Chapter 12
“Has this been here the whole time?”Nolan pointed to the Jeep.
“Hey.The garage was messy but it wasn’t that messy.No,I just bought it.I’m going to fix it up.It’ll be fun to drive around this summer.”Rick lay down on the bench.“Spot me?”
Nolan stood behind the weight bench to spot for Rick as he bench pressed an impressive amount of weight.“I’ve always loved Jeeps.What year is it?”
“Eighty-one.”
“Should be pretty sweet when you’re done.What all is wrong with it?”
“It runs right now.Just needs some tweaks and cosmetics mostly.”
“Is there anything you can’t do?”Nolan asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Well,you’re awesome at construction.Your landscaping skills are on point.Now you’re suddenly a mechanic?I’m just impressed.”
Rick smiled before exhaling and lifting the bar off his chest.“I have a lot of free time on my hands.”
“Since the divorce?”Nolan asked.
“No,since way before.Susan and I didn’t spend much time together.I had to find other things to fill my days.”
“Is that why you got into guys?”
“What?”Rick asked.“No.I’m into guys because I’m gay.I didn’t hang out with Susan much because I was gay and wasn’t admitting it.I didn’t want to break her heart,so I just avoided her.”
“What is it you like about guys?Girls are pretty awesome.”
“Girls are cool and all,but there’s just something about being with a guy.Like,what’s better than hanging out with your best friend who likes doing all the same stuff you like to do and adding to that getting epic blow jobs on a regular basis?”
“That sounds pretty awesome.I’ve never really had one.”
“Had one what?A blowjob?You have got to be shitting me.”
“Well,Ashley sucked it a few times for a few minutes,but she thought it was something only bad girls did or something like that.”
Rick racked the weights before laughing and sitting up.“Oh,man.That sucks.”
“Or doesn’t.”
“Exactly.No,I’m oversimplifying it.I’ve always know.Guys are just it.I fall for a guy and I can’t get him out of my head.I want to spend every minute of the day with him.Heck,I want to behim.I want him in every possible way and I want to give myself to him,too.I tried to deny it for as long as I could but finally I was like,fuck it.I’m going to be happy one way or another.”
“Even if Cam is pissed at you for life?”
“I love Cameron.I’d take a bullet for him.But the time when I devoted every ounce of myself to him and his sister has passed.I deserve to be happy.If Cameron can’t be happy for me or at least acknowledge that I deserve to be true to myself well,I don’t know what to tell him.I will always love my son no matter who he loves and doesn’t love.”
“I get that.I hope he comes around.To be honest,I might freak out a little if my mom were to reveal her true lesbian nature.You have to admit that’s a real mind-fuck.”
“Oh,totally,”Rick said.“But it’s been over a year.I thought he was getting closer to being okay with this whole divorce thing.I thought bringing you home for the weekend was a good sign that he was forgiving me.”
“Alright,get your ass up.It’s my turn.”Nolan walked around to sit on the weight bench and stopped to take his shirt off.“I’m sticky from that damned pop you spit all over me.”He threw his shirt into the corner and began slowly stretching to the right,loosening up his muscles.The thought that Rick may be watching him stretch amused Nolan.He turned to stretch to the left and saw that Rick was trying to remove some weight from the bar but was fumbling with the mechanics of it.Nolan’s stretching was distracting him.Nolan chuckled and blushed.
“Alright Stretch Armstrong.Stop teasing the animals and lift already,”Rick said,realizing he was busted.
The bench was still warm from Rick’s body heat as Nolan settled in to lift.“How much weight did you take off?”
“Like fifty pounds.”
Nolan thought that the amount of weight on the bar was still too much for him,but he weighed his need to impress Rick against his desire to not end up hospitalized.“That should be alright.Good lookin’out,bro.”Nolan lay on the bench and began lifting after he had centered himself beneath the bar and squared up his shoulders.The weight Rick had set for him was manageable,but only just.He concentrated on lifting for a few reps before asking,“You know what’s really weird?”
“What’s that?”
“What you said earlier.About how if you’re into a dude,you want to be them?That’s almost exactly what I said about you.That I wanted to be you when I grew up.”
Rick laughed.“I’m not thatawesome.Only mostly awesome.”After a pause he continued,“I think you’re pretty grown up already.”
Nolan’s breathing quickened and not only because of physical exertion.He could almost feel the heat of Rick’s gaze traveling along his chest,down his stomach and farther still.He could feel his cock starting to stiffen.
“Epic blow jobs,huh?”Nolan was looking up at Rick’s face and he could see that he too was breathing rapidly.He let his eyes lower and he could see what he thought was Rick’s cock twitch in his nylon shorts.