Arts for Art's Sake by Karma Eastwick

Author:Karma Eastwick [Eastwick, Karma]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Sunday morning sunlight poured down from a clear eastern sky. As I jogged to the west, toward campus, my long evasive shadow gave me silent company. Birds twittered from lofty treetops, and dew-covered flowerbeds and lawns perfumed the air with a bracing scent.

All along Main Street, shops lay dark and dormant, with

“Closed” signs emblazoned on locked doors and colorful awnings lazily fluttering in the temperate breeze. Street corners stood deserted of hot-dog, popcorn, and T-shirt vendors hawking their wares, and barely a car passed by. Only a nearby convenience store showed any signs of activity.

Several customers exited with thick weekend newspapers 200

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wedged under their arms, attempting to juggle tall cups of coffee, powdered donuts or sticky sweet rolls, lotto tickets or packs of cigarettes. Yes, for the most part, loneliness imbued the silent streets of Huntsville and settled over my aching heart.

Not ten minutes had passed since I’d reluctantly left the art studio, since I’d kissed Skylar goodbye, yet it already seemed a dreary eternity. Ironically enough, I’d been with him for approximately thirty-six hours straight, yet those exhilarating hours seemed to have flown by within the space of a heartbeat.

As I trotted through the town’s lifeless shopping district, I barked a humorless chuckle.

Love, ain’t it fucking grand?

It could reward the lucky recipient with parallel feelings of euphoria and jubilation, misery and melancholia, gift-wrapped in dynamic hues of longing and desire, all in one gigantic package. Like a funhouse ride, it jerked one’s emotions in various directions, and at whiplash speed. And now, the heartsick emptiness hit me like a mighty wallop to the gut. It churned in the pit of my stomach, refusing to relinquish its nasty grip.

Sky had offered to drive me home. Even though I would’ve had more precious minutes with him, I had eventually declined, preferring to jog instead.

And for several reasons.

For one, I didn’t want to risk having to say goodbye to him in front of my apartment. If one of my roommates or any tattletale neighbors spied me planting kisses on him—and they 201

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possibly would, since I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep my hands off of him—all hell could break loose. Because I hadn’t talked to Jeff or the others since Friday, I’d have enough explaining to do when I returned home, and to be outed over my lack of diligence could be disastrous. And, unfortunately, when I did explain my whereabouts for the past day and a half, I would have to lie up a storm. Jogging home would also give me time to think, to concoct a plausible scenario. I couldn’t tell anyone the truth, as much as it would kill me. Not yet, anyway. I needed to wait until summertime in case I had to secure alternate lodging before next year’s classes began.

Plus, after summoning the willpower to leave Sky’s strong arms, I had convinced myself that jogging would do me a world of good. I needed to work off any lustful energy still lingering within my muscles, and it actually surprised me just how much I had to spare.

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