When Robbo Met Daniel by Liam Livings

Author:Liam Livings [Livings, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA+, Vacation, out for you, coming out, first time, friends to lovers
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2021-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Robbo spent the afternoon sunbathing, swimming, splashing, bombing, and diving to be precise—and drinking a series of ever stronger alcoholic drinks with the other lads.

By the time he was sipping a large cosmopolitan cocktail—or metropolitan, or something like that, Maya had said when ordering it at the bar—Robbo had retired to the dappled shade of a tree in the corner of the garden so he could observe Daniel and Sam from afar. Hopefully without being seen.

It was strange, and a bit creepy observing them and knowing they couldn’t see him. “I’ve got a bit of a headache. Having a bit of a doze,” he’d said, to the crowd of lads when he had picked up his belongings and deposited himself under the tree.

“You seem quiet,” Caspian had said, a worried look on his face. “Too much booze?”

“Too much sun.” Robbo brushed away the concern, keen to get away and take up the position he so needed to be in. He’d spent the hour imagining what Daniel and Sam were talking about, wondering if they had been together, and how that added a certain extra dynamic between gay friends, he didn’t have with his male friends. And then he’d started wondering why he was thinking about that so much.

“Becky.” He shrugged to Caspian who simply smiled back. “It might have been the biggest mistake of my life splitting up from her. Is that possible, do you think?”

“Mate, I’ve lost count between you two. You were on, you were off, then you were on again. Alls I care about is you being happy.”

“Me too,” Robbo said wistfully, half to himself, and half to Caspian. “Wish I knew the secret.”

With a snort, and a pat of the shoulder, Caspian left.

Robbo collected his belongings and headed to his hiding place by the tree.

Now, having been observing—yes, that was a better word than spying on, Robbo decided—observing Daniel and Sam, for nearly an hour, and yet he still had nothing to go by. Still, despite trying to lip read, he couldn’t tell at all what they were talking about. He wished he’d done that lip-reading evening class, Becky had suggested a few years ago. He forgot why it had come up, but now, it would have been just the ticket.

They were laughing now. Sam and Daniel were bantering back and forth and laughing loudly. Bloody friends and their bloody jokes.

Robbo glanced back to the pool where the other guests sat in pairs, long tanned limbs curled around other longer less tanned limbs. Hands rubbing sun cream on the backs of others. Drinks passing from one hand to the next. More laughing. It was fucking well like Noah and his ark—bloody animals going on two by two. And he’d gone and thrown his other half over the edge of the ark, like the twat that he was, and now here was he, spying on two gay guys and then returning to his room alone and wanking in the shower, while thinking about something he had no business to be imagining.

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