When I woke up, I was alone in bed. The previous night's events came flashing back into my mind almost immediately.
'Shit, what the fuck had happened,' I thought anxiously.
I smiled to myself as I grabbed Rob's pillow and buried my face into it. I smelled his scent on the pillow case. It was soothing and kind of hot too.
I remembered how good it had felt to kiss him....to let my horniness take over and to finally have sex with him. I still felt good about it and I wasn't even trying to deny the fact that I had loved what we'd done. Yet, I was having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I had actually had sex with him. Had it really happened?
It also felt incredibly satisfying to know that I had been right... he was indeed gay and he did have feelings for me. I wasn't imagining anything and I loved the thought that if I wanted to have sex with him again... I could. It was both terrifying and very enticing.
I lay in bed for a long moment and tried to remember every little detail of our conversation and of what had followed. Since Rob didn't seem to be coming back into the bedroom, I reluctantly got up and wondered if, maybe, he had sneaked out of bed on purpose. I was feeling a bit groggy so I went to the bathroom to take a leak. Then I stepped into the shower, my mind still fixated on Rob. I could only focus on one thing... the sex... the amazing sex and the fact that he had given me the best orgasm I'd ever had from a blowjob. My dick rose to attention but I barely touched it. The thought of having to face Rob soon without quite knowing what to tell him or how to explain my feelings was beginning to scare the shit out of me.
After letting the hot water spray over me for what seemed like an hour, I stepped out and went back into Rob's room to get dressed. At least half my clothes were in his drawers because I'd spend the night at his place so regularly.
I headed down the stairs and found him in the kitchen, having breakfast and reading the latest NME magazine as I had done the previous night.
It wouldn't be far from the truth if I told you that we learned pretty much everything we needed to know about rock in that magazine. Back then, we read about the latest groups, sometimes without even listening to their music, just trying to follow their career and to immerse ourselves in the rock scene. Reviews in NME were so well written that even if the groups were bad, they managed to make you hear the music, make you vibrate with the lyrics and the message they conveyed. We were so excited about the whole rock scene! We totally loved it because the teenagers that we were could easily identify with the kind of lyrics that they sang. It talked to us because we felt that the changes we were going through in our life were mirrored in this music. This weekly magazine was our getaway, we could totally lose ourselves in there, dreaming about what it could be like to live like them, wanting nothing more but to enter that world ourselves.
It was Saturday, and apparently, we were the only two people in the house.
"Hey you're up," he said as I walked into the kitchen.
"Yeah," I just responded.
"How you feeling?" he asked.
"Fine. Why didn't you wake me?"
"I don't think you would've appreciated it if I had."
I sat down at the table and poured some cereals into a bowl. I wasn't looking at Rob but I could feel that his eyes were on me.
I decided to break the silence as I stood up to get some juice.
"I can't wait for tonight," I said, feeling butterflies in my stomach.
We were to play in a club in Dublin. We played in Dublin every weekend, mostly on Saturday nights in pubs, so we were used to it. We had been doing that for the past eight months or so, and we had a few dedicated fans already. Our performances were often uploaded on Youtube by some of them and we were receiving a lot of support and great comments. We were starting to get noticed.
This gig was a bit different though. It had been scheduled for weeks and we had been rehearsing hard to be ready. It was not going to take place in a small pub as usual, but in a club.
"Yeah, me too. I'm a bit apprehensive though. There's gonna be a lot of people tonight. I've been trying to hold back the nerves since I woke up!"
"You'll be great, you always are." I told him sincerely as I sat back down. "Don't be too nervous, alright, we'll do fine. We're ready for this."
He gazed at me with a smile, with those eyes...
"Yeah, I can't wait to try out "
Clocks
"," he said. It was a song we had recently written and that we still hadn't played live.
I nodded. "No one will know if we mess it up," I said with a small laugh.
"We'll know," he said softly.
I shrugged lightly and then I looked at him. He watched me. There was an intensity in his eyes.
"Well, at least, it takes my mind off last night," he said confidently and somewhat flirtatiously.
I held his gaze and what I saw was hope, and anxiety.... But mainly hope that I'd stop acting as if nothing had happened between us. I felt so nervous about having to talk about it. I didn't dare mention it yet. I still didn't want to overanalyze my feelings or to try to understand what was going on with me and what it meant about my sexuality.
I hesitated briefly but asked him, "How d'you feel about it?"
"Me?" he teased. "What about you?"
"I asked you first," I responded with a smirk.
He let out a small laugh. "Honestly?... I wanna do it again ... and again... and again!" he told me seductively.
I smiled, feeling a bit uncomfortable that he was flirting with me, but enjoying it nonetheless. I placed my hand behind the back of my neck and rubbed it as I sighed, "I'm so confused."
"I know you are," he said sincerely as my eyes locked onto his.
"I know that you don't even think you're gay," he said, "but you did want to have sex with a guy last night...with me... Fuck, even I'm confused." He breathed. "I'm not sure what's going on in your head right now and what it is you want out of this."
I looked down at my bowl of cereals as I said, "Neither do I..."
I took a deep breath in and added, "all I know is that...," my eyes met his again, he looked impatient to hear what I was about to say. ".... I .... I wanted us to... do stuff last night... and I'm not sure why," I sighed and passed my hands over my face. "ugg, I keep feeling like this around you, and it's just driving me nuts." I let out a huff as I tried to explain my feelings to him. "I need to talk about this. And it seems like you're the only one I can talk to."