“Call Enzo! I spoke with his family and him this morning. Its three in the evening there, call him!” Des pushed his phone to Alex.
“Alex!” Enzo looked handsome as ever, he was wearing a white shirt and was clean shaven and wide awake.
“Was it all a lie?” Alex didn’t want any casual discussion with him, he wanted to know if he should wait or move on?
“No! I loved you! I thought I wanted all that but Alex, I don’t want to leave my family and a chance to have a normal and decent life, because I met a handsome man in the US!” Enzo sighed and sat on a boulder, a beautiful blue sea in his background.
“So you were experimenting with a Big Black American stupido?” Alex’s voice broke.
Des and Cathy took Casey and went in the bedroom, giving him privacy.
“Alex! Don’t say that! I really enjoyed our time together and we finished our course a year back. You knew I wanted to come back and open my patisserie here.” Enzo spoke slowly, as if he was talking to an American tourist who may not understand his accent.
“Yes! Sorry I held you back Enzo! You take care and best of luck!” Alex raised his eyes and saw the wedding ring on Enzo’s left finger, it made him feel numb. “And do a good job in being her Marito!” The word opening the dam of tears and it just flowed, refusing to stop.
Enzo started to say something but Alex hung up on him, laid his head on the table and cried. After a long time Des touched his shoulder, Alex turned around, hugged Des and cried himself hoarse.
****
Alex sat in the car, he had driven around the town and landed in the restaurant, he and Enzo used to work and the first time they had kissed in the alley. The restaurant was busy at this time but it still was exactly the same. But it didn’t hurt as much and even though his nostalgia had made him drive to this place, the only person and image in his mind was Noah.
He was surprised when the only thought that came to him was of bringing Noah to this restaurant for their famous croissant ham sandwich.
He realised that Enzo’s memory associated with the place that had made him not step foot for years was replaced with a desire to take Noah to a nice restaurant, for great food on a romantic date.
“I need to talk to him! Alex, think of something! You have to contact him before he leaves for Austin!” He spoke to himself and raked his brains to come up with a solution.
Alex had Rene lie face down on the bed with his knees bent and hips slightly raised. For comfort and to increase the angle of Rene’s bony hips, Alex placed a pillow under his lower abs. He entered him from behind, keeping his weight off the thin tall effeminate Rene, by propping himself up with his arms. Rene moaned and whimpered as Alex, took him thoroughly from behind. Using his muscular thighs and huge biceps, he did push-ups over Rene, pushing his huge dick in and out of the bony ass and its loose hole. Rene after the initial penetration and couple of minutes of being taken from behind, started talking which was extremely distracting and off-putting for Alex.
He turned Rene around, making him lie on his back, pushed his bent legs up into the air. He adjusted his legs slightly past shoulder-length apart, and Rene had to grip the soles of his feet with his hands, to stabilise his body as the huge Alex, fucked him mercilessly. The position, attention to keep balance and the pleasure of being jackhammered by the most handsome man he had ever been with, shutting him up completely.
Alex shut his eyes and imagined being on a date with Noah. Noah was smiling and trying different types of food from the mezzo platter as Alex fed him with his fingers.
“Look dude! I don’t know what went on between you and Noah but the boy is hurting like crazy!” Rene sounded angry as he put on his skimpy underwear, “You know Kay gave me such a hard time for introducing you to her sweet boy… but I was like… Listen girl… I didn’t introduce Alex to Noah… He piled on that poor kid and then made jokes about his sunglasses. He liked the way you smelled… I was like … Kay, Alex smells delish… but Hey! That’s me! I got eyes, I can take care of myself… This is my city and no one hurts Rene on his turf… But you darling… you broke our poor cowboy cutie! That’s mean as hell and it happened when I was babysitting the innocent little puppy! But its sweet that you are pimping yourself like this for Noah. I appreciate your gesture and this fuck! You were top of my bucket list!”
Alex didn’t know how to react to the statement, he wanted no one by Noah, but he was ready to sleep through the senior citizen baseball team after a summer afternoon game to get to Noah.
Rene was all sassy and gave Alex an earful for another ten minutes, which Alex deserved and apologised for, multiple times as he got cleaned up and dressed. The good thing was he did tell Alex, that Kay and Rob had taken Noah to the mall for some shopping.
“I told them not to go and stay home after the weather warning but uh…huh… no one listens to Rene!” He went on for another five minutes about how smart he is and how dumb everyone else is. Alex quickly said goodbye and ran out of Rene’s apartment to get to the mall before Noah left for Austin.
****
“Sir, have you seen him? He is five six, brown hair, he is wearing a green shirt and dark sunglasses.” Kay asked the seventeenth person at the mall lobby, where hundreds of people were locked in, the sudden cyclone raging the city. Rob, Kay and Alex were looking for Noah in the crowd. Alex had found Kay in tears as Noah got separated from them at the parking lot, in the panic of the sudden winds and rain. Now after almost 25 minutes they were not able to find him anywhere.
“Sir! SIR!” Alex ran after the uniformed officer. “SIR! This is Noah Smith, I can’t find him!” Alex was on the verge of tears.
“We are in a crisis situation and there are some people in the basement parking as well, let’s wait for some time and we can check for him. I am sure he is okay. He was in the mall with you right?” The officer understood Alex’s panic and didn’t want to dismiss him.
“Sir he had come with someone here and this cyclone started and they lost sight of him in the parking lot.” Alex wiped his eyes and his face with his free hand, the other clutching his phone tightly.
The officer gave Alex a one over, six feet, muscular, buzz cut, black with shocking green eyes, he looked like a young Idris Elba.
He took the phone and looked at the picture on the phone, a thin young white man, with longish brown hair falling on his forehead, smiling and happy, wearing dark black sunglasses. “What did you say his name is? I will keep an eye out for him.”
He spoke loudly trying to get heard over the howling winds and torrential rain outside.
“His name is Noah … Noah Smith… he is blind!” Alex couldn’t stop the panic creeping in his voice this time.
Alex took the two flights of stairs to the basement. There were people there but the lights were dim, he used his phone torch and started looking for Noah. “Noah! Are you here?” He called out.