"I'd follow you." It just came out, he didn't mean to say it out loud, but he had. And so, of course, his body had to compound the problem by making him blush.
"God! I'm sorry, I hope you got to celebrate it later and better."
"Like what? I mean what courses and stuff do you have to do? Not being polite, I really want to know if you don't mind talking about it." Chris shook his head. "Nope, friends are busy or working. Don't have a boyfriend. Funny word isn't that? Why would you call a bloke a boyfriend unless he was a boy. Why not manfriend?" He grimaced. "Can see why, that doesn't sound right, even if you like older men."