Dex in Blue by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf

THEY went to Sac City College next, and then to Sac State for Dex. Dex did all the talking.

“’Kay, he’s been out of high school for what?” Dex turned from the registrar to Kane, who was looking around the registration office in the forty-year-old building and thinking that he needed to buy more lottery tickets if this was the best they could do.

“Kane,” Dex said patiently, getting his attention, “how long have you been out of high school? Three years? Four?”

“Two and a half,” Kane said, and Dex grimaced, then turned back to the girl.

“Two and a half years,” he said. “Christ, I’m old. Anyway, does he need his high school stuff or can we just pretend that never happened?”

The girl grimaced. She was maybe Dex’s age, but she dressed older and had one of those plain expressions on her face that said she wanted to be taken seriously. “Why would he want to do that?” she asked, eyeballing Kane like he was a weird species of bug.

Kane lifted a corner of his lip in response. He wasn’t sure what that looked like, but her eyes got big and she went back to her paperwork in an all-fired hurry.

Dex looked at Kane apologetically. “Because I’m betting he spent his high school years getting laid and not getting educated.”

Kane cocked his head to the side and nodded. “That’s fair,” he agreed, and the girl’s eyes got really big.

“So, uhm, why are you interested in education now?” she asked, and Kane looked at Dex in exasperation. God, who the fuck cared, right?

“Because I’m tired of banging the whole goddamned world and I’d like to do something else for a while,” he snapped, and he could tell it was probably the wrong thing to say by the way Dex’s eyes got big and his mouth pursed tight like he was trying not to laugh.

The girl turned crimson and open and closed her mouth a few times, and she looked at Dex for help.

“So you’re helping him sign up for college?” she asked when she could breathe again, and Dex nodded, still with that suspiciously bright-eyed look on his face. “So, who are you to him?”

Dex’s eyes narrowed, and Kane could tell Dex was fucking done with the personal questions too, but he still wasn’t prepared for his answer.

“I’m his pimp, sweetheart. Now do you need his high school transcripts, or can he just pay his tuition here and sign up for classes online?”

The next day Chase came over so they could all go Christmas shopping together, and Kane told the story with great gusto.

Chase—the new, quietly smiling Chase, who answered questions with real words instead of wisecracks like he used to—laughed appreciatively and then actually asked about Kane’s life. “So, you’re signing up for classes? That’s great! What are you signing up for?”

Kane flushed. “Well, Dex made me sign up for biology, because he said that’s what I’m gonna love and that’ll keep me interested. Then he made me sign up for English A, because he said I’m not gonna get through anything else without it.

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