Bear, Otter, and the Kid by TJ Klune

Author:TJ Klune [Klune, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-61372-088-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2011-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

“YOU OKAY?” Otter asks me. He’s just come back from saying good night to the Kid and has found me in the same place I’ve been standing since Ty started asking his questions. I haven’t been able to move and am still in the process of trying to jump-start my brain into functioning again. All I can do is nod.

Otter smiles at me and steps in front of me, rubbing my arms at my side. “One of these days I am going to figure out how the hell the Kid got so smart,” he tells me, laughter in his voice. “He doesn’t miss a single thing.”

“Let me know when you figure it out,” I say weakly, finally finding my voice. My brain is sluggish, but it has turned over and finally starts to catch. I’m able to take a deep breath, but the reboot has left me unable to process anything.

“I don’t think we’ll ever know,” Otter says, kissing my forehead. “But I guess that’s okay too. He’s going to be one of those people that says one thing and will instantly have a million followers.” He laughs again. “I know I’m already one of them.”

I roll my eyes. “What? Like the Gospel According To The Kid? He’ll be able to tell you whatever it is you never knew you were thinking about?”

Otter arches his eyebrow. “You never thought about it?” he chides. “Any of it?”

I scowl at him. “Stop it. You know what I mean. How the hell did he pick up on any of this? We’ve been careful, for Christ’s sake.” My eyes narrow as I glare up at him. “Did you tell him anything?”

“Oh, come on,” he scoffs. “Do you really think I would do something like that?”

“No,” I say grudgingly. “But it can’t be that blatantly obvious, can it? He’s just really fucking perceptive or something.”

Otter snorts. “Does it really matter if it’s obvious or not?” he asks me. “The Kid was completely fine with it. As a matter of fact, he’s ecstatic over it. Who cares how he figured it out?”

I take a step back from Otter and shove my hands in my pocket. “I care,” I tell him crossly. “If a nine-year-old can see this, what the hell are we going to do about everyone else?” The white bliss, the feeling of the slate wiped clean, is gone. In its place, the ocean has filled in through the cracks of the seabed, and the wind is whipping around me, and I feel like I am standing at the edge of something, and I cannot for the life of me take a step back. How I could go from feeling empty to this in such a short space of time is beyond me, but I did, and I can’t make it go away. “Your brother,” I hiss at Otter, “my best friend, comes home tomorrow. What the fuck are we going to do about that?” I remember vaguely talking to Creed on the phone just

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