A Series of Embarrassing Events: CH-14 (description & excerpt)

This is the final full chapter of the year; chapter fifteen will go online in mid-January. However, check out the blog on Christmas day for a nice present.

A Series of Embarrassing Events

Chapter 14: A Christmas, Carl
Noah talks to Ronan about his mum.
Noah has an embarrassing experience in a shopping centre fitting room.
Noah and Ronan are intimate and Ronan tries to talk about his secret.

Excerpt:
It dawned on Noah that Scott intended to expose him to anyone in the vestibule of the fitting area - at the moment there were eight boys waiting for friends (who occupied the other three cubicles) plus Scott and the harassed-looking retail worker. That made at least a baker’s dozen (twelve of them strangers) were going to see his undies.
Noah locked himself in a recently vacated cubicle and began to undress; shoes and socks off, shirt unbuttoned and hung up and then the jeans came off his velvety legs. His legs looked silky in the artificial lights and long because of the briefs that hugged his groin. His smallish bare feet on the rough carpet were a thrilling reminder of his near nudity. Noah looked at himself in the mirrors to see what he looked like – boys briefs and a vest made Noah look boyish but quite sexy.
Because there had been no real discussion or preamble, Noah realised that how far he went was really up to him. What was Scott expecting – vest and underpants? Noah put his hands behind his head, exposing his peach fuzz pits framed by the curve of the vest that partially exposed his ribs. But what if…
Noah pulled off the vest too and hung it up. Now his nipples and smooth bare chest were fully revealed too. Noah knew that as soon as he opened the door into the vestibule, he'd be exposed in his pathetic little briefs to the boys he didn't know.
Most of the customers Noah had seen were between the age of eighteen and twenty-five. A few were as old as thirty and a few as young as fifteen.
Noah was even more excited now and as he contemplated the notion of up to a dozen strangers seeing him in his undies, he concluded that there might be even more boys there now and boys passing the fitting area could look in and see him...
Noah pulled the door open.