Chapter 4: s****l Tension (1)
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The next day there was a heated argument between two best friends…
“Fire him Lizzy.” Ashton said commandingly to his friend from high school to this day.
“What are you talking about? Ethan is the only caretaker that’s willing to have you! There is no way I’m firing him!” Elizabeth refused with all her might the man’s orders.
“I don’t need a caretaker, why are you so insistent on giving me one? Do you think I’ll suddenly change my mind and become more social or something?” Ashton moved his wheelchair closer to the woman and looked her in the eyes as he spoke. He seemed very intimidating but the woman didn’t seem threatened at all.
“I told you already, you need help around the house when I’m not here. What is something happens and you can’t move? This is simply a safety precaution and also you’ll get to have an actual human interaction from time to time, you modern day hermit!” Elizabeth seemed to be making her points clear and standing her ground. She wasn’t about to give in under the man’s pressuring.
“This isn’t going to end well and you know it… He’s just my type…” Ashton confessed he really liked the man’s appearance.
“If he’s your type, it’s even better! You could probably seduce him with time. Now stop bothering me about it already.” Elizabeth wanted to end the topic of discussion then and there but it continued.
“He’s straight.” Ashton said then turned around his wheelchair to move away.
Elizabeth stopped in her tracks then turned around to face the man’s back. “So what if he is? You said he didn’t push you away when you kissed him. Does it really matter if he’s straight or not? He might be bi and not realize it.”
“Do you really want to drag a student down like that? It’s too much for me to be next to him. Hire someone else or better yet stop hiring people already!” Ashton said in a bit of a more angered but yet very subdued tone.
“He is the only one still willing to work for you despite how picky you are! I am not changing Ethan for the world! He’s a sweetheart of a man and you will just have to deal with it!” Elizabeth stood her ground one last time, she wasn’t budging at the slightest.
“You know this is going to bring him more trouble than it does me right?” Ashton quietly said, the woman seemed to hear but openly ignore the man’s words.
“He’ll be here in several minutes. I have to go now. So behave!” Elizabeth said as she left the apartment without saying as much as a goodbye.
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Soon enough Ethan arrived at the man’s apartment and cheerfully greeted him. “Hello, Mr. Barrik!”
“Hello…” Ashton answered without moving his eyes away from the screen; he was working in the living room once again.
“Should I prepare you something to drink or eat?” Ethan asked in a cheery tone as he took off his shoes and coat.
“No need, you can just sit down somewhere.” Ashton said, this time now specifying the man to sit next to him. Maybe he was trying to distance himself from the other.
“Alright then, I did bring some homemade sweets however… I just happened to run into a friend of mine and she gave them to me. Would you’d like some?” Ethan asked while showing the bag he was holding in his hands.
“…Sure…” Ashton wasn’t impolite enough to refuse the man since he offered. ‘This guy is so needlessly friendly…’ he thought to himself while working on various stock options. The market had been going down recently so the man was buying into a lot of stocks for cheap.
“I’m glad to hear it! The sweets are really good, so I’m sure you’ll like them!” Ethan said as he laid them out on the table.
“You eat first, I have to finish some trades and I will join you.” Ashton said as he continued to tap his fingers onto the keyboard and using the mouse to click several times.
“Alright~” Ethan was happy enough to be given permission to eat. He really loved these homemade sweets that a friend of his in Uni gave him. They were delicious and he looked forward to them each month. As he ate he couldn’t hide his smile at the taste.
“Are they good?” Ashton asked after several minutes, as he observed the man’s smile. ‘He’s sitting so close…’ he thought to himself.
“Yes, they’re delicious! My friend is really good, a parstry baker’s level awesome! Try them~” Ethan said in a cheerful voice, full heartedly praising his friend for their abilities.
“Just a moment, I shouldn’t dirty my hands yet why I’m working on my laptop…” Ashton said as he continued tapping onto the keyboard.
“Oh, I know… Here~” Ethan said as he picked up one of the sweets and brought it to the man’s mouth.
“Are you going to feed it to me?” Ashton asked nonchalantly, he didn’t seem too moved by the man’s actions. However eternally he thought ‘How naïve is he exactly?’
“I… don’t know, it’s just something I used to do for my younger siblings.” Ethan explained as he continued to hold the sweet up in the air. His hand gradually lowering down as if in shame.
However Ashton grabbed the man’s arm by the wrist and pulled it back towards his lips once more. He took a small bite from the sweet within his hand and savored it.
Ethan seemed to be mesmerized as he watched the man eat out of his hand. ‘He has such small lips…’ The student thought to himself while not being able to pull his eyes away from the man next to him.
“It’s good…” Ashton said as he licked his lips in a seductive manner. He continued to eat the sweet from the students hand without letting go of it until he was finished.
‘Is he purposefully taking small bites?’ Ethan wondered to himself while watching the man eat.
After Ashton was finally done with the sweet, he saw the student’s fingers were sugar coated. He proceeded to lick the man’s fingers as well.
“S-sir?” Ethan was confused by the sudden action of his employer but didn’t pull away. Instead he got captivated by the man’s expressions. It made the student blush lightly as he watched the man lick his fingers. ‘He looks like he’s enjoying it…’
It continued only for several seconds but to the student it seemed like more. Everything was moving in slow motion for him as he stared at the man’s delicate lips and tongue that wrap around his fingers. ‘Why does this look so erotic?’ he wondered to himself. Ethan had never experienced something like this before, his cheeks heated up more.
As Ashton pulled away from the man’s fingers he said. “Thanks for the food…”
“N-no problem! Can you excuse me for a second?” Ethan asked as he retracted his hand back.
“Sure, the bathroom is that way...” Ashton said as he pointed at the direction the man had to go.
“T-thank you! I will be back in a bit!” Ethan said as he ran out to the bathroom.
‘Did I go too far?’ Ashton wondered to himself as he placed his hand on his chin.
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While in the bathroom the student panted. ‘What the Hell am I doing?!’ He thought to himself as he looked down at his crotch. ‘Am I some kind of p*****t?! How did that make me half hard?! This is awful…’ The amount of shame the young man felt as he stared down at his half erect member were incomparable to anything he’d experienced up until this point.
‘What should I do with this?!’ The weird thing to the student wasn’t that he got hard as much as the fact he got hard because of a man.
He decided to just let it calm down for several minutes as he stood there…
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After leaving the bathroom having his erection finally calm down he went back to the living room. There Ashton sat erect as he continuously typed on his keyboard. Acting as if what happened just several minutes ago had never occurred.
“Are you alright? Maybe you don’t feel well?” Ashton asked nonchalantly.
‘Does he not realize what happened?’ Ethan thought to himself as he sat back down next to his employer. “Sir, I remember you asking me the day before, so I hope I don’t sound too rude by asking the same but… Are you into men?” Finally he picked up the courage to ask his employer that.
“Why do you ask? Are you interested in me?” Without answering the question Ashton simply asked one of his own.
“…Well… that’s…” Ethan didn’t know what to answer to that. It’s not like he was interested in getting into his employer’s pants however…
“If you don’t have an answer to that, then why should I answer your questions?” Ashton retorted back to the man and continued his work normally.
Ethan was left dumbfounded without much to say to the other. ‘Maybe this was some kind of foreign thing?’ He thought to himself while looking at the man with beautiful blond hair and bright green eyes.
They continued to just sit in silence until it got time for Ethan to go back home again.
“See you tomorrow.” Ashton said as he sent off the student through the door.
“See you tomorrow sir.” Ethan said as he nodded his head to the man before leaving. It seemed like each day he went to work he would have at least one odd situation like this. What bothered him most however…
‘How come he always acts like nothing happened afterwards?’ He wondered to himself. His employer’s exceeding cool albeit attractive was also the reason of the student’s excessive worry…
Ethan couldn’t get his employer’s expression out of his mind that day.