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I mean, not a question.

I *am* sorry.

Oh God. What was wrong with me?

But then they all switched to read and… he didn’t reply.

I panicked.

SATURDAY 12:20 AM

I know I already said that I was sorry in the first place, but I just mean that now I’m extra sorry for bothering you tonight, since you’re you and not… who I thought I was bothering? So I didn’t want to just leave it weird between us, not that maybe you care? But I really want you to know that I’m sorry to you, not her.

“Her” being Tyler’s, um…

Shoot. What did I call her? Scary dominatrix would sound rude.

SATURDAY 12:21 AM

The girl he was flirting with.

Not that I wouldn’t have been sorry to her, too! I am!

Or I would be? But maybe I don’t have to be now? Because she never got Tyler’s message.

They all flipped to read as soon as I sent them, and I had no idea if that was because he was reading them and ignoring me now, or he’d walked away with his chat app open, or… or what. But the longer it went on with no reply the more panicky I felt as I tried to find the right way to both explain and apologize at the same time.

Exp…ologize?

Apologi…ain?

Except maybe it wasn’t about finding the right way to do it, but about how I’d just done too much of it. Bothered him even more, all while trying to say how sorry I was for bothering him in the first place.

I whimpered, glad the music was so loud that no one but me would ever have to know.

And then, finally, Gay Daddy answered. He sent another string of laughing emojis, followed by?—

SATURDAY 12:28 AM

Calm down, sweetheart. None of this has been a bother. You’re fine.

I relaxed, smiling a little as the tight knot in my stomach unraveled all at once. I mean, the way he kept calling me sweetheart still felt a little… weird, but gah. He was just so nice about it all.

SATURDAY 12:28 AM

Ok. Thank you.

SATURDAY 12:29 AM

Again with the manners. You really are a good boy. :)

SATURDAY 12:29 AM

Thank you.

Again.

Okay, now I was maybe back to harassing him. It probably (definitely) wasn’t cool to apologize for bothering him and then… then keep bothering him like this.