All characters are 18+
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It's another Friday. Another Friday when the clock just struck 5, which means I grab my briefcase, my jacket, and keys and head off to the elevator to start a weekend as routine as how I just left my desk job. Me and six other men, all wearing dress shirts, black ties, suit pants, a briefcase in one hand, and suit jacket in the other, all descend towards our weekend in which nothing will happen, time will fly and all six of us will be ascending up the same elevator in 72 hours. This is such an "exhilarating" life.
I thought this was the life I wanted. A relatively lucrative corporate job in New York City. While wearing nice suits every day, thinking it made me look like a made man. I'm doing the job 18-year-old me would have been proud of and now 28-year-old me, is well how should I say it, not really feeling like a made man. The most exciting part of my day is race-walking all other corporate zombies to the subway so I can find a spot that will not make me feel claustrophobic for fifteen minutes and reach my Soho apartment without an anxiety attack. The same apartment where I am living with my college roommate who is living a happier life. He's out most of the time partying with his music friends, smoking weed, drinking, and girls, well I guess guys in his case. Gabe, the ultimate free spirit I wish I could be.
Where I was studying my ass off in college, Gabe was doing what he's doing now, having fun and not caring about the world. I will give it to him, he has his moments where he gets his head down and works his ass off for his music. All he needs to do is create ten or so beats/soundtracks and he's good for the year. I guess a little bit of me, no, a lot of me feels like I should just rip these pretentious clothes off and just say fuck it too. But, the rest of me is completely against it. As if all those years of hard work would be for nothing. And with my workload, it is extremely hard to find that middle ground.
So, like every Friday, I am too damn tired to create some fun in my life. I enter my apartment. Throw my suitcase near my desk. Take off my tie, loosen the top two buttons of my dress shirt, plop down on my couch and watch whatever the hell is on my Roku device. I guess tonight's entertainment is Apple TV's "Severance." How appropriate.
"Brooo, what the fuck is this! Huh?" My eyes quickly glance at Gabe walking out of his bedroom only wearing a tiger print silk robe and the tightest of tight underwear briefs. After living with him for ten years I have grown accustomed to his, umm, prominent bulge. "Mr. Max Holden here, the future CEO of "Fuck You Enterprises," will it kill you to go out with me tonight? Just one night, I swear." Gabe crosses his heart with his finger and claps his hands pleading with me. I giggle at the sight but try to keep the tiresome look on my face.
"Did you stay here just to catch me just as I sat down and ask if I wanted to go out with you tonight?"
"Umm, no shit Sherlock. That's exactly what I'm doing. Come on, buddy. It's Friday night. We should be dancing and grooving at some club. Getting shit-faced and you can shit talk about all your boring coworkers and I can talk about all the great sex I'm having. Doesn't that sound like fun?" He says with a shit-eating grin, albeit still pleading with me.
My eyes go back to some weird scene where a girl is getting a chip literally injected into her brain, "you know I like to do nothing on Fridays."
"Umm sir, you like to do fuck all on Saturdays and Sundays too. You need some fun in your life. Come with me, pleeeaaasssee." He grabs my arm with his body like a kid holding onto his stuffed animal.
"Let me guess, you will be taking me to one of your gay clubs?"
"Well, yeah. Where else would I go? Okay so what if I tell you, I have a special friend who wants to meet you? Huh, does that interest, you big boy?" He asks rapidly, blinking his eyes at me knowing I'm interested in the bait he just offered to get me off the couch.
"A special friend, at a gay club? You know I don't run that way."
"Yes you do, you know you jack off to me when I'm pounding a boy in my room."
"Shut up!"
"Ha! So you do handshake your knob when I'm making my boys moan."
Okay look, I'm straight, always have been. But Gabe brings home these fem boys who make hot moaning sounds. How can I not stroke it a little bit to their moans? "Whatever I'm not leaving with you."
"Ugh, you're so lame. But Fine. You just have to put up with me annoying you until you finally give in." He doesn't lie. He grabs onto my arm even longer. A couple of minutes later, he makes every annoying comment known to man about the show I'm watching. Commenting on the clothes, the dialogue, everything.
"Are you going to do this all weekend?"
"If I have to. You've been a recluse for so long. All I ask for is one night." He says with a beaming grin on his perfect white teeth.
"Fine."
Gabe shoots up and sits on his ankles. "For real?" He says enthusiastically.
I reply in a down, monotone voice, "Yes. Where are we going?"
"Oh my, yes! We are going to my favorite place, 'The P Spot!'" He says with his mouth fully wide.
"The P spot, as in..."
"Oh no, no," Gabe waves both his hands in disagreement, "it's like the g spot but, for men, you know your prostate."
"Still a stupid name."
"But it's the best gay bar in the area. And tonight just so happens to be therapy night."
"therapy night?"
"You will see. Go finish your show and we will go in a couple of hours."
My curiosity gets the best of me and I google "The P Spot." After scrolling through the initial gay joke sites and urban dictionary links, I come upon the site for the bar in NYC. I click the link and the webpage is mundane. Only a stock photo of guys dancing and in the middle of the page it just says, "come and witness." Stupid. I throw my phone to the side and take my nap. At the very least I will get a couple of tasty drinks out of this. I always preferred mixed drinks over beer.
After a quick five-hour nap, I awakened to the Friday night enthusiasm maniac that is my roommate. He's zip and zooming all over the apartment, assuming he's thrilled I'm finally going out with him to his bars. He's already dressed in his unbuttoned dress shirt with no undershirt in order to fully show off how hard he's been going on his abs and chest at the gym. He bottoms it out with his dark blue chino pants that are way too tight for him to be remotely comfortable.
I on the other hand go conservative which makes Gabe shake his head at me as I walk out of my room. "Blazer and jeans? You can loosen up a bit, you know."
I try to stifle a groan but a small one comes out, "let's just go so you can stop annoying me about this."
"Oh no. You will be begging to come with me again after this."
"You had this planned out?"
"Maybe? Let's go. And bring one of your drawstring bags with you. You're going to need it."
We head off to our nearest subway station. Unfortunately, our stop is seven stations out. I just sit by Gabe who is still filled with giddy anticipation. We don't talk much, which is weird between us. Usually, Gabe does not shut up for hours. But tonight, I maybe sense a hint of nervousness from him. Other than that, I just side-eye, a guy sitting across from us, who cannot for the life of him, take his eyes off of Gabe's exposed abs. I just smirk at the sight.
The walk to "The P Spot",
I cringe just thinking about the name,
is three blocks. Three blocks that Gabe most definitely skipped all the way there. He said a bunch of, "You're going to love this." It's going to change your life." "You need this bro, you've been down for so long." I just nod and try to keep up with him. It's already past my bedtime anyways.
Finally...finally, we get to The P Spot. Of course, the place is in the downstairs back alley which definitely does not look sketchy at all. Like most bars or clubs, there is an overly huge bouncer checking ID's at the door. There's an average length line consisting of mostly men which I expected since this is a gay bar after all. It takes us about ten minutes to get in and right through the doors I could hear the music pounding my eardrums. Gabe gets right to grooving his way through the crowd as I stiffly follow behind. The both of us create a little space of our own, which seemed impossible because there is little to no personal space here.
"This is the craziest night of the month. Therapy night is everyone's favorite night." Gabe yells out near my ear trying to talk over the music.