Coda Josh Grant

So, What Happened to Tim? I literally stopped calling him the day I hooked up with Ben. Tim went home for Xmas, I hooked up with Ben 27th 28th Dec. (6 months ago) I spent New Year and New Year’s Day with Ben. Tim came home in the new year and I didn’t return his calls. Just like that? He called a few times, but he gave up pretty easily, and we were done. Much later, I found out Nick may have had something to do with that. Nick and Tim bumped into each other out at a club, just after Tim got back from Xmas. Tim messaged me some time later with the words, It’s too hard to see you. Good bye.

I have gran charm, in fact, I have old woman charm. There are very few older women I can’t charm the socks off, is that the expressions grans use? Diedre isn’t one of them, you understand, but Grandma Clementine certainly was. Ben and I went to visit her. Ben left me with her when he headed down to the supermarket to get her garbage bags. I sat with gran on the cane furniture in the sun room with her. “Are you and Ben?” gran asked. “Are Ben and I what?” I asked. “I hear stories, don’t think my daughter thinks I should know what’s going on, even if I don’t want to hear what comes out of her mouth.” “Ben and I…” “You and Ben.” “Yes.” “What about the AIDS?” “We don’t have it, it is practically cured now, it is not something we have to worry about, not really.” And in that moment, I said those words and actually meant it. (Of course, that is not strictly true, but it is close enough to the truth) First time. It was a good feeling. “So, Ben doesn’t have the AIDS.” “No.” “A boy like that?” “...

So, there you have it, I reckon it is safe to say, I’ve got a boyfriend. And, I have been the dutiful boyfriend, not for any other reason but I haven’t wanted not to. It is easy when it is like that. We go to gym together, we run together, we occasionally chase boys together. Once, oh, twice, we’ve caught them. The cute Greek guy who was on a break from Woollies fruit and veg, with whom we flirted. All smiles and heavy breathing and promises of doing more at some stage. The cute Dutch guy who came to the door to change our globes to LED as a government initiative. That was a circle jerk in Ben’s lounge room. I told the Dutch boy he looked like he had a big cock. Ben told him he should show us. He replied only if we showed him ours. We have well paid jobs. We are the hip, gay couple, I guess. We live in the inner suburbs. We have cute dogs. We work at the same law firm “You know Ben’s wife worked here,” said Ben’s secretary Jesse Du Fray, to me on my first day. “His girlfriend.” “Everyo...