I awoke to the sun streaming in through the window. Neither of us had closed the curtains after we came back. I'd been too wiped after seeing Noah.
"Good morning," Cam muttered sleepily.
"Hey!" I sighed as I sat and stretched.
"How you feeling?" he asked, sitting up.
"I'm good, I expected to see him, I just didn't expect him to sound like a dick in public."
Cam rubbed my back as I lost myself in my thoughts. He didn't try to make me talk or distract me and I loved him for that. Cam allowed me to process on my own whilst being there if I needed him.
"Come on, sleeping beauty, we've got a lot to do today. You need a shower to freshen up," he chuckled and I sighed.
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Later that night, we all walked into the venue holding my exhibition. Several people were already walking around. Butterflies started to flutter around in my stomach.
Cam handed me a beer from a nearby table and moved close to my side.
"Breathe," he whispered. "You've got this!"
I smiled gratefully up at him before taking a swig of my drink.
"Eli, it's so good to see you again!"
I smiled widely as Professor Williams came up and pulled me into a hug. He laughed heartily as he patted my back.
"It's good to see you too sir," I laughed back when he finally released me.
"None of that sir stuff, I'm not your professor anymore. It's Patrick, I'm so glad you haven't lost your touch. You've always had an amazing eye."
"Thank you, sir, I mean Patrick, I'm a little nervous but it's a good nervous."
"Come with me, I want to introduce you to a few people."
Professor Williams aka Patrick, doubt I would call him that again, didn't give me a chance to respond before he pulled me away from Cam and into the suddenly crowded room.
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A few hours later I was ready to drop. Professor Williams hadn't just introduced me to a few people but it felt like to everyone in the room.
He'd eventually left me to my own thoughts. I was standing next to the original photo, the one that won me this show. Cam, in the shower with his beautiful fat cock on full show.
My mouth watered and I desperately wanted to drop to my knees and worship that fine piece of beauty all over again. I wondered where Cam was and if I could pull him into a nearby bathroom or something. I was about to go find him when I was pulled out of my thoughts.
Strong arms wrapped around my waist but they felt strange, foreign even. I turned my head and gasped before quickly stepping away from the embrace.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Noah smirked at me and took a step forward. I stepped back and glared at him.
"Now is that any way to treat your boyfriend? After all, I came to support you," he pouted.
"First of all, you're not my boyfriend anymore and second, when have you ever supported me?" I demanded.
I glanced around hoping to see a familiar face, or rather one in particular. Luckily, Cam must have spotted us as he was on his way over with Blake and Pax.
"Come on Eli, are you still pouting? Look, I know I was a dick but how about this. Instead of a place in the mountains, I'd buy you a condo here in the city. You could have that room you wanted, whatever it was."
Cam reached me then and wrapped an arm around my waist. My body relaxed and my heart slowed. Cam had that effect on me and I was so glad of it right at that moment.
"Oh you mean the room you had agreed to let me have as a studio, and then when I was out of town you changed it into a man cave. You mean that room?"
His jaw clenched and I could see his knuckles turning white. He was trying hard to hold back.
"Look, I know I didn't take your little hobby seriously but come on Eli this is me, this is us."
My mouth hung open for a second before I noticed someone approaching behind Noah. It was the woman he was with last night.
"Are you really going to throw five years away just because of a room?"
"No Noah, I am throwing our five-year relationship away because you threw it away first. I'm throwing it away because you can't seem to keep your dick in your pants. I'm throwing it away because you couldn't even admit to anyone that we were together in the first place or that you are bi."
The woman's eyes widened as she stopped behind him.
"You seem to think that I would be ok being kept a secret whilst you marry some rich guy's daughter. You slept with her whilst you were dating me and expected me to be ok with it."
Her eyes started to tear up and I felt a little guilty that she found out this way.
"What was it you said …" I paused making it seem like I was thinking. "Oh yeah! You said you had sex with her to secure her father's contract, and that if you marry that "clueless bitch" as you called her, then we would be rich and you would buy me a villa in the mountains for me to hide away in. You would visit me whenever you needed to fuck a guy."
"What!"
Noah's eyes widened as he turned to see her behind him.
"No, Lucy! It's not what you think, he's lying," Noah insisted.
Lucy stepped away from him and took a deep breath. A kind of cold steel came over her eyes as she looked at him.
"Who is this Noah? Why would he lie about that?"
"Come on babe, this is Eli, my old roommate. He was infatuated with me and couldn't handle that I preferred women. He's got it into his head that we were in a relationship and that I cheated on him. It's ridiculous!"
"Oh really!" I laughed. "Why would I think that Noah?"
"Shut up Eli, I told you before that …"
"Enough Noah!" Lucy's voice broke a little. "I heard everything. I knew something was wrong when you saw him at the restaurant last night. When you came back to the table you looked angry, you kept glaring at them."
"Then tonight, we were meant to be at my parent's for dinner but you insisted on coming here. When I asked why you'd come to a male erotic gallery exhibition you just told me to shut up and left me."
Lucy moved over to me and for a moment I thought she was going to hit me.
"I've had my suspicions about him for a while but he just brushes me off and changes the subject. So you tell me, how long were you together?"
"Sure! We met in college and started dating almost straight away. When he started working for his company, we moved in together, but no one knew about us. His friends knew me as his roommate and people at his work didn't know me at all."
I glanced at Noah who glared back at me.
"He said being known as gay would make him a pariah at work. Noah started controlling what I did, and who I saw so that no one could reveal his secret. When I found out he'd slept with you he expected me to be ok with it."
"He planned to marry you, so he could get rich and then he would keep me in some secret place. He would pretend to be the straight, doting husband and son-in-law then come and fuck the gay guy whenever he could."
Lucy turned and slapped Noah before storming away. A few people gasped around us and a few people cheered. I guess they'd overheard a bit of the conversation.
"You're such a spoiled little bastard! You've just ruined my life!"
"No Noah, you ruined your own life. I didn't force you to come here, I didn't make you trick that poor girl and I didn't betray you. You're the only one that's to blame in this situation."
"This all happened because you spit your dummy! Why couldn't you just do as you were told!" he growled.
Cam walked up and punched Noah in the gut. My dick jerked as Noah fell.
"You are a nasty piece of shit Noah, did you seriously think I would be ok being a secret side piece as you pretended to the world that you're this straight family man?"
Noah got to his feet and glared at Cam.
"How quickly did Eli jump on your dick huh?" he sneered. "He's a good fuck, isn't he? He likes it especially if you slam him from behind but be careful, otherwise, he'll mooch off you for the rest of your life."
Cam hit him again.
"Actually, dickwad, Eli likes to ride best, that goes to show that you don't know him. I bet you only took your own pleasure into account. As for mooching off of you, how could he have his own money when you tried to ruin his career."
Noah glared at me before going back to Cam.
"What do you know about it?" he demanded.
Cam smirked, "I know you paid for the apartment and signed only your name on the lease without Eli knowing, you destroyed his camera in an argument and I know you promised to allow him to have a darkroom but then made it into a pathetic little boys room when he was away. He lost his job because you would always make him late or not turn up, even lost his friends because you said they acted too gay. It was all about you!"
Cam moved back towards me.
"Eli put up with your shit because he loved you but you sleeping with someone else was the final straw. You must have a screw loose if you thought anyone would stick around after that. Well, your loss is my gain, now Eli is mine and I ain't letting him go."