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

Leo shook his head. “Stay out of my head, Dad.”


It wasn’t even ten minutes later when Gordy came out, looking just as dazed and confused as Leo had left him.


“I have a house,” he said. His voice was choked up and distant. “I can’t have a house, Leo. I can’t look after a house. I can’t pay for that. I don’t even know who does the electric. Or who brings the oil for the furnace. I’m not even sure it still isan oil furnace. Who’s going to start the stupid lawnmower for me so I can cut the lawn? Or keep the lawnmower running, for that matter? I can’t run an entire household.”


Leo nodded at the truck. “Come on. Get in. Show me your house. Is it close enough that we can do that?”


Gordy snorted. “It’s like, ten minutes away. Everything is ten minutes away in this town. There’s only about six thousand people in the whole place. There’s one decent store. And it’s a post office, grocery store, liquor store, pharmacy, and MTO location.”


Chapter 56