Gay story: Zac’s story – Chapter 17
Author: Zac22
“Goodnight you two.” She closed the door behind her.
“It really is the accent isn’t it?”
“I guess. Do think she really bought it?”
“Yeah, I think she did. Now grab one of those towels to clean up.” I pointed and Logan got up to retrieve a towel and wiped both of us off.
It was no time at all before the semester was coming to a close. Randy had found a job and was working on finding a new apartment after our lease was up. Logan had been waiting on replies from his applications but there wasn’t any word so far. I had no idea what I was going to do after graduation. My degree was in business and it really didn’t mean anything other than I knew how not to royally screw over a company. Any job I would find would require some serious training. I basically just had a filler degree, but it was a big filler though seeing as how now company or decent business would hire me without a four year degree.
It was the weekend before finals week. I didn’t have any finals as it was just two classes and I only needed to file some final paperwork to get my degree and move on. Logan took me out for a great dinner in celebration of me finally being done.
He was really sweet. We had wine and great food and he was in his best outfit and freshly shaved leaving only his nicely groomed strip of facial hair reaching from ear to ear. He even gelled his hair despite it being a buzz cut and there was nothing he could do with it. I guess it just made his hair shinier. He looked gorgeous. The whole night was amazing. We talked about fun little things going on and kept everything light. I could tell he was a little stressed and wanted to keep the mood light. He was worried about his applications so his being on edge was understandable. So we didn’t talk about that.
After a great night out, we went back to his apartment. The whole drive to his place was quiet. I was getting worried about him. He was really upset about not finding a job yet. He had sent them out during the summer and had been scrambling recently with phone calls trying to find a position. I just sat quiet during the drive not wanting to ruin a good evening out by stressing over something I knew would work out.
We got to his apartment door and he couldn’t find his key in the mess of keys on his keychain. Never usually a problem, but he had so many damn keys I was shocked it didn’t happen more often. He eventually found it and we went inside. He had cleaned his apartment completely in preparation for moving out. It was nice being in a clean apartment. I sat down on the couch and Logan grabbed a couple glasses and a bottle of what I guessed was wine. He was really stressed if he was going for this much booze in a night. I wasn’t about to argue, but I had to ask, “What’s with all the wine tonight?”
Logan set the glasses down in front of us and sat down next to me, “It’s not wine.” He turned to me and grabbed my hand. I looked at him and his hand was shaking.
I looked into his eyes strangely, “What’s wrong?”
“Zac, I love you more than anything.” He sighed, “I’ve never been happier in my life then whenever I’m with you.” He laughed slightly “Even when we argue over my laundry piling up or you using up all my gas tank when you drive my car.” He smiled, licked his lips and looked back into my shocked eyes. “I wouldn’t change a minute we’ve spent together and I don’t want to spend a minute without you in my life. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and” he paused as he dug in his pocket “and I hope you’d like to spend the rest of your life with me.” He lifted his shaking left hand as I breathed heavy and saw a flash of light in his hand. “Zac, will you marry me?”
“Hell yeah!” I whimpered, tears in my eyes, before grabbing him and hugging him tight.
We held each other for a moment before we broke and he showed me the ring he bought. “Look at the inscription.” He said before I put it on.
The inside of the platinum ring it read “forever your sodding idiot”.
I laughed as I wiped another tear from my eye and Logan pulled out a second ring, “I hope you don’t mind but I bought both rings. They are the same and I was promised there would never be another like them.” He laughed as we put the rings on. Logan poured two glasses of what I now realized was champagne and I wiped a tear from his face with my thumb.
We toasted our glasses and after a sip he added, “There’s one more thing I need to talk to you about?”
“You don’t want to try to get pregnant? Because I don’t think that would work. Though I’m up for trying.”
Logan laughed and almost spit up his champagne, “No, it’s about work. I have been talking to a few different people about possible jobs for me. I had three different offers this past month and I’ve narrowed it down to two.”
“That’s amazing. I thought you were still waiting on all of them. I thought that was why you were so tense tonight. So what are the offers? Where are you going to work?”
“I got it down to two choices and they both pay well. Both would have me starting early next year and would give us enough money up front to find a place to live and settle in before I even start.”
I smiled really excited that he said ‘us’. “So where are we moving?”
“That’s what I need to ask you.”
“What do you mean?”
“One is close by for a couple different stadiums event offices in the area and we could live close to your family and friends and we could even start looking at houses next week.”
“That sounds great. Where’s the other one?”
“It’s in London. I’d be running the event and ticket offices for a football team.”
“Logan!” I exclaimed. “That’s your dream. How is there even a choice?”
“Because It’s not just making a choice for me. It’s a choice that’s for us. I don’t want to do anything you don’t want. The job here pays well and we can stay close to everyone you love.”
“Logan, I love you.”
“And I’d be here. Wherever we go, I’ll be happy because I’ll be with you.”
“Can you for just two seconds not be unbearably perfect and think about yourself? This is your dream job. You’ve always talked about working for a football team in England and this is exactly that. If you won’t think about yourself then I will. We’re moving to London and your taking your dream job.”
“Are you sure?” Logan asked excitedly.
“I’m positive.” I smiled, “We’re moving to London.” I wrapped him in a hug and laughed in excitement, “We’re getting married and moving to London.”
“Baby, you ready to go?” Logan asked as he grabbed his bags.
“Of course I am, my sodding idiot.” I said with a smile as I walked past him out to the car.
“You know, you can’t call me that while we’re in England. People will think you’re yelling at me.” He followed me to the car and loaded it up.
“Of course I know that you sodding idiot. I am just using it as much as I can before we go. It is on my ring after all.” I said with a big smile and kissed him before getting in the car.
“See that last one didn’t sound like a pet name. That one sounded like you were really insulting me.”
“Well maybe playfully but not bad.” I laughed as Randy started to drive us to the airport.
We were headed for London for the week so Logan could meet with his new employer and finalize everything and so we could look for places to live. We told Randy the night Logan proposed and my parents the next day. Now, a week later, we were ready to make our plans to move and then make plans to officially get married. It was a quick and hectic situation rushing into moving to another country but this trip was just to set things up before actually moving.
“LOGAN! ZAC!” was the scream we heard upon exiting the plane and walking out to baggage claim.
“Hey!” Logan said back.
Susan ran over to us and gave Logan and me a huge hug and kiss. Nate was right behind her and gave us both a big hug “Welcome to the family brutha,” he said as he hugged me.
We got caught up on everthing going on. We told them about finishing school and how Logan proposed and they told us how they were both living in London as well and that their dad was very happy to hear about the news.
“How’s mum?” Logan asked.
“Who cares? Don’t worry about her.” Nate said angrily as he drove the car to our hotel.
“She’s fine but still isn’t getting any better about you two. Nate tried talking to her a couple more times but refuses to speak to her anymore.” Susan tried to explain Nate’s frustration. ”Da is great though and you really shouldn’t be upset about it. She’s stubborn but still loves ya. This is a happy time. Let’s go out tonight and have some fun.”
“Oh I’m not worried. This is a happy time and I’m not going to get upset anymore over her ignorance. I’m sure we’d love to go out but I’m tired and think I’d rather just unpack and relax tonight and go out tomorrow. If that’s alright with you guys?” Logan replied.
“Whatever you want babe, I’m kind of tired too.” I answered and they nodded their heads and dropped us off until the next day.
“How did it go?” I asked as Logan walked into the restaurant. I was with Susan and Nate having lunch while Logan met with his new bosses.
“Great. I’ll be starting work In mid January so we have plenty of time to move and relax before I start.” Logan said as he slid a piece of paper in front of me.
“Woah! What’s this?” I asked.
“My signing bonus for coming out here. Now, I can still turn this down and take the check back. Are you sure you want to do this?”
“I’m positive Logo.” I said with a smile.
He continued to explain what they offered him. He was making six figures per year right away and his signing bonus was on top of that. It was more than enough to put a down payment on a house or to buy an apartment or whatever we decided on. That meant the money we had would now be used to furnish the place and once we got back to the States we could sell Logan’s car and use that money to buy a new one in London. Everything was working out even better than planned.
Logan also told me that they were able to get me dual citizenship through their connections so that there wouldn’t be an issue with my living in England. They also said that if I was interested, I could work for them as well in their pro shop store. They would pay to have me take any classes or training I needed to eventually run their store and manage sales. I was in shock. I had a degree in business but I wasn’t qualified for that. I suddenly realized how much of a big shot Logan must be at what he does for them to be so impressed with him to offer all these other things to get him.
“So you want to do this for sure? Because they want me to sign the contract tomorrow.”
“Sign it baby. Sign it and let’s do this. It’s your dream job and they really want you here. Plus it looks like I just got a job too.” I laughed and he kissed me as we had decided to really do this.
“Alright, I will sign it tomorrow, but in the mean time we have a meeting with a realtor in twenty minutes. We can look at some places and hook back up with you guys tonight and go out, ok?” He looked at his siblings who nodded in approval and we left to meet the realtor.
We walked a few blocks to a real estate office and a woman was waiting there for us. We did our introductions and she began asking us about what we were looking for. “So, I was told to find you whatever you two are looking for and really show off the city to hook you on London.”
“Really, they hired you too?” I asked in astonishment.
“Yes, well I usually find players places to live so they want to stay with the team or join the team, but I also sometimes help executives find homes as well. For you two I was asked to give you the same treatment.” She explained as I sat back in amazement. “So what do you think you’d be interested in? A house, apartment, inside the city, outside the city?”
“I guess we haven’t really thought about that yet. What do you think, Zac?”
“I think a house would be nice but is that really available in the city?”
“Well most of the nicer homes we’d be looking at would be found in various neighborhoods in or near the city or just outside of the London area. So it depends how close you would like to be to work or to the center of the city?”
“I think it’d be nice to live close to work and in the city, but we could take a look at some of both.” I said and Logan smiled in agreement.
“Ok then I’ll pull some homes out for us to visit and see what you think. Also, I think for inside the city, I have a few really great apartments that you might prefer.”
“Sounds great.” Logan said as he looked at a couple folders she handed us.
“Now, how many rooms are you looking at?”
“Um, not sure.” I replied totally clueless over these questions that seem pretty standard.
“Well, we’ll look at places with one master bed and bath then it depends what you want after that? Maybe you’d like an office, a guest room or two? Do you see children in your future or maybe you are looking for something smaller now and maybe something bigger down the road?”
“Wow, that’s a lot more to think about than I thought.”
Logan looked over at me sitting back in my seat, “Are you ok baby?” He paused. “Um, could we have a moment to look at some of these and talk about it?” He asked her.
“Absolutely, I’ll go and get us all some tea and be back in a few minutes. Take your time. It’s a big decision.” She stood up and walked out of her office.
“What’s wrong baby?” Logan asked rubbing my back.
“Nothing, it’s just a lot of stuff I never thought we’d be deciding so soon.”
“Is this because she mentioned kids?”
“No. Well, yeah kinda.”
“Zac, if you don’t want to have kids then that’s ok.”
“No I do. I mean, if you want to. I don’t know. This is just a lot to decide right now.”
“We’re not deciding right now. It’s just how many rooms we want. If we get a place with some extra rooms then we can have kids down the road or we could just make them guest rooms or offices or storage or game room or whatever we want. We don’t need to make a decision on kids right now.” He assured me as he rubbed my back.
“Ok, yeah that makes sense I just got a little overwhelmed is all. Let’s look at these places.”
She walked back in a few minutes later with a tray of tea, “Are we doing alright now?”
“Yes I think we are. How about we look at some larger places and we’ll decide what to do with the extra rooms later. I don’t think we plan to move again.” Logan said for the both of us as I grabbed a cup of tea and relaxed a bit.
She began showing us some really nice homes and apartments. We narrowed them down to five places, two houses and three apartments.
“Perfect, there’s still time today if you’d like to see two of these apartments and we can see the other places tomorrow?”
“Sounds great, let’s go.” I said now feeling much better about everything.
The first apartment was nice but I didn’t really like the building. It didn’t have a very good view outside. We looked around the apartment and it did have an amazing kitchen and bathroom.
We then went to the second apartment. “This one, I think you will really love. It has a great view of the city and is a bit bigger than the last one.” She said as she unlocked and opened up the door.
We walked in and I was ecstatic. “This is amazing!”
“I knew you’d like it. Beautifully stained hard wood floors, very open living area, spacious kitchen with island and marble countertops, 5 bedrooms, 3 ½ baths, step out balcony and beautiful full length window out to the balcony with view of the city.” She explained the details more and more but it wasn’t necessary.
We walked through the apartment. It had a huge master bedroom with master bathroom that had a giant tub with jets and a walk in shower with six different showerheads. The other bedrooms were smaller but really nice and perfect for an office, two guest bedrooms that share a bathroom, and another room that could be for kids in the future or like more private guest bedroom as it had it’s own bathroom, and a basic bathroom that only had a toilet and sink. The balcony wasn’t too big but it was really nice and could fit a few chairs and end tables to sit out and look out onto the city. The view was beautiful and too good to pass up. The kitchen was giant and living room perfect with a fireplace.
“This feels way too expensive. I feel like this is a millionaire’s home. Can we really afford this?” I asked.
“Yeah, there must be a catch to this place?” Logan added.
“No, I was given a price range by your potential employer and they gave me the go ahead on paying your initial down payment. You can buy this apartment and set up a payment on a loan that would be insured by the team and the down payment covered. Your salary would cover the monthly payments and if your partner here,” she looked at me, “also works, then you will be able to live here quite comfortably.”
“Wait they offered to pay the down payment?” Logan asked.
“Yes, they are very eager to have you accept this position.”
“Um, will you excuse us for just a minute?” I asked politely as I walked Logan over to the balcony. “Baby, is this for real? Can we really afford this place?”
“I guess so. They said the realtor would take care of us and get us a great place, but I had no idea they would pay for the down payment and allow us to buy a place like this.”
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