Weak in the Knees Ch. 02
Date: 11/18/2023,
Categories:
Gay Male,
Author: byjroseemi
... had tears in them but he was happy, and the tears and happiness both made his eyes look almost silver in this light. It made him even more beautiful than he usually looked.
Diego tore his gaze away before anyone could catch him staring and shook the stray thoughts out of his head. Curse his friends for planting the idea that he could lust after his boss. It made his work life very uncomfortable in moments like this. He fetched Nadya's bottle and the tiny bowl of mashed peas they were going to try her on today.
After dinner was over, Zayne asked Diego to help Zach out with the bedtime routine just in case. Zach grumbled a little bit about it but didn't argue because just the idea that Nadya could have been in his arms when he fell freaked him out. They used wipes to clean Nadya up before putting lotion on her and getting her into her pajamas and monitor.
Zach sat down on the glider in the room and fed her there, lighty singing a few songs from musicals to slowly lull her to sleep while she ate. Those big, dark eyes of hers started to slowly blink, the blinks becoming longer and longer each time, until she kept them closed and let the bottle fall out of her mouth. Zach let Diego put her in the crib and then they both walked out and shut the door quietly.
"Thank you," Zach said quietly. "I know you're supposed to be off duty now."
"Nonsense, that only applies when I decide to enforce it," Diego said with a smile and a wink.
Zach chuckled. "I try not to make ...
... it necessary for you to enforce it. I want you to have enough time to study. Your goals matter to me."
"I'm ahead on my classes this semester. They gave me easy ones like Queering Literacy in Secondary Classrooms and Blurring Disciplinary Lines in the Humanities," Diego said with a laugh.
Zach couldn't help but laugh at that. "If that's what you consider easy classes, I'd hate to have to take what you consider difficult. Of course, you and I studied very different things in school. I was way ahead of my classes when it was time for technical drawings, though I did take some illustration classes as well, for fun. I still sketch for fun too." Zach looked a little self conscious all of a sudden, the first time Diego could remember seeing him look like that, before asking, "Would you like to see some of them?"
Diego's countenance brightened, "Yes! That would be amazing!"
Zach led Diego down the hallway and into his room. His room was fairly tidy, much like Nadya's nursery, where everything had its place. The only place that got a little messy was his work desk, covered in blueprints that Diego could vaguely make out the buildings for. It was clear Zach's professional drawings were precise and detailed.
He opened up a drawer in the filing cabinet next to his desk where Diego could see various drawing notebooks. He pulled out the top one and sat down on the bed next to Diego before opening it up and showing Diego his most recent drawings. Most of them were of Nadya, ...