Page 58 of Out for the Night

Matty met him at that special entrance when they’d first “sneaked” into the engineering building. Although it wasn’t sneaking if you have the code. His sneakers squeaked against the freshly-waxed floor. They passed the familiar plaques and awards. He knew Matty was aiming for his own plaque, or something greater.

The computer lab was a series of tables with a series of computers on them, like a call center without phones. One computer was on in the entire room.

“This is it.”

Matty returned to his computer and typed away furiously at rows of incomprehensible data. He was like a machine. Coop dropped the bag with the cookies in his lap.

“Thanks. I love chocolate chip!” Matty took a bite while keeping one eye on his computer screen.

“Are you just saying that? If you’re one of those weirdos who likes oatmeal raisin, I won’t think less of you.”

“No, this is good.” Dark circles drooped beneath Matty’s eyes.

“Burning the midnight oil?”

“It’s only,” he glanced at the time on his screen. “Ten twenty-three.”

“You should call it a night.” Coop flopped into a chair and kicked his feet up on the table. “Looks like everyone else has.”

“That’s their weakness.”

“Sleep is not a weakness. It’s a necessary part of being a human being, and not a humanoid.”

“I’m going to be a little sleep deprived these next three weeks.”

And Coop was going to be Matty-deprived. He peered over Matty’s shoulder, letting his chin rest there. “So what special powers are you giving your robot?”

“I’m still figuring that out, then I need to, of course, build the algorithm.”

“Of course.” Coop tapped his finger against a “Don’t Mess With Texas” flash drive plugged into the computer. Matty didn’t really have much of a Texas accent, but he caught it on certain words. “I like that flash drive.”

“Thanks. That’s where I’m saving my computer program. We then plug in the flash drive to the robot, and it’s ready to go.” Matty shrugged him off. “Sorry, your chin is in a weird spot.”

“Maybe it’s an untapped erogenous zone.” Coop wiggled his eyebrows and Matty humored him with a smile. He took that as a green light to kiss Matty’s neck. Nobody else was here…Coop’s cock hardened against his leg.

Matty yawned and rubbed his eyes. “I’m sorry. I don’t have the energy. Maybe once it’s done.”

“Right.”

Clack clack

“Am I going to see you tonight?”

“I don’t know. I need to knock this out of the park. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be at it.”

Clack clack

“So I should sleep in my room then?”

“Probably.”

Clack clack

“Could you stop typing for one second?” Coop shielded Matty’s hands from the keys. Theclacking of the keys was little a rubber band snapping against his arm. “Your robot program isn’t going to fall apart if you take one minute to have a conversation with your boyfriend.”

“Sorry.”

“Can we do lunch tomorrow?” Coop tapped his foot against his chair.