come by at the moment.”

“Plans then?”

“He just said there was something he needed me to see, why?”

“Nothing.”  Ian detected a little disappointment in Reece’s voice.

“Hey, buddy; it’s me, what’s on your mind?”

“No big deal, really.”   

“You, sure?”

“Yeah.  We can do it some other time.”

“Was there somewhere you wanted to go?”  Ian asked.

“Well, I got invited somewhere and I didn’t really wanna go by myself, so I thought maybe you’d come with me.”

“That’d be cool, but I have to wait until Hooper drops by and see what he’s dying to show me...” then Ian mumbled a little too loudly, “….and I hope it’s not in his pants.”

Reece sniggered, “Got a horny dude, after your bod?”

“I don’t know, really, it’s just a comment was made about this guy the other night, and the thought had occurred to me.  I’m sure it’s not what I think.  I’ve known the guy a long time and not once has he ever made an inappropriate gesture.”

Reece took the chair beside the chaise. “Well, I don’t know what to tell you, Ian.  If you’ve known this guy a long time, I am willing to bet that the thought has crossed his mind many times, but if he’s never made a move before, I doubt he will now.”

“You’re right.”

“Now, that’s not saying he probably would make the second one if you made the first.”  Reece teased.

“Well, that won’t happen, at least I’m not planning on it.  I have to admit that I seem to be pushing all the right buttons when I don’t mean to these days.”   

“Your turn.” Reece said.

“Huh?”  Ian turned to look at him.

“I unloaded on you the other night.  Your turn to unload on me.”

“Nah.  Don’t wanna bother you.”

“Hey, that’s what friends are for…right?”

So Ian laid it all on the table.  He told Reece about Billy, and without mentioning any names almost every detail of what had been going on since he’d arrived in California, inadvertently watching two couples have sex, what seemed to him a constant barrage of same sex offers, and even told Reece about what went on between he and Kellen.

None of it seemed to faze Reece at all, which left Ian a little stunned.  “I’m not used to any of this.  Is it the culture here, because where I come from we don’t get that forward with the opposite sex, let alone the same.”

“I can’t swear to something I don’t know, Ian and I’ll admit that someone else might try and tell you that the reason why all this keeps happening is because you are subconsciously making it happen, but I’m sure the people who would tell you that are hoping to take your cherry.”

“Take my…cherry?”

“Get you to go to things with them you haven’t done before…”

Ian looked at him blankly.

Reece tried hard not to look frustrated, he finally just let out a puff of air and put it bluntly, “get you to let them fuck you.”

“Oh, that I understand.”

“The fact is, and the only one you have to face, is that you are one hell of a hot man, and in