Living in downtown Toronto can be expensive and frustrating, but Leo is willing to deal with the traffic and working the overtime in order to experience everything else the city has to offer. Or would be, if he had any energy left to do so. The fact that his upstairs neighbour is making more noise that a herd of elephants isn't helping things either. Tired, irritated, and on the verge of losing his patience, Leo knows that things have got to change.<br><br>Gordy is one of the most attractive young men that Leo has ever met, and Leo has no doubt in his mind that Gordy has been using those good looks to get whatever he wants for a very long time. So when Gordy starts turning on the charm, Leo can't help but wonder if it's actual interest or merely appeasement.<br><br>Together they're going to try and figure out just what can be done with Gordy's new roommate -- an energetic, excitable, and very noisy young goat whose visit comes with a deathbed promise and a tight family bond. What Leo doesn't realise is that she also comes with an ability to make him understand more about himself than he could have ever imagined he needed to learn.

Gordy's Got a Problem

Now, though, things were just getting going for both industry and the weather. The morning had started out in single digits on the Celsius scale, but forecasters were promising double digits by mid-afternoon. Nothing crazy, twelve or fifteen at the most, but enough to know that the freak April snowstorms were behind them, and warm June evenings were just a thought away. Wouldn’t it be nice, in those perfect twilights, to put his balcony to use because he had someone to watch the sky darken with? Someone to peer around the right side of their building with as they tried to watch Canada Day fireworks over the harbour? Or hell, maybe Gordy would be the kind of guy to insist they forge through the masses, carrying umbrella chairs and travel mugs full of coffee and Baileys, so they could actually watch the fireworks at their source. Either way sounded good to Leo.


Chapter 17