Riley knew Rez would let him finish, he was better at this relationship stuff than he gave himself credit for. He saw the smirk and the laugh about him being a stripper and he let it go because honestly it was funny. He should show Rez the tape of one of his shows sometime, let him really laugh at it. The fact that Rez found it amusing was okay, other people it wouldn't have been okay but he trusted Rez with the information.
Riley snorted when Rez called Mike a douchebag. "Yeah he was, I know it now but looking back at it, I was a way to rebel for him with his family you know. But I was still pretty enough for him to feel comfortable with me, almost like I was a girl I think. He never really loved me, he loved the idea of me and what I could do for him." He didn't say anything else about Mike because he knew Rez didn't want to hear it and Riley didn't feel like saying it.
The older man looked at Rez and nodded. "Yeah it was hard and I beat myself up about it for a long time, I gave up a piece of myself to do that as you know. I regret it but if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have made it to school so I accept that part of me. And if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have gotten away from my father who was either two steps away from beating me to death or fucking my ass I was never really sure." He frowned for a moment and then looked at Rez. "Not that he ever did anything sexual to me it was just stuff he started to say before I ran that creeped me out."
He sighed and stared into Rez's eyes. "I'm more like you than you think babe, I love you. " He kissed him then, long and deep, biting at his bottom lip when he pulled back. "Now I missed you the last few days, did you do anything interesting or has anything mildly amusing happened?" He asked as he tried to push away his own demons as the clawed at his skull, but Riley had practice at this and was ignoring them.