"Nobody here but me," Ted said with a smile. The kid took a tentative step toward the door, trying to look past Ted into the room, and when the older man saw what he was trying to do he stepped aside so that the kid could see that the room was empty. "I was afraid you weren't going to show up. "Hi," Ted said jovially, making sure to hold his robe together as he stood in the doorway while cars whizzed by the front of the budget motel.
Ted quickly opened it up before the kid got away, and when he heard the door open the young fellow spun around fast. The kid raised his hand to knock again but then suddenly dropped it and turned away from the door as if to leave. Back then he was a college student bust trying to seduce the woman who would become his wife and endure a 26 year long sham of a marriage while Ted tried to hide his real feelings. He was 19 once himself, but that was many years ago. although to Ted, the older he got, the younger 19 seemed to be.
He certainly looked like a geek, which was what Ted had him figured for when they spoke on the phone after Ted had read his ad on Craigslist, in which he claimed he was a 19 year old bisexual male looking for fun with an older man. As Ted Biondi looked at the young man through the peephole of the motel room he was staying in, the 57 year old salesman enjoyed the gawky kid's fidgeting as he seemed to be trying to summon up enough courage to knock on the door.