Anna Martin's British Boys Box Set: My Prince - The Impossible Boy - Cricket by Anna Martin

Author:Anna Martin [Martin, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

While Ben and the band went from Brighton to Bristol to Birmingham, Stan threw himself into his work. He’d always kept long hours at the office anyway, and he was getting obsessive and ridiculous until Sherrie called him and said Ben had called her and he was worried.

That was enough to make him stop, to take stock and wonder exactly what he wanted. He still had weeks more until Ben came home. It would be too easy to work himself into the ground, rising up through the ranks at the magazine, but where would that leave him when Ben got home? He couldn’t just abandon it all again as soon as his boyfriend moved back to London.

There was the small matter of his blog, too.

He had started it when he was still living in New York with his aunt, and even though he was only a teenager, back then he was already honing his sense of style and what made him tick. At school, he didn’t dare dress nearly as fashionably as he did now. Being Russian, not speaking English at all well, and being a slight, slim boy who was very definitely not heteronormative was hard enough, even in New York. He wasn’t about to wear a dress to prom and wreck the thin veil of normality he draped over himself each morning before school.

The one place he’d felt free to let go and be himself was in his own room, alone, with the computer he’d saved and saved and begged for. It was his prized possession, his window into a community where he was assured people like him existed all around the world.

He wasn’t a freak, or a disaster, or a fag, or any of the other names that got hurled at him at least once a week.

The blog started as Stan’s outlet, his way of trying to piece together the things he knew about himself and the possibilities of what he could be in the future. It had grown, over the years, and when Stan started working in the fashion industry, he found himself in a place where he could talk, with real knowledge and passion about a hobby and a love that had become a career.

Even though his job at the magazine demanded long hours, Stan still spent a few hours every week putting articles together and releasing them on a semi-regular schedule. His following was growing, and while Ben was away, he’d started to experiment with making video-blogs along with his written and photography posts. His sketches, too, made their way online, when he had the time to do them. Stan had always loved experimenting with designing clothes on paper. He was a disaster at the sewing machine though, so his designs always remained purely hypothetical.

“Tea run?”

Stan looked up from his desk to where Kirsty was hovering in the doorway to his office, wearing what looked like last year’s menswear shirt over a very short dress. He decided he liked the look and grinned at her.

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