Climax

Midnight call 4

Dananjay Reddy

"No, mamma. I'm in the office. Yes, working. Bye." I cut the call, cursing my cousin for getting married this soon.

When anyone in my huge extended family got married, I had to hear a standard tear jerking speech from mamma. I couldn't fault her. She wanted me to get married and have a family like every boy around her did.

She didn't know that her son wasn't like every other boy.

For one, I was gay. I had no doubt she would go to an early grave if I told her that.

For the other, I was in love with my idiot boss who was currently eyeing me like I was a puzzle piece. When he came to see me yesterday, I had this minuscule hope that maybe he liked me. He put a bomb on that hope by asking me to be his sex worker. Asshole. If it was anyone else, I would have hit and then asked questions. But it was Will.

Did I say that I was blinded by my love for him? There was no other reason for me to come back. Fuck me.

Now my cousin was tying the knot. I had to go home this time. I hadn't visited my family in four years. I should go. Even though I hated mamma for her constant nagging, I missed everything else about her.

My intercom sang. "What do you want?" I snapped.

"Why are you looking worried?" Will asked.

"None of your business." I glared at him. A glass door split our office spaces in a big room that only we two occupied.

"You're not working. It's my business."

Without breaking eye contact, I put the receiver back down and got out of my seat. He could shove that attitude right up his ass.

With slowly building anger, I walked out of the room. He wasn't like this when I joined this damned company. He was still in college and visited once in a while. Whichever floor he was in, he had everyone clutching their middle with laughter.

My phone rang.

It's him.

I let it go to voicemail and went to the pantry.

A few clusters of people stood and chatted while drinking their coffee or whatever.

An intern waved at me. "Hey, Dan. GG left?"

"No..." I took my mug and turned to wash it when the whole room went quiet.

Will stood there, glaring.

Like scared pigeons everyone flew out of the room in a blink of an eye.

"Who is GG?" He asked, getting closer to where I stood.

"You. Grumpy Gun." I explained and filled my cup with hot water for tea.

He scoffed. "Gun? Why?"

"You fire."

"Ha ha ha."

"Do you want a drink?" I placed a tea bag in mine and let it seep.

"Why did you walk out? I just wanted to know why you were upset." He glanced around the pantry as if it was a new coffee shop. Maybe it was for him. He never came to pantries. It was beneath his position.

"Then you went and pulled the I'm the boss, everything is my business shit." I grumbled.

"I always pull that shit." He leaned on the counter and smelled my mug. His shoulder brushed mine.

Gritting my teeth, I moved an inch away.

"If we're talking about what you always do, what you did back there wasn't your always. Why even ask me a personal question?" I shot back.