The Hiding Place

Like a million other young gay men, Bryan keeps his sexuality hidden because it’s safer that way. Yet other guys know he’s different -- they sense it, and make Bryan’s life pure hell. At home, things aren’t much better. He barely acknowledges his alcoholic father, and his mother has little time to spend with her family. So Bryan is alone, with no support, no shoulder to cry on.<br><br>Years of torture and torment, of name calling and humiliation, have taken their toll. Bryan does what he can to make new friends, but in trying to be something he’s not, he makes a huge mistake. Unable to cope with the repercussions, Bryan spends more and more time in a fantasy world he has created for himself. In this private world he is handsome, an object of desire. He is loved.<br><br>Is the hiding place as perfect as it seems? Or will Bryan go too deep and not be able to come out again?

Wayne Mansfield · LGBT+

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31 Chs

Chapter 26

It was strange, but that night, as Bryan was falling asleep, he felt someone sit on the end of his bed. It had not happened for such a long time that it unnerved him, and, just as he had when he was a little boy, he pulled the covers over his head and waited for whoever, or whatever, it was to leave.

I am lying alone in bed. My lover has not yet arrived home from work. I turn over beneath the sheet that is draped over me, more for comfort than for warmth. I am naked beneath its soft, smooth fibres. The edge of the sheet slips off my shoulder, exposing it and one of my nipples.

Sleep finds me and I go willingly with it, wherever it may go. Sometimes I think the eight or so hours we spend sleeping is what makes the other sixteen hours bearable. Well, it is certainly true for me.

I am roused from my dreams later in the night by voices at the foot of my bed. One belongs to my beloved and the other is a stranger to me.

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