Then he let go of my hand, reached across the center console, and pulled my coat open—it wasn’t zipped.I grabbed the wheel with both hands because I didn’t know what he was about to do.I leaned forward a little because I did not want him to touch my dick.Okay, I did.But not while I was driving.He didn’t do that.Instead, he reached inside my coat and slid his hand around my back and under my hoodie until he was cupping my hip.He started stroking it.
After a minute, he said, “Pull over.I wanna make out.”
“If I pull over, we’re gonna end up having sex.”
“Sounds good.”
“We’re on the highway.”
“Pull into one of those side roads into the woods.No one’ll see.”He kept stroking me.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but could you stop touching me, please?”
He didn’t argue, just pulled his hand out of my coat slowly, stroking my back along the way.
“Thanks,” I said.
“Any time.”
“Let’s talk about something else.”
“Like what?”he said.
“What are you doing for Christmas this year?Seeing your folks?”
“I haven’t seen them in years.”
“How come?”
“They kicked me out when I was seventeen,” he said.
“When you came out?”
“I didn’t exactly come out.I was in my bedroom with Tommy, and my mom caught us.”
“Shit.What did you do?”
“We couldn’t go to Tommy’s place, because his dad was a drunk who beat him.But Tommy had an uncle who had a one-bedroom condo.He let us come live with him.He had a pullout couch we slept on.We lived there while we finished high school.”
“He didn’t mind you were a couple?”I thought about how my family would have reacted if I’d come out at seventeen.Considering how they’d grounded me for only getting a B in grade 10 History, I didn’t want to think about it.
“All he wanted was for Tommy to be happy,” he said.
“Sounds like a good guy.”
“He was.”
“Was?”
“He died a couple years after we moved in.Got hit by a car, crossing the street.”
“Shit.”
“Yeah.”His expression closed up, so I knew I’d touched a sore spot.
“So where did you live then?”
“He left the condo to Tommy in his will.That’s where we lived till I was twenty-two, and I met Trish.Then I moved in with her.”
