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    The trouble is, they don’t really have any privacy outside of the store — at least one member of David’s family is always at the motel, and Ray has never met a boundary he won’t cheerfully skip over. Neither of those seem like the ideal place to say 'so, I’m actually a virgin' or 'funny thing, apparently my dick’s so big no one wants to have sex with me', but the store hardly seems like an appropriate place to have that conversation either.

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    31 Dec 2021

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    "But what is he supposed to do when the life that is made for him, made to measure, the life he’s spent weeks and months and years building with Patrick, what is he supposed to do when that life intersects with a place that’s not meant for him?
    That’s the problem, David thinks, reflecting back on this now, staring out of the window of a faceless New York hotel room, waiting for Patrick to come back to him, watching life go on, uninterrupted, below his feet, while he sits, stagnant and unmoving, his life as he knows it on pause, not knowing when he’s going to get it back.
    It had all been so perfect, and David had been so comfortable in the rhythm of it, the predictable, steady cadence of Patrick’s love, that he’d forgotten to be scared.
    He thought he was invincible, under the shelter of the life he’d built. Under the promise of I will make you so happy here. Now, here is thousands of miles away from them, an almost invisible speck in the distance, and David is back in a city he left behind years ago, a place that represents another lifetime, another understanding of truth, another David Rose."

     

    or; David is done with New York, until he isn't, has dealt with it, until he hasn't.

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    He exhales a shaky breath and then checks his watch; the train is running late, and the later it gets, the more the anxiety builds at the base of Patrick’s spine. The more his brain whispers this is a bad idea, asks is this really something you’re ready to know? He tries to distract himself by observing the myriad of other people waiting—an older, heavy-set couple wearing matching t-shirts, a large group of loud teenagers with seriously abrasive accents, a distinctly European trio of men arguing in what sounds like German. He assumes they’re mostly tourists; he is, after all, staying near Times Square, and he’s pretty sure any self-respecting New Yorker avoids this particular station at all costs. It’s not like he was dying to eat at a New York City TGI Friday’s himself, but the hotels really did seem to be the best bang for his buck.

    The distant whir of the oncoming train sparks him out of contemplating subpar American food, and he swallows, mouth dry, feeling more like a man on his way to a sentencing hearing than a college graduate on a solo vacation, going to a bar for a drink.

    It’s just a bar. It’s just a drink.


    A handsome stranger falls asleep on Patrick on the subway. Alt meet.

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    15 Nov 2021

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    “I just want to make sure we’re on the same page, about what this is.” His hand made a circular gesture between them. “I’ve been caught in tricky situations before where both parties are different ideas about what’s going on, and seeing as we’re neighbours? I thought we should be upfront about that.”

    “Okay David. What is it that you think that this is?” Patrick mimicked David’s hand gesture.

    David pressed his lips between his teeth. “We’re … friends. Who … sometimes fuck?” He looked away from Patrick, not wanting to see his reaction. He wasn’t sure why this felt difficult. It was just sex.

    “Sure,” Patrick breathed out. “That works. Casual sex is fine by me.” There was something that flickered in his eyes when he said it, but David couldn’t place it.

    “Enough talking then.”

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    Or, a neighbours with benefits AU

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    13 Nov 2021

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    Take a deep breath, and start at the beginning. Tell them how we first met. Tell them that this — that this has to be one of the happiest days of my life.

     

    “I’m David Rose, for those that don’t know. I’m Patrick’s best man and um, best friend? Which you may not have guessed due to the fact I nearly missed the ceremony. Um, anyway… this, this is one of the happiest days of my life.”

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