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

That was the goodstream of thought even with the unwanted side effects. The other one wasn’t such a great one. On that path, the only thing he did was act as referee to the two sides of his head arguing over Gordy’s intentions.


As good as the fantasies were, the whole relationship was proving to be exhausting. More exhausting than working a hundred weekends in a row or replacing a dozen spent starters in the same damn truck using the same abused credit card. It was that realisation that was bothering Leo the most. That’s not how things were supposed to be. Companionship was about lightening the load. Relationships were supposed to be positive ventures. Love wasn’t supposed to be arduous. Occasionally hard? Yes. With a bump in the road or two? Of course. Leo was either missing something that he should have been seeing, or Jeff was right, and this wasn’t actually working into a relationship at all.


Chapter 36