Queer as Folk
Keep a date with Bobby Palm and his five brothers
Chapter four: A night full of surprises
Ben had his arms wrapped around Michael's waist, he was feeling wonderful and was pleased to be pushed closer to his man by all the people around them. The night at Babylon was something they didn't often do, since they were 'parents' they were walking on a straight line, no pun intended. Not that Ben used to go at Babylon so much by the past but it was different for Michael, he was a regular there. They kept dancing and when tired returned toward Brian and Justin at the counter. Brian was often at the counter nowadays, usually he would've been on the dance floor with a guy or on the high floor looking for a prey but since he was with Justin he was doing so less and less.
"Oh by the way Mickey, thanks for giving my location away to strangers without even consulting me first" Brian told Michael as he sat down.
"You're talking about that little guy?" Michael laughed and taking a stern face added: "Well I'm sorry, he said he knew you and didn't look like trouble" he hid a laugh.
"So where do you know the guy from anyway?" Ben asked sipping his beer.
Brian expired and took a sip of his drink before speaking: "It was five years ago. I was in New York for a work switch for Vagrant and he was a first year student who was under instruction and placed under the care of my boss there, so the guy dropped that kid on me and we can say that I took good care of him."
"You slept with the guy?" Michael chuckled surprised. Ben looked as surprised and Justin looked just annoyed.
Brian took a pensive look: "I've always thought of myself as a mentor".
"Yeah, you have so much knowledge to give" Michael said sarcastically.
"But" Ben said going out of his thoughtful position "if it was five years ago, the guy was like what? When you say first year, you don't mean High school, do you? No coz he looks a little young to have slept with you five years ago"
Michael hadn't thought of that and couldn't wait to know what Brian had to answer. But Michael knew Brian would've never fucked a kid…… well maybe he could've but not 'that' young, not ten years his junior…… oh let's drop it.
"He was nineteen on his first year of college and he doesn't look that young, he just looks that ridiculous" said Justin annoyed.
"So what? He's with you during two weeks, you fuck him before getting back and five years later he comes see you and say 'hi'?" Michael summarized.
"Yeah, he's on his way to New York. What do you want, I'm unforgettable. And what about you two love birds, you've let your chick in the nest? Aren't you afraid he'd burn the place down?"
"Ben and I took our night off, told Hunter that we'd go to the restaurant and he shouldn't wait for us" Michael said turning toward Ben and placing a kiss on the other man's lips.
Brian rolled his eyes and fixed them on the dance floor as to block out the picture next to him. He took his glass and sipping his scotch thought about his day, normally after a rough day he would've went to Babylon drank a lot found a cutie brought him home and fucked him till he passed out but tonight he would go home with Justin, maybe get an anonymous blow job in the backroom and dance with Justin first, sometimes ago he would've found that ridiculous but well gotta do what you gotta do.
"Say Michael" the man said his eyes still on the dancing crowd "how's it going with the kid?"
Michael turned a fazed stare toward Brian, since when Brian cared about Hunter? Michael thought. "Well, it's okay, I think we got all settled and we live like a real family. It's hard sometimes but he listens to us at the least"
"Really?" Brian asked still staring at the crowd and a sneer taking place across his face "and is he allowed staying out past midnight?"
"Hell no! Took us enough time to put a curfew into his little head"
"So I guess, being in a night club reserved to IDs past midnight is totally forbidden?"
Michael screwed his eyes: "Where are you going?"
"Well, personally I'm not going anywhere, but I can tell you that your precious rent-boy is going to the backroom sometimes like right now" he said and finished pointing a direction.
Michael followed the direction with his eyes and saw Hunter walking through the crowd with some guy wearing lots of piercing. Michael jumped off his seat and tugged hysterically at Ben's sleeve. Michael couldn't believe his eyes! After all they've been through he couldn't imagine why that damn kid would've done something as stupid as this, not once did he think that Hunter was sixteen soon seventeen and had lived in the streets so a little escapade in the middle of the night was something they should've seen coming. Michael barely ran toward Hunter but Ben held him still catching his shirt before he was out of reach. Ben put Michael back on his seat and asked him to relax while he was going to get the teen.
Apparently, seeing Hunter's face as a not so pleased Ben came and grabbed his elbow, the kid was confounded and a lot embarrassed. When Hunter arrived at the counter Ben on his heels Michael jumped off his seat again with that little gesture full of ridiculous angst.
"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked and before Hunter could answer he continued "How did you get in? Did you use a false ID! Did you?"
"You know you should really stop yelling about my fake ID coz if you didn't know it's not legal" Hunter said tranquillity.
Michael was fuming and as much as Brian first thought it would be funny he realized that it wasn't so he took Justin's wrist and brought him to the dance floor. Michael held his hand out: "Give it to me" he said coldly but Michael trying to be cold wasn't something believable. Hunter took the ID out of his pocket and gave it to Michael's extended hand.
"It's my ID!" he screamed "you stole my ID! You stole!" the sin of all sins.
"Technically, I didn't steal it since it was lying around" Hunter retorted completely detached.
"In my wallet!" Michael yelled near hysteria again. Ben put his hand on Michael's shoulder trying to ease the game.
"I think we should get back home" he said wisely.
"Yeah, I think you guys should get back home to release some tension here" Hunter hadn't finished his sentence when Ben's strong hand grabbed him by the collar and dragged him outside.
"Oh my God!" Michael yelled as he pushed Ben and Hunter out of the apartment.
"I tried to tell you but you wouldn't stop screaming" Hunter said trying to get a glimpse of inside through the half closed door.
"Emmett!" Michael screamed through the door.
Emmett who had been busy on Michael and Ben's couch with his new boyfriend grabbed his clothes and dressed up as fast as he could while Dennis was doing nothing but the same. Emmett being Emmett knew how to deal with embarrassing situations, well either that or he really saw his friends as understanding persons.
"I can explain!" he shot.
Michael had his eyes opened wider than his ears so he didn't really care right now if Emmett had an explanation, he didn't think that anything could explain this. When the door opened Michael turned the other way showing his back to Emmett and Dennis as Emmett was throwing his date out. When the man was gone in the stairs Michael entered the apartment not looking at Emmett apologetic glares. Michael felt like going to bed and erase everything after midnight like in Cinderella, the beginning of the night had been perfect and everything began to turn bad after midnight. Thank God Michael had his other half to deal with things when he just couldn't anymore, thinking about it Ben would always be the one dealing with things calmly while Michael would just do or say extreme useless things or maybe not.
"You threw Hunter out to jug up some buns!" Michael said, this guy had talent to sum up situations. Hunter rolled his eyes at Michael's tabby expression and took the way to his room.
"Don't you move!" came Ben's voice.
Emmett approached Michael and his hands crossed over his chest said: "Of course not! He could've stayed!"
Michael's face was a perfect picture of disgust: "What! That's worse!" Ben was perplex copy that.
"You don't get it" Emmett said and began to clarify the situation "Dennis and I were coming over to get that cell phone I gave you two days ago and when we arrived Hunter was going out, he said you two were okay with it even though it's not my business, so Dennis and I" Emmett smiled he loved to say Dennis and I "we took advantage of the situation to…… take advantage of the situation"
"Why didn't you go to his place?"
"Well, he doesn't want to he's really weird about that" Emmett said thoughtful "I hope he doesn't have a beard or something"
Michael seemed to relax and come to the fact that all that was not such a big deal, he just shook it all away as his shook his head: "yeah, well next time you're in this situation try not to be in that situation, I mean don't be!"
