"I swear I'm going to quit!" Leo protested.
"No," his boss, Bob smirked, understanding my frustration and taking joy out of it.
"I won't. I won't work with that... that..."
"Yes?" Bob said with that low voice of his while he looked at him teasingly. He knew Leo couldn't say what he wanted to say. Not without risking an HR complaint anyway.
"Fine. But if he screws up, I will report it," Leo said begrudgingly accepting his fate.
"I wouldn't expect anything less," Bob nodded. He stood up, impressing Leo as always with his huge physique. Bob wasn't necessarily muscled, but he had a broad build. Huge, rounding shoulders and two firm man boobs that you could see through his tight-fitting shirt and a huge round belly. Leo never could resist staring down his boss' body and stopping at the huge bulge in those tight pants.
Leo himself isn't as big, but he works out. His dress shirt is tight too. He has big, muscled arms and unlike Bob a trained sick-pack. His legs are strong and thick. A big beard gives his chin the extra masculinity Leo thrives on. Leo especially liked his bubble butt. It had everyone in the office, staring. Bob reached out one of his huge manly hands and embraced Leo's. They matched their strengths as they shook them, as men always do. Leo could take him, he was sure. A tingle flew down his spine.
Leo didn't hate working his co-worker Keane because he is a faggy dude. He could laugh as anybody else would in the office at Keane's dramatic stories on Monday morning and he loved his impressions of Betty Devos or Sarah Sanders. But Keane was just a bad worker. Even though he was only like 28, he had been at their department the longest. Yet he didn't know a thing. Not how the copy machine worked and not who their most important clients were. And now they had to prepare a presentation together, which surely meant Leo had to do it by himself. Leo rolled his eyes when he left his boss' office.
**
It was six thirty. Everybody except the cleaners had left to go change for the office party that night. Leo wouldn't have the chance. He lived too far, and he hadn't been with the firm long enough to miss out on any chance to impress his colleagues. So here he was sitting on the floor of one of the conference rooms, surrounded by Pad Thai and coke and... Keane.
Keane was a beautiful man, Leo had to reckon. He had dyed his black short trimmed hair blonde and had small round face, with a nose like a button. His feminine mechanisms weren't annoying but instead suited him, as if every move was a dance. Even though his body was nowhere near fit. He was actually kinda overweighed. Yet his mannerisms were why nobody cared that he was the only person in the office who didn't wear a suit or at least a dress shirt like Bob. Instead Keane came into work in the brightest of outfits, wool, silk, leather he did not care one bit. Only his eyes betrayed his lack of innocence as Keane did not miss an opportunity to convey how much he hated working.
"Honestly, I don't understand these graphs. What does it matter how much shoes they sold last quarter when we're trying to pitch an advert for Christmas?" Keane complained as he played with his food.
"Just put them in the power point. Leo grunted and as he tried not to lash out.
Keane did as he was told but with heavy sighs and pursing his lips.
"Hmm, I do not like this font. I'm going to choose another one," he said as if Leo had asked his opinion.
"We only have a half hour left before the party starts, I do not care about fonts right now. Check if you have all the graphs, please," Leo said restrained.
"We're sales people. It's all about the details. If you fuck up your font it doesn't matter what you say. All people will see is you have no sense of style," Keane said confidently.
Leo couldn't take it anymore.
"Why don't you go work in the fashion industry then?" he blurted out.
Keane jumped, his eyes, dramatically opening like a deer in the headlights. He gasped, way too late to be a sincere reaction but dramatic enough to make Leo feel bad.
"You're such a fucking homophobe, I knew I shouldn't have wanted to work with you," Keane said as he slapped his laptop shut and got up.
"How am
I
a homophobe," Leo protested, half muttering half laughing in disbelief.
"I see the way you look at me. God, it's so obvious. You hate me. You hate how I look. Every day I come into work and I'm afraid of what your eyes will say," Keane's voice breaks.
Leo had no idea that he had this kind of influence on him. He softens.
"I don't hate how you look. I just don't think you very much enjoy this job. You hardly put in any effort," Leo says with a soothing voice. Keane kneels down, tears silently rolling down his face.