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fucking dog was eating his fucking food and drinking out of his fucking dish. Frederick wasn’t big on sharing. Canine intolerant. That was Frederick.
    Both Danny and Luke thought the cat’s reaction to Granger was pretty funny. Granger didn’t seem to care one way or the other. He was too busy scarfing up the cat’s Meow Mix to worry about the cat.
    By the time Danny and Luke had drunk their first Cokes and scrambled around in the fridge for seconds, they were friends. Sometimes friendship just happens that way, Danny figured. Then he wondered if people ever fall in love that fast.
    While trying to make sensible conversation and trying not to say anything stupid, and also trying not to get lost in Luke’s cornflower-blue eyes, which was a constant hazard, Danny was too busy and too inexperienced to know love sometimes does indeed happen that fast. In fact, it had already happened to him. He was just too untested in the ways of love to know it yet. When he did figure it out, it would either make him the happiest guy on the planet, or it would break his fucking heart.
    Danny was also too inexperienced to understand that universal truth.

Chapter 3

     
    L UKE was sitting at the kitchen table next to Danny, looking down at Danny’s cast. “So does that thing hurt?”
    It did hurt a little, but Danny thought he would make more points by being stoic. “Nah. Itches though. Itches like crazy.”
    Luke scooted his chair around until he was in a position to pick up Danny’s leg, the one with the cast on it, and place it in his lap.
    “Gosh, it’s heavy,” Luke said. “Must be a bitch dragging this thing around all day.”
    “No kidding,” Danny said, still shooting for stoic, with just a hint of heroic forbearance thrown in to make it more manly. Or so he hoped.
    Danny was practically holding his breath by this time, wondering what was going to happen next. Under his shorts he was still commando, after all. Anything could pop up without warning. He couldn’t help wondering how fast his new neighbor would run out of the house if Danny’s dick suddenly poked its head out of the bottom of his shorts to say hello.
    Blithely unaware of the thoughts running through Danny’s head, for which Danny was truly grateful, Luke gently slid his finger inside the top edge of Danny’s cast, just far enough in to make it snug. While he talked, he left it there. Oddly enough, that cool finger stuck inside his cast, made Danny’s itch go away. That one particular itch, anyway.
    Unfortunately, it made the other itch worse.
    Danny jumped when he felt his cock stir. To head it off at the pass, so to speak, he once again started talking without really thinking about what he was saying. Happily, this time he made a little sense.
    “So you bought the house next door. It’s been vacant a long time. Hope you like the place. It’ll be nice to have neighbors again! Aren’t you a little young to buy a house? Or maybe I shouldn’t ask that. Sounds nosy.”
    Luke smiled. He seemed to know Danny was uneasy, although Danny prayed to God Luke didn’t know why . With his index finger still tucked inside the top of Danny’s cast just below Danny’s knee, Luke placed his drink back on the table. While the fingers of his other hand were still cold from holding the soda, he started massaging the toes sticking out from the bottom of Danny’s cast. Danny actually had to close his eyes, it felt so good.
    “My dad rented it with the option to buy,” Luke said, paying particular attention to Danny’s littlest piggy. Massaging it, flexing it, making it grunt with happiness like all happy little piggies do when they’re having the time of their lives. “My dad’s gay,” Luke added. “We moved here so he can be closer to his boyfriend. I don’t know if they’re going to move in together or not. I think Dad wants to be sure they are absolutely right for each other before he takes that final step.”
    “Wow,” was all Danny could say to that.