Page 5 of Home on the Road

“Is that everything?” Harry asked as he stood up. He tooka moment to yawn and stretch.

“Yep,” Ziggy answered, sounding hesitant. “That’s everything.”

Harry took the box from him and carried it as they walked to his truck that was parked on the other side of the truck stop parking lot. They passed four other trucks parked for the night, so they did not speak until they had climbed into the cab of Harry’s truck.

Setting the box on the floor behind his seat, he took the duffel bag Ziggy carried and tucked it in the small hanging clothes closet he never used. Then he looked from Ziggy to the queen-size bed and back again.

“I hope you don’t mind sharing the bed. For tonight only. I know we’ve never slept together, but…” he trailed off.

Ziggy shrugged, though he did not look into his eyes. Harry was thankful Ziggy put the kybosh on sex instead of forcing him to, He just hoped it didn’t take long for them to get comfortable with one another and eventually open up that door.

“I could sleep on the floor or in one of the front seats. I’m so tired it doesn’t matter to me.”

The thought of Ziggy sleeping on the floor or sitting up in the front seat had Harry wanting to hit something. “No. We’ll share the bed.”

“All right, but if I make a pass or something, just push me out,” Ziggy said with a wide yawn.

Usually after spending this small amount of time in the truck, they would already be making out and working their cocks free.

Harry responded with a deep chuckle, “Just know that nothing will happen until you make that pass. In the meantime, we need to get some sleep.”

Chapter Three

Ziggy stared at the neatly made bed with its fuzzy red blanket for a full fifteen seconds. He was really glad he had taken a quick shower to wash away the odor of onions, grease, and burgers from the day. He was pretty sure the scent would be with him forever, even though he would no longer be cooking on a daily basis.Thank God.

“Go ahead and climb in,” Harry said, pulling back the covers to expose a set of colorful superhero sheets.

This was the first time the sheets had been exposed. Ziggy usually just bent over the bed and rubbed his face in the fuzzy red blanket, and the bed pillow that was normally covered by a plain white pillowcase.

Ziggy could not help but chuckle as he climbed on the bed and crawled across the mattress. He laid down on his back as close to the wall as he could get.

“I didn’t know they made cartoon sheets for big beds. I thought they only made them for kid-size beds.”

Harry grinned at him then turned and sat down on the side of the bed. “You’d be surprised what you can find with a quick search on the internet.”

Turning only his head, Ziggy watched as Harry leaned over and took off his boots and socks. He then stood up again, and stripped out of his t-shirt and jeans. The skin-tight black undershirt and loose-fitting boxers that had smiley faces all over them had Ziggy’s eyes widening at the broad, muscular form his loose-fitting clothes had hidden.

When he realized he was on the verge of drooling at the sight of the nearly naked, powerfully-built man, Ziggy slammed his eyes shut and rolled onto his side so he faced the dark gray carpet-covered wall. He froze when the mattress shifted and Harry crawled in and laid down behind him.

“Relax, Z-man. I’m not going to attack you. We’re both too tired for any shenanigans.”

Harry sounded as tired as he felt, so Ziggy took a breath and tried to relax. Then a big, warm hand patted his hip over the covers and his cock stiffened in response.

Yeah, refusing to have sex with Harry was one of the dumbest moves of his lifetime, coming second only to coming back to the diner to take his father’s place in the kitchen.

“Go to sleep. We’ll talk in the morning.”

Less than a minute later, Harry’s soft snores filled the cab of the sleeper truck. Ziggy closed his eyes and breathed, focusing on relaxing from his toes up. It worked, except for his hard as stone cock. Closing his eyes, he grabbed a corner of the blanket and rubbed it between two fingers and his thumb.

Harry’s soft, even breathing assisted Ziggy to relax even further. It took a few minutes, but finally, he took a deep breath and followed Harry into the land of sleep.

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Harry woke with an arm full of warm man and his boxer shorts twisted around him, causing his hard as iron cock to be painfully compressed. It took him a moment to remember who the man was and why he was sound asleep with his head on Harry’s shoulder and an arm lying across his belly. The fact that he’d slept better than he had in years made him want to keep Ziggy around as his own personal stuffie.

Then he remembered he had agreed to a sex ban until Ziggy was comfortable and ready to take their relationship back to a physical level. He only hoped he lived that long because he was not sure that he wouldn’t expire of sexual denial.

While he was tempted to lay there all morning, or until Ziggy woke up on his own, they needed to get on the road. Not only to avoid a confrontation with Ziggy’s stepmonster, but also because Harry wanted to get this trailer delivered so he could gethome and start his well-deserved week off.

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