Chapter 2
Parents Visiting
Zack knew his parents were coming into town. Matt and he had only been dating for a little over a month. They were sitting at Matt's house watching TV on the couch. He didn't know how to come out and say what he wanted, but Matt knew something was up.
"Zack, you have been uneasy about something for over an hour now; just spit it out."
"My parents are coming into town, and I..."
"You don't want me to meet them."
"No, not yet," Zack responded. "And it's not that..."
"Zack, it's okay; we haven't been going out too long, I get it. It doesn't bother me." And it really didn't bother Matt. He hated meeting the parents. It has been the ender of a lot of his relationships.
"Are you sure?"
"Zack, yeah, it's fine."
Zack calmed down a little but was still uneasy. It was Matt's turn to make him feel better about the situation. Matt slid forward on the couch like he was going to get up and then dropped to his knees.
"What are you doing?" Matt got between Zack's legs, started unbuttoning his pants, and tapped his hips to have him lift up so he could pull them down along with his underwear. Zack was already hard, "I should be the one doing you. I'm being the impossiblesssssshitttttttttt." Matt engulfed his penis, and Zack became speechless.
During the week with his parents, Zack missed Matt. He would text him, but it wasn't the same. Matt didn't seem to text back as much and told him to be with his parents. When he was at work, he hoped Matt would come in and get coffee, but he never seemed to do that either. He would call when Matt was on duty because he knew he would get through. Frank made sure to answer if Matt was driving. So he called every night, hoping to talk to Matt even if Frank had to listen in.
Zack went into his bedroom to call, and after the fourth night of this, his mother got suspicious and stood at the door to listen in on the conversation. Again, Frank answered, "Officer's Lane phone, this is Officer Surrey."
"Hi Frank, can I talk to Matt, or can you put it on speaker again?" Frank smiled.
"Sure, kid, speaker it is."
Matt looked over to a smiling Frank, "Really?" He mouthed, and Frank lifted his hands in a 'what did I do' motion. "Hey Zack, what's up?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to hear your voice. You two could come into the coffee shop sometime."
"We do; we just have to hit them all, you know, Morning, Tim's, Biggby, and Copper."
"Oh, and don't forget about my favorite Panera." Frank chimed in.
"You only like the fucking pastries."
Zack liked the way Matt and Frank bantered at one another and laughed. "I see; well, I was just saying you could stop in. I work tomorrow evening."
"Okay, Zack, point taken," Matt stated. "Call me when I get off, and we can talk. Okay?"
"Alright." Zack smiled. "Have a good night, Frank; maybe I'll meet you one day."
"Yeah, kid." Frank laughed. "Goodnight, I'm hanging up."
The line went dead, and Zack's Mom knocked on the door. "Yeah?"
"Can I come in?"
"Hi, Mom."
"Who were you talking to?"
"No one?"
"Zack, are you gonna lie to me?"
"The guy I have been seeing for a month now."
"Zachary Darren Pierce, why haven't you told me about this?"
"Mom, because it's a new relationship, I didn't know if he would want to meet you yet and...." He didn't know if he should even tell the last part.
"AND?"
"He's a little older than me."
"A little older, define a little older."
"Well."
"Please tell me you're not dating someone our age."
"Oh God, no." Then Zack thought about it. He didn't know how old his parents were. "Mom, how old are you?"
"Zack, I'm Fifty."
"Oh." Zack looked down and did the math. A younger brother or cousin, oh God.
"Zachary, how old is he?"
"Matt's thirty-five, but Mom, I really like him. He is worried about our age difference, too. I'm not. I tell him it's no bother."
She shook her head, "Zack, you know your father isn't going to like this. What does he do for a living?"
"I know, that's kind of why I didn't want him to meet you yet. He's a cop."
She smiled, "Well, am I going to get to meet him?"
"I don't know if there will be time for you to; he works the second shift."
"And he was happy not to meet us, wasn't he?"
"I think he was relieved in a sense. I was nervous about telling him that you were coming into town, and I didn't want to have him meet you. I didn't realize at first that he was pleased that I didn't want him to meet you. He even gave me...." Zack paused. "Oh, never mind."
"He gave you what?"
"You don't want to know, Mom." Zack blushed, and she got what he meant and quickly changed the subject.
"So you've known him for a month now?"
"We've been dating for over a month. I knew him from my old roommate; he had been his friend for a moment." Zack looked at his Mom. "Before you say it, no, Dale and Matt didn't sleep together. He and Matt were friends for a few months, and then Matt stopped coming around. Dale was pissed he couldn't get Matt into bed."
"Oh, okay, and how did you land Matt?"
"After Dale moved out, I found Dale's little black book." Zack's Mom laughed, and then he started gushing over him like Zack's sister Sami did her husband Rick when she first met him. "Mom, he's cute. He's just a little taller than me. So that would make him about five-eleven or six-foot. He has sandy brown hair and green eyes. Mom, they seem to change color depending on his mood."
She was smiling at her son. She could tell he was head over heels for this man.
The next day, Frank walked into Starbucks before his shift. He hoped Zack was already at work. He wanted to see who the kid was before Matt stopped dating him. Frank hoped he would run into him today because he didn't want to keep paying for five-dollar coffees in hopes that Zack might be working. But since Zack said he would be working that day, he hoped it would be before Matt and his shift.
Frank didn't think to cover his nameplate when he walked in. He was already in uniform. He had a few stops before work and decided this was one of them. When he made his way to the counter, "Hello, Officer." The Barista looked at the officer's name tag and smiled. "Officer Surrey, do you know what you would like?"
Frank looked up at the menu, then down at the young man and his name tag, and smiled. "Hello Zack, I would like a black Venti Dark Roast with one shot of Espresso, and that will be all."
"That'll be three-seventy-six."
Frank handed Zack four dollars, and Zack handed back twenty-four cents, which he tossed in the tip jar. "I'm sure Matt will give you a better tip when your parents leave," Frank remarked in a low voice and went over to wait for his coffee, which caused Zack to laugh.
When Matt and Frank were out on patrol, Frank was waiting for Zack's call because, as usual, they didn't go to Starbucks. "Why are you avoiding Zack?" Frank finally asked. "Are you done with him?"
"Shit, no, I can't wait for his parents to leave, so he will come over. His BJ's are high on my list of the best I've ever had."
"Shit, is that the only reason you're keeping the blonde around?"
"I never said he was blonde." Matt laughed. "When did you go sneaking into Starbucks?"
"Shit." Frank laughed. "Today. I had been there a few other times, but hell, it can get expensive taking Julie there just to see if your boy toy was working. Julie orders fucking eight-dollar drinks."
"How nothing on their menu is much over five."
"She adds shit to them."
Like clockwork, at ten-thirty, Zack called, and Frank was happy he forced Matt to drive. "What are you snickering about?" Matt said as he looked over to Frank, holding his phone. Matt thought he would be smart and put it on silent to keep Frank from answering it. He was wrong.
"Hey Zack, how are you tonight? This is Frank, Matt's driving. So what are you doing?" Frank chuckled.
"Hi, Frank. There is no way I could talk to Matt, huh?"
"Zack, why don't you come to his house after his shift tonight?" There was silence on the phone for a second. "I know your parents are in town. Don't they know you're gay?"
"No, they know, but I didn't even think about coming over."
"Well then, it's settled, be at Matt's tonight at midnight. He should be there a little after." Frank stated.
"Is Matt okay with this?"
"Yup, he's nodding his head." Frank smiled. "Have a good night, Zack."
"Yeah, you too."
"Don't look at me like that. You know you want to fuck him." Frank laughed, and Matt just gave him a side-eye glance, shook his head, and kept driving.