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Chapter 11: Cole
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Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 12: Cole
December… I stare at the Excel spreadsheet on my computer screen, running one hand through my hair. My budget was not looking good for the coming months. Especially with Christmas at the end of the month, this was not looking good at all. The second I got laid off, I canceled nearly every subscription service that I had. I was sad to see my subscriptions to Men’s Health and Next Door Studios go, but I could get a lot of the workout and nutrition information online and I had my own little nympho sharing my apartment and my bed every night. I didn’t really need to watch other guys fucking when I could just call Kent into the room with me and go at him anyway I wanted. Dude is a freak and he loves my cock however I want to give it to him. We also had a rooftop garden on our building that several neighbors and I had petitioned our landlord to start several years ago, so that cut down on some of our produce budget, especially since I canned and pickled some of them. But even w
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 13: Kent
When Cole had his little mini panic attack about his money situation, it was all that I could do to calm him down. I had just wanted to pull him into my arms and make everything better for him. Here lately, that’s what I’ve been wanting to do more than anything: Make Cole as happy as possible. It’s…weird. I mean, we’ve been friends for as long as we’ve been roommates and, yeah, we’ve had a lot of great times together, but I can’t say that I’ve ever felt this need to…protect him, I guess you could say. I’ve never felt this urge to not only keep him physically safe, but to also care for his emotions. It’s a new feeling for me. Ok, well, not exactly new. I’ve felt it before when I thought that Stephen and I were in love. But that’s definitely not happening here. I’m definitely not in love with Cole. Not at all. We’ve made it very clear that this is a friends-with-benefits relationship only. I just really like being around him, always have. He’s funny, charming, witty, se
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 14: Cole
Kent has returned to Zoom’s headquarters for several hours every day. The man has been like my own personal advertisement. By the end of the first week, Every person in his office his signed up for at least two days of me bringing them food. And I’ve got several people in the building also asking me for meanus so that I can make dinner several times a week. It’s awesome and it’s keeping me busy during the days that Kent isn’t there. By the end of January, I’ve got Zoom having me cater their Friday lunches, the bank on their bottom floor having me cater them on Thursdays, every person in our building getting at least one meal from me a week, and I have several people in buildings close by that want to set up a schedule. I’ve even been able to hire two of my kitchen guys to help me by delivering food and one of the sus chefs to help me on my busiest days to help with prep and packaging. Money’s starting to flow in and I’m definitely feeling a lot better about things right now.
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 15: Cole
It takes about 20 minutes for us to get from Zoom’s headquarters to our apartment parking garage. Kent follows me the whole way and he jumps out of his car and is at my door before I’ve even got my seatbelt off. He pulls the door open and bends down, kissing me forcefully. I can’t help the moan that escapes me. It’s so fucking good. The second that I open my mouth to moan, his tongue sweeps into my mouth, tasting me. One of his hands fists in my hair while the other grabs my neck, squeezing lightly. When he pulls away, I’m breathless, but he doesn’t let me get my breath back before he’s sucking on my neck, in the spot just under my ear. Just where I like it. “What the hell has gotten into you, Kent?” I ask, though I’m not complaining at all. “I need you. Seeing you looking all sexy in your fucking chef’s coat and skinny jeans, your fucking arms jacked from all the exercising that you’ve been doing. You’re fucking tan and scruffy and God, you’re so fucking hot and I ne
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 16: Cole
April 2021… I pick up my phone, seeing that my old manager from the Hayes Mansion, Jeff Carpenter is calling. I tilt the phone to Kent and he gives me a surprised look. “What does Jeff want?” Kent asks me. I shrug. Guess we’ll find out. Kent pauses the movie that we’re watching, all cuddled together with some garlic and parmesan popcorn that I made. He gets up and takes the empty bowl with him to the kitchen and I pick up the phone. “Jeff?” “Cole! It’s so good to hear your voice, buddy. I’ve missed you around here,” Jeff’s booming voice rings out in my ear. I cock an eyebrow to no one in particular as I ponder over his words. What does he mean he misses me? I mean, we were friendly and I had spent enough time with him to enjoy his company, but he’s not my friend or anything. He’s my boss that laid me off and fired all of my employees. Not his biggest fan. Instead of responding to that, I just say, “How is everything going? Is there something that you need?” H
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 17: Cole
I stare at Kent, confused as hell and unable to understand what it is he is trying to tell me. “What do you mean you’re not my boyfriend? Of course you are.” Kent looks straight into my eyes and there’s something there that I’m not sure how to read. Almost like he’s begging me to understand. Begging me to not push him. But also begging me not to let go. “That wasn’t what we agreed to, Cole. We’re friends with benefits. Fuck buddies. That’s it,” he says to me. I’m shocked. I can’t believe that after nearly a year of just us, nearly of year of waking up beside each other, calling each other pet names, and cuddling on the couch, nearly a year of the best sex of my life, Kent would say that. “Yeah, we started that way, but, I mean, come on, Kent,” I’m looking at him, trying to plead with my eyes that he understand. That he acknowledge what we are to each other. What we’ve built here. “Kent, we’ve been together for a year. I know that you have to have developed feelin
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 18: Kent
What the fuck just happened? I think that I had just blacked the fuck out and when I came back around, Cole was walking out the door telling me that when I wanted a fuck to just let him know. Did I really just tell him that I wanted to go back to just being fuck buddies? That’s not what I want. I want to stay doing what we’ve been doing. I think that I just got scared when I heard him call me his boyfriend. Fucking Stephen is fucking me over again. Cole is the first guy that I’ve allowed myself to have feelings for since Stephen. What the hell am I so scared about? I know Cole. I know that he wouldn’t do to me what Stephen has done. Why did I get so fucking scared? SHIT! I just fucked this up so damn bad. No, I don’t want to go back to being fuck buddies. I…I don’t know that I’m ready to put a label on us, but I do know that I don’t want to lose Cole. I…fuck! I think I might be in love with him. And I just told him that he couldn’t love me. I basically told
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 19: Cole
That kiss with Kent had me worked up, but I couldn’t give in. I had to go. I wasn’t lying when I said that I had plans. I absolutely had things to do, but none of it was time sensitive. No plans that couldn’t have been put off for another day. I had some errands to run, things that needed to get done but just hadn’t gotten around to. Dropping off some returns at the post office. Getting my oil changed. Dropping some things off at the dry cleaners. Returning books to the library. Like I said, nothing pressing. But it was what I had planned for the day and I had told Kent that I would be running errands today before anything happened between us. Changing my plans to spend the day with him or even just to fuck him would have been boyfriend behavior. Not fuck buddy behavior. If all he wants me for is sex, then we can do that. But I’m not going to change my plans or my life just for him. I can’t do that. Because then I’ll just be setting myself up for more pain. I know
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Love in the Time of Quarantine Author's Note
Hey friends! Thank you so much for reading Love in the Time of Quarantine. I hope that you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing. Here are a couple of announcements/interesting information for you. 1. If you are interested in what I listen to while I’m writing, you can find my playlist “Creative Juices” on Spotify. I love all different kinds of music, so there's a little something for everyone. 2. Other books on GoodNovel: Trio of Mates Series: 4 werewolf books that take on the idea of what would happen if one of the leadership was gay and couldn’t produce an heir. Lots of very graphic smut. (completed) Trio Legacy Series: The stories of the children of the wolves introduced in the Trio of Mates Series. Completed: Hide and Seek, Ongoing: Red Rover Dissonance and Harmony: The story of a high school girl who has to face her rapist at his sentencing hearing and deal with her PTSD from that night. Graphic violence and rape scenes. (completed) 3. Follow me under the same name
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 30: Jorge
I’m standing outside of the girls’ apartment, my old apartment, with a picnic basket of baked goods and a cooler with drinks, fruits, and icings to add. I have muffins, cinnamon rolls, danishes, cinnamon raisin bread, and fresh bagels. Ok, I went a little overboard. I can admit that. I’m just so fucking anxious about this whole thing that I don’t know how to handle my feelings right now. I had been awake when Andie had texted me last night, contemplating what Angel had said to me earlier that day. I’d actually been looking at pictures of Andie and Jaime on my phone when I got the text. We’d been so happy before this whole thing started. I miss them. So damn much and it took losing them to understand what I’d done wrong. I didn’t even have to think twice about it, I immediately texted her back that I would bring breakfast. And then I fell to sleep without any issue. Granted, I’d only gotten a few hours in bed, since I had to make deliveries to the bakery this morning.
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 29: Jaime
I’ve been tossing and turning in bed all night after listening to everything Angel and Maddie said tonight. “You three belong together.” “He loves you.” “He wants you back.” “What do you have to lose if you do call him?” I know what my heart wants. I also know what my heart is afraid is going to happen. How can I allow him to possibly hurt me, us, all over again? What’s the definition of insanity? Doing something the same way over and over again and expecting a different result? Wouldn’t it just be insanity to allow him back into our lives again and hoping for a different result. Though both Angel and Marta have said that he’s reducing his hours at the business, that they’ve hired a lot of new people, and that he’s learned his lesson. Could it be true? Could he have really changed for us, even if he didn’t think that we’d be there for him? I don’t know. We’ve been in bed since midnight and it’s 3 am. With a huge sigh, I get up and grab my robe. I tie the robe
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 28: Andie
Jaime and I go about making dinner in silence. We are a well oiled machine at this point, moving easily around each other in our kitchen. Angel and her partner Maddie are coming over tonight for dinner and to play cards. It’s something that we started up in college with Angel. A weekly card game. Each week, someone picks the game that we play and once a year, each of us is supposed to introduce a new card game. We use candy and snack foods for any games that require betting. It’s more to hang out and have fun than anything else. Maddie and Angel have been very careful of who they let in their circle, as have we, so we all feel comfortable being around each other, even with COVID still happening. Unfortunately, this is how much of our life has been since Jorge left. Just a silent orbit around each other. Hold each other through the tears and the pain. But not really talking. I mean, what was there to say? We were enough for each other, but not for the man that we love
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 27: Jorge
“Angel, do you have tomorrow’s shipment of bread all packaged? Carmello’s needs the delivery an hour early. I’d like to be able to have everything on rolling carts so I can just load up the trucks the second I get here,” I call to Angel. When she first started working with me, I had brought Angel on just as a delivery driver. But over the last two months, I have consciously tried to pull myself back from the business and I’ve made Angel a partner. We have three drivers, a part-time baker, and two part-time packagers. I’ve cut my hours back so that I’m working nine hour days, as opposed to the 16 hour days I was working before. The only reason that I’m driving tomorrow is because our early morning guy took tomorrow off. Otherwise, I’ve even built in my Wednesdays and Sundays as days off. “Yes, everythings all ready. Just waiting for the last batch to finish cooling before we get it packaged. I’ll get that done in the next hour,” Angel tells me. I let out a huge sigh. “O
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 26: Jaime
It’s been a week since our last interaction with Jorge. We’ve been communicating via text and notes left at the apartment. The morning after our break up, Jorge was gone by the time Andie and I woke up. He had packed a bag and left a note saying that he would be in and out while Andie and I were at work over the coming week. He’s moving into an apartment over his parents’ restaurant. It was a place that his dad used as an office and that one family member or another would crash at when they were in the dog house with their wives or girlfriends. Not a bad place, but also not a place for someone with as successful a business as Jorge’s. Unfortunately, with COVID still pretty bad, Jorge has elected to stay in a place where only family has been until things blow over a bit. Trying to decide what belongs to who out of our stuff over text is difficult. I had honestly thought that Jorge was the one. The guy that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. When we added Andie
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 25: Andie
In that way that grief between people who love each other will sometimes turn sexual, when Jorge turns to Jaime and kisses her, she kisses him back. I lean in and kiss the side of his face. He turns towards me and God does it feel good to kiss him. I’ve missed him so damn much. It’s been too damn long. Jaime brings his mouth back to her, their kiss hungry and desperate. My hands go to the bottom of the hoodie he’s wearing and I rip it off of him. Jaime finds his mouth again and I lean down, licking his nipples. He groans into Jaime’s mouth and his body tenses in his arousal. He loves having his nipples played with. At the same time, I rake my nails down his abs. Jorge pulls back from Jaime’s mouth to look down at me. “Please. I need you both.” His voice is so full of need. I look at Jaime, asking if she’s ok with this. Because this is going to be an end. Not a reconciliation. But I want this. I need him. Jaime nods, both of us seeing the motion. Jorge surg
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 24: Jorge
Andie looks between Jaime and me and seems to immediately know what’s going on. She’s always had that ability. To take a situation in at a glance and know exactly what is going on. I guess that’s what makes her so good at programming. And at calling me on my bullshit. Ever since the day that I triggered Jaime’s meltdown, Andie has been more aloof with me. I guess she realized that the promises that I made to her and Jaime, while heartfelt and genuine, weren’t ones that I could keep. I feel like the time that I managed to get after that was more for Jaime’s benefit than Andie’s. As introverted and quiet as she appears, Andie doesn’t take bullshit from anyone. She’s given me more rope than I deserve. But it seems that it was just enough for me to hang myself with. “How far are we into this conversation?” Andie asks. I stare at her, surprised at how calmly she can address this. Jaime is the one that answers. “I’ve told him that he isn’t treating us like priorities an
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 23: Jaime
I’m sitting on the couch flipping through the channels on the TV when Jorge walks in. It’s been two days since our failed date and this is the first time that I’ve seen him in more then passing. He’s dressed in sweats and a tank, his hair wet from a shower. He must have just come back from a run. Andie and I have been sleeping in her old room ever since our failed date night. With the hours that he’s been keeping, I don’t really know what he’s up to. I don’t know that I really can muster up the ability to care. Each time I do, it just seems to hurt me a little more. “Hey…” Jorge says tentatively. He walks in the room and sits on the arm of the couch. I glance over at him. “Hey,” I say, turning my attention back to the TV. “Um…where’s Andie?” he asks, like he’s not sure what to say. “Doctor’s appointment and then grocery shopping.” My responses aren’t angry, but they are short and I don’t turn my attention back to him. Instead I give the remote the voice command to tu
