Eight:

When we stepped through the door of the crowded café, we were soon ushered to a little booth toward the back. It was quite a relief not having to worry about a bunch of crazy fans drooling over the people you were with, like they did when I was with Pat or Jon. The waitress handed us our menus and I chose to get something simple. Burger and fries with a Coke. The waitress came back around and we placed our orders. She took our menus and said she would be right back with our drinks. While we were waiting, Aaron and I caught up since we hadn’t talked in a couple months. And Ryan just listened, adding his input every so often. The waitress handed us our drinks, and we continued to catch up until the food came. We were all silenced as we stuffed our faces with food, which was indeed amazing. We then paid, and headed back to Aaron’s.

We got out of the car and headed upstairs, I checked the phone for the time considering it was pretty dark out. 8:53 PM. Aaron unlocked the door and we all stepped inside. “Oh Cole, I need to show you where you’ll be sleeping.” He said. He then led me down the hallway and into a room that still had the black and red color scheme going on, with a queen-sized bed, a plasma TV plastered onto the wall, and a variety of various items all over the floor. “Voila,” he said.

“Is this your room?” I asked with a chuckle.

“Yes,” he replied.

“Oh, so were sleeping together, eh?” I joked suggestively.

“Ohh yeah,” he joked back. “Wait, you don’t have anything with you… do you?”
“…No.”

“I guess I can loan you some clothes to sleep in…” he replied with a smile.

“Or I could just sleep naked,” I joked.

“Oh that’s a great idea,” he said while slyly wrapping his arm around me and placing his hand on my ass.

“Don’t worry, I plan on calling Callie and asking her if she wants to go shopping for some clothes tomorrow.”

“Oh damn it… I liked the idea of you sleeping naked the whole time you were staying here,” he joked.

I just smiled at him and walked back out into the living room to join Ryan on the couch, Aaron followed right behind me and we both sat down. “So how long are you staying here?” Ryan asked.

“Uh maybe a week or so… I’m not totally sure yet.”

“Oh okay,” He replied.

We finished off the night watching episode after episode of ‘That 70’s Show’, talking, and such. Ryan headed to bed around 2:00 AM and Aaron and I stayed up a little longer. I had my head rested on his shoulder because I could feel the exhaustion coming to me, and he had his arm wrapped around my waist. “You tired?” he asked me softly while softly rubbing my lower back.

“A little,” I replied.

“Let’s go to bed.” He said while turning off the TV, picking me up over his shoulder, and heading into his bedroom. He placed me onto his bed and disappeared into his closet, coming out a few seconds later with some clothes for me to wear. I changed in front of him; not caring in he saw me practically naked. I’m sure he didn’t mind anyway. He changed as well, and we pulled the covers over us and drifted off to sleep.

I woke up the next morning to a vacant bed. I stepped out of Aaron’s room and walked down the hallway, Ryan was sitting on the couch putting his shoes on. “Where are you going?” I asked.

“Work,” he replied.

“Oh, I’m guessing that’s where Aaron is too?”

“Yep.”

“When does he get home?”

“Five.”

“Okay. And when do you get home?”

“Seven.”

“Alright. Wait what do you guys do?”

“He works as a salesman at a car company, and I work as a co-manager at my family owned restaurant.”

“Oh nice,” I replied.

“Yup. But I’ve gotta go, so I’ll talk to you a little later on.”

“Ok, bye.”

I then got in the shower and put on the same clothes I had on the day before… ew. And called Callie like I had planned to. She answered right away. “Cole! Oh my God, how are you?”

“I’m good, you?”

“I’m great. I haven’t talked to you in forever.”

“I know. And guess what?”

“What?” she asked.

“I’m in town, so did you want to go shopping today and catch up?”

“Sure! Where are you staying?”

“At Aaron Mason’s house.”

I then went on to give her directions to the best of my ability and she said she would be over in a few minutes. I waited down in the parking lot for her. She pulled up soon after in her red SUV. She had changed a lot since I had last seen her. She died her once long, platinum blonde hair, a light chestnut brown color, cut it off to shoulder length, and lost a few pounds. I had to admit she looked great.

On the way to the nearest mall, we caught up. I once again revealed the Jonathan story, and she gave me huge props for fucking a hockey player. Typical Callie. We pulled into the mall parking lot, and headed inside. I ended up buying a few pairs of jeans, three or four shirts, a pair of shoes, a couple pairs of pajamas, some underwear, and two necklaces. Considering that I was going to be here for at least a week or so, I decided to buy everything that I felt was necessary.

We then went out to a quick lunch and she dropped me off afterward. I walked back upstairs and knocked on the door, hoping that Aaron was home because I didn’t have a key. Thankfully he was. I stepped inside and showed him the items I had bought. “Damn, how about you model some of this for me. Preferably the underwear,” he joked.

“Oh shut up,” I said and shoved him playfully.

We then sat down and watched some TV while we waited for Ryan to get home.

A couple episodes into ‘Entourage’, Aaron’s phone, which was placed on the table, began ringing loudly. He picked it up off of the table, checked the caller-ID, and answered it. After a short conversation, he hung up and looked over at me, “it was Ryan. One of his friends from work is throwing a party, so he’s gonna be over there all night.”

“Oh, okay.” I paused, “well after walking around the mall all day, I need a shower. So I’m going to go do that.”

“Alright. I’m going to try to find something to cook for dinner.”

“Haha, okay.” I then got up, walked into the bathroom, turned on the warm water, and hopped in. Fifteen minutes later, I got out, wrapped myself in a towel and headed into Aaron’s room to change. I could smell whatever he had cooking in the kitchen, and let me tell you, it smelled amazing. While I was searching through my shopping bags for some of the pajamas I bought, I heard the door open behind me. I turned around and saw Aaron standing in the doorway. I stood up as he walked over and wrapped his arms around my waist. “What are you doing?” he asked.

“Finding some clothes to put on,” I replied.

“Hmm… but I like you much better without them.” I knew what he was hinting at, and honestly, I couldn’t help myself. I leaned up and placed a quick kiss on his lips, and when he leaned down and kissed me back, I began pulling his shirt off. I let him take his pants and boxers off. I then laid down on the bed, pulling him on top of me. He quickly unwrapped my towel, throwing it on the floor, and aggressively entered me.

After the deed was done and our breathing caught up with us, we threw our clothes back on and headed into the kitchen to eat the amazing Chicken Alfredo that he had prepared.

Later on that night, Aaron and I were sitting on the couch watching TV and talking. Our conversation was interrupted by my phone annoyingly vibrating on the table. I rolled my eyes and picked it up, not even thinking about checking the caller ID.
“Hello?” I sighed into the phone.

“Cole, we need to talk. Please don’t hang up,” the voice on the other end replied quickly.