waited for her to leave before I pulled away. I needed to hit the supermarket before I went home and I started to mentally make my list, but my phone rang as I made the right turn out of the parking lot, and I waited for the hands-free to pick up.
“Hello.” I kept my gaze pointed out of the windshield as I greeted my caller because the traffic was all slowing down for the red light up ahead.
“Hey. It’s me. It’s Shayne.” He sounded so shy that I chuckled.
“Hey back.” Unexpected affection gripped me at the sound of his voice, and I smiled simply because he’d called.
I pulled up at the supermarket and undocked my phone from the car, pressing it to my ear as I grabbed a basket and headed into the organic grocery store I favored.
“Are you free for dinner on Friday night? I’ll be in the new place by then and I can’t wait to show it to you.”
“Yeah.” I grinned, falling into all the familiarity of Shayne. “Yeah, sure. That sounds good.”
“Great. I’ll shoot you a text with the address.” He paused. “How has your week been so far?”
It was almost like he didn’t want to hang up just yet and my heart fluttered. I grabbed some broccoli and examined the florets. “It’s been okay. I had to go and pick up my kid from school today, though.”
“Your kid? Lee—”
I chuckled as I picked up some zucchini to make into noodles and headed over to the meat section for some strips of beef. “I meant Ricky. I hate calling him my mentee. That just sounds weird and far too responsible.”
Shayne laughed, the honeyed sound tickling my ear. “Sounds like you’re pretty damn responsible to me. Picking the kid up from school.”
“Oh, it was kind of a special case.” I told Shayne about his afternoon suspension and how his mom was caught up at work.
While we were chatting, I finished loading my basket and paid for my shopping at one of the automated checkouts so I didn’t have to hang up on Shayne or be rude to anyone by ignoring them and walked back out to my car. I docked him back in the holder and chatted the entire way home, trying to explain how I wanted to help prevent any food issues for Ricky, too.
“But enough about me. How has your week been?” I kicked the door to my apartment shut behind me and walked into my kitchen to unpack my groceries.
Shayne told me about his movers bringing his furniture to his new place, and as he described the momentous fuck-up bringing his sofa inside had turned into, I wandered into my bathroom and started undressing for my shower.
“I’m just about to step into the shower, can I call you back right after?” I felt awkward standing in my bathroom and talking to Shayne, but—I glanced at my phone screen—we’d been talking for over an hour, and it felt like no time had passed at all.
“Whoa. I’ve taken up way too much of your time,” he said. “As much as I’d love to see you in the shower, I need to let you go for the evening.” He laughed, mischief in the sound. “Maybe next time I’ll video call.”
I grinned. “Bye, Shayne.”
“I’ll see you on Friday. Night, Lee.”
I looked at my phone and thought of Shayne’s mischievous laugh and his comment about the video call. Well, two could play at teasing. I stood at an angle and held my phone up to take a selfie, capturing from the bottom of my neck right down to where a trail of hair was just leading to where all the fun happened, cutting it off before I took an accidental dick pic. Those weren’t cool.
Later that night, I picked my phone up before bed to turn it to ‘do not disturb’ and a picture message from Shayne flashed up. I opened it to a picture of Shayne’s abdomen splattered with cum and my face heated. Part of me hoped he’d been looking at my picture—although there was much better jack-off material out there.
Still, Shayne’s picture warmed more than just my face, and I turned my light off and climbed into bed, my hand wandering down toward my cock almost of its own free will as I made myself comfortable against the pillows.
14
Shayne
I glanced around my new place and straightened a cushion on the couch. I’d cleaned it to within an inch of its life, and although my furniture all