Fordham goes home to. They don’t know him outside of work, this
quiet man who sits in a doctor’s office with odd pains and holds
onto his young lover like he’s clinging to life itself.
When he comes home, the first
thing he does is glance down the hall and he’ll see Wesley, skin
glistening where the wet clothes touched him, bare ass and long
legs and bleached blonde hair. Mr. Fordham would close the door
behind him gently, so the kid doesn’t hear. He’d shrug off his coat
and let it fall to the floor. Step out of his shoes as he makes his
way down the hall. Undo the top few buttons of his shirt, loosen
his belt, tug the bottom of his shirt out of his work pants. Wesley
catches sight of him from the corner of his eye as Mr. Fordham
leans against the wall, arms crossed, to watch his lover struggle
with the laundry. “Hey, baby,” Wesley says. In Jason’s mind, he
isn’t as strident as he is in person.
“Hey yourself,