Josh: Locker Room First Times II

Josh just started a new job and is trying to get to grips with all the usual adjustments. Figuring out who refills the coffee pot, remembering everyone's names. When Sam invites him to come and play in the office soccer team he isn't sure – soccer isn't something he really knows anything about, but Sam smiles winningly at him and Josh can feel his resolve crumbling. It can't hurt, right? Might even be fun.

Turns out that while Sam looks pretty fit in his sensible business shirt, he's even more obviously built in a t-shirt and shorts and Josh finds himself feeling weirdly anxious about impressing him on the field. It doesn't make any sense, because the last time Josh remembers feeling this nervous was in front of a girl he had a crush on – and he definitely doesn't have a crush on Sam. Sam's good looking. Very good looking. But Josh is straight. He is just trying to make friends, he reasons.

Trying to make friends is also why he stays behind after the game, and why he and Sam are chatting as they head to the showers, now it's just the two of them left at the gym after the game. He's just being friendly, Josh tells himself…