Fireflies by Menon David

Author:Menon, David [Menon, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: UK
Published: 2014-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

When a third person moves into a house where previously two have had the place to themselves for a while, a little adjusting of hitherto acceptable behavior needs to take place. Two nights ago Brendan the nanny moved in with Jeff and Toby and now Jeff was aware that he couldn’t just walk from the bathroom to his bedroom naked anymore. Brendan seemed like a mature lad for his tender age of twenty-two but the last thing Jeff needed at the moment was to awaken a gay man’s curiosity about him with the sight of his naked form. It was the same consideration he’d show if a young girl had moved in. So from now on he was going to make sure he wore his bathrobe whenever he was walking around without any clothes on.

Jeff and Toby had interviewed Brendan together and they’d all got along like a house on fire. Brendan was the oldest of five kids and he was used to looking after the young ones in his family which was one of the things that prompted him into making a career out of child care. He and Toby had bonded over the computer games console and Jeff could see it was good for a little boy to have a male nanny because Brendan would be able to do all the boy stuff that Jeff couldn’t do when he wasn’t there. He wasn’t worried any longer that Toby didn’t have enough female influence in his life. As Rebecca and also his brother Lewis had pointed out Toby had his Chinese grandma and aunts, his teacher at school Miss Jackson, and their next door neighbour Pam who Toby spent a fair amount of time with. He’d probably never stop worrying about Toby and whether or not he’d grow up right. He’d never stop worrying if he was doing right by him. It was part of the weight of being a single parent.

When Jeff had got home last night Brendan had done all the ironing and hung all his shirts and trousers neatly in his wardrobe. He hadn’t expected that. And now as he walked downstairs and into the kitchen where Brendan presented him with a fry up of eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, and baked beans, he hadn’t expected that either. He hadn’t really talked to Brendan about the definition of his role but he’d sort of thought that it would just revolve around Toby. He hadn’t expected to be looked after himself too.

‘Morning Brendan’ said Jeff. ‘This looks great. How are you finding everything?’

‘Just fine, thanks, Jeff’ Brendan answered with a smile. ‘I made a pot of tea when I heard you upstairs because I know how you like it to have brewed for a bit before you drink it’.

‘Well yes’ said Jeff, a little shyly. ‘Thank you. But you know, you don’t have to go to all this trouble for breakfast, Brendan’.

‘You need a good breakfast inside you if you’re going to be running round catching criminals all day and I don’t mind at all’ said Brendan.

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