Building a LIfe by Alexa Snow

Author:Alexa Snow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Torquere Press LLC
Published: 2015-02-08T05:59:32+00:00

Chapter Six

They went back to Brian’s place; his roommate wasn’t there, so they had the apartment to themselves. It was quiet. Brian sat Levi down at the kitchen table, which was actually jammed up against the wall in the space between the tiny kitchen and the not much bigger living room. Two of the table’s legs were on the kitchen linoleum and the other two were on the living room carpet. The first time Levi had seen it, he’d just about laughed his ass off. Now, he just found it sad.

“You want some tea?” Brian asked. He was filling a small sauce pan with water from the tap, which confused Levi until he realized the pan was a substitute for a tea kettle.

“You have tea?”

“I think so.” Setting the pan on a burner and turning on the stove, Brian started to go through the cabinets. “Um, maybe not. Oh! Hot cocoa mix.”

“Sure,” Levi said. He knew he had to pull himself out of this funk. “Why are you being so nice to me?”

Brian shrugged. “You looked so pitiful after you almost got flattened.”

“But you’re never nice to people,” Levi said, which came out sounding even less nice than it had in his head.

“That’s not strictly true.” Brian spooned powdered cocoa mix into two mugs. “I was nice to someone just last week, in fact. Of course, I was hoping it would get me laid...”

“I didn’t mean it like that.” Levi picked at the edge of the table where the stuff that was supposed to make it look like wood was peeling away from the layer underneath. “I’m just surprised.”

“You’re lucky you didn’t get surprised flat by that car,” Brian said, then came over and sat down in one of the other chairs. “So, are you going to tell me what happened?” His straight brown hair was falling into his eyes; he brushed it away impatiently.

Levi looked down at the peeling table. “Nothing happened.”

“Bullshit,” Brian said. “What, did you actually crash a four-year-old’s birthday party and then get kicked out?”

“She’s six,” Levi said hotly. “And I didn’t crash, they invited me.” God, he really cared about this, didn’t he? “Anyway, her mom showed up, and it all kind of went to hell.”

“Whose mom, the kid’s?” Brian frowned and shifted, his knee knocking against Levi’s under the table. “What’s bad about that?”

“She took off, like, two years ago, or something. She’s schizo -- no, sorry, bipolar, I think -- and a drug addict. They thought she was dead. And then she just turns up at her daughter’s birthday party like nothing ever happened, and everyone else pretends right along with her. It was really weird.”

Brian sighed. “I tried to warn you about straight guys who like to dabble. It’s a recipe for getting your heart broken.”

“He’s not, though. Straight, I mean.” Levi wanted to deny that his heart was broken, but it would have been a lie.

“Sure, he is,” Brian said. He scooted his chair around the leg of the table and closer to Levi’s.

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