Watching QAF: 3-5 Preparations
Monday Aug 23th @ 6:30 PM - Steve & Mark's Flat.
Steve yells out, "Hey food's on!", when he
notices that no one is
rushing into the kitchen, "Come on you assholes, food's ready." Shortly
Mark, Will, Bart and TK take places at the table. The center of the
table is covered by two pizza's and a couple baskets of Garlic bread.
Steve says, "I made these pizza's myself and the garlic bread. The one
on this end is sausage mushrooms and onions, and that one is pepperoni
and onion." They sit down except for Mark who gets the drink orders and
distributes the various cans and glasses.
When they all are sitting there, eating pizza and drinking
various
sodas, Will stands and clears his throat before beginning, "Ahem,
Gentlemen, since last we met ..." and looks around the table at
everyone, "There have two things that happened that are worth
mentioning." TK says, "Oh Shit! Will and his damn speeches!" Bart adds,
"Okay, Will! What is it this time?" Will raising his arms for quiet,
"Gentlemen, gentlemen please, and I do use that word very loosely. I am
proposing a couple of toasts. First thing was that Saturday was the 2
year anniversary of Steve and Mark's first date." He again raises his
arms, even though no one has done anything, Will acts as if he were
speaking in banquet hall, "There now please hold you applause until the
end, as I was saying there is a second reason to celebrate," This time
he looks at Bart, smiles broadly and adds, "Our own Bart Matthews has
written and posted his first story to the web. Gentlemen, I give you
Mark, Steve and Bart!"
Will walks over to where Bart is sitting blushing, pulls him up
and
plants a kiss that Steve thought would end up with the two naked on the
kitchen floor. After the usual clamor about congratulations, and
requests on how to find Bart's story. Bart says, "I'll send e-mail to
everyone with the link. And since, HE hasn't said anything yet, I'll
include a link to a site where the old bf has posted a couple poems. Did
any of you know about them?" When the three others all indicated that
they knew nothing about them, it was Will's turn to sit there turning
this great shade of red. Bart sat down next to Will and obviously took
hold of his hand under the table. After they finished both pizzas and
all but one piece of garlic bread, washed down with 4 liters of diet
pepsi, 2 liters of Sprite, they decided to head to the computer room and
check out right then and there what Will and Bart wrote.
@ 7:30 PM - Steve & Mark's Flat.
Bart looks around the room, leaving Will in charge of their new
audience. Standing to the rear of the others, Bart notices that TK is
looking at the monitor but is not paying attention. For a moment it's
almost as if Bart can see the light reflected in a thin sheen of water
filling TK's eyes. But then it's gone. Knowing that Will will be busy
with Steve and Mark for as long as he can keep their attention. Bart
walks over to TK and touching his arm asks, "Todd, how about us going
out on the balcony?" TK looks startled for a moment, then nods his head.
Once out on the balcony, They stand looking at the setting sun..
Bart turns to face TK, "TK, I have to tell you that Bill e-mailed me
today. He told me about Friday night, but I haven't said anything to
anybody, not even Will." Tk just stood there intently looking out over
the fields. Bart said, "But Bill says that on Saturday and Sunday, you
seemed to be your old self, and he said that Saturday was just, and I
quote, 'Hot monkey Sex' unquote. Finally TK smiles and glances at Bart.
"He did not." Bart shakes his head no, "I'm pretty sure it was something
like that.
So dude, how you doin?" "OK I guess. ... Did I tell you
how much
this sucks?" Bart looks at him, "What do you mean?" TK looks back over
to the darkening sunset. "I mean, Being with Bill, but not with Bill.
Please don't tell anyone else, cause it's nobody's fault but when I
watch you and Will kiss or hold hands, or Steve and Mark just looking at
each other, I sometimes wanta cry. You all are with someone, and Bill's
not here. ... Bart, I think I know what you feel about Will, you guys
see each other everyday, shit you don't go 24 hours with seeing each
other. Try to figure out what the fuck it's like to feel the way you do
about Will, but you have to wait a week or two before you could just
look in eyes."
Bart cannot imagine it. When he lets himself think about TK and
Bill, he moves closer to TK and puts his arm around TK's shoulders,
"Bart, I just don't know what ta do? All I want is to have him around
... I just want to see him smile." Tk's voice catches, "I'm sorry. ... I
shouldn't be botherin ya with all this crap." Bart responds, "Fuck you.
Dontcha know that I'm here for ya? Besides I promised a certain dude
from Topeka that I'd make sure you are all right, and a promise is a
promise." "Bart do you mind if we stay out here a little while?" Bart
answers, "We've got at least a half an hour, before Will is close to
being done. That dude can fucking talk!" "Thanks man, ... thanks."
Bart squeezes Todd's shoulder, and innocently asks, "TK, I
was just
wondering what 'hot monkey sex' is like?" Getting a chuckle from TK,
"Holy Thunderfuck! You'd never believe it." TK starts laughing out load.
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