Out of Position by Kyell Gold

Author:Kyell Gold [Gold, Kyell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

I bring it up with Lee that night over dinner at a nice steak house, after the waiter has taken our plates away and we’re trying to digest the meal. I’m trying not to fall asleep after the huge steak and the exhausting day. “That was Brian in the stands today, wasn’t it?”

He takes a drink, finishing off his wine. Chardonnay. I think I’ve finally learned that. “Yeah.”

“What’d he want?”

Lee puts the glass down. He shrugs. “Just to say hi.”

“What’d you talk about?”

Now he looks at me. “He just wanted to say hi.”

“How did he know you’d be there?”

“Well,” he says, “I expect he read it in the Society column.”

I can feel us teetering on the edge of an argument. It’s not worth it to make that extra push. After all, it’s not like Lee’s not allowed to stay friends with him. And I’m too worn out physically right now to be ready for one anyway. “Speaking of Society,” I say, “why the new outfit?”

That gets me a smile. “I just wanted to look nice for the new football season. Did I pass?”

“Yeah,” I say. “Does this mean you’re going to be doing that a lot?”

“I don’t know.” He rubs a finger around his water glass, collecting the condensation on it and then licking it clean slowly. “Did you like it?”

I never know what to say to that. If I say yes, then it’s like I only like him when he dresses as a vixen. If I say no, then I’m rejecting him, somehow. So I sidestep it, watching him lick his fingerpad, and say, “You fooled Fisher and Gena. At least for a bit.”

He grins. “You tigers are all easy to fool.”

“Just don’t pull anything like in my dorm that time.”

He lowers ears and eyebrows, challenging me with his stare. “Oh?”

“It’s just… it’s different here. This is serious.” That stare worries me, because I know it means he feels I’m holding him back. “It’s not you, it’s the guys and the team and all. This is, y’know, professional.”

“Really? In a professional football league?”

I flatten my ears. “I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Then how did you mean it?” He puts his elbows on the table and rests his muzzle on his paws. I can feel us coming closer to that edge again. It’s part of the excitement and tension of being with him.

This time, though, I feel like I need to go further. I search for the right words. “The guys here are… they’re more hardcore. In college, you know, we were all just goofin’ around, it wasn’t serious. Here, it’s… it’s real life.” I can feel how real it is, in my aching muscles and joints.

“You think I’m just playing around?”

“Well, what are you doing?”

I should’ve known better than to hope that would slow him down. “If you don’t know, then I don’t know what to tell you.”

“You want me to just,” I lower my voice, “introduce you ’round the locker room as my boyfriend?”

“No,” he says.

“Cause maybe we can wait until I make the team before I try to get kicked off it.

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