In the dream, his phone is ringing. He shifts, pushes his face into the couch and tries to ignore it. He ended up being at the office until late, feel asleep on the couch before he could make it into bed with Tom. His phone keeps trilling and the sun's slanting in through the window and he shifts, groping in his hip-pocket for it. He's got his ( Read more... )

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It's still daylight when they get back to the treehouse and Paul kicks off his sneakers by the front door because they're pretty wet and his jeans and damp to the knee. He was having fun at the party, but it feels like every time Tom's touched him, he's tortured him. He's been with Robin for ten years and he's forgotten what it's like to want ( Read more... )

During the night, they tend to drift apart and, when he wakes, Paul rolls back towards Tom, one hand reaching out to grip him by the hip and pull him closer. Paul's never been good at being naked without a purpose, so he went to bed in boxers and a t-shirt like he usually does, but Tom's back is bare and warm and he presses himself against it, ( Read more... )

Paul seems to spend most of his time shit-faced. Everything seems to be easier when he's really fucking drunk. He leans his shoulder against a tree and pushes his hair back out of his face. A monkey catches his eye and he watches it, following it through the tree line. He closes his eyes and feels the breeze on his face for a moment. Right now ( Read more... )

Today's the day that Paul's finally going to do something about himself. Broken-hearted is not a good look on him. He's fresh out of the shower, damp hair tumbled across his forehead, wearing jeans for once and a grey t-shirt with a picture of a girl holding a rabbit on the front, putting his watch on as he walks back through the hut and turns ( Read more... )

It just keeps going from bad to worse. First, Paul woke up this morning with tits (which is weird even though, yes, he's pretty fucking hot). He managed to get out of the house without Tom waking up and then, then found himself faced with a clothes box that was only giving out bikinis. Fucking bikinis.

He's wearing one, but he's not going out ( Read more... )