From Across The Hall – 31

All that worrying. All that fretting and pining and telling himself off for looking, and Ruben is now getting ready to go on a date. With Sam. The guy who’s had his attention for months, but he’s been too uncertain to do anything about.

Stood at that bus stop missing two buses that would have got him home, Sam and Ruben had talked. In halting, awkward, stumbling words of course, about their attraction for one another, how they’ve both been interested for a while, but weren’t sure if the feeli...