I was on the address I was provided by Albert. We agreed upon meeting at his place to work on the stupid final project, which I was grateful for because I didn't want to have to deal with my parents more than what I was necessary and I definitely didn’t want my room to smell like him for weeks... I had enough of that at classes.

I took look at my cellphone’s screen to check the hour once again. I was early. Like a lot early, but I didn't want to stay at home with my parents there and the soon we started to work the sooner it would be done. So it was pretty easy to decide on been here earlier.

The elevator made a sound to announce that his floor has came. I stepped out and started to walk through some kind of lobby, apparently the whole level was theirs. The boy was richer that what I thought. The decoration was exquisite, specially their taste for jars and ceramics. They were beautiful.

I wasn't sure if I was supposed to call out or just wait for someone to come out, I was before the pacted time after all. I was about to take out my phone to call Albert to inform him I was here when I saw his sister, Ivonne, emerging from one of the apartment’s rooms.

“Hello Michael… I didn’t expect you in here this soon”, said the most treatable and kind of the Leals. I could even consider her a dear friend. “Greetings Miss Leal, I was nearby and decide to come here directly rather going back and forth to home for just a few minutes”. I said in a friendly tone, my relationship with her was north and south compared with the one I had with Albert.

“You know how much I hate that formal way of calling me of yours”, she said as she kept walking in my direction. My only reply was a sly grin. She continued, “You will never stop, will you?”, followed by gesture I supposed was meant for me to follow her. “Not in the near future, my dear”. We stopped in front of black door without any kind of label. She opened the door for me and said, “Wait for Albert in here Michael, he should be ready in a moment”.

“Sure, thanks for the tour, Ivonne”, I said smiling at her, which she did back at me. “It was good to see you today Michael”. A ‘Same’ by my side and that was it, the door closed behind her and I was inside of what I supposed was Albert’s room.

Well, I didn’t supposed. I knew. The whole room smelled just like him, the scent was so powerful that it was making dizzy, but a fun kind of dizzy. It was intoxicating but also some kind of addictive. I didn’t know where to seat, there was even a whole living room in here, I was about to get into one of the black sofas that were in there but I felt attracted to source of the bittersweet scent that was present in there.

I knew it was a bad idea, I could even hear a shower was running, so I supposed he was in there taking a bath. I knew I shouldn't... Still I seated on his bed. I don't know how to explain it just felt like the right thing to do.

As my eyes closed and my body relaxed into the comfortness off the bed, some kind of warm feeling spread through my whole body. The prior almost suffocating scent now became sweeter, lighter but still alluring now more than ever. I was in some kind of trance, it felt surreal but real at the same time. Like a whole storm was going on inside of me but at the same it didn’t felt like anything at all. As in been in the eye of a hurricane, all I was able to feel was calm. Like this was my place for some reason.

“Michael?”. A delightful voice said snapping me back to reality. I literally jumped out of the bed and almost fell straight to the floor if it wasn't for him. I actually ended on a wet and shirtless Albert’s arms. His embrace provided me with the same safeness feeling I got before. I didn’t want to ever left that feeling but I unwillingly did.

Now I felt a different kind of heat polling in my abdomen. He was shamelessly showing up that God’s gifted body in front of me as it was the most normal thing. I mean we already have been on this kind of situation but never only the both of us, never this intimate.

“Not that I don’t enjoy you presence in here or anything but… How exactly did you find this was my room?”. He said, no warm or mock evident on this voice, just playful curiosity. “Mm… Ivonne told me to wait for you in here. Sorry… Sorry for seating on your bed, Albert”. I said looking at the floor, I could feel the warm up to my cheeks and if my skin was clearer the blush would have probably be even more evident, also… I didn’t need more images of an Albert with just a towel wrapped around his waist.

“I see… Good, just let me get dressed and we can start to work on the final project. You can wait for me in the bed if you had like, just give a moment”. He said as looking for his clothes on the drawers that were next to the bed. “Sure. I won’t go anywhere”, I managed to say without having my voice to crack as I watched his body flex on an attempt to reach whatever he was looking for. When he was done looking, he disappeared again into the bathroom.

I wanted to go back to the bed. But I resisted the urge to and waited for him at the sofa I was originally going to. I knew from the start that this project was about to be both a blessing and a curse… Even that was an understatement know that I think about it. I have never felt this vulnerable yet so safe in the presence of anyone before...

                 I just hoped to able to survive through this.