Paladin

While I agree with @Summerabbacat I think we could refer to them as the gayzen. Now, we don't know what kinks they may have, but there could be a couple of 'daddies' in the group.

Ruth is something else. I'm in a relationship with someone else and I'm breaking up with you. You should be upset. Why aren't you upset?

This chapter brought back memories of 2020 for me too. We were restricted to travel within our LGA or withing 5km of our home. I live in a large LGA outside of Sydney so I had scope for 'essential' travel. I have friends who are a retired couple and live in a small LGA and used the 5Km of their home rule. As a result they got to know every walkway, park and cafe withing 5km of their home. (Leaving home for exercise was permitted). Schools and universities were messy. Sometime open for (mask covered) face to face teaching and sometimes on line. I was lucky. I didn't catch COVID19 and didn't have any side effects from the vaccinations so have stayed up to date. I had my latest COVID vaccination about a month ago. One thing I do remember with smile was the willingness of people where I live to wear a mask and stand spaced 1.5 metres apart in queues. It was however a serious time and I feel for people who died and especially for people who were unable to visit their dying relatives and friends.

Martin is generous to Justin even though it could give Justin more dots to join. Ray stays in this story, although this shows Nathan has experience working with victims of sexual assault.

Sex education is a fraught area. Often, parents who are too embarrassed to provide sex education to their own children want to dictate what they want (or more often don't want) in sex education courses. This can result in sex education courses that are incomplete and not as informative as young people want.

Benjamin and Justin are experienced enough to give Martin all the information he needs at this stage. 😉

Yes, The turmoil in Ray's past has been resolved to some extent. Glad you saw the humour in the sex talk role reversal. Martin is still hiding a lot about himself from Benjamin and Justin and also from Nathan.

Yes, @VBlew, Ray's attitude was molded by his previous sexual abuse experience. Things are now better for him and for the restaurant. In his meeting with Justin, Rick commented that he didn't think Martin and Nathan knew how to have sex together. Now at least Martin has some ideas. How will Nathan respond?

So true @akascrubber, so true!

Martin and Nathan have a lot to explore, especially now Martin has had 'the talk'. Let them enjoy Easter. After Easter, who knows?

I loved that one too.

Justin is physically and emotionally becoming more part of the family, apart from some minor insecurities. Yes, the opportunity to give Martin a gay sex talk was payback for both of them. How often do young gays have to sit through straight sex "education" and not have their own questions answered?

Me building up to more turmoil! What makes you think that @Ticklishboy30?

Thank you @chris191070. Things seem to be running smoothly, don't they. At least Martin knew who to go to for gay sex advice, even though he outed himself to Benjamin and Justin.

Now you know what Justin did with the information he gathered by joining the dots and his discussion with Rick. He planned a sex talk. Gay Sex 101. That should help Martin and Nathan when they meet and limit or control any turmoil. Justin will continue to join the dots.

On the Monday of the week leading up to Easter Nathan used one of their video calls to tell Martin that Ray was ready to return to work but wanted to talk to Martin before he did. Martin was confused and concerned. "Why does he want to talk to me? All we need is a report from you saying he can return to work, and then he can go back to work." Nathan played the confidentiality card, "You know I can't talk about a client. I'm just passing on a message." "Touché. I still want your si

Rush is also a family name, notably Australian actor, Geoffrey Rush, who starred in movies such as Shine and The King's Speech and also played Barry in the movie Holding The Man

It will be a while before Natasha surfaces again, unwelcome as usual. I agree there are areas of Sydney where it would be dangerous to have any gay or gay friendly establishment.

Shock might apply to Nathan on his first visit to the house. You'll just have to wait and see. By then Martin may have practiced mouth to mouth and mouth to . . . . again wait and see.

Simon and Martin have both accepted that Rick likes to flirt with sexy men. At the same time Simon knows he is the one Rick loves.

In Newtown, anything gay friendly is possible.

Justin has been joining the dots regarding Martin and Nathan, and Rick has confirmed it. You'll find out what he does with that information in the next chapter.

Eddie and Mitch drift in and out of the story. Nathan comes back into the story in Chapter 14. You won't be disappointed. 😀

Rick is bonded to Simon but still a flirt who will use every possible opportunity to hug sexy men. 😉 A bit of turmoil for Justin but only a bit. It did take Rachael to set him straight (you know what I mean!)