Introductions

"BRIAN," he almost shouted out.

Andrew felt himself flutter his eyelashes in response, like Brian's response was the most natural in the world. "That's nice, I'm Penelope, but my friends just call me Penny!" _Where did that name come from? _Andrew wondered.

"Oh, that's a nice name, great name even!" Brian gulped.

"Thank you," Andrew felt himself smiling. "So are you here by yourself?"

"Oh, well, I was here with a friend, but he wandered off." Brian awkwardly looked around.

Andrew felt himself scoot the chair closer and put his hand back on Brian's thigh, instantly grabbing his attention again.

"Well, worry about him later. What are you working on?"

"Oh, this?" Brian gestured to his laptop. "Well I don't want to bore you..."

Filled with a sudden urge, Andrew got up, sat on a chair right beside Brian, scooted close and put his arm around Brian's shoulder. "Oh I want to hear every detail..."

Brian's breathing seemed to stop for a solid second, before he suddenly surged into a stream of tech talk all about the technology he was working with and what he was trying to fix.

Through this whole process Andrew felt himself get more intimate with Brian. Why could he not help himself? The words were just coming out. Several times he tried to give the command to his body just to stand up and walk away, but instead he was just drawn to Brian, like an irresistible magnetic ****. He kept saying "Uh huh" and "That's clever" and "I never knew that", responding to all of Brian's comments. He squeezed closer to Brian as his hand went lower and massaged Brian's side. He put his other hand on Brian's thigh, ostensibly for balance, and would smile at everything Brian did. In return, every movement me made introduced a stutter to Brian's voice. Even when he leaned in to type some command, he could feel Brian shake with every action. Andrew could feel how each little thing he did made the feelings build up more and more inside of Brian, and somehow Andrew felt compelled to keep going.

"...finishing up and run a ping... and if we check in in a web browser..." a nondescript web page came up "...we see it's working, it's fixed. That's it!"

"That's it?" Andrew asked in a teasing voice.

Brian looked back at "her", so close, their faces were inches apart, his breathing was starting to strain a little. "Um, well that's it for the client's problems."

"Then I guess I have you to myself..."