Isolation Play (Dev and Lee) by Gold Kyell
Author:Gold, Kyell [Gold, Kyell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 24 Carat Words
Published: 2011-11-25T05:00:00+00:00
He sets his beer down, and his muzzle curls in a sneer. “I would not call that fox ‘he.’ A strong male fights when attacked.”
“I’m so glad you didn’t teach me to be a fucking bigot.”
“They teach you this word, ‘bigot,’ and you do not even know what it means.” He tries to say it casually, but his paws are fists, and he’s got the tension of a lineman waiting for the snap.
“Will you stop with the fucking ‘they’? I know what it means. It means that you can’t open your eyes far enough to see someone I care about, to treat him like a person, to feel any sort of responsibility for breaking his thumb. If it was Gregory coming home gay—”
Now he comes out of his chair again. “You will not come home again with that fox!”
“What are you going to do, break his arm next? You can’t stop me.” Reflexively I’m tensed as well, gripping the table, my hackles raised.
Movement next to us, and the smell of food. A young desert rat holding two plates stares between us.
My father glances at him and then stands all the way up. “I can stop you. You are not to come home again until you give up this stupidity.”
“You’re going to lock me out? What will the guys at the auto shop say to that?”
He steps away from the table and gives me a look that would chill what’s left of my margarita to ice. “They do not need to know our family’s business.”
“I’ll call them. Ivan remembers me.”
His look doesn’t change. “Then I will tell them that I have no son who is a ??????.”
Just like that, he walks away. It takes me a second to regain enough composure to turn and call after him, but all I can think to yell at his twitching tail is, “Oh yeah? Well, I’ll tell people I don’t have a father who’s...”
He vanishes out the door. Our waiter’s come up to stand behind the rat, who is still holding the carne and the taco salad, his eyes wide.
“Is there a problem?” the weasel says quietly, and then adds, “Er, with the food?”
I look around the room. The diners who aren’t staring openly at me are just as obviously not staring. “No,” I say. I sit down and motion the rat to put the food down. “I’m sorry about that. Just a second,” I add as he starts to leave. With a nod to my margarita glass, I pull out my wallet and hand him a pair of hundreds. “Another one of those, please.”
He holds the money. The rat stares at it. “Mister Miski,” the weasel says, “you don’t have to...”
“I’m not going to cause any more trouble,” I say. “I just want one more drink to calm me down. And I want to apologize for the disturbance.”
He nods, quickly, and pockets the money. “Very well.” He motions the rat away and then leans over. The other diners have more or less gone back to minding their own business.
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