Heart by Garrett Leigh

Author:Garrett Leigh [Leigh, Garrett]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

SILENCE. SEB glared at Damon then scowled again at whoever was approaching their table. “Ex-boyfriend,” he said gruffly. “I finished with him yesterday. Fuck’s sake. I’ll be back in a minute.”

Damon let out a grunt that seemed approving, but over the noise of the raucous pub, it was hard to tell.

With Seb gone, Dex swiped back his absinthe-laced juice and knocked back a long swallow. Seb has a boyfriend. A boyfriend. Seb. Seb has a boyfriend. Seb has a boyfriend. Nope. It didn’t sound right, no matter how many times he said it. He took another pull of absinthe. Drained the glass. Fuck. He needed a piss.

Damon paid him no heed as he rose from his seat and made his way to the toilets. He’d learned the words “ladies” and “gents” the day before in his literacy lesson, but these ones had the pictures on… the stick figures with squares and triangles to denote the sex.

He relieved himself, sniggering a little at the notion that the triangle-shaped female figure looked like she was wearing the cape of a superhero, and stopped at the bar on his way back to buy beer for Damon and Seb. He couldn’t think of anything to get himself, so he didn’t bother, and Damon didn’t seem to notice when he set two sloshy pints of lager down on the table.

Seb was still MIA. Dex glanced around, feeling a tremor of nerves break through his drunken haze. He wasn’t supposed to go in pubs, or bars or nightclubs. His place was outside, waiting on Braden, or peddling whatever white powder or pill he’d stuffed into his pockets. He’d followed Seb inside because he’d follow Seb to the end of the earth, but now he was gone and it didn’t feel right. He didn’t feel right.

“Hope he really has ditched that twat.”

“Hmm?” Dex rescued his much-abused thumbnail from his teeth. “Seb’s boyfriend?”

“Ex,” Damon replied sardonically. “At least, I hope so. Have you ever met Andy? The bloke’s a weirdo. I swear down, he only eats chips and kebabs. Can you imagine Seb stuck with a bloke like that? Talk about repressed.”

Dex could only nod. Most of Damon’s words went over his head, but he was right about one thing. Seb couldn’t be with someone who didn’t share, or at least appreciate, his passion for his job. Seb bitched and moaned about work all the time, but it didn’t stop him from taking it home with him, working long into the night, and starting all over again at the crack of dawn.

“He made pizza today.”

Damon grinned over his pint. “Yeah, he’s pretty good at that. I do a better barbecue, though. Wait until summer, and we’ll get some dustbin lids out on that fancy balcony of his. Get lagered up and get some birds round.”

Birds? Oh yeah. Damon likes girls.

Seb dropped silently into his seat. He looked annoyed but not upset, and Dex was glad he hadn’t turned around to see what his mysterious boyfriend—ex-boyfriend—looked like.

Damon slid one of the pints Seb’s way.

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