Prom Kings by Tony Correia

Author:Tony Correia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
Published: 2019-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

13 Laying the Trap

I spend all the next week in touch with Andre by email. But Andre doesn’t know it. He thinks he’s emailing a stranger. I run every message past Luis before sending to Andre. I need to make sure I am striking the right balance between mystery and flirtation.

Maybe it’s his Latin heritage, but Luis has a way with romantic emails. By the time he’s done editing my messages, I start to fall for this made-up person myself. After the third email I begin to wonder if Luis is using them as a way to expose a part of himself. Maybe he wants me to see him as someone who deserves to be sought after. The way I’m seeking after Andre.

Andre is head over heels in love with his secret admirer. But he keeps pressing to meet in real life. I want to wait until we’ve finished watching season ten of Drag Race. What if Andre laughs in my face when he finds out that I’m his missed connection? I could never face him again. I would have to miss the final episodes.

At the next outNproud, Andre shows us the emails Luis and I have been sending him. More and more people have been showing up the closer we get to the end of season ten. There’s little or no privacy for the six of us. I have to be careful not to mouth along with the latest email as Geeda reads it to us.

“The image of your face wipes away all my problems,” Geeda reads from Andre’s phone. “I can still see you dancing in my mind. It sets me free, like a bird gliding on the wind.”

“He’s laying it on kind of thick,” says Chad. “I mean, he’s only seen you once.”

“Who’s to say he’s not in the room with us at this very moment?” Lottie says.

“Do you think so?” Andre says. His eyes snap to attention.

“It makes sense, doesn’t it?” Lottie says. “We only socialize with maybe a third of the people who come here. Most of them aren’t here every week.”

“So, are you going to meet this guy or what?” Luis asks Andre.

“I want to,” Andre says. “But he keeps putting it off. He won’t even send me a picture of himself.”

“That’s a red flag if there ever was one,” says Chad.

“Chad is right,” Andre says. “This is the twenty-first century. Even my grandmother knows how to send a selfie.”

“I still think you’re being catfished,” Chad says.

Chad is right, in a way. I might be the person sending the emails. But it’s Luis’s words Andre is falling for.

“I think it’s romantic,” Geeda says.

“What do you think I should do, Charlie?” Andre asks.

So he does know my name.

“I don’t see the harm in meeting the guy,” I say. “If he’s not who you think he is, you can just go your separate ways. But be gentle.”

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