Yesterday was the day before the return to work, which you read yesterday. Or maybe you hadn’t yet. Well I gave away the ending, so there!

Bill was out most of the day and the gym and having an extracurricular. Fine. I had a feeling that’s what he was up to. But he denied it. I had an extracurricular myself, but mine was over the phone. This guy put the KY in Kentucky.

Very hot talk. Hot hot hot. His dime, my time, which amounted to like 10 minutes. I give good phone. Been doing it for years. Some guys go bananas when they hear the way I talk.

Bill and I tried to continue where we left off in the morning, that was the agenda. I have no problem with that. I can go several times a day. I have no emotional attachments to anyone that I have sex with, no one, save Bill. That’s how I like it. Bill has emotional attachments with his encounters, and thinks the fact that I don’t means there is something wrong with me.

I don’t invest emotion in a ten minute or a sixty minute thrill. He says he has friends from his encounters. I don’t. I simply don’t want to have sex with any of my friends. (I hear a loud sigh of relief from across the globe). I look at my friends and see my friends. I think Bill’s friends see his cock when they look at him. Hey works for him, not for me, yet I withhold judgment, only because I have no judgment.

This caused some heated discussion from 11:30 till about 1AM. I wisely moved the discussion from the bed to the couch where we sat and talked. Bill has some anger issues with himself, and with me. I knew he was playing around. It’s a feeling that I had for over a year, but was in denial about it. But the feeling was still there. I think that bothered him. Nothing else for me to do but think about what my man was doing. I had my time over the phone and that was over.

So then Bill is trying to get me and his friend Rob together so we can have a triple rendezvous.
Initially he showed me a picture that he had taken with his brand new camera phone during his playdate in the afternoon.

NOT THE ACTUAL PICTURE

And as with most pictures taken with camera phones, it wasn’t flattering.

Rob, as he is called, likes cigars, (a plus) and likes dirty talk (another plus). The thing is, Bill doesn’t. Bill smokes the occasional cigar but apparently not like Rob and definitely not like me.

Nothing Clintonesque suckas.

After I saw a better picture (pic not available at presstime) and showed interest, I expressed worry that Rob and I might have more in common with each other that with Bill. I didn’t want him to be the odd man out. I think he resented that and re-ignited his anger against me.

See, when I’m angry everyone knows it. Or at least my friends do. When he’s angry, I have no clue. Apparently in the time of our troubles he was angry with me for over a year. I couldn’t carry that. I suppose that where my father’s trait of freezing someone out comes in handy.

You piss me off, or get me angry, in a major way, you don’t exist to me anymore. It beats carrying around anger for a long time.

We sort of settled things in my eyes and went to bed. I slept well, despite his snoring and usual sleep noises, he didn’t. We went to sleep with a monsoon outside and woke up as it still raged. Oh wonderful way to get back to school. Or work. I called work and left a message saying I was going to be late.

I got back into bed when Bill checked his phone. His father had fallen in the apartment that Bill’s parents live. It was bad. Bill’s mom called at 6:30, but Bill didn’t hear the phone since I had problems with it the other night (a few writings from last week). So he switched his phone to vibrate and didn’t know there was a call and everything suddenly became my fault.

Man it was ugly. I too, was distressed by the fact that his father had fallen as well. The shit that he said, the anger he carries around with him. I actually had to say that it wasn’t my fault, but he wasn’t hearing it.

No, someone needed to be blamed, and since I’m his partner, why not me? Why not the guy who actively encourages him to be more of a physical presence to his parents? Not some disembodied voice over the phone. Why not? I’m there for him in most everyway. Why not use me as a sounding board for anguish and guilt?

He was running around the apartment, not listening to anything that I had to say. He saw the look on my face and finally he left, punching the staircase ceiling on his way downstairs.

I got on the bus, dazed and went to work.

Bill father is on the mend now. Bill’s mom injured her back lifting him up. His cousin Elise was able to come over and help out Bill’s mom when lifting his dad.

Took all day but his father is getting somewhat better.

Bill sounded ok too.

Me? I think I’m seeing the future. And it sucks.

And I was back at work where I really didn’t want to be at while starting the New Year.

Win Win situation.

The Law and Order marathon continues. Bill watches so he can be prepared when he eventually gets his call to be on the show, as background or hopefully with a line. We generally watch the show and say intermittently, ‘That could’ve been you’. And 9 times out of 10, we’re right. I of course, go the extra mile and point out little old white ladies that Bill could have been as well.

So we came back from walking last night, as you’ve read, and promptly settled in. All pretty mellow, nothing hectic. We popped the champagne at midnight like everyone else and toasted each other with best wishes for the New Year.

It was great that Julio gave us a bottle to celebrate. Bill liked the champagne very much, and I reminded him that we had to kill the bottle since champagne doesn’t keep very well.


Bottle became deceased soon after.
Bill started getting very giddy.

So much so that I thought he was acting. No, he wasn’t. He was drunk. And a happy drunk at that. Very adorable, but not much longer for the night as he was fading fast. I knew I had to get him to bed since the slurring and stumbling could’ve been around the corner. And having been in that position a few times, I felt that this was best.

I soon joined him, lying in the dark, spooning. A warm if fuzzy embrace that led to some lovely happiness. Banished the sadness that lingered in my mind. It is a great feeling to be lying with the one you love, who gives you a feeling that everything is going to be alright.
And it was.

I woke up feeling the same way. A wonderful way to start off the year. I recommend it to everyone, though not with Bill. Get your own partner.

While lying in bed, we discussed plans for the day. A movie, preferably a comedy in the city and we’d take it from there. Well that didn’t happen. It was a lazy Sunday. Just flopped around, puttering about the apartment and leaning on each other on the couch while eating lots of Dark Godiva chocolates.

We never left the apartment all day. We watched the ‘40 Year Old Virgin’ on DVD. Not the bootleg that I had gotten a few weeks ago, the official unrated version. We had planned to see it together in a theatre but we were in our estranged period at the time. He went without me, and I wound up seeing a bootleg, which actually wasn’t that bad a copy.

Very much like the Seinfeld episode involving the bootlegging of movies with a hand held camera in a theatre seat.

It was great to finally see it together and since this had added material, it was similar to both of us seeing it together for the first time, allowing for pauses and bathroom breaks.

We ordered a pizza, which was devoured soon after. That signaled a ceasefire in my problems with Grimaldi’s. We watched the Rufus Wainwright video, for the second time, Bill for the first. I think he has a newfound appreciation for our Rufus.

And like last night, Bill is on the couch and I am a few feet away writing this. And Law and Order plays on and on.