Finding Family 01 - The Family We're Born With by Kaje Harper

Author:Kaje Harper [Harper, Kaje]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-12-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Devin was surprised to open his sleep-heavy eyes and see Jesse getting dressed. He glanced at the clock. Eleven. A look at the curtains assured him that no, it wasn't eleven the next morning. It was dark out there. And no doubt cold as a brass monkey's balls, whatever those were. Regardless, anyone's balls would be frozen out there.

“Why are you getting up?” he muttered, clutching the sheets up to his neck.

“I want my Christmas Eve kiss by the tree.”

Devin woke up a bit more. It was their tradition, since the night they met—staying up till midnight to kiss in the glow of the lights, and then finding a bed for intense, slow sex. This would mark year five. But sweet as it was, anniversary of sorts or not, no tradition was worth getting out of a bed they were already in and venturing into that cold for. Plus, he wasn't sure what Jesse had in mind this year. “There's a tree in the lobby, I guess.”

“I'm not kissing you in a hotel lobby.”

“Then...”

Jesse had his best stubborn-as-a-mule look on. “We're going home for it.”

“Wait, Jesse, are you sure?”

“Get your ass in gear and get dressed. We're going home.”

Devin sat up in bed, but kept the covers over his bare skin. He just eyed Jesse and waited for the punch line.

Jesse flushed, but still looked determined. “It'll be midnight soon. Christmas Day. Mom said you could come over Christmas Day.”

“I'm sure she meant at some normal time.”

“I don't care. It's our day-we-met anniversary, and I want it. They'll be in bed anyway. You know, they've never stayed up this late before. We'll just sneak in, and hang out downstairs for a while. I don't see what it can hurt.”

Devin eyed Jesse for a long minute, judging his commitment to this plan. Jesse continued to put on his socks, slowly and methodically. “You know, it might backfire. If your Mom happens to still be up, worrying about Sam or something? Or if Sam's a night owl? Why take a chance on blowing up the family Christmas?”

“It'd be her fault. She screwed it up first.”

“Jeeze, listen to yourself. What are you, fifteen? You know, you're a bit of a perfectionist. You demand a lot of the people in your life.”

“I don't need then to be perfect.”

Devin raised his Mr. Spock eyebrow, even though he knew it bugged Jesse.

Jesse glared at him. “If I needed people to be perfect, I wouldn't hang out with you.”

“Well, zing.” He knew it was dumb but that actually hurt, when he was trying hard to be mature about all this.

He turned away, reaching for his crumpled clothes over the side of the bed. A moment later he was enveloped from behind in Jesse's arms. “God, I'm sorry. That was a cheap shot.”

“A bit.”

“I didn't mean it. I don't want you to be any perfecter, or I'd never be able to live up to you.”

“Ah, hell.” He turned enough to see Jesse's face. “You really want to do this?”

“Yeah, I do.

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