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"Connor, is dinner almost ready? Gabe and his boyfriend are almost here"

"Almost done!! Why don't you make sure everything's in order?"

Kevin went to go make sure everything was cleaned, but was stopped by the doorbell.

"Shit- they're here. Do I look alright?"

"You look great, stop stalling and let them in!"

He rushed to the door, greeting them with a smile

"Hey!! Come in!!"

"thank you! Uhh, Kevin, this is Adam!"

"It's nice to meet you, Adam! Connor, I'll take over dinner, come say hi"

"Actually, it's done! You don't need to do a thing. Adam, it's so good to meet you!" I said, shaking his hand.

"You too. I've heard a lot about you guys." He smiled.

He had coal black hair, contrasting the whiteness of his smile. He was good looking, I'll give you that. Gabe was doing well, to say the least.

"Oh.. good things, I hope"

"Of course they were good things!" Gabe insisted

"Good. Uhh, dinner's ready, but if you'd like to just talk for a while, that's good too. Sorry. I'm not good at this. I haven't had people over in a while. I don't know how to do these things. Kevin, can you jump in?"

"Yeah, of course. Take a breath, man" he chuckled, setting a hand on my shoulder "why don't you guys go ahead and sit, make yourselves comfortable, I'll get the dinner."

"Great! Uhh does anyone want some wine? Fair warning, we don't have any fancy ones. Mediocre wine."

Everyone agreed to a glass, which I poured. Kevin brought our food to the table, and our dinner commenced.

"Gabe, how's everything? How's your family? Do they like Adam?"

"Actually, they haven't met him yet. They don't know."

"Oh- sorry, I assumed they knew..."

"No. I'm a bit nervous to tell them. We don't talk a whole bunch anyway, so it'd be hard to call them up out of the blue and say 'hey mom, sorry it's been a few months, anyway, I've been sleeping with a man for a long time now, sorry I never told you, bye!"

"..well yeah, if you phrase it that way, it would be quite difficult" I chuckled

"Yeah.. I'll probably go a different route when it comes to telling them. You guys are actually the first people we've told.."

"We are?"

"Yeah.. I mean, when I had that crush on Jack, I told you guys. You helped me. You made me feel okay about it. That meant a lot to me. You guys were the first people I was honest with. I felt like you guys were the first people who should know. You mean a lot to me."

"Gabe.. that means so much to us.."

"You guys are important to me. And I'm so glad you're finally meeting Adam. He's important to me too. It's nice to have you all together.."

"It's nice to be with you, too. How have y'all been?"

"We've been good!! I got a raise at work." Gabe smiled

"That's Great! Adam, what do you do for work?"

"I work at this coffee shop outside Darien. It's not the highest income in the world, but the tips I make during tourist season make up for everything"

"And he makes even more tips, since he's so freakin' cute.." Gabe gushed, making us all laugh

"He's just saying that. People only tip the elderly workers extra."