from Bobby. "Sorry bro, I just thought we could have a good time again", and it was received at almost 1 AM. He must've felt bad, and now I was starting to feel bad for just leaving him on read last night. I don't think I have ever done that before in my life.
I started typing, but I just couldn't think of anything to send, so I just kept typing and deleting everything over and over for about 10 minutes after trying to think of something when my last alarm went off. It was time to get up. Realizing I was likely going to be late if I stayed in bed; I jumped up, started my morning playlist, and hit the shower. I'd already been late last week and my manager was already pretty much done with my shit.
Before I even finished washing my hair I heard my phone chime, and it was definitely a text. My mind began reeling and I ended up zoning out in the shower and taking way too long to wrap it up. It had to be Bobby, I just felt it in my gut.
It chimed again before I finally got out. Definitely another text message.
When I got out I barely even dried myself and dropped my way across the bathroom to check, and sure enough, one was from Bobby, but the other was from my coworker letting me know to skip breakfast that she was bringing in biscuits from Bojangles. Thank god for small miracles. That would save me the extra time I'd taken. But Bobby's message was "It's ok bro, it's cool if you don't wanna" and now I felt really bad like I was kind of leaving him and limbo and possibly leading him on.
I didn't know why at the time, but I really did want to help him, so I finally replied "I'll stop by after work, we need to talk." and he immediately sent back "Cool".