Ben Boot (zenben) wrote in breaking_point, @ 2009-09-10 09:15:00 |
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Entry tags: | *complete, 2024 09, character: ben goldstein, character: charlie weasley |
RP: Getting Down to Business
Who: Ben, Charlie
Where: The Leaky
When: September 10, 2024
Rating/Warnings: TBA
Summary: Ben's determined to get back into the swing of things.
Status: Complete | Private
Ben had come in early on Thursday so he could get started on the piano Hannah had brought in. It wasn't in terrible shape, but would take some tender loving care to get up to performance standards. It was beautiful though, and Ben had nearly had an orgasm when a little wood polishing had revealed it to be a Steinway. He was sure his scream of joy had been heard two buildings down, but he hadn't been able to resist. He wondered if Hannah, or the person she'd bought the piano from, knew what they'd had. He ran his hands lovingly over the top of the piano one last time, and then regretfully went to get the bar ready to open.
Thursdays were usually pretty busy right from the moment the doors opened, and today was no exception. He was up to his eyeballs in customers almost right away, which was great because it kept him too busy to think about anything else. Including Ronan. He refused to let himself be unsettled by their conversation the other night, and had in fact been doing a very good job of that. Mostly.
He thought about that a little as he served food and drinks, about their different views of sex. For Ben sex was about having fun, forming a connection with someone in the moment and moving on to someone new after. He wouldn't call his encounters meaningless though. He and Patrick were becoming friends, and he and Jazz had already been friends. Sex had just added a new dimension to the friendship. But he couldn't picture himself with either of them indefinitely. And the same rang true for the rest of his sexual encounters, of which there had been quite a few.
And he really had to stop thinking about this. He had a job to do, and a very attractive man at the end of the bar to flirt with. He took a deep breath and released all of the negative tension he'd been carrying around for the past couple of days, and moved down the bar.
"And what can I get for you today?" he asked, flashing a charming grin at the man.