Bowl Full of Cherries by Raine O'Tierney

Author:Raine O'Tierney [O'Tierney, Raine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2014-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

HE HEARD their voices above him. Arguing.

“—fuck is wrong with you?”

“Wrong with me? Really? Don’t you have your long list? Written down in your tablet? ‘All the Things That Are Wrong With Averell.’”

“You and Crowley.”

“What about it?”

“You and Crowley. I’m going to repeat: What? The fuck? Is wrong? With you? He’s gay you know.”

“My God, I hope you have a point.”

“My point is that you’re doing what you always do. Just floating through life. Oh, hey, Tyler’s friend is standing in front of me in a club and he’s gay and I guess I want to experiment and—”

“It’s not like that, Tyler. Screw you.”

“Screw you, Rell. What? You think you’re going to strike up this ‘thing’ with him for fifteen minutes over Christmas and then send him on his way? You can’t do that to Crowley, you jerk. You can’t treat him like that.”

“I didn’t ask for this, okay.” Rell’s voice was hot with anger. “It wasn’t like I said to myself, ‘Let’s see what a guy’s lips taste like today.’ It just happened.”

“You better not be fucking with him, Rell.”

“Why would I do that?”

“I’m serious. I’m so serious.”

“Are you ‘totally for cereal, sir’? Fucking hipster.”

There was a long moment of silence where Crowley felt like he could drift back off to sleep if he let himself.

“How far has it gone?”

“Why is that your business, Tyler?”

“Oh my God. What did you do? Did you have sex with him?”

“No.”

“Good. Don’t.”

“Don’t? Really? You’re going to dictate my sex life now?”

“I’m asking you to refrain.”

“Honestly, sounds like you’re telling me. But even if you were asking, what right do you have to do that, huh? I don’t ask you not to sleep with every freak-show girl who stumbles into your life. You make your own bad decisions.”

“Crowley is special. Crowley’s… he’s… not like you, Averell. Just dancing through life. He has a future. And you know what? Too many people have screwed him over already. I’m not going to stand by and let my brother be another one in a long line of assholes!”

“You don’t really have any say in it.”

“You know why he passed out? He hasn’t been eating. Have you noticed that?”

Rell’s answer was silence.

“Even after I told you about his body issues. Even after all of that. You pursued him. Did you push him? Did you pressure him? Do you even know anything about him at all? You’re going to switch to the other team for fifteen whole seconds—long enough to bang him—and then what? You’re just gonna scar him. You’re just gonna be like that fucking douche Peter Yeats, who—”

“Who’s Peter?” Rell’s voice was dark, sharp. “He said he hadn’t been with anyone.”

“He wasn’t. Peter is the devil. He’s cancer. He’s gone now. The point is, Rell: think. Okay? Think about this before you do something stupid. Think before you screw everything up. Again.”

“Hey, Tyler?” Rell’s voice still carried that deep, harsh, angry tone. “Who’s David?”

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