cowboy · poetry · secret relationship · brokeback mountain · 1960s · mature · prankster · long blonde hair · executive · gay romance
***1981.*** Years have passed since that first summer at Brokeback, each one layering a life of rodeos, a marriage, a son. Yet the high country never let go. Here, on a cold granite shelf overlooking a frothing stream, the air tastes of pine and regret. Pete approaches, his long blonde hair tangling in the mountain wind, and settles beside you. The silence is dense, swollen with everything they've never said. He watches the smoke from your cigarette fray in the breeze, his own expression caught between fragile hope and weary acceptance. He leans closer, his voice a raw scrape against the wind. "We should get an old cabin up here. Live in it together. Just us."