Thwarted - 18. Chapter Eighteen

“It was… interesting.” Mark shut the door and followed behind. He waited for Trey to turn and pulled him into his arms. “We can talk about that later.”

Trey grinned and kissed him, briefly, before pulling away and plopping down onto the couch. “Actually, why don’t we talk about it now? May as well get it out of the way and not have it hanging over our head the rest of the night. So, what’s going on?”

Mark groaned and joined him on the couch. He was still ninety percent sure he didn’t want to take Jackie up on her offer but there was ten percent of him that was uncertain as to whether or not he was making the right choice. Hopefully talking with Trey would help shut that ten percent up.

“Well, you already know I’ve been trying to decide for sure whether or not to start school. Honestly, financially I don’t think I can fix it to where I can focus solely on school.” Well, not without taking Jackie up on her offer, but he hadn’t got that far yet.

“Okay, so what are you thinking instead?” Trey seemed interested and it was great he didn’t try and convince Mark otherwise.

“I’ll definitely need to find a job, at least for the next year. Jackie came up with an idea to help me save up some money, but I’m fairly certain it’s not something I want to do.” Mark sighed and leaned his head back, resting it on the back of the couch as he stared at the ceiling. It took a minute to get his thoughts together, but when he did he turned his head to look at Trey. “She thought maybe it would be a good idea for me to stay with her and Brent while you’re gone.”

“Wow. That would definitely be a change.” Trey shifted slightly, but other than that small movement, his body didn’t betray any of his thoughts. Luckily for Mark, Trey apparently had no problem sharing what he was thinking. “You’re right that it would allow you to save some money and there’d be some benefits, but there’d be a lot of drawbacks to it too.”

“Yeah, I know. I think there are more drawbacks than there are benefits. I like living on my own, I like my privacy, I just can’t see myself living at my sister’s. Truthfully, the only benefit to it would be saving money.” Mark shrugged. “It’s not like I can’t go over and visit when I want company.”

“It sounds to me like you’ve already made up your mind. What did you tell her?”

“I’d think about it. I’ll give her an answer sometime next week.” The timer for the oven went off and Mark stood. “That would be our dinner.” It only took a minute to pull dinner out of the oven and set it on the stove. He turned and found Trey peering past him.

“Looks good, what are we having?”

“Shepherd’s pie.” Mark shrugged. “I haven’t fixed it in a while and it sounded good.”

“Hey, you don’t see me complaining, do you?” Trey pulled Mark close and kissed him right there in the small kitchen.

Mark returned the kiss, dinner completely forgotten as he opened to Trey’s questing tongue. Trey’s hand slipped inside the back of Mark’s jeans and cupped his ass. He pulled him closer, their erections pressing together through the layers of fabric.

Trey moaned against his mouth and Mark decided it was a good thing dinner was just as good reheated because he wanted Trey much more than he wanted dinner at the moment. He pulled back and led Trey to his bedroom.

“What about dinner?” Despite his words, Trey didn’t make any attempt to stop him.

“Unless you’re starving, dinner can wait.” Mark glanced over his shoulder and smiled at the heated look in Trey’s eyes.

“I’d be a fool to argue with that.” Trey started stripping his shirt off before they’d even stepped over the threshold into the bedroom. He sat on the bed and kicked his shoes off as Mark stripped out of his jeans. No sooner was Mark naked than Trey reached out and pulled him over to stand between his knees. “Besides, I think maybe I want an appetizer first.”

Any retort Mark might have said died on his lips as Trey leaned in and sucked the head of Mark’s cock into the warm cavern of his mouth.