Chapter: 12.****It's been two weeks since David got back from Steven's, and he was glad things have gone back to normal after he told Raya how guilty Steven felt when he thought he fell in love with her and how sorry he was. She forgave him and promised to speak with him but for some weird reason, she has told David that for over a week now, she couldn't reach Steven. Not that it's any concern to David so he would always just tell her that Steven might be busy and he'd call when he has the time. Steven is a grown man, who knows what he wants and can as well take care of himself. David, on the other hand, has a family and a name to protect."Honey,"David looked up and saw Raya looking down at me with a worried expression on her face."Baby, what is it?""David, what's wrong sweetie?""What? Nothing I'm perfectly fine.""No you're not, I've been standing right here calling, and you didn't even hear me.""Really.""Yes!""I'm sorry babe, really, I just had this troublesome client, who

Chapter: 14.******"Do you love him too?" The little girl had asked.Yes, yes I love him so much. I love him way more than I love myself. Just, not in the same way that he loves me. David was going to answer her but her mother came in and he figured it's best he didn't say a word and so he just left. Steven looked so alone. His eyes. God, I hated seeing him like that. David's thoughts wandered. I should go back to him, to apologize and let him know that I love him. David felt his eyes sting. "No this is wrong, I can't love him that way," David yelled his frustrations into his car. Fuck David, what is wrong with you? Steven is part of him, he can't live without him."I missed us." Steven had told him. I've missed us too, Steven, and I need you, more so now than ever. David, couldn't tell from where these thoughts came but it was certain Steven completes him. David had thought staying away from him would change anything, but the truth was, it worsens everything. He almost died thi

Chapter: 16.*****Standing to look out his window and perhaps open the blinds, his breath caught in his throat. A red airport taxi drove into the building, he looked on until the passenger emerges. He saw the face of the one person he desperately wanted to see and a smile seeped into his soul and filled its very ache and hollow.Steven, his best-friend, vibrant, joyous, beautiful Steven. Who had been the one happy constant in his life for years? And also the one person who caused him the most confusion. A quick look at the bed, Raya still sleeps beautifully. Quietly David made his way out of the bedroom, with eagerness in each step, he finds himself waiting at the front door.Silently, he pushed the screen door open, inviting Steven inside. Steven stepped past David into the foyer without saying a word, doing his best to ignore the surge of heat that went through him as his arm brushed David's broad chest. As always, his proximity left Steven a little lightheaded. He thought he would

Chapter: 18.******Days flew by after that ordeal, though both men have no idea, that they had masturbated, each on his own side of the closed door. Yet they felt they knew each other's secrets. Both men longed desperately to touch, to feel, each other, and yet confusion, guilt, and shame, wouldn't let any show what they truly want. The sexual tensions between them each time they were found together alone, were becoming unbearable.Today was the last day of the agreement and Steven had to leave the next day. Neither he nor David was happy. None wanted the other gone. An unspoken desire, that troubles the innermost part of their souls. Why does it have to be this complicated?They both wondered.*********"Good morning, family." Steven greeted with the best fake smile ever. David knew the moment he looked into those eyes, that Steven was sad, but trying to play it off. The thoughts of Steven's departure and the fact that he lives so far away annoy him to no end."Morning handsome, I'd

Chapter: 20.******Once in his room, he gently lay down on his bed. For hours the thoughts of David, Raya, his mother, and that of David's, were all that filled his lovesick mind. He took out his phone and placed a call to the only person he could truly talk to at the moment. While waiting for the receiver, he studied his fingers like they were the most beautiful things in the world."Steven, is everything alright?" He heard Alice's voice. Finally taking his eyes off his fingers, he exhaled a breath he never knew he has been holding. "I'm fine Alice, how is Lily?""She's fine. But let's talk about you, tell me.""I'm a really bad person." Steven broke out, all of a sudden."What do you mean?""I've done something really bad, Alice.""Listen to me Steven, no matter what it is you've done. Never see yourself as a bad person, in fact, you're by far the most beautiful person I know. Why would you think yourself bad?""I-I--." Steven couldn't find his voice, he was crying for goodness sa