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More than the big ball in Times Square drops at midnight
As Josh pulled into the pizza store parking lot he shifted the still half-hard shaft straining the fabric of his shorts. He also took one more glance at his phone again...hoping against all hope to find a text from Kyle he had missed...and saw that it was a few minutes after 10PM now. He frowned at both the hour and at the still empty, new text screen before he kicked open the car door and sluggishly walked into the shop.
"Please tell me I am done and can get the hell out of here," was the begging whine he gave Cody when he saw just two boxes stacked on top of each other under the heat lamp. "That last run almost killed me man."
Cody grinned wide at first as he couldn't help but notice both the obvious protrusion and the dark wet spot on Josh's crotch. Then his face adopted a, 'You don't wanna know' look that made Josh cringe. "Well little bro..."
Josh cut him off in mid sentence with, "Fuck no Cody! Somebody will be back soon enough to take that one! Please don't ask me to do 'just one more'."
"Shut the hell up and listen a minute, Josh," Cody ordered.
Josh slumped to the chair next to the dispatch screen without looking at it, but did give his friend a look that could kill as he already knew the pleading that was about to come. "Oh what the fuck! It's not like I have anything to go home to except an empty house anyway." His expression was something resembling a martini blended of hatred, lust, and despair...and eyes that were like a pair of wet olives floating on top trying to make love to the mixture but only succeeding in weeping.
"Josh..." Cody began as he walked to the chair and squatted down as he wrapped an arm around his shoulder, "...listen to me guy. This one is the last one and the only reason I want you to take it is because it's right on your way." He paused before adding, "Its a comp'd order, but this guy will tip big anyway. Easy money for you."
Josh felt the squeeze on his upper arm and saw the magnified smile on Cody's face. Exceptional tip or not, he had no desire to even see another customer tonight, much less be friendly. He just wanted to go to the house and cry. "Please Cody. Let somebody else deliver the damn thing," he whined.
Cody playfully turned Josh's face to his and looked straight into his eyes as he said, "Josh, you just might want to look at the address before you bitch anymore because this is a really good customer of yours. But if you really don't want to drop this one off..." The sarcastic grin he tacked on the unfinished statement was as confusing as the wink and glance he gave towards the computer screen above them.
Josh's eyes grudgingly followed Cody's to the glowing monitor. He shook his head a little to find clarity of the street and house number he was seeing; then almost knocked his friend over as he jumped up from the chair and pasted his face to the screen to let the far too familiar address bore into his brain. "If you are fucking with me, I swear I will stuff your ass in the pizza oven, Cody!" burst from his lips and his eyes began to moisten. He spun around to take in the wide smile on Cody's face and was literally shaking as he mumbled, "Are you serious? Is he REALLY there?"
Cody grinned from ear-to-ear as he embraced his friend and whispered in his ear. "All I am going to say is the customer said he is really, really, really hungry, and he will never order from us again if anyone but you shows up with his food. And the customer is always right aren't they?" The huge guffaw that came after those words made Josh start laughing too, as tears of joy streamed down his cheeks.
After managing to regain some composure, Josh looked at Cody and asked, "Is this some really twisted scheme Kyle talked you into to mess with my mind half the night?"
Cody simply grinned and replied, "Nope! All I am allowed to tell you is his cell battery died at the Rochester airport just as they called for his flight to board, and he called the shop from a pay phone about two hours ago, to tell me he was in Atlanta and catching the last commuter here in 15 minutes...but to not tell you." Cody halted for a breath and then added, "I think he wanted to surprise you since the day had been so fucked up, Josh."
Josh slammed both hands on his hips and announced, "I don't know whether I want to kick his ass or just make love to him until his evil head explodes." He couldn't help but join Cody in a very healthy laugh at his supposedly conflicted emotions. Deep down inside, he was doing a happy dance like he had never done one before. His man was home!
Getting checked out was done in record time and after a hug and New Year's kiss from Cody, Josh literally ran from the shop to his car with his one last delivery of the night. As he started the old Honda up, the radio station began playing hits from the 1990's and the first one was the 10,000 Maniacs chart buster 'Because the Night Belongs to Lovers.' Josh's tears of happiness wouldn't stop coming for the next three blocks as he let the words of the song speak to him. As much as he wanted to drive faster than a Blue Angels pilot showing off in an F-18 Hornet, Josh wasn't about to take any chances and drove slowly and cautiously while taking in every word of the song playing. At one stop light he looked up through his windshield at the mist covered moon, and spoke to it with, "Please let that song be ours tonight." He kept staring at the twinkling stars and luminous moon and allowed himself to drift into daydreaming about his and Kyle's live video session again before a honking horn behind him brought him back to reality. As he slowly drove under the now green light, he felt a pleasingly painful hard-on that was once again straining the fabric of his too tight briefs. He snickered as he realized part of his fresh wood came from the vivid memory of the mutual huge explosions he and Kyle had shared by their own hands while camming last night and how they had video cuddled and pillow talked afterwards. He also knew that a bigger reason was the fantasy that was taking more and more space in his mind of what was to come yet tonight. By the time Josh turned into the driveway of the house on the bay, his undies and his mind were both a sticky mess.
He was almost all the way to the front door when he remembered the food that was in the car. 'Dammit! Kyle is probably actually hungry,' zinged thru his brain as he did a heel and toe spin, and ran back to grab the two boxes sitting on the passenger seat. An evil smirk crept to his lips as he approached the small covered porch again and he spoke quietly to the warm cardboard in his hands. "He wants to play pizza boy at the door by calling in an order, does he? Couldn't be bothered to call me and say, 'Hey I am home,' could he? Thinks he won this one, does he?" He snickered under his breath as he decided to get even and be 'just the pizza guy dropping off a freebie.' Instead of barging through the entry like he wanted to, he rapped the door hard with his knuckles and waited patiently.
When the door opened a moment later, Kyle was standing there in only the same blue and white board shorts he had on the first time they met. "Great! Dinner is finally here," was all he said as he stuffed a pair of crisp $20's in Josh's shirt pocket and snatched the two boxes from his grasp. Before closing the door in his boyfriend's face, he tacked on, "Thanks and keep the change."
Josh slid down the wall and sat on the concrete with his arms crossed waiting for the door to reopen. He chuckled as he thought to himself how Kyle thinks he is winning this little game of foreplay chess. He reached down to rub the strange double lump in the large pocket on the right side of his leg. "I still have his extra icing cups for the cinnamon bread in my pocket and that's called 'Checkmate bitch!'" But he decided to play it up and pasted the most despondent look he could muster on his face when the door creaked open again.