FYI - No Sex In This Chapter
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*Jake*
A few times a year the hospital sends eighteen people on a retreat, this time I was picked to go and I was glad to hear that Janice was also picked, so I will not be completely bored. They send us to this cluster of three cabins that the hospital owns. We are supposed to go through trust and team building exercises.
The morning that we were supposed to leave, I picked up Janice from her home to head to the hospital to meet at the van's that the leaders will be driving to the cabins. I parked and we took the elevator to the top of the parking structure to meet with the others at the vans.
Janice and I were talking as we were walking across the parking level to the vans, and I stopped. Leaning next to one of the vans was, Mr. Sex on Two Legs, Toby was still my wet dream. I couldn't believe that I was going to get to spend a week with this man, wow. Wish it was a week alone with him and not with sixteen others plus the three leaders. Janice was talking to me when she looked over and didn't see me, she looked back at me and saw my expression, than she looked at what I was staring at and smiled. She walked back to me and pulled me forward and laughed at me. "Honey, just ask him out, what are you waiting for?"
"Maybe a sign that says: Yes I am gay and I am available." I responded.
"God you are funny, Jake, you just need to ask him that is the only way you are going to know. But for all it's worth, I know he is gay and I told you this before."
"Please tell me you asked him?"
"I will if you would like, would you like me to ask if he would like to go out on a date with you?"
"NO, please don't embarrass me like that."
"Whatever Hon, let's get over there and get in the van, I am tired and want to sleep."
We walked the rest of the way pulling along our suitcases and when I got closer, I saw Toby smile when he looked my way. John Michaels stepped forward, "Ok, everyone is here, so let's load up, I have you all divided up into teams already, so here is schedule of events and your teammates."
John handed out a folder to each of us and I opened mine and found out that Janice wasn't on my team but Mr. Sex on Two Legs was, is it fate? I took my suitcase to the back of the van and then went around to climb in. Everyone had taken all the fronts seats and I had to climb to the back of the van. Toby climbed in after me and had to sit next to me, God I hope that I can keep my body under control.
We greeted one another and then he slouched in the seat and leaned his head on the back of the seat and fell to sleep. I decided to try to get a bit of sleep as well, I knew it was going to be a six hour trip to the cabins.
A few hours later I started to wake, I felt so comfortable, at first I didn't know where I was until I opened my eyes and saw the seat in front of me, the seat was in front of me, I wasn't looking over it as I was when I first fell asleep. I realized that I had leaned over while I was sleeping and laid on my side, and the cozy pillow that I had under my head was Toby's thigh. Oh my god, I had pretty much laid down in the man's lap and I didn't even get to enjoy it because I was asleep. Then it dawned on me, I am still laying in his lap and the embarrassment started to come to me, how do I get out of this situation?
The only way was just to sit up and hope that he was still asleep, I put my hand on the seat to help ease myself up and when I sat completely up he was smiling at me, damn, guess he was awake. "Sorry, I didn't realize that I leaned over in my sleep." I whispered to him, as I looked around everyone in the van was asleep except the driver thank god.
"No problem, I didn't mind it at all." He responded and smiled at me, I just looked at him, god can this man be real, could he possibly be gay, god do I wish he was.
"May I ask you some questions; you don't have to answer if you don't want to." I asked.
"Shoot."
"Why did you move here, you move from sunshine to the gloomy northeast?"
"I was actually trying to leave behind some of my past, or more like giving up some of my past, so it didn't keep returning."
"Too personal of a question I take it."
"No, just not sure you want to know the truth."
"Try me."
"I was leaving behind my boyfriend or I should say ex-boyfriend." He looked over at me to see if I had a reaction, I didn't have an outward reaction but I was screaming on the inside, yes, yes, yes. "I kept taking him back and I decided it was time that I stopped torturing myself."
"Been in that boat before too, but I didn't have to move across the country to do it though."
"Yeah I was probably over doing it, but it was a good change, plus I know that Jack will not move across the country to ask for me to forgive him and take him back, at least I hope. I have a damn soft spot for him and I was hoping that with this move I will be a little stronger to deny his return."
"How long have you two been together?"
"Too long, I meet him when he moved to my high school when I was a senior and he was a junior. We were in drama and choir together."
"Drama and choir?" I said.
"Yeah I was the odd guy, I was the captain of football team and I liked to sing so I join choir and drama. What no one knew was I was gay, I didn't come out until after I graduated. But Jack caught my eye, and he knew right away that I was gay, I still don't understand gaydar." He laughed. "Maybe that is why I always let him come back after he would cheat on me and move in with the other guys for a few months. Because I never knew if the guy that I liked was gay or not and I was always too shy to ask."
"I have the same problem."
"Same problem." It was his chance at feeling a little awkward.
"I am gay too and I always end up falling for the straight ones, except this time." I said it before I was able to stop myself.
"What was that Doc?" He was smiling but I think he wanted confirmation of what he just heard.
"Nothing, just was saying my gaydar doesn't work either." Someone started to stir in front of us and I looked down, I don't go out of my way to tell people that I am gay either so I didn't really want to continue this conversation when others could hear.