Flashes by K.L. Noone

Author:K.L. Noone [Noone, K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2024-01-19T18:30:00+00:00

Seasons

Summertime

Wesley Kim had not, historically, been a beach person. Unfortunately, his fiancé was.

He watched Finn, across sun and sand. Gold and blue, sea and sky, Finn’s summer-kissed hair and tropical eyes. Fitting in, right at home. Finn Ransom had always been a Southern California surfer-boy, growing up with sand under his toes and salt on his skin, both in real life and on everyone’s sitcom television screens. He’d been athletic, warm, approachable. Even more than that, he’d always been simply nice: the sort of boy next door who’d smile and assist an elderly neighbor with her groceries, and if he got into trouble it would only be the result of impetuously doing a favor for a friend in need, or keeping someone’s secret if they asked, or caring too much about a local community cause.

That’d been a plotline of more than one episode. Wes admittedly hadn’t seen them all. Sometimes he wondered whether he should, given that he was marrying former teen idol Finn Ransom; but then he thought that might be weird, and anyway he had seen pretty much all of Finn’s more recent work, those cautious comeback ventures, a couple of voice-acting parts in colorful animated fantasy features, supporting actor roles in some impressively prestigious films.

Wes had even been on a red carpet or two. Dressed up, facing flashbulbs and microphones, at Finn Ransom’s side. Photos of them had made it to tabloids, as well as more respectable entertainment news sites, and various levels of celebrity gossip. He knew that would happen again, more and more.

He was getting used to it, mostly. He loved Finn, and he’d known who he was dating; he’d known from the start. They’d met on a movie set, after all. Finn had said once that it sounded like a romance novel: the sexy historical consultant and the lonely former teen star trying for a comeback. He’d been joking, but the truth of the emotion lay like a sunspike in the blue of his eyes: hot enough to sear, to scar. Wes had kissed him, fiercely, and had done his best to make the loneliness go away.

He thought he’d done a pretty good job. Most days, most times, at least. With Finn’s ring on his finger, the ring Finn had had made and surprised him with, a glorious perfect proposal. With the matching ring on Finn’s finger, because Wes had been planning to ask; of course his other half had beat him to it, diving in with sheer joy.

Finn had got down on one knee. Wes knew how much that meant. He knew how hard Finn had worked, in physical therapy and consultations with doctors, to make that happen—easily, without a flinch. Practiced.

Wes had felt tears spring to his own eyes, then. They still did, when he thought—thought, wondered, got lost in awe—about that moment. He thought he always might feel that way.

He’d do anything for Finn. Forever, always. Including the publicity. And, today, the beach.

He didn’t exactly mind the attention, as such; he was used to guest lectures, conferences, public speaking.

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