Colton sat down and rubbed his face. One week ago he brought his boss home after a car crash. He didn't really think about it. He did what any sane person would do. And now his boss wanted to be his friend. Colton wasn't sure what to do.
On one hand, he could finally have a friend after five years of self-induced solitary, or he could forget Jared in fear of being fired.
Both were tempting... But Colton was ready to just forget about making friends. Robert wanted him to make friends and that was such a bad idea. Colton just couldn't keep it in his pants.
He went to a therapist for it. She said that perhaps it was all in his head. He was always capable of stopping his cheating habit, but maybe he didn't want to stop it. It was a perfectly sound theory, but he never understood why he would want to cheat on Rob. Rob was perfect.
Colton stopped. He had to stop thinking about it. He stood up with his cane and walked to the kitchen where he made himself some tea.
Maybe it was time he made a friend. Thinking about Rob too much made Colton feel sick.
*
The phone rang and Jared sighed. He had been getting calls all morning and all he wanted was a short break.
"Colton Stag is on line one for you." His secretary said as she stuck her head into the office.
Jared smiled. Okay, so he finally got a bit of a break. It was his new found friend after all; perhaps he would make things a bit less annoying.
He lifted the phone to his ear and leaned into his leather computer chair.
"Hello, Colton! You got through to the line pretty easily, lucky you, Lucy is a hard guard to get through."
"Heh, well she thought I had important business to discuss with you. You know...Seeing as I am your web site designer and all..." Colton was nervous. He really couldn't afford to lose his job. But he also felt that he needed to be honest.
Jared looked at the computer screen. He was staring at his website and frowned. He knew that someone created it but he never actually met the man. The rest of the "Web" team knew who he was. Jared never really had to talk to his web designer because the other guys did it for him.
"Oh, you're the magical person who creates my site. I see, know I finally know who you are."
"Um, yup that's me," Colton's voice was quiet and unsure.
"How come you didn't tell me when we meet? And why haven't we met at work?" Jared wasn't mad but he was shocked. It didn't really make sense that he would be his boss and never actually met Colton.
There was an uncomfortable silence. Jared could tell that there was more to Colton, but that was made obvious when he stay at his house. After all, he had a husband who had died and yet he kept the ring on.
"Because of my accident I don't really like to leave to house. I work from home; the head of the internet department hired me. I never really had a reason to come to work. Just big meetings, and even then we usually do phone calls for that. They understand my situation pretty well."
Jared nodded even though he knew that Colton couldn't see him. "That makes sense."
