thump and I knew I had just fallen a little bit more in love. Oops. L word.
“Tom,” Frank went on, “I don’t think I can live with you if we decide to just be roommates. Sleeping in separate bedrooms and all? I’d go crazy. Watching you. Wanting you. Can’t we go on like we’re going? I’m beginning to understand what maybe falling in love is like. And I don’t want to stop understanding it. And I don’t want to fall in love with anybody else, either. I want to fall in love with you. All the way. I already love your body. I already love your humongous cock. I love the way you make me feel. I love the way I think I make you feel. I love the way you come. I love the way I come when I’m watching you come. That’s love already, isn’t it? I’m already in love with you, aren’t I, Tom? Huh? Say something.”
Tears gathered in my eyes and my throat closed up. “Can’t. Too choked up.” I barely got the words out before Frank fell into my arms. We hugged as tightly as two people can possibly hug without going through some sort of surgical cloning procedure. Then we hugged each other again.
He pulled away long enough to look me square in the eyes again. “I’ll get a job. Don’t worry. I’m not asking for charity, staying here. I can’t pay you anything right now, but I will. You’ll see. I’m a hard worker, Tom. I may be shy, but I can work. I actually like working. I’ll be pulling my weight in no time. I promise. So if you can be a little forgiving about the money right now, what do you say about all the other stuff? What do you say about me maybe being in love with you already? Is that what you want too? Please say it is. Please say you want me in the same way I want you.”
I was so happy and so stunned and at such a loss for exactly the right words to say that I was almost glad the phone chose that precise moment to ring. But I couldn’t let Frank hang around wondering what my answer would be. If he was going to be so damned nice all the time, and so damned honest, then I would have to learn to be nice and honest too. After all, I really was nuts about the guy. If we were going to be an item, the least I could do was drag myself up to his level.
I grabbed a fistful of his bathrobe and pulled him to me. Our lips came together as if they were meant to be nowhere else, and when they got to where they were going they felt right at home. “I’m in love with you already, Frank. I loved you the minute you cold-cocked your brother. No, that’s not true. I loved you the minute I almost knocked your towel off in the hallway. No, wait, I loved you the very second I saw that little patch of hair over the crack of your ass. No wait—”
The phone was still ringing.
Frank stuck his tongue down my throat to shut me up. He looked happy doing it. And that made me happy. This was going to be fun. I felt like a dead elephant had just rolled off my chest. I had said the L word and the sky hadn’t fallen in. Frank was still here. And as far as I could tell he was in love with me just as much as I was in love with him. And after only two days! Were we nuts?
Now that I had finally said the L word, I couldn’t seem to stop saying it. Even inside my head. L. L. L. What a wonderful word.
Then I thought about all the things that could go wrong. He could cheat. I could cheat. He could really be lazy and never work a day of his life. I could lose my job. Or get shot in the head in a bank robbery. Or Pedro could get fleas.
I picked up the phone just so I’d stop thinking.
I T WAS Jerry.
“What do you want?” I asked.
I mouthed the word J-e-r-r-y to Frank, who rolled his pretty green eyes and went back to the paper. He didn’t even look threatened. What a guy.
Jerry was using his cheesy, chipper, consoling voice. The one he always used after he did something stupid. Like cheat. Or throw me out of his house. “So have you sent Frank packing?” he asked.
I knew right away that I was going to enjoy
“Tom,” Frank went on, “I don’t think I can live with you if we decide to just be roommates. Sleeping in separate bedrooms and all? I’d go crazy. Watching you. Wanting you. Can’t we go on like we’re going? I’m beginning to understand what maybe falling in love is like. And I don’t want to stop understanding it. And I don’t want to fall in love with anybody else, either. I want to fall in love with you. All the way. I already love your body. I already love your humongous cock. I love the way you make me feel. I love the way I think I make you feel. I love the way you come. I love the way I come when I’m watching you come. That’s love already, isn’t it? I’m already in love with you, aren’t I, Tom? Huh? Say something.”
Tears gathered in my eyes and my throat closed up. “Can’t. Too choked up.” I barely got the words out before Frank fell into my arms. We hugged as tightly as two people can possibly hug without going through some sort of surgical cloning procedure. Then we hugged each other again.
He pulled away long enough to look me square in the eyes again. “I’ll get a job. Don’t worry. I’m not asking for charity, staying here. I can’t pay you anything right now, but I will. You’ll see. I’m a hard worker, Tom. I may be shy, but I can work. I actually like working. I’ll be pulling my weight in no time. I promise. So if you can be a little forgiving about the money right now, what do you say about all the other stuff? What do you say about me maybe being in love with you already? Is that what you want too? Please say it is. Please say you want me in the same way I want you.”
I was so happy and so stunned and at such a loss for exactly the right words to say that I was almost glad the phone chose that precise moment to ring. But I couldn’t let Frank hang around wondering what my answer would be. If he was going to be so damned nice all the time, and so damned honest, then I would have to learn to be nice and honest too. After all, I really was nuts about the guy. If we were going to be an item, the least I could do was drag myself up to his level.
I grabbed a fistful of his bathrobe and pulled him to me. Our lips came together as if they were meant to be nowhere else, and when they got to where they were going they felt right at home. “I’m in love with you already, Frank. I loved you the minute you cold-cocked your brother. No, that’s not true. I loved you the minute I almost knocked your towel off in the hallway. No, wait, I loved you the very second I saw that little patch of hair over the crack of your ass. No wait—”
The phone was still ringing.
Frank stuck his tongue down my throat to shut me up. He looked happy doing it. And that made me happy. This was going to be fun. I felt like a dead elephant had just rolled off my chest. I had said the L word and the sky hadn’t fallen in. Frank was still here. And as far as I could tell he was in love with me just as much as I was in love with him. And after only two days! Were we nuts?
Now that I had finally said the L word, I couldn’t seem to stop saying it. Even inside my head. L. L. L. What a wonderful word.
Then I thought about all the things that could go wrong. He could cheat. I could cheat. He could really be lazy and never work a day of his life. I could lose my job. Or get shot in the head in a bank robbery. Or Pedro could get fleas.
I picked up the phone just so I’d stop thinking.
I T WAS Jerry.
“What do you want?” I asked.
I mouthed the word J-e-r-r-y to Frank, who rolled his pretty green eyes and went back to the paper. He didn’t even look threatened. What a guy.
Jerry was using his cheesy, chipper, consoling voice. The one he always used after he did something stupid. Like cheat. Or throw me out of his house. “So have you sent Frank packing?” he asked.
I knew right away that I was going to enjoy
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