Life For Rent

I was writing a comment on princess rach’s blog and inadvertently ended up writing an entire blog post… haha. She was writing about some thoughts and I added my comment. Here are the contents. Unaudited.

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I have gone past thinking about a lot of things. Which is why I have a fuck-it attitude. I am no angel but I dont think I am such a devil that everyone would wanna put me to death. If that is so, then just do what pleases you. I go through life in my nonchalant way. Misunderstand me all they want, I dont really care. In the gay arena I have heard I am a macho mary, I am a bottom, and I love to get fucked by ang mos. I seriously wonder where did they come from but i dont really care. People ask me, am i a bottom? I just smile in their face. I let them decide what that smile means, on their own.

I havent had an extremely close friend die on me yet. Pls dont ask me to imagine my grandma, isaac, or you. I can only think of, if there is anything strong enuff to set off a catalytic  trigger for a complete change in me, this could be it. The whole earth can become ice age again and it won’t do anything to freeze me.

as for maturity, it can get u far. but there is also a price to pay. I have been trying to get my childish side back but it seems to be gone. I remember noris commented he has never seen that crazy side of me during that jalan raya session we did a couple years back. i dont think I have matured much over the past couple years. What seems to have happened is, I have been molded into what I think people expect of me. the face i present in the corporate world. the coldest heart in the stock market. I dont like it, but I cant fight it. I seek, almost every single night, to the mark i know who would stop halfway through a journey cause he spotted a swing and he wants a go at it for a while. I find no traces of him anymore. Innoc-ence..? I’ve almost forgotten to spell the word. I think mid-life is a still a long way for me. My point is, the world is cold and heartless. Eat, or be eaten. Survive, or die. Everyone has to breathe on their own. No one can breathe on their behalf for if that is what is happening, you are already clinically dead. Friends are around you to accompany and pace you through the journey together, but end of the day you need to stand up for your own. Stand up for who you are. Not what you are supposed to me. Unfortunately, most of the time, it’s the latter that takes precedence.

“Fucking idiot! Why must you always do that?” Elgene scowls at Azio.

Azio sticks out his tongue and apologizes “Sorry! I was just too excited. Anyway, how would I know you would be naked? Masturbating again?”

Elgene’s face turns red and he snaps “Don’t be an idiot! I don’t always masturbate!”

Azio laughs and proceeds to change out of his clothes into singlet and Bermudas. Elgene looks at him with a disgusted look and asks “Are you not going to take a bath?”

Azio shakes his head and says “What for? We are only going to Jurong Point, not Orchard Point. I can always bathe when we are back. Come on already, let’s go!”

Azio spreads his arm and want to grab Elgene’s shoulders but he brushes them away.

He snarls “Don’t you dare use your dirty hands touch me!”

Azio answers back “You are such a freak! Bathing so many times in a day! Why? You got body odour, is it? Let me smell and confirm!”

Azio pounces toward Elgene and the two of them wrestles for a while but Azio is no match for Elgene who is trained in Taekwondo.

Elgene scolds “I am so going to kill you! Told you not to come near me already!”

Azio tries to break free from Elgene’s arm lock and in the process, both of them falls onto the bed and Elgene accidentally kisses Azio on the lips.

Elgene quickly gets up and looks away with his face blushed.

Azio gets up as well, and is taken aback by the incident. He mutters “Let’s go! I am famished.”

The two of them keep their silence throughout the dinner and on the journey back to dormitory.

Azio grabs his toiletries and heads straight to the shower when they are back in the room.

Elgene just waits till Azio finishes his shower and comes back to the room before he heads to the shower.

Azio talks to himself “Weirdo! Always shower before or after me, I wonder why he never enters the shower together with me.”

Elgene locks the shower room door, and lathers himself with foam. He can’t help but replays the earlier incident of accidentally kissing Azio in his mind.

He thinks to himself “Why am I thinking about him? He is such an idiotic himbo! I must control myself from getting too close to him, otherwise he might detect that I am a gay.”

When Elgene comes back to the room, Azio is busy MSNing on his laptop. Elgene walks over to his desk and picks up some notes and passes to Azio.

He says “These are the notes your classmates took for you today.”

Azio looks up from his laptop and takes the notes from Elgene, he smiles sheepishly “Thanks!”

Elgene couldn’t control his curiosity and asks “Why are you in such a chirpy mood the whole day? You were so distraught just last night!”

Azio stops his typing and says happily “I am positive that Wayne will be going to be ok! And I am going for a dinner date with someone I have been carrying a torch for the longest time, finally!”

Elgene repeats “You are secretly in love with someone?”

Azio nods and continues “You will never believe it! I have been secretly in love since I was 9 years old!”

Elgene rolls his eyes and quips “What do you know about love anyway? 9 years old somemore!”

Azio wants to say something but Elgene just plugs his iPod to his ears and immense in his own world.

Ted is washing the dishes when his mobile rings but he couldn’t hear it. Wayne who is watching TV with Helen in the living room, wheels over to pick it up.

But the ring stops before he could answer it. He looks at the missed call number and finds it familiar. He ponders for a while and jumps a little when he feels Ted’s wet hands place on his shoulders.

Ted asks “Someone called?”

Wayne nods and passes the mobile to Ted. Ted dials the number and asks “Hi, did anyone just call?”

“I still need to pack up some of my stuffs in the office before I can leave.” Flack tells Azio.

Azio switches off his ignition switch and says “Ok! I will wait for you then. You need me to help you in your packing?”

“You are so sweet! Ok, give me a minute.” Flack smiles but his eyes follow Ted’s car out of his sight.

When Flack comes back to Azio, he notices Azio’s happiness in seeing him. He teases “You seem real happy to see me, don’t you?”

Azio feels his face blushes and stammers “I am really glad to see you again all these years, you have no idea how much I misses you!”

Flack isn’t really paying attention to Azio as he is fidgeting with the helmet, he gives up finally and asks “Can you help me with this? I am really hopeless with this!”

Azio could feel his hands trembling and his heart pounding when he adjusts the helmet for Flack, he could feel Flack’s breathing hot air at his trembling hands.

When Flack gets on the bike, he whispers into Azio’s ears “Don’t drive too fast! I am not a good pillion rider!” Azio could feel his knees going weak.

Flack holds on to Azio throughout the journey and Azio feels ecstatic to have Flack’s body pressing against his, something he has been dreaming of.

When they reach the destination, Flack holds on to Azio’s shoulders to get off the bike. He smiles and asks “Can you help me to take off this hideous thing?” while pointing to the helmet.

Azio nods and while undoing the helmet, Flack studies him carefully and says “You have grown so much! You were that impressionable kid when I last saw you, and now you are so fantastically built and good looking!”

Azio drops the helmet and blushes, he mumbles “Really? Am I attractive to you?”

Flack touches Azio’s face and replies “I am sure you attract lots of people! So you are gay too?”

Azio nods.

Flack smiles and says “I guess as much. In fact, I suspected you are one of us when you insisted tagging along to me and Wayne everytime.”

“You have noticed me since then?” asks Azio.

Flack smiles again and teases “Who wouldn’t notice such a desirable boy like you?”

Azio takes a deep breath and asks “Flack, would you like to do dinner with me, I mean just the 2 of us, when you are free?”

Flack agrees “Of course! I would love to. We will arrange again, I got to run, late for appointment!”

Azio watches Flack walking into the building and out of his sight, he punches his fist in the air and yells “Yes!”

At that instant, Azio’s mobile rings.

“Hello?” Azio asks.

“Hey, you doing fine? How’s your brother?” Elgene queries.

“Oh, Elgene? I am ok and Wayne will be starting on chemo soon.” Azio says without a hint of sadness, his thoughts are still with Flack.

“And yet, you don’t sound too bad. Then I don’t have to worry about you too much, I have gotten your classmates to pass me the notes for today’s lessons, you can get them from me when you are back.” Elgene says.

“Whoa! Thanks a great deal! Hey, why don’t I come back now and pick you up for dinner?” Azio suggests.

“Nope, I am heading to the gym now.” Elgene rejects.

“I don’t care, I will be reaching in 20 minutes to pick you up. We will be going to Jurong Point for dinner, my treat!” Azio hangs up the phone without waiting for Elgene’s reply.

Elgene smacks his palm on his forehead and mumbles “How rude can he get?”

After resting for about 15 minutes, Elgene strips off his clothes and wraps a towel around his waist, thinking to himself “Might as well go take a bath first.”

“Hey, I am back!” Azio swings open the door and comes face to face with Elgene’s naked body.

Sold SIA today.

Let me try and determine near bottom of retracement, if its only just a bear run of wave 2, or the beginning of wave 3.

In general, a bear run of wave 2(bullish rebound) should not go below 3150, plus minus. I initially looked at a bottom of 3050. However if it is a wave 3, the strength of that wave could bring is to test the lows again, possibly 2600? So there is a significant difference between the two. So what I am gonna do now is to let the market retrace, and look for indicators along the way to suggest if a reversal is coming.

The dow chart looks like there are 2 scenarios now. A final push to test 200MA, or it could come right down. I am thinking, perhaps by early may. What could be a trigger? The rate cut? I personally think it is not the rate cut itself that will have a catalytic effect. It is what the feds say. If they say okay we cut 25bp, but we don’t think anymore is needed as it is low enough and we want to fight inflation and the falling dollar, blah blah, market could read it as no more future cuts and may proceed with a sell off. It all depends what it plays out to be so this will be interesting to watch.

STI chart sees bearish signs everywhere. Definitely not the time to go long for now. To go short could be risky too cause we don’t know the downside and for now, the immediate supports look near.

There has been rampant SQL injection exploits all over the internet of late. I will not go into the details as it can be rather technical. The full extent of the attack is not known but so far what we have seen is on exploit, malware is uploaded onto the victim (system which was used to visit the infected website)  and the malware has password stealing capabilities.  So far, we have seen 90,000 hits in google. Infected systems tend to be redirected to the following domains:

WARNING : DO NOT CLICK OR BROWSE THESE LINKS!

nmidahena.com             61.188.39.214 aspder.com                   60.172.219.4nihaorr1.com                 219.153.46.28

gg.haoliuliang.net           222.73.44.162

At corporate level we are blocking and filtering traffic to these sites. Note that you do not need to visit those sites to be infected. Any site that has vulnerabilies may be exploited by it. I urge ALL home users to update their anti-virus patches as well as their Windows patches ASAP.

Elgene tosses around in his bed, and has difficulties sleeping. He will wake up with the slightest noise, thinking that Azio is back.

He lies on the bed, thinking to himself whether he should give a call to Azio to check on him but looking at his watch and realizing that it is close to 3am, he decides against the idea.

Azio can’t get to sleep either, he has decided to stay home for the night as Ted has suggested that both he and Wayne stay for the night.

The three of them and Cassany talk till the wee hours before Wayne is too tired to carry on and Cassany suggests everyone grab some sleep.

Cassany has gotten Stephen to drive the kids back home earlier and she tiptoes over to Helen’s bed, she gets on the bed quietly, hoping not to wake Helen.

She startles a little when Helen sobs “Cass, I almost lost him once. I can’t lose him for good, I should be the one shouldering the retribution, not him!”

Cassany hugs Helen and reassures “Mum, we will not lose Wayne. Nothing can take him away from us.”

Azio has let out his room to Wayne and Ted, he lies on the couch, million of thoughts running through his mind.

He asks to no one in particular “Why Wayne? Hasn’t he suffered enough? How much longer will he be tortured?”

Azio stares at the ceiling and images of Flack flashes in front of him, Azio can’t resists but to feel at peace when he sees Flack’s image. He thinks to himself “He still look so good after so many years!”

Ted hugs Wayne tightly the whole night to sleep, he has been doing so every night when they learnt about Wayne’s condition.

Ted wants to make sure that Wayne feels protected every night and he will immediately be woken up if Wayne has any difficulties in his sleep.

But both of them can’t sleep tonight, Wayne feels his body getting very tired but he just couldn’t fall asleep. He nudges himself closer to Ted to make sure Ted hugs him even tighter.

“Can’t sleep?” Ted asks.

“Yah, tonight is much worse than the time when we got my medical report. Now, the whole family is worried about me.” Wayne replies.

Ted kisses Wayne’s neck and promises “Everyone is here for you, you must stay strong with all our support.”

The next morning, Ted calls in sick for both himself and Wayne. Azio too decides to skip his lessons and with Helen and Cassany, they have their breakfast in silence and then go to the hospital together.

“Wayne, it’s good that your family is here for you. Nothing beats the support from your close ones.” The doctor said after everyone is seated.

“Doctor, please tell me that my son’s condition is under control.” Helen asks anxiously.

The doctor goes through the check up report one more time and says “I am afraid that the cancerous cells are still spreading. If this continues, we have to consider chemotherapy.”

Helen cries uncontrollably upon hearing the doctor, so does Cassany. Ted holds Wayne’s hands tightly and Azio places his palms on Wayne’s shoulders gently.

They make arrangements for Wayne to undergo chemotherapy after the visit and are about to head for the car park when Flack calls out to them.

Helen cries again when she sees Flack and Flack hugs her and consoles her “Auntie, don’t be like that. It hurts Wayne to see you like this. All of you must stay positive for Wayne and with the latest medication, Wayne will be fine!”

Flack looks at Wayne and apologies “I am so sorry to have caused everyone unhappiness.”

Wayne smiles weakly and nods “Don’t worry, they have to know sooner or later.”

Ted holds Wayne closer to him and says “Mum, I better drive Wayne home, I don’t want him to catch a cold. The air conditioning is too strong for him, do you want to come over later and stay with us?

Cassany chips in “Mum, why don’t I drive you home to pack then I will drive you over to Ted’s place after that?”

Flack walks everyone to the carpark and sees them off. Azio stops his bike in front of Flack and asks “Do you need a ride? I can send you there if you like.”

“What new medication? Are you sick, Wayne?” Helen asks anxiously.

Flack looks surprised and replies “Wayne didn’t tell you that he has been put on a new medication to control his cancerous cells?”

The whole family look stunned and lost for words when they hear Flack. Azio runs over to Wayne and asks “You have cancer?”

Helen asks with a quivering voice “Wayne, what are you keeping from us?”

Flack realizes his mistake and turns to Wayne to apologise “I am so sorry, Wayne. I didn’t know that you are keeping your condition from your family.”

Ted blurts out “It’s enough! Yes, we are keeping Wayne’s condition from everyone. Wayne has cancer.”

Helen and Cassany bursts into tears when they hear that. Their cries scare the kids and Stephen rushes over to calm the boys.

Elgene is taken aback by the commotion and immediately gulps down the glass of red wine that is on the table.

Nobody finishes the dinner in the end, Elgene and Flack excuse themselves soon after the commotion.

Both of them wait for cabs at the junction when Elgene snaps “What kind of a doctor are you? Spilling patient’s confidentiality as if it is some sort of gossip?”

Flack is taken aback by Elgene’s hostile attitude, but he maintains his composure. He replies “I didn’t know Wayne is keeping his condition from his family.”

When a cab stops in front of them, Elgene gets in without waiting for Flack. He slams the door on Flack, rolls down the window and says “A bunch of excuses! To me, you are just simply trying to make everyone unhappy.”

Back at home, Stephen stays with Juno and Wy-en to finish their dinner while the rest adjourn to the living hall.

All of them sit there quietly when Helen finally says “You shouldn’t have kept it from us. We are your family, you need our support most!”

Azio cuts in impatiently “This is not the time to put the blame.”

Cassany holds Wayne’s hands in hers and she asks gently “How is your condition now? Is the cancer under control?”

Wayne replies “I have been under medication for a while, the doctor just changed my medication 2 days ago as the initial medication yields no effect.”

Turning to Ted, Cassany says painstakingly “It must be hard on you, taking care of Wayne and working at the same time. Can both of you cope with the medical expenses?”

Ted nods and replies “Yes, we are getting on fine. Wayne is very strong and positive. We are sure that he will ride this through.”

Helen interrupts “Move back here, Wayne. I can take care of you. Ted has to work, we can’t burden him any longer.”

Wayne keeps his silence but Azio laments “Mum! Here you goes again! Why are you always pushing Ted away? He is a part of this family too!”

Cassany throws Azio a pleading look not to continue but Helen explodes “I never push anyone away! Wayne is my child and it is a mother’s responsibility to take care of her children!”

Helen continues “I just want to fulfill my part as a mother, why are you always blaming me for trying to do that?

Wayne says wearily “Mum, can we stop all these? Ted is taking very good care of me. He accompanies me through those dark phases after my accident and he is doing the same for me now, I feel safe and protected with him.”

Ted reaches over to Wayne and places his arms on Wayne’s shoulders, he pleads “Wayne, it is my responsibility to take care of you but mum is correct too. It is better to have someone looking after you while I am at work.”

Helen insists “Even Ted agrees to what I said, I don’t care! You move back here this instant, Wayne!”

Wayne wants to say something but his motion causes him nausea again, he tries to stifle his urge to vomit. Ted passes Wayne a bowl immediately in case he needs to vomit.

After cooling down, Wayne says “Mum, I am staying with Ted. I can’t carry on the treatment without him by my side.”

Helen wants to say something but Cassany restricts her. Cassany suggests “Mum, why not let Wayne stay with Ted? They have been staying together for years anyway. You can go over to look after Wayne when Ted is out to work. Isn’t it a better arrangement for all?”

Flack agrees and says “Sure! Why don’t we do it at Wayne’s place? I have not tried Auntie Helen’s cooking for a long while and I missed Cassany and Azio too.”

Ted nods and offers “Ok, I will arrange then.”

Wayne keeps quiet on the journey back home, Ted only realizes Wayne’s silence upon reaching their home.

He asks concernedly “Are you ok? You were so quiet during the journey.”

Wayne asks “Why do you agree to host the dinner at mum’s place? We have not been back there more than a month and you know about Azio’s temper.”

Ted reassures “I know what I am doing. I think it is a perfect timing! We all know how much Azio adores Flack, he will sure come home if he hears that Flack is dropping by for dinner and mum has not seen Flack for a long while.”

He continues “Both you and Flack are such close buddies since college and mum likes Flack a lot too. Maybe she will simmer down and accept Azio’s sexuality if she sees that Flack is one too.”

Wayne nods wearily, he agrees “Yes, mum does like Flack a lot and she always praises Flack as an intelligent kid. Maybe Flack might be able to change her stance on Azio.”

“Are you joking? Flack is back? He is coming to our place for dinner this Sunday? Oh my, I misses him so much, of course I will come home this Sunday.” Azio says happily over the phone.

When Azio hangs up the phone, he is still smiling. Elgene notices his happiness and asks casually “So the iceberg melts? You are finally willing to go home and give me some peace over the weekends?”

Azio throws his pillow at Elgene and says happily “Don’t be a spoilsport! I am going home all right but it’s because I am meeting my idol, I have not seen him for years!”

Elgene mutters “Him? A guy? Why are you so excited over seeing a guy?”

Azio asks “What did you say?”

Elgene replies “Nothing.”

Suddenly Azio hops over to Elgene’s bed and asks intently “Why is it that you never go home? You are such a loner. Are you an orphan?”

Elgene shoves Azio a little and retaliates “I don’t like to go home, simple as that! Now, go away! Don’t disturb me.”

Azio takes back his pillow and asks “Hm..if you don’t mind, why don’t you come home with me this Sunday? The more the merrier. My whole family will be there and they are cool people.”

Elgene shakes his head and says “I don’t need company.”

Azio bugs Elgene the whole morning on Sunday, insisting that he accompanies him home. Azio begs “Join me please? My mum will at least show some mercy if there is stranger around.”

Azio helps to pick up the clothes for Elgene and forcefully drags Elgene with him to his bike.

Elgene gives up struggling and reluctantly puts on the helmet.

When Azio and Elgene reaches home, everyone is already there. Helen is chatting with Flack when Azio opens the door.

“Azio!” Flack exclaims when he sees Azio.

“Flack! Oh god, you look fantastic! I missed you so much! When did you come back from the States?” Azio gives Flack a bear hug while asking the questions.

Azio forgets totally about Elgene and leaves him at the door looking awkward while he continues his banter with Flack.

Cassany signals to Elgene to come in and asks “You are the room mate of Azio that he was telling us about?”

Elgene nods slightly. Cassany gushes “Gosh, you are so good looking! I bet there are loads of girls stealing glances at you in campus.”

Cassany’s easy demeanor puts Elgene at ease and he introduces himself to the rest of the family.

All of them chat merrily throughout the dinner and Juno and Wy-en warm up to Elgene easily.

Suddenly, Wayne covers his mouth from vomiting and that scares everyone.

“Are you ok?” Everyone asks Wayne at the same time. Wayne nods.

“Is it because of the new medication that you have been prescribed?” Flack asks with a concern.

Took part in the JPMorgan run last Wednesday, joining my colleagues to form a team in the corporate run.  It was a good run I must say, this should be done more often! Actually, I have always thought these runs are for charity. But apparently it is not so. We have Osim, JPMorgan, StanChart etc runs. Are these more of a marketing tool? Mind you each participant pays like 50 bucks if I am not mistaken for participating in the run. hmmmmm…..

With one long vacation done just last month, I couldn’t help but think of the next one. Vesak day sees a long weekend and it was getting really hard to get a ticket anywhere. Even if you could, it would cost an arm and a leg. The full commercial flights have vacanies out of Singapore but the ones retuning are all full. Cedric was very excited with it and I thought, let’s try and find something for us all. And we did so we are returning to….. BKK! It would be ceddy’s first I reckon? And we are going back to the gogo shows *rolls eye* and all. Gonna check out a new hotel called I-residence and it looks pretty interesting for a 3 star place. I hope pictures do not lie in this case! For those who are gonna miss out on this long weekend, take note there is one more in October as the government has released confirmation that Deepavali will fall on a Monday (27th)  instead of Tuesday  (28th). So plan in advanced folks!

Wayne has been taking his medication regularly and Ted accompanies him to the doctor for his weekly review, Wayne has decided not to tell his family about his condition and Ted reluctantly agrees to keep it a secret from his family.

Wayne feels a sigh of relief when Helen has not been urging everyone to gather for weekly dinner for the past month, at least he won’t have to put on a brave front and lie to the family.

“Wayne, you will have to continue taking your medication. We have to monitor your condition, but you have to stay positive.” The doctor tells Wayne at his review.

When Ted wheels Wayne out of the consultation room, Wayne whispers “Ted, what if my condition doesn’t improve? How am I going to go through all those therapies?”

Ted kneels down besides Wayne, holds his hands tightly. He looks at Wayne’s eyes intensely and says “Don’t you ever say that! No matter what it is, I will be beside you. We will brave through this together, nothing fazes us anymore after your accident.”

Ted continues “I almost lost you at the accident, I swear I will never let you out of my sight since then. I know we can get through this as well. I am not going to let you go before it’s my time to report to God.”

Wayne feels his tears rolling down his cheeks, he wants to say something when they hear “Ted! Wayne!”

Both of them turn and see Flack quickening his pace and approaching them, Flack smiles and hug both Ted and Wayne when he reaches them.

“We seem to be bumping into each other in the hospital pretty often. So who is sick today?” Flack asks.

Wayne stammers “It’s me again.”

Flack looks at Wayne and notices that Wayne looks even paler than a month ago. He senses something might be wrong, he squats down and asks “Wayne, are you all right? Would you like to tell me?”

Ted places his palms on Wayne’s shoulders and says “Why don’t we find a place to sit down and talk? I think it will be good to listen to another doctor’s opinion and advice.”

Flack can’t hide his disbelief when Ted tells him about Wayne’s condition in the cafeteria, he holds Wayne’s hands and says softly “Wayne, you must be strong and positive. Medicine today has evolved rapidly, if you follow your doctor’s advice and take your medication regularly, you should be able to control the cancerous cells from spreading.”

Flack continues “If you need another opinion on your condition, I can arrange another doctor for you. We are after all the best of pals during our college and national service days.”

Ted gets up and asks them “I forgot to get us drinks. What would both of you like to have?”

When Ted leaves the table to get the drinks, Wayne says “Flack, thank you for bearing with me. I am just so glad that you did not bear any grudges against me after what I had done.”

Flack shakes his head and says “Wayne, it was all in the past. I was at fault too, I was the one who asked you to stand in for me when I couldn’t go on dates with Ted. I was the one who decided to go to the States after national service, I was never there for him.”

Flack continues “And I emailed him so many times when I first reached US to ask him if he would like to wait for me but he never replied. So I am not surprised that both of you got together in the end.”

Wayne wants to say something but stops when Ted comes back with the drinks. Ted smiles and asks “So what did you 2 buddies been gossiping while I was gone?”

Flack jokes “We were talking about the good old times, how we try to get your contact when you came back as a senior for our school concert. And how I lost you to Wayne.”

Ted looks amazed, he asks “Are you sure? That was so long ago! Wayne knew that I had gone on a few dates with you but we didn’t work out. But it was a blessing in disguise because I now have Wayne.”

Flack smiles and agrees, he says “Yes, I can see how happy and blissful both of you are together. And I am glad that I lost you to Wayne and some other guys.”

Wayne fidgets a little uneasily.

Ted asks “Hey Flack, we have not buy you welcome dinner since you are back. Why don’t we do one soon? I am sure Azio will be ecstatic to find out that you are back, he adores you so much when he was younger.”