Discovering The Real Luke

Decision Time

As I’m standing there with my mouth wide open, I tall muscular figure standing at the door, his tattoos showing off and I instantly recognise them as he smiles “Hey you must be Luke” he says as I shake my head confused by the introduction like we’re total strangers. “I’m Alex,” he says as he puts his hand out, am I missing something here or did I just pass out in the heat.

Walking around looking at the place, I’m so focused on trying to work out why AJ or Alex is acting as if I’m a complete stranger here. I try to get my head around the situation, he looks the same so maybe he’s a twin or something but he can’t because I remember that compass on the inside of his right arm so vividly wrapped around my body as we slept together last night and there is no way that something that intricate is that widely tattooed. AJ… or Alex shows me around the room that would be mine if I moved in here.

The apartment is just amazing, it’s about a 10-minute tram ride to the College and the stop is just across the road so there isn’t too much wrong with it other than it being slightly out of my budget and the fact that my parents would have an absolute conniption over the fact that I’ve decided to move in with somebody that I don’t know, that is covered in the devil’s drawings as Mum calls it and the fact that he is gay.

Alex finishes showing me around the apartment, it’s a three-bedroom place but he uses the third bedroom for work which he still doesn’t quite tell me what he does exactly. I finish up looking at the place finally getting my head back straight into line almost convincing myself that AJ and Alex are two different people despite the fact that they are the same person.

Sitting down on the couch, Alex starts to talk details “So the plan is to have a $600 down payment as a bond, that’s just so that I’m not being messed around about the apartment” he says as I nod knowing this is a bit pricey but the best place of all. 

“Then it’s $550 a week rent, which is half of the rent and then another $50 a week for the power and water bills,” he says as my eyes open given that it’s $200 over what I was aiming to pay but the extra space, company and the money I’ll save getting to and from college will be worth it and being closer to the city.

“No worries, I have to think about it for a few days because it is at the top end of my budget,” I say as Alex nods understanding my need to potentially adjust things. “That’s fine man, preferably if you could let me know by say Thursday then I can let somebody else know that is curious about it whether it is still available”.

“Would you like a drink or anything?” he asks me as I nod “Just a bottle of water would be fine thanks” as he walks over and puts the bottle and glass down in front of me on a coaster emphasising that the glass needs to go on it. Sitting there as I take a drink, the question that keeps going through my mind is did he have a clue that it was me coming to see him this whole time about the apartment or was it just a coincidence.

There’s silence as Alex walks off to answer his everyday phone and I sit there having a look at the pictures on the wall, I have doubts about whether everything he said the night before was right or just play-acting to make me feel more comfortable. I see plenty of family pictures and take a look at a picture on the TV cabinet taken when I would guess that he was 14 or 15 with his family at Kingdom Peak which sits right between Franklin and McKenzie Falls and always has been a historical battle between the two towns over which township owns it despite it appearing on maps as belonging to Wynham another town east of the pair.

Looking at the photos before sitting down, I realise that AJ/Alex did grow up in McKenzie Falls with all the pictures making me realise that a lot of what he said was true about growing up out there and knowing the situation. Alex comes back into the room “Sorry about that, just needed to take that about work” he says as I look at his muscles peeking through his shirt.

I make my excuses about having to leave which is timing because Alex says that he is working again tonight so needs to go and get ready for it. Picking up my backpack, it still feels weird because I’ve convinced myself they are two different people but at the same time, everything just says that they are the same guy. I head to the door and open it “Hey Luke, it was good to see you again” he says as I wander out and he closes the door.

Wanting to go back and knock on the door, I take two steps towards the door before deciding that it isn’t worth it so I get in the lift and head outside. As I head outside, I check my phone and there is a string of messages mostly from Mum, but also one from Hayley and one from my older brother Timothy.

10:21 am: “Morning beautiful boy, hope you were in bed nice and early after praying for guidance today, hope it goes well” xx – Mum’s first text

10:53 am: “Hey bro, Mum says you’re in Westvale, can you grab Ella her Barbie Magazine book please, the newsagent here can’t get it in, pay you back when you drop it off” Tim, my 3rd oldest brother who’s 31

11:22 am: “Hey Sweetie, on your shopping list can you add something for Richie’s birthday, turns out he’s got the car set we got him” – Hayley checking in and asking me to get something else.

11:46 am: “Luke, it’s your mother here, please tell me everything is ok with you, you didn’t reply or see my last message” – Mum’s second text

12:04 pm “Luke… I’m worried, this is a bad idea you should come home tonight” – Mum’s third text

13:28 pm “Luke… Your father and I are worried about your behaviour and think you need to call us and cancel this roommate apartment” – Mum’s fourth text.

I get out of the building and ring Mum to alleviate her concerns and she answers almost instantly “Oh goodness Luke you’re ok, I’ve been praying for you to be ok, you had me so worried that something had happened to you” she says taking everything to the extreme as my mother tends to do.

“I’m fine Mum, I just forgot to turn my phone back on after meeting with the real estate agent for the apartments,” I say when really my intention the whole time was just to do this all without her which is a miracle to say the very least. “Did you cancel that last apartment where you have to share with that person?” she asks me as I umm and ahh for a minute and then just tell the truth to her.

“No, I’m actually just outside the apartment now after meeting with the guy who is renting it out,” I say as she tuts down the line “This is a person who you don’t know Luke… how can you be so ready to trust someone you met this afternoon to live with for three years”. Mum has a valid point although I definitely will not be telling her about the fact that we had met before last night and had sex.

I sigh “Mum, this apartment bar the price is absolutely perfect, it’s big and spacious, it’s literally on the same road as the Campus and the tram stops right out the front of both so I’m not walking that far and in bad areas and there is someone to be with when I need company” my point is one that I think is valid and reasonable but of course, Mum doesn’t agree.

“Well yes but you get that here under our roof under God’s castle,” she says to me as I pull the phone away for a moment and just let out a little sigh. I don’t think that I’m anti-religion in fact I still am quite a spiritual person but I believe that there is a time and place for that and believe that the world does not revolve around the bible or whatever religious text you believe in.

I put the phone back to my ear “Are you listening to me Luke? Or has the lure of the devil in the city got to you” she says as I shake my head. “Of course, I’m listening Mum, you were talking about how it’s better to be at home in Franklin because I’m with family, god’s watching over me,” I say getting the general gist of what she was talking about because it’s always the only topic she uses.

Hanging up the phone, Mum’s pep talk about trying to get me to just ignore the option of living in Alex’s place and deciding not to go to College actually makes me more determined and eager to be living with Alex and doing more of what I did last night. Heading back into the city, I’ve managed to get a QuickCard and head back to the hotel.

3:58 pm: “Hey thanks for coming today Luke, was good to see you again 😉” – Alex texts me

“See me again?” I mutter to myself as I look at my phone “I’m right it is AJ… but why all this other nonsense that he wants to go on about as if he is a totally different person, I mean maybe in the hall with other people but in his apartment, he was like a stranger I was meeting first time even though he’s the guy I had sex with last night and was kissing this morning.

I get back to the hotel and dump my bag down and lay back on the bed for a few minutes, just exhausted physically and mentally by everything that happened over the past day and a half and I just lay down and go to sleep. Waking up I look at the time and realise that it’s 5:42 pm and panic that everything that I was planning to do is wasted because everything would be totally closed.

Changing my clothes, I check my phone at somewhere I can call into the shops and quickly realise that everything in Westvale is open until 9 pm even on a weekend as opposed to the late 4 pm the last shops close in Franklin other than the supermarket which closes at 8.

Wandering out, it’s weird to see somewhere so busy at night because even for me working nights is pretty quiet working at the Cinemas in town because really people are only out to go there or to stop in at the late-night café. Exploring the city my phone rings and yet again it’s Mum on the phone checking in on me.

“Hi Mum, what’s the matter?” I ask before she gets on her high horse again “I just wanted to check if you were alright and had dinner tonight” she asks me as I just answer her question to the point that she wants. “I’m about to go and have dinner now, I had a nap after I got back from the apartment because I was tired from walking and just everything,” I say trying to keep her calm because she’ll throw another conniption about me being out in the city after dark.

I hang up the phone and head down into the city, I find a Japanese place that doesn’t look too busy and head in there for dinner. It’s different to anything in Franklin and it probably looks embarrassing that I’m sitting at the table by myself but that’s how it is.

Eating dinner, my tastebuds are opened to a new world of flavours that just add to my desire to move to town permanently rather than just for college. I finish up eating the Teriyaki Chicken Katsu which is amazing and then go shopping. 

Walking through the shops is an experience as well, I see the wide and varied range of what I could be wearing when I compare to what I have at home. I spot an underwear shop down an alley full of shops and I walk in there, eyes wide open at everything.

“Hey man, we’ve got a 50% off sale on so have a look and enjoy, any questions hit me up” the guy unpacking pink jockstraps and harnesses says as I wander around glancing at his arms and body as he does it. I’m almost instantly attracted to a Turquoise coloured jockstrap, the design of it and the colour is just phenomenal and I have to get it.

“That’s a great product, got a couple of that brand myself,” the guy says to me pretty casually which takes me by surprise how open people are about these things. “I haven’t worn a jock… ever so just having a look,” I say feeling embarrassed as he puts his arm around me “There’s nothing wrong with that man”. 

Walking through the store, I pick up a medium and hold it against myself and decide that I might as well get it. Heading to the counter, every pair of underwear I’ve ever worn has been out of a multipack from the RightPrice Warehouse store.

“Just the Turquoise Jock today?” he says as I have a look around “Yeah, I’ll try this out first and might be back for more,” I say smiling as he smiles, his smile infectious and attractive. I head out of the shop and get on my phone to try and find the Chocolate Shop and then a Toy Shop to get a birthday present for Hayley’s nephew Richie.

I get everything I need and put the bags into the hotel room and decide that I might as well go down to the bar that is just near the hotel. I walk in and find a spot at the bar, watching the game that is on and having a beer. The taste isn’t what I expected but quickly find the spot with a Vodka and Coke and although I know I don’t have too many I know that it is more than one.

After a couple of hours, I head back up to the hotel and pass out on the bed having a good night only waking up when my alarm goes off at 8:30.

6:55 am “Morning Luke, I hope you find the church this morning, I’ll be at the station at 1:30 to meet you and pick you up” - Mum

7:52 am “Hey sweetie, the car set you got him is amazing and he’ll love it” – Hayley

 I realise the time and text Mum even though I know she’ll already be at church and have her phone turned off

“I couldn’t find a Church around here that was, there’s only a Catholic Cathedral and I know you don’t want me going there… plus they only do 9:30 am and I need to be at the station at about 10:00” 

That’s not exactly true, but it’s an excuse that will do me well because I know what it means to Mum. I finish up at the hotel and grab my bags and grab a morning coffee before heading to the station to head back home which I really don’t want to do.

The train ride back home is excruciatingly slow with trackwork meaning that we have to go slow, dragging the time out by about an hour, so I’m eventually back at Franklin Station at 2:25 instead of 1:30. Mum meets me at the station and gives me a look up and down like I’ve done something in the city “What’s the matter, Mum?” I say as she shakes her head. “Nothing was just looking at what you wearing today”.

Getting home, I put my bag down, forgetting that I’ve got the Jock hiding in my clothes which Mum goes to grab instantly to wash. “Hang on Mum, I’ve got stuff in there that’s clean so let me put it away before you do anything,” I say hiding my newly purchased jockstrap in the bottom of my cold weather drawer.

“So have you made a decision on which apartment you want to get?” she asks as Dad wanders in and looks curious about the decision that I have made. “Yes, it’s the one with the roommate,” I say confidently, making my decision about things which doesn’t go down too well with my mother.

Her face is turning red as she thinks that I’m doing it to solely go behind her back which may be true because Alex is everything that she would hate having tattoos and being gay. 

“Mum, I looked at the two other choices and they weren’t that great, the first apartment is literally no bigger than our dining room with a bathroom connected, the second worked out to be more like 45 minutes away from the campus and the area didn’t seem that great, but the one with Alex meant that I’m only a 10-minute tram ride from the campus, I’m not living alone in case anything happens and with someone else around there is just more protection”.

Mum still doesn’t look convinced by my decision “We don’t know Alex, that’s my biggest concern what if he’s really a thief or a drug addict” she says as I sit there listening to her trying to be polite. “Like I said on the phone, he’s originally from McKenzie Falls and we actually have plenty in common so it will be good,” I say as I’m not convincing Mum.

“I think you should take the one-bedroom apartment, you’re safe from anyone else coming into the place, you’ll be only going to college and getting a job somewhere in the city, right? So why do you need to go fancy” she says as I throw my hands up getting annoyed and walk out.

“I’m 18 mum, you gave me the choice to do this because you didn’t want me to live on Campus so be reasonable, if I’m paying the rent then I get to choose where I live and it’s in the apartment with Alex,” I say calling back into the room as I walk and slam my door. I hear Mum raising her voice “Don’t you dare show us that level of disrespect again Luke, while you live in our house you will follow our rules or you’ll be on a path to the devil and hell” I go to go back out of my bedroom when my phone buzzes on my desk.

4:01 pm “Hey Luke, I just wanted to check if you had a good time the other night and was really great to see you” – AJ 

“Maybe Mum is right with the apartment because there is a real personality split between AJ and Alex,” I say as I sit down on my bed thinking about texting him back which I don’t do because I’ve got to get to see Hayley.

Walking out the door, I can see Mum praying at the table and overhear her “Dear lord, please guide my son Luke back into your path, I fear he is straying from the path and please use your guidance to bring him back”. Dad is sitting at the table across from me as he is praying with Mum but notices me and tells me to go before I can do anything.

Spending some time with Hayley is fun, but on Friday morning I saw her as my girlfriend and someone I could be with but after this weekend, I can’t see myself with anyone else but another man. I don’t bother talking to her about what I did because it would hurt her so much and I know word would get back to my folks.

I head home and take a deep breath before going in and apologising to Mum for having a go at her which I don’t necessarily mean but I want to clear the air. The next few days, I spend trying to figure out what I am going to do and even though it’s still a while before I start college, I quickly realise that still being at home with 4 of my siblings is not what I want or need.

“Hey Alex, I would love to take the apartment if you’ve still got it available, but my only concern is that I might not have enough at times in the first month or so to take it” 

I text him and feel really nervous that he has found someone else for the room already as he said that there was somebody else who wanted it. I head to work and turn my phone off, the serving of Popcorn and lollies that I’m likely to be sweeping up in two hours’ time is just so enthralling that I want to head to Westvale again now.

9:25 pm “Hey dude, of course, the apartment is still free for you to move into whenever you want and pro tip, if you’re trying to save up for rent then hiring an escort overnight might not be the smartest move” 

9:27 pm “No matter how much fun they have 😉” – Alex adds.

I smirk to myself, knowing for sure that AJ and Alex are the same person which was the only logical possibility despite the fact that I had to convince myself that they weren’t by how he acted when we met for the inspection on Saturday.

Heading home, nobody is awake at 11:30 when I get home so I just head straight into bed, laying there I think about how quickly things happen and how much AJ turned me on in-person and although he’s technically my landlord now, the thought of potentially being in the same apartment as him on a daily basis turns me on.

As I’m lying in bed, I close my eyes and very quickly find my cock growing hard thinking about AJ again. His pictures didn’t do him justice and the fact that his hair had grown out a bit made him so much more perfect as lay there imaging his smooth muscled body laying next to me in bed again. His hands exploring my body as he kisses my neck as I get naked and start running my hands down my body, playing with my nipples, twisting them around as he kisses me with his surprisingly smooth and soft lips over mine as he pushes his tongue into my mouth.

Imagining his hands over my toned chest makes my cock harder and I can feel the pre-cum in the slit growing as I moan, trying to keep things quiet so that I don’t disturb anyone but it’s really hard. I jerk my cock imagining AJ going back down on top of it firstly with his mouth as he kisses it and then sucks the head, slowly teasing it with his tongue as I try to imitate the feeling with my finger, running it around my shaft and with my other hand running my hand around my balls making them feel so good and helping to build the load of cum even bigger.

Closing my eyes and jerking my cock, I just picture AJ’s amazing ass getting ready to go down on it like he did in the hotel room. His ass slides slowly down my 9 inches of hard meat, his face a mix of pleasure and discomfort as he takes it slowly in before starting to ride me. AJ’s smooth thick thighs doing all the work as he keeps working hard riding my cock milking it with his tight hole as I feel hitting his prostate and just hearing his moans again almost pushes me over the edge.

I keep jerking slowly trying as my mind just plays AJ riding me as I pick up my speed of jerking and it’s not long before I feel my other hand working around my hole, teasing it like AJ did right before he started to fuck me hard. My hole still feels tender after its first-ever use the other night but pushing my finger in, is just what I needed to do as I am so close to blowing a massive load that I keep jerking until I feel the first load spray onto my face and then all over my chest. Trying so hard to not let out a really loud moan is hard because there is just so much cum coming out of my cock as I moan probably louder than what I wanted to but I just couldn’t help it.

Sneaking into the bathroom, I look at the mirror and realise that I’ve got cum stretching from my forehead and all over my chest and absolutely everywhere over my body. Trying to not disturb anyone I get into the shower quickly to wash it off and dry off as soon as possible and head back to bed.

The next morning I get up, Mum is up vacuuming in the lounge room and I can sense that she is still annoyed by our conversation and the fact that I have chosen the apartment with AJ but I’m comfortable with the choice and probably wouldn’t have made a different decision had I not met AJ the night before.

“Morning mum” I get a glare but then a “Morning Luke” back no real warmth in the greeting which is fine by me because I don’t care because nothing she can say will throw me off about the decision that I made.

I grab some breakfast and sit on the lounge but then move back to the dining table because of the glare and the rule about not eating out of the dining room. Sitting at the table Mum comes back in “So are you sure that the apartment with that person is the right one, it just feels like you could get yourself into trouble” she says as she sits across from me.

“Yes mum, I am sure about that apartment, it’s a bit more expensive but that was the best apartment and I feel much safer living with someone else when I don’t know the area” Mum isn’t convinced because she would prefer me not to leave Franklin and just stay here.

I sit there at the table as Mum gets up still not convinced by my decision but I am comfortable with it no matter what and I grab my laptop to show mum the pictures of it. I get up the first apartment which she sees is only as big as the living room and there is no furniture which would cost me more to fill up and that she doesn’t seem that impressed with.

Showing her the pictures of the second apartment, she seems much more impressed by it but when showing her the area on Google Maps there is some consternation about how much she liked it inside and then seeing her the area.

Finally, I show her the pictures of AJ’s apartment and she’s impressed and the fact that it’s fully furnished and really, I don’t need to do anything other than just take my stuff with me is perfect and she likes our new and the area around it has some good areas even though I supposedly won’t be going anywhere other than work or to the campus.

 “It’s a really nice place but are you sure that it is everything that it claims to be” I sigh again because we’ve been through this so many times in the past few days. “Yes, Mum I’m very sure because I’ve met the guy renting it out and he’s really friendly and clean-cut, there’s no drugs he’s super healthy, goes to the gym regularly and has a very solid job working in the city”.

“Well, I guess that you’ve made your mind up then about everything so there’s not much I can say, though I want to meet this person you are going to move in with and then I can make the final decision on whether I am ok with this all,” she says which is some positivity to the move but at the same time, I’ve already made the decision.

I text Alex, being careful not to text the wrong number back although it probably won’t really matter

“Hey, Alex… I’m good to move in as soon as you are ready for me to move in and I can come down, although my parents do want to meet you just to relieve their conscience although there is one thing that I need to ask, could you cover the tattoos up”. 

I’m worried that my text could drive AJ away from renting to me because of the baggage that I’m bringing with me to move in with him being my parents and all the nonsense that comes with me which is annoying.

10:23 am “No problems Luke, and yeah, I can do that man if it makes life easier for you; The room is free now so let me know when you want to move” 

AJ’s text tells me that I can move in whenever I want to and well it’s really enticing to say to my parents that I want to move down there night and get myself settled in and just build something new there, that makes me happy.