Growing Pains
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“What now?” asked Richard. “Got any of your bright ideas?”
“Like to take you to bed,” said Stephen, reaching down and fondling him.
“In a little while,” said Richard, easing himself into a better position to be fondled. “But what shall we do? In the long term, I mean.”
“Well, you know, I did have one idea,” said Stephen. “While I was talking to Guilfoyle.”
“Yes?”
“Well, it suddenly crossed my mind, all over again — you know, as if I’d almost forgotten it. Odd, really.”
“Yes,” said Richard patiently. “But what was it?”
“Well, it suddenly crossed my mind that I’m a rich man.”
“Well, boy, anyway,” said Richard.
“Well said,” said Stephen, biting his ear. “Kindly accept this Pat Gibson Award for sensitivity.”
“All right,” conceded Richard, with his old, familiar gurgle of a laugh. Stephen’s heart suddenly ached for a moment, as he reflected how rarely he had heard that laugh in recent weeks. “All right,” Richard repeated, “you’re a rich man or boy. What about it?”
“Well, guess what I fancy? Apart from you, of course.”
“I can’t imagine,” murmured Richard demurely. “What do you fancy?”
“I fancy a game of cricket,” said Stephen, dreamily.
“Eh? There’s no cricket now,” said Richard.
“There is in Australia,” said Stephen. Richard sat curled up in the window, watching the fat raindrops lashing themselves into squirming amoeba-shapes against the window panes, feeling Stephen’s strong, supple fingers stroking him gently, and thought about sunshine and the twang of Australian voices, icy drinks in glasses frosted with condensation and white figures flitting to and fro. “Well, love,” he said slowly. “You are a rich man…”
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