Fleeting Love
	               BY NAMELESS WOLF

	Two friends sit in the lounge of the hotel where they 
live. Each enjoying the others company and drinking lightly. 

	Outside a blizzard is underway, snow gathering, ice 
forming, making traffic grind to a halt and life to *freeze* for a while. 

	Joe Wolf, dressed in a sweet shirt and long pants 
snickers at his friend’s joke. Neither friends know much about each 
other yet both know that they are friends.

	 Spencer Fox was laughing when an announcement 
came over the speakers. 

	"This the hotel management. The authorities have urged 
us to use the stairs and stay away from the elevators until the blizzard is 
over. Thank you for your cooperation." 

	It seemed that the elevators were acting up and they 
were afraid that one would either fall or get stuck. 

	Joe and Spencer got up and walked to the elevator 
laughing and talking. once inside they waited for it to reach their floor 
when it stopped .they looked at each other in dismay. It had really
happened, the thing stopped and now they were trapped. 

	"Joe we’re stuck. Now what are going to do?" asked 
Spencer as he looked to his friend and smiled a little. He wasn’t sure 
why but he wasn’t afraid with Joe around.

	"Well I’d say we just sit here and wait for some one to 
come help us, unless that phone is working?" he responded pointing to 
the elevator phone. 

	Spencer lifted the panel and reached for the phone. To 
his dismay the phone was not connected. "it’s busted. And now we’re 
stuck in here with no way out." Responded Spencer as He looked to 
Joe who was smiling and looking to the floor.

	"well this a hell of a place for things to come out at isn’t 
it?" he asked as he looked to Spencer. *this is not going to be a good 
day. I thought if I got him drunk and took him back to apartment I 
could tell him with out worrying about his reaction.* he thought to 
himself as he remembered asking Spencer to come down to lounge with 
him for a few drinks. 

	"what are you talking about, Joe?" asked Spencer with a 
confused look. His friend was hurting and the alcohol wasn’t affecting 
much so he just wanted to find out what was bothering his best friend.

	"Spencer, I wanted to tell you some thing that I knew 
you’d find out about eventually, but I don’t know how else to say it 
except to say that I’m gay." He gritted his teeth as the words passed. 
*there now that I said it what do I do? What’s going through Spence’s 
mind.* he thought to himself fighting back a tear.

	Spencer sat back against the wall unable to believe his 
friend’s words. *I didn’t hear that did I? Joe’s gay? But how, when, 
why? Damit! He’s my friend no matter what and he looks hurt now.* 
he thought to himself as he watched Joe stare at the ground as if he 
couldn’t look up no matter how he hard he tried. 

	Joe gritted his teeth as he felt Spencer get up and walk 
toward him. *Now what? Isn’t it obvious that I’ve been hurt already 
with out him rubbing it in?* Joe thought about getting up and 
defending himself, but decided against it. He shuddered as he felt a 
warm paw on his shoulder. But what surprised him even more was the 
almost loving lick he received to the ear.

 	Spencer smiled as Joe looked up, he had wanted to 
make his feel better but being that close to Joe made him feel some 
thing else, some thing he had never felt before. Sure he had been with a 
lot of females in his life but the thought of being with another man 
made him ill but with Joe it was different some how. Spencer felt 
secure around him and wanted to be with the wolf.

 	"what? Why? Spencer I thought you were straight." 
Said Joe as Spencer continued to lightly lick at the wolf’s ear. He 
shuddered from the sensation feeling more and more that he wanted to 
have Spencer, here, now, and for ever. 

 	"I guess that I’m like you deep down but only toward 
you." Responded Spencer as he leaned in and brushed his lips lightly 
against Joe’s.

 	They both shuddered lightly and kissed. They held each 
other for what seemed like hours until finally the elevator moved 
freeing them from the prison they had walked into. They both decided 
that it was time they moved in together to see how things would go. 

 	Spencer looked at Joe and realized that the whole time 
they knew each other he was in love and didn’t even know it.
 	The End