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It has been eight months since the loss of there father.
During those eight months, he and Sam had taken the first tentative steps to becoming lovers. If had not been an easy choice to accept Sam as a lover but it was a happy one. Sam completes him in ways that no other lover had done before. Sam only had to say a few words and he felt as if he was flying. Sam had given him a new confidence emotionally but that was something he would never tell Sam.
Then his bitter cynical side began to show. He would look for any word or the slightest gesture to prove that Sam was going to leave him. He began to have small arguments with Sam. Small arguments that Sam would not remember the next day but would be burned into his mind. His more sensible part scream at him not to look for a fault were there was none. He ignored that part of himself and carried on with what passed as normal for him. He had always put down that bitter cynical side of him as a defence mechanism. A defence mechanism that had built up over the years and one that always kicked in when certain actions happened. Actions that involved someone breaking there promise or forgetting something that meant a lot to him. It was actions like that which led to his defence kicking in. Most of the time he did not even realize that it had happened until it was too late to stop.
Today was one of those days when that defence mechanism kicked in full force.
Two days ago, it had been his 28th birthday. He was not expecting a lot he never had done when it came to his birthdays. Just an acknowledgement that it was birthday would have done but that acknowledgement never came. He had spent his birthday just as he would any other day.
It was as if he did not really rate that high on anyone's list of priorities. He should be angry that his birthday had been so easily forgotten but he was not angry. He just accepted it for what it was and tired to forget that no one cared enough to remember.