Love and Loathing by Gigi Blume

Author:Gigi Blume [Blume, Gigi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sodasac Press
Published: 2019-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

19

Some Disenchanted Evening

Beth

Jane was home for Christmas. It was all the present I needed, although the whole cheesecake she brought from Junior’s was pretty awesome, too.

After the obligatory celebrations with my family in which my father made a fabulous prime rib, the Lucases came over for a cringeworthy gift exchange where my mother drank too much, Charlotte accompanied me back to the apartment where Lydia and Jane had games planned for the whole night.

I’d never had so much fun playing poker and the arrival of Jorge, Denny, Cole, and Holly made it even better. My little apartment could hardly fit all those people, but that made it all the more hilarious and memorable for our insane game of Guestures. You’d think a bunch of performers would be good at a game where you have to pantomime everything, but most of us were spectacularly horrible at it. Lydia beat us all by a landslide, only because she had no inhibitions to make a complete fool of herself.

We didn’t make a big deal over exchanging gifts, but Jorge took me aside and gave me a vintage book he picked up in a boutique book store. It was a first edition of The Hobbit, signed by J.R.R. Tolkien. It was one of the most thoughtful gifts I had received in my life. Made me feel a little rotten about the lame sweater I bought him. He hardly ever wore regular shirts. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought it.

We were in the hallway to the bedrooms, partly secluded from the rest of the party when he gave me the gift. I felt like he was ashamed for giving me a used item and didn’t want the others to see, but I assured him how much I loved it and gave him an appreciative hug. His eyes flickered over me in unveiled carnality, and he leaned one arm over me against the wall to the point of backing me up against it.

There was an intensity in him that unhinged me. He’d always been comical in the little flirty innuendos that spilled from his lips, but this time, his features claimed a deliberate intention, a heady, suggestive, potency in his body language.

“I’d like to stay the night,” he whispered.

Not a chance, bucko.

First of all, he was drunk. I didn’t need an encore performance of Naked Man in my shower. The last time he was in there he used my razor. I was a strong supporter of guarding my personal sundries. Furthermore, I wasn’t sure how I felt about Jorge, even if he had been sober. He projected so many crossed signals, it was hard to keep up. I didn’t have time for that. Nope. No sir.

I’d thought about the things Fitz had said to me. They made sense. There were no guarantees. But I decided to concentrate on one ambition outside my comfort zone at a time, and that was my career. After the show closed, I would follow Jane’s example and go to New York.

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