Part 8: Franzia
One night T and Eric came after work with some wine in a box called Franzia. They wanted to have a night of drinking and I was down for it. I was a little sad that they made this plan without me but it was no big deal. The Franzia was in a bag inside the box and we drank directly from it. They drank more than me and they said you had to slap the bag before each drink lol. I had been drunk before but never so drunk that I had a hangover. That changed after this night. T and Eric got pissy drunk before I did so I looked after both of them until I passed out too haha. I made sure they had some water to drink. Eric crashed on the couch downstairs first then T and I went upstairs. T started to vomit in his bathroom and he laid out on the floor. I remember looking at him wishing I could feel him up or hoping he would have dragged me into bed with him, but before I knew it the box wine hit me hard that I barely made it to my own bed as the room started spinning.
They both had to work the next day and I was amazed that they made it to work. I had my first hangover and couldn't do shit the next day but luckily I was self employed and had the freedom to just rest lol. It was a fun night but I vowed that I could never drink that much wine in a box again. Whenever I see that nasty Franzia in the grocery store my stomach rumbles a little bit lol. T told me he was so grateful for the water I gave him that next day. Eric recorded some of it and it was a lot of fun night all in all.
As time went on T and I would go out and do things sometimes. When the fair came to town he and I went and he invited Eric without telling me at first. We had an amazing time. We got on a lot of rides. I'm deathly afraid of heights and T isn't so he convinced me to get on this scary ass ride that was like an elevator of death. I jokingly asked he would hold my hand for that ride and he was like "uh no." He could be very sensitive sometimes so I had to be careful what I said to him. This elevator ride was the tallest ride out there and you could see so much of the city from the top. It was an amazing view. Anyway, I was sure I would pass out from that big drop but surprisingly I didn't and I survived lol. My throat was sore as hell and I asked T why was that. He said it was because I yelled so hard the whole time lol.
We had so much fun and we were spent after that ride and we were ready to go, but he invited Eric so he came right when we were ready to go. Eric immediately asked T for money to get on some rides and Eric had to explain to him that he wasn't doing that and that we were done. It was like talking to a child. I could not get why he was always inviting Eric when it was clear that he and I were not really friends even though he came over to my place all the time.
There as another time we went out to an arcade/restaurant called Dave and Buster's. I asked T if he wanted to go and I didn't ask Eric because Eric never had money. He would literally spend his last dollar on weed. This was before T moved in with me by the way. T got to the arcade before I did and told me he was ready to eat and I asked him to wait for me but he said he was going to go for it. That was odd, but when I got there I saw that Eric was there already and they ate together. As usual when we were out somewhere, Eric barely acknowledged me and as usual Eric had no money to get a card to play games with.
Now, I might be a child of the early 80's, but that was the dawn of the video game era and I will always love video games! Instead of us having a good time, it turned into Eric following T around watching him play games. They just hopped all over the place without me as I just had to play with myself for almost the whole time. It sucked. It wasn't until the end of the day that T joined me in some games. I could not believe how they could just leave me hanging like that. I wouldn't have done that to either of them. When it was the 3 of us they always made me feel like an outsider even though T and I were so close. It was like T would shut off a part of himself when Eric was around. I started to just leave them there without saying a word but they both came back to my place to hang out.
There was another time that just T and I went out to the movies and to a fun park where they had mini golf, bumper cars and baseball batting cages. Thankfully he didn't invite Eric this time. We saw some Ryan Reynolds movie where he was an assassin or something like that. It was okay but it was nice to hang with T. We shared some popcorn and he let me sip some of his soda because I refused to pay the hundreds of dollars the movie theater charged for it lol. Things just felt so romantic with T sometimes and this day felt like that. He was always looking me deep in my eyes, looking at my naked soul, it felt like. He never cared for going to the movies much so I was happy he decided to this time. The theater was less than 1 mile from my apartment so I usually went there on a whim when most people were working and when the tickets were cheaper.
I think we saw the movie first, then we headed to the fun park. T introduced me to mini golf for the first time and he gave me some pointers. He was such a good teacher that he made it pretty fun. I had never played golf or had any interest in it before. We did the batting cages too where I was terrible, since I hadn't played baseball in many years. T did a much better job. He was pretty good at a lot of things. We had two awesome man dates in a row that day. The next day I told him in a text how much fun that was. He agreed. I wondered if he felt any of the romance I felt.
Fast forwarding to us living together, we didn't go out with just the two of us as much but going bowling with his coworkers just about every Friday became a regular thing. After T had his date with his coworker Lisa, nothing seemed to come of it. I racked my brain thinking about what they were doing that day. He told me afterwards that they just went out to eat at the same place where we get our favorite burger and that was it. He said it wasn't as awkward as he thought it might be. Eric and Lisa were friends and Eric must have found out that Lisa liked girls. Eric was trying to hook her up with another girl or something like that. T found out and thought it was shady of Eric since T claimed that he liked her. Nothing stopped T from being friends with Eric. Around this time though, Eric was starting to get on T's nerves. T told me he was super close to not hanging out with T anymore. I told him he puts up with a lot from him.
T and Eric smoked everyday and T would always end up giving Eric all of his weed to smoke and never got much in return. After smoking with them for the first time, I smoked with them on occasion. I usually did it with just T at home. T was always trying to get me high and sometimes drunk. I said no to getting high, like 90% of the time. He said he liked getting high with me. I used to, by accident, make the blunt too wet with my spit but T didn't seem to mind too much lol. After that first weird time it wasn't so bad anymore. I just felt super relaxed by this point. In fact, I became too damn relaxed to the point where I couldn't do anything. I couldn't do the most basic task, like play a video game so before I got high I had to take care of any chores or work I had to do first lol. I knew I would have no energy afterwards.
T was adamant that while being high, food tasted better, jacking off felt better and that sleep was better. Weed didn't quite work like that for me. Food didn't taste better and I could not get horny while high. I remember being high once after going to bed and thinking about jacking off but my libido was just gone while high. My dick never got hard, not even once while high. I did eventually start to sleep much better though and I did get the munchies eventually. T could eat a lot, being a bigger guy at 6"2, but I saw how he could eat so much while high after feeling those munchies lol. I felt like I couldn't get enough food. It was a crazy sensation. My stomach rumbled like crazy, like it was angry lol.
Being high was okay to do every once in a while but I could not get why anybody would want to do that every single day and several times a day. T and Eric would usually smoke on their lunch breaks at work then come to my place and get high again. That stuff didn't have the same affect on my body and that should have been a sign for me but I didn't pay it much mind.
T tried several different drugs before, like LSD and molly and he decided he wanted to do some LSD again. He planned to do it with Eric. I had no interest in doing any other type of drug. I was with them when they did it at Eric's parent's house. His mom and stepdad were older, retired folks and they would travel on the weekends sometimes. They had a spacious house with a nice, big yard. I don't know where T got the stuff from but they put the little piece of paper in their mouths and went on a trip to la la land lol. They seemed pretty normal when they got high. Their pupils were humongous though. T told me that it seemed to open up your mind like pathways in your brain and that you could figure things out when getting high from LSD.
I think we ended up walking around a bit and laying on the ground and looking at the stars until their high came down. When T goes to Eric's house he becomes a different person. Where he acts all reserved at home with me sometimes he always acted more at home over there even when Eric's parents are there and we have to be all quiet. Sometimes I would wonder how I ended up with these two in my life and with them getting high all the time while I'm sober most of the time lol. I always felt like the third wheel when it was the 3 of us. It seemed like my closeness with T always took a backseat when Eric was around. There was no reason for it, but that's what T usually did. I'm so used to feeling that way that I never want to make anyone else feel like that. I always manage to include anyone around me, no matter what I might be talking about. It's so easy to do, but most people just don't do it. T and Eric could spend the entire night talking about nothing but work, while leaving me out of the conversation entirely. I'm not the type to feel loneliness but it is a very lonely feeling when you're with people and you're not having any fun or connecting with them.
I told T about all of this, about how they only talk about work and mostly to each other and his response was "all I do is work." He told Eric about how I said I feel left out when they do that but I don't think he cared. He was obsessed with T and that was his only concern. T and I talked about everything under the sun, not just about work but Eric talked so much that he barely breathed and he would always steer the conversation back to work or his old job at Disney.
Eric's obsession with T just got worse and worse. T always included Eric in everything he did almost. I could see that Eric felt like T was his boyfriend in his crazy mind because they worked together all day, smoked during their break and hung out until late after work almost everyday. When Eric would come over to my place he always had to sit right next to T, never near me. T wouldn't sit next to me much anymore either and it was weird to say the least. I noticed that it was very much on purpose. T would always sit where he could look at me and he couldn't do that sitting next to me. I asked him about it and he gave some bullshit answer that didn't make sense. He really couldn't get enough of looking into my eyes lol. I loved it.
When the three of us would go to the store, usually so T could get paper to roll up with, Eric would always jump in the front seat of T's car. Eric was shorter than me and I needed more leg room so I would tell him to let me sit up front. He got upset every time lol. He really felt like T was his. It was crazy lol. I knew it was not a good idea for T to be so friendly with Eric because I knew how desperate gay guys like him think. You can have just a short conversation with some gay guys and they'll want to be with you just that fast. Eric was that type of guy. He felt like because T spent so much time with him, that T must want him.
After doing the LSD, Eric's obsession with T seemed to go away and he seemed to really get it that he had no chance with T. He seemed to actually believe that T was straight like he always said he was, but I didn't buy it. Eric said to me all the time "T sent me songs on Spotify or he did something that was completely normal and not flirty or romantic, "is he trying to tell me something?" I tried to tell him T is just friendly and he's not trying tell you anything. T was far out of Eric's league even if he did like men. Eric was so blind that he could not see how close T and I were and he couldn't even imagine that there could be something between us. Eric, even while being infatuated with T, would flirt with every single good looking man that worked at their store and none of them gave him the time of day except T. My sixth sense told me there was trouble ahead between those two.
I'll cover the drama that unfolded between T and Eric in Part 9!