June and Devon Come to Life: A Queer Circumstances Romance by Sandra Henry

Author:Sandra Henry [Henry, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookstahooda Literary Services
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

June

It was about this time that I wondered if I shouldn’t be more worried that Dev was dead.

Because… I was about to introduce him to my dad.

Everything I’d told Dev was true. I didn’t have close friends besides Aggie, mostly because I was more introverted than Bilbo thought he was and people made me nervous.

It had seemed the natural, easy thing to do… yesterday. To introduce this person I was enjoying time with to my family.

But it had slipped my mind at the moment that he was, in fact, dead. It usually did, even when he was translucent, because he was so vibrant to me.

But his being dead hadn’t skipped Dev’s mind, since he’d made that exact counterpoint to our entire … experiment? being a good idea.

Yet here we were, in my dad’s driveway.

I’d texted to let Dad know we were coming, after which he’d called and confirmed everything that I’d sent in the text. I supposed I should be happy he could at least read texts now. That had taken him over a year of having a smart phone to figure out.

“If you’ve changed your mind about me meeting him,” Dev started, putting his hand on mine over the stick shift.

“No! Just… I already said it, just take Dad’s actions with a giant grain of salt, alright? He’s… from a different generation.”

“I make my own opinions,” Dev glowered. Something about him was different today, though I couldn’t be quite sure what. Like he was preparing for battle. I guess I’d feel on edge, too, if I were meeting his Ma.

I popped the door open and got out, speeding over to his side. “Don’t let go,” I cautioned, squeezing his hand a little tighter than necessary. “Dad might think it’s weird, or even comment on it, but me having a friend is all the weird I want to deal with today—not my friend is a ghost weird.”

“Right.” Dev’s expression lightened and he gave my hand a squeeze.

As we walked up the gravel driveway, the gravel crunched beneath my feet just as it had when I’d walked up the drive from being dropped by the school bus. Only when I’d been a child, Mom was waiting for me and Aggie to come home. Now, Mom lived on the other side of town with her dogs. She’d never be at the top of this driveway again. Dad’s drinking had taken care of that. Even my mother could only put up with it for so long.

The sound of a chainsaw from the backyard recalled my attention to the present. Shouts accompanied it, and I sighed. I should have realized from the four cars in the driveway. If Dad wasn’t off at a site, he was here, working on something in the yard with the Workin’ Guys. It’d been the same crew for most of my life.

“Dev,” I said, as we got closer to the noise. “Just to warn you, there will probably be some … mention of our choices.”

“But it’s legal now, right?” Dev raised his chin.

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