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

Belinda, as if she knew the room was being prepared for her, began to pounce on the mats the moment they were in place. With her woolly slippers surprisingly still in place, and four centimetres of rubber underneath her, her formerly clackity-clack-smashes were reduced to nothing more than the whispered bump of a bunny rabbit hopping, even as she began to do her interpretation of Alex Owens in the final dance.


“What a feeling,” Leo said, grinning.


Leo waved off Gordy. “Nothing. Old movie reference. Bring in that pool, will you?”


They placed the pool in the far corner of the room and added several centimetres of water. Belinda could drink from it, rest in it, splash around it, or pee in it for all Leo cared. He’d used a good strong plastic liner on the floor, and unless something beyond Belinda happened in that bedroom, both the floor and the ceiling underneath it would be safe.


Chapter 20