Chapter 4
Chapter Four
TECH
“You cannot be serious, Tech. Lebron James is not the best basketball player of all time!” Will exclaimed.
“Oh, but I am. He isn’t called King James for no reason,” I shot back.
Will scoffed. “Yeah, he’s the king of flopping. Any kind of physical contact has him falling dramatically to the ground.” He grabbed his beer off the coffee table and brought it to his lips. “Ol delicate ass,” he spat before taking a sip.
I threw my head back, roaring with laughter. Will shook his head with a smirk. This was how things had been going since we arrived. At first, there was a little tension, but Will's bubbly personality made me relax. We had spent the past four hours just talking and getting to know one another.
Will turned on the game, but we didn’t pay any attention to it.
As soon as we settled, he started asking me questions.
Nothing too deep. All the trivial things, like my favorite hobbies, my taste in food, music, and so on.
I was shocked at how much we had in common.
The more time that went by, the less I wanted to leave.
So even after the game was over, I sat back and got comfortable. Will was so animated when he talked about anything that interested him. He had my undivided attention.
Not that he knew, but he’d been having my undivided attention since the first day I met him.
I might have stayed away from him physically, but that was it.
I couldn’t tell you how much time I spent on his social media.
Some of his pictures I had saved on my phone.
He had the most breathtaking smile. It was so incapacitating.
And the dimples. God, his dimples. They were like tiny whirlpools drawing you in.
If I told anyone how much time I spent looking at his pictures, they would say I was obsessed.
In a way… I was. I wanted to know everything there was to know about him.
He unintentionally unlocked something inside of me that I had buried a long time ago.
That had me intrigued to find out why. Will wasn’t the first gay man I had been around, but still, the urges never returned. There was something about him.
My running into him, stranded on the side of the road, was a sign.
I had left the clubhouse to go for a drive and clear my head.
I just wanted to try not to think about him.
I hadn’t even made it ten minutes from the club before I saw him.
When he asked me to come over, I wanted to decline at first, but then I figured this would be the perfect time to have some one-on-one time with him. Uninterrupted.
Coming here was one of the smartest decisions I had ever made. I was slowly coming to realize that I wasn’t just attracted to Will, but I was drawn to him. I couldn’t get enough.
“Let me guess, you’re going to say Curry is the best of all time?” I tilted my head with a raised brow.
Will giggled, which made me smile unintentionally. “As talented as the handsome yellow devil is, I’m going to have to say no. It’s MJ, of course.”
I rolled my eyes before taking a sip of my beer. “Okay, MJ definitely should be mentioned when you’re talking about the greatest of all time, but I don’t think he would have been able to handle LeBron. Respectfully.”
Will's eyes bucked, and he started looking around the room. I mean, under the table, the couch, and behind the cushions.
“What are you looking for?” I asked him.
“The joint you’re clearly high on. That’s got to be some good shit,” he jested.
Again, he had me dying with laughter. He was hilarious. I didn’t even think he did it intentionally. It just came naturally for him.
A part of me wanted to dig a little deeper into my discovery of Will. It was cool talking about small things, but I really wanted to know him. His past, his goals, and his wants. So… I went for it.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Shoot,” he said as he placed his beer on the table, giving me his attention.
“Earlier… You said your family doesn’t accept you. Is it strictly because you’re gay?”
Will puffed out a breath. “Well, damn. Get deep, why don’t you?” he teased with a smirk. He shook his head, sighing. “But no, not strictly because I’m gay. Granted, it plays a big part in it. But long story short, my first boyfriend turned out to be dating my stepsister and me at the same time.”
That shocked the hell out of me. I wasn’t expecting that. “How the hell did he manage to pull something like that off?”
“Easy. I met him at a party. He wasn’t a student at our school, and he didn’t want our relationship to be public.”
“Well, how did you two find out you were dating the same guy?”
Will grabbed his beer and took a hefty swallow.
“When Tabitha was seventeen, she wanted to bring her boyfriend to Sunday dinner. Imagine my surprise when she walked in the door holding my boyfriend's hand. Then, to make it worse, he tried to act like he didn’t know me. Talking about ‘nice to meet you, Will,’” he sneered. “I was livid.”
“Well, what did you do?”
“I told the truth. He tried to deny it, but he couldn’t once I showed my family the text messages between us.”
“So why did they get mad at you? He was the liar, not you.”
A solemn expression came over his face. “Because Jeff started crying, saying he was just confused and didn’t want me.
Then, my mother’s husband defended him, saying that I had probably corrupted Jeff and added to his confusion.
In the end, I was asked to sit dinner out, so that they could get to know Jeff. ”
My mouth dropped open. “You can't be serious. How the hell is your mom even still with him?”
He shrugged. “Because she’d rather turn a blind eye to any mistreatment toward me than to be alone.”
“That’s fuckin crazy. Well, I’m sure eventually they broke up. Regardless of the bullshit they said.”
Will barked out a laugh. “Wrong. They’re actually married. Have been for three years with two kids.”
“Tell me you’re joking.”
“Nope.” He popped the ‘p.’ “That’s why I had to get away. I felt like an outsider in my home. Not to mention, any time Jeff and I are alone, he makes passes at me.”
That part had me burning up inside. I didn’t like the thought of anyone making passes at Will, especially not this Jeff guy. He sounded like a complete prick.
“That shit is crazy,” I said, shaking my head.
“Tell me about it.” He paused and looked me in the eye. “But what about you? What was your childhood like? You said that you spent yours alone.”
Shit.
In my quest to get to know him on a deeper level, I didn’t consider him turning the tables on me. I didn’t know what to say. I hadn’t spoken about my past to anyone before, but refusing to talk could backfire. Especially because I just asked him a personal question.
Thinking on my feet, I gave a vague answer. “I grew up a lot differently than most people. My father was controlling, and he was hard on me.”
“How so?” he asked.
Fuck. My body tensed up. I wasn’t ready to talk about this. Honestly, I didn’t think I ever would be. Sire had the power to turn me into a frightened boy all over again. Will placed his hand on my arm, causing me to jump.
His eyes were filled with something I couldn’t quite decipher. “Tech, if you don’t want to speak on something, just tell me. I won't get upset. Okay?”
I released a breath I didn’t know I was holding. “Sorry,” I mumbled, feeling embarrassed.
“No need to be sorry. We’re just getting to know each other. Don’t be so hard on yourself.” He stood and stretched before bending over to grab the pizza box off the table.
I couldn’t help but stare at his ass. It was shapely, plump, and curvy.
I could feel myself hardening in my jeans.
I shot to my feet in a rush. Although I was certain of my attraction to him, I wasn’t quite sure about how to approach him.
So, before my dick started doing the thinking for us, I decided to get the hell out of here.
“I think I’m going to head back. It’s getting late.”
Will checked his watch, and his eyes widened. “Damn, it’s after midnight. I need to go to bed, too. Watching triplets, I have to be fully energized.”
“Right.” I chuckled nervously. My dick was growing by the second.
“Well, let me walk you out.” Will slid past me, and his aroma engulfed me. He smelled like coconuts. It was further arousing me. I quickly walked after him, ready to get the hell out of here.
Will opened the door and smiled, showcasing those dimples. “I had fun, Tech. We should do this again.”
I stepped up close to him, leaving only a few inches between us. “Yeah. We should.” I watched as his mouth partly opened before he swallowed. Stepping out of the apartment, I turned to him. “See you later, Will.”