Right Here With You

etary for not giving me a heads-up

exclaims as he walks into my large office grinni

it off from there. We even made our parents become friends. I love him to bits but

acket and hangs it across the empty armchair in my office b

know he knows that, but I can't just think of any plausible explanat

the center of attraction, huh?" he teases and I can

that you didn't get it. Besides, my absence didn't stop you from having a won

you?" Jamie asks, his voice high-pitched. I m

attend to and I couldn't tu

parents stormed out of the event halfway through and a couple of ex-es that I thoug

viting your parents to

to hide who I was any longer,"

t of laughter. Jamie had confided in me a couple of months ago that he didn't find women attractive. I had dismissed it as boredom because he'd been

just go be sure that what I'm thinkin

ou know what I'

ay not have

l you anything though. You missed your chance to hear it officially

e. Would you subscribe?" he asks, looking

r stress ball that's lying in front of me at him. His

put you through," I tease. Jamie bursts into laughter again. His laughter is part of the reason why I still have him as a

since you've got to make it up to me for deliberately missing my party and lying

ur parents at your part

them I didn't feel attracted to women,

nse to me why his mom was calling me over the weekend. I h

't have taken them unawares at your party

to a room by ourselves and have them chew out my ears with unnecessary questions. They left

y close with his mother and I'm sure this will impact her greatly. It's no secret that just like my dad, Jamie's mom was always settin

ou on what you missed at my party," Jamie perks u

for missing my party. I know you were in the country an

r watching Jamie and waiting to hear

, twirling a lock of his luscious dark hair in

was

t I hadn't come out yet and he's kinda really shy. He sent

any luck in the gay dating pool. The first guy he dated was an older man who apparently had several other younger lovers.

er for almost eight months before Jamie found out when he read a chat on the guy's phone. Jamie confided in me that the signs the guy wasn't even gay in

ask, grabbing my phone. I know a couple of nice places for a first dat

I want you to

lifting or moving my head. Is he crazy? How w

e heading right now with this conversation. A date i

you to meet him too. I think I might need your assessment th

rue love now? You want me to come alon

them pretty quickly. I think you'd read a man fast

ask in surrender, even

e, and that's where we're going. It's a great place for people like us... me and him anyways, to meet other

could I go to a gay club night now? Not that I had anything against them. I see

nsylvania? I won't drive o

Falcon's and it's tonight," Jam

ight? What the fuck happened to basic c

s with a coy smile. Typical of

on ya like a bombshell now. And yeah, I checked your schedule with Edith already. You're definitel

th needs to

" Jamie says and starts strutting to the door. He leans by it

goodbyes. The last time person I said goodbye to was my mom and it was t

hell you do at a gay and drag party. I just hope I'm not tricked into ending up in bed with a guy. I wo