Do-over by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781613726273
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHANDLER saw Cristina walk into the party unaccompanied and felt his heart plummet down to his toes. He made his way through the crowd, trying to be happy and charming and funny as he went, but really?

He was just dying to know why Engall hadn’t come.

“Cristina!” He finally resorted to calling her name and waving at her frantically, and he was relieved when she turned her head and waved back, working her way through the throng. As soon as she was in reach, he grabbed her hand and dragged her through all the people in his house, most of whom he even knew, and back through the hallway to his bedroom.

He liked warm colors, so one of his walls was a blood orange and his coverlet was a combination of beige and rust and warm ginger brown. That was the first thing he’d noticed about Engall: that his hair was ginger and his eyes were warm. The pitcher ears had been amusing at first, because Engall was just so damned earnest, but as their time in school had progressed and the two of them had run into each other more and more, Chandler had found those ears more and more charming.

He’d started to live for Engall’s smile. The guy would be in the middle of hopelessly fucking up a physics lab, and Chandler would step in, more to save Engall’s ass than for any desire to pass the class himself, and Engall would look up and smile and….

And Chandler’s world would suddenly be filled with sunshine.

Chandler had known he was gay for most of his life, but his parents were giving him a sweet ride through school, and, well, he was reluctant to put that free ride to the test by doing anything as foolish as coming out of the closet to his ultraconservative family. But that smile….

Well, Chandler thought that if he could get that warm smile turned on him, and him alone, maybe that would be worth coming out of the closet for, right?

Besides, he thought now, as he looked at Cristina’s pleasant patience, somebody had to talk the guy out of being an engineer. Engall was hopeless at it. Horrible at math, worse at puzzles, completely clueless at physics—Engall defied every law of momentum and space and vectors just by walking across the quad. He was all elbows and knees—by all physical laws, he shouldn’t have lived this long. Engall was constantly walking into doorframes and walls and tripping over his own feet.

If Chandler wasn’t there to watch out for him, he wouldn’t have a chance in the world, would he?

“Why didn’t he come?” Chandler blurted, and Cristina’s expression turned gentle.

“Engall?”

“Yeah. Why didn’t he come?” His disappointment was painful—damned near tragic. Chandler had wanted him there so badly. You could get intimate at parties—Engall would have needed to lean over and talk into Chandler’s ear, and then maybe Chandler could have talked him into his room to show him the new painting he’d gotten from one of

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