Adam stepped off the bus onto the concrete pavement. The bus roared to life and trundled off with a loud hiss of exhaust, leaving him alone under the hazy, yellow light of the street lamp. He crossed the street with his fists jammed into his coat pockets and trudged home. If a serene mind was a still, freshwater pond, then his was a storming, raging tempest of shitty thoughts.
The last words his father spoke to him sent his mood spiralling downwards, and he couldn't stop replaying it in his head.
'What you're feeling for me isn't love. It can't be. It mustn't. It's just physical attraction... you need to find another outlet.'
It reminded him far too keenly of the night David had kicked him out. David's actions conflicted with his promises, and he seemed incapable of picking a choice and sticking with it. The result left Adam emotionally exhausted, and to be frank, a little bit sick of the drama.
Did Uncle David want him or not?
Adam tried to focus his thoughts on anything else, but the slick feeling between his legs made it impossible. It was a constant reminder of their reunion tonight which had ended poorly. Uncle David had unloaded into his guts barely an hour ago, and the flood of cum was still seeping out of his ass with every step he took. There was so much of it; Adam had gotten strange looks on the bus, no doubt he smelled like he had taken a swim in that stuff.
Despite David swearing (for the second time) to never touch him again, his body tingled from the euphoric high of their joining and his ass was still pleasantly sore. The sex was still top-notch, if anything. Adam took a deep breath and tried to savour the lingering after-effects of having his dad's cock thrust deep inside him. Who knew when they'd hook up again? It could be weeks, months, or it might never happen again.
"It's not like I love him," Adam muttered sourly to himself, as though once verbalised the lie would become truth. If only it were that simple.
He took a grain of comfort in David saying it was only a physical lust. Perhaps his father was right. Maybe he really was too young to know what true love felt like. Still, the words did little to diminish what he felt. It sure felt like the real thing to him. If what he felt wasn't love, then he didn't want love. He just wanted David.
'Go and fuck a ton of guys.'
"Worst fatherly advice ever," Adam scoffed. He turned into his street and resolved to put that bitchy-feely type shit behind him. He had never cared much about it, so why start? Being a vain, single-minded creature was what he was good at.
Besides, admitting that David meant that much to him was not something he wanted to do right now. His father would come crawling back; that much was guaranteed. All he had to do was wait.
He climbed the stairs to his apartment and unlocked the deadlock in the door.
"Shit!" Adam heard Ray cursing, followed by the pounding footsteps of someone running down the hallway. Curious, Adam unlocked the second lock, pushed the door open, and then ventured into the living room.
The television screen was on, playing a porn DVD Ray had been watching. Two busty women were eating each other out, writhing and moaning a little too gratuitously for the camera. There was a bottle of lube and a box of tissues on the coffee table.
Adam sniffed the air and grinned; it reeked of a fresh hand-job.
"Hey!" Ray puffed, darting out of his bedroom in a pair of boxers and an undershirt, clearly having been naked a few seconds ago. His bearded face was rosy pink and there was a small bulge in the groin of his drawers. He fumbled with the remote for a few seconds and turned the DVD off. "I was just -- just watching some porn."
"No need to hide it," Adam assured him. "I don't really -"
Adam heard a faint squeak of bedsprings come from Ray's room.
"... care," he finished, as he glanced back at the sofa. There was Ray's shirt, pants and boxers thrown carelessly over the arm rest... and puddled on the floor Adam spotted a small pair of long, black pants, along with an office shirt and a tie. Adam tilted his head and spotted a pair of men's shoes he knew neither of them owned.
"Just porn - by yourself?"
"Yup," Ray nodded earnestly and gave Adam a sheepish smile. "I was having a wank. Busted, heh. It's so late and you didn't answer when I knocked on your door, so I thought you were already asleep."
"Right," said Adam, smirking knowingly. "I'll lock myself in my room for exactly 15 minutes. You do whatever you need to do to clean up after yourselves."
Adam chortled back at the surprised look on Ray's face, then retreated to his room, closed the door, and counted down the seconds it would take Ray to realise the other man's clothes were in plain sight.
5... 4.... 3...
"Aw, hell, his clothes..." he heard Ray groan quietly.
Adam pulled his shirt off and flopped onto his bed with a smile on his face. Ray was ripe for the picking. It was almost enough to forget about David.
**
David's phone vibrated in the drink-holder just as he pulled into his garage. He unlocked the screen with a swipe.
Janet: DONT BOTHER ME. IM ON A MOTHERFUCKING DATE RIGHT NOW.
"What... date...question-mark..." David mumbled as he typed out the reply. He hit send, and his phone vibrated a few seconds later.
Janet: You better be kidding me
David chuckled as he replied. 'You didn't have to reply in the first place. But now that I've got you, I need you to advise me on something.'
Janet didn't respond.
'It's about a guy,' David typed with a frown. 'You might be right. Happy?'
Still, nothing.
With a sigh, David got out of his car and made his way upstairs. He checked his phone again, pestered her with another message, and then put away his things and took a shower, taking twice as long as usual. The cute sandwich shop owner kept intruding on his thoughts, and the fantasies escalated wildly in his imagination as he stared off into space.
Everything about Sam turned him on, from his short stature to his outdated sideburns, and even the sound of his voice. He replayed their brief encounter over and over, imaging how things would have gone differently if he hadn't lost his nerve while trying to seduce the man.
That was the first time he hadn't been able to simply take what he wanted, and that alone excited the hell out of him. It wasn't something he was accustomed to. He'd lost count of the number of gay, bi, curious and even aggressively straight males he had persuaded into having sex, yet Sam, a man as innocuous as they came, rendered that silver tongue useless.
It was such a strong contrast from his son who threw himself at him. David wondered how much of his attraction towards Sam was based entirely on the man being a 'normal' choice; a potential partner he could be seen with in the eye of the public, and introduce to his employees at business functions without lying.