"So are you fucking Donnie, too," Roddy asked.
I wasn't feeling like I needed to answer to this guy, for he and I were just a long-tenured fling. Donnie was a farmer who lived on the opposite side of the county where Roddy lived and apparently the two of them happened to be good friends.
"Are you fucking him?"
"What's it to you if I am," I asked as the message came out of the blue.
I was due to drive west and spend yet another weekend with him when he inquired. Roddy was seething thinking my body belonged exclusively to him and no one else, especially not any other bottom bitch in Isle of Wight County, or anywhere for that matter. I tried explaining that Donnie and I met once at a Farmer's Market some years prior to he and I, for he had the best selection of veggies and Ai bought some only for him to give me a $20 in change with his phone number on it. I wrecked Donnie a few times, but he was married to a woman at times and started becoming inconsiderate and inconsistent, a bad mix for a top like me.
"You still giving that bone to him? If so, all I gotta say is, you better get tested. I know I will," he chimed, and kicked off a three week hiatus between us.
I'd do what Roddy suggested and came out in the clear. Roddy knew what he was getting in me when we met for he knew I loved slinging this dick. What he was too pigheaded to understand was that when I found one guy, I usually gravitated towards him only, despite whatever he might do in my absence. For three weeks I was cool on Roddy, having no texts or phone calls, and even blocking him on naughty sites and social media. I would contact Donnie during that time just to chat, and try to understand where Roddy was coming from only for Donnie to respond in a way I didn't expect:
"So you're fucking Roddy, eh?"
The reality was that the men in the county didn't have a large pool of men to choose from, and I for one wasn't for drama. I would send them both a text message requesting they "lighten up," and realize what was happening in the real world.
"Guys fuck each other every day," I told them.
Roddy would respond:
"You have become more than a fuck. Let's Let's just say, I want you to meet my kids, and maybe take a trip to Alabama with me soon."
I wasn't trying to be his man for I loved our secret little trysts, as I didn't desire to get too deep. Nonetheless, he wanted to make peace.
"Let's hash it out over dinner Friday night? I'll make your favorite, pot roast," he messaged for he knew how much I loved his cooking.
I laughed as Donnie would follow up soon after with a message of his own, making me think they were probably together at that moment:
"Hey man, I'm single, you're single, and Roddy is single. See you Friday."
Friday would come quick, and I would park in front of Roddy's home and walk through his front door to be greeted by the fabulous smell of his pot roast.
"Get in here," Roddy yelled from his dining room.
I'd close the screen door, then head towards the kitchen where Roddy was wearing his overalls, a chef's hat and his cooking apron all while Travis Tritt was playing in the background.
"Get your ass over here," he said after taking food out of the oven.
He stood upright as I walked over to him and kissed him on the lips.
"Because I've missed the hell out of you," he said as he frowned and his voice broke, with him patting me on the ass. "Three weeks has been hell around here not even receiving a text from you. Get your sweet ass in the dining room with Donnie. Dinner is almost done."
It was then I realized Roddy in his machoness could be a sweetheart, a redneckish brute with a heart of gold once you got in his good graces.
"You must've fucked him good to make him that soft," Donnie said as we met in the dining room and kissed. "Good seeing you again, son."
Donnie, sitting handsomely with his blue eyes gleaming through his gold rimmed glasses, hugged and kissed me in our reunion.
"Been a long time since I smelled that cologne," he said of my fragrance.
"You could still smell it if you would've acted right," I told him.
"Well, it wasn't the best of circumstances," he told me, alluding to his marriage.
"You two ready to break bread? Stop yapping and help me out," Roddy yelled from the kitchen.
We went into the kitchen to grab the dishes off the stove, and place on the dining room table. Anything Roddy cooked would be delectable, and so I looked forward to his macaroni and cheese, his mashed potatoes, his creamed spinach and the roast, as it was the jewel of a fantastic feast. We'd sit down as Roddy took off his oven mitts to join hands in prayer, then Roddy diced up the succulent beef chuck before grabbing our plates and filling each. We got to it before taking a bite, with me explaining to the two of them of them being in a rural part of the state, where a lot of horny, gay men didn't live
"That's false," Donnie said before forking a piece of chuck.