Scrooged Over by David Connor

Author:David Connor [Connor, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-188-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

4

“DEKE… YOU look like hell,” Mindy told him on the air as they started the show the next morning. “Doesn’t he look like hell, Dud?”

Dudley wouldn’t know. He hadn’t been able to bring himself to look at him yet.

“Rough night,” Deke said.

“Can’t party like you used to, huh?” Dudley glanced up then. “Yikes.” Deke was a bit busted.

“Something didn’t sit well last night. The doctor says it could be food poisoning.”

“Doctor?”

“WebMD.”

“We better cut to break early,” Mindy said. “You’re greener than Dudley’s elf shoes.”

“They go with my socks.” Dudley raised a pant leg to show off the stripes.

“They’re making me dizzy.”

Dudley covered the socks.

Mindy gave her voice an echo. “Will Deke toss his cookies?”

“Don’t say cookies.” Deke grabbed his gut.

“It’s a radio cliffhanger, folks, our own ‘Who shot J.R.?’ Don’t shut us off,” Mindy said. “We’ll be right back.”

Once they were clear, Dudley tried to defend his baked goods as Deke leaned over the wastebasket, heaving. “It wasn’t the snickerdoodles, was it?”

“I don’t know. Which ones were they?”

“You don’t know what a snickerdoodle is?”

“Dude. I’m dying over here. And we don’t know it was your fault. I’m not going to say so over the airwaves, don’t worry.”

“What if it was, though? I baked, like, dozens and dozens of cookies I plan on handing out to everyone.”

“Everyone you sent a card to?”

“No. Some. Different people too. Gramps and I aren’t sick.”

“You sure?”

Suddenly Dudley wasn’t. “Did you have anything else?” His gut rumbled. “Before you came over? Or after you got home and….”

“And what? Put your ‘garland’ up… where it goes?”

“What about garland?” Mindy asked.

“Never mind.”

“I didn’t eat anything out of the ordinary,” Deke said. “A couple doughnuts here at breakfast, three hot dogs for lunch, spaghetti and pork chops for dinner, a bag of sour-cream-and-onion chips I stopped for on the way to your place and finished on the drive home….”

Dudley almost barfed.

“It hit about an hour after I walked in my front door.”

“Crap.”

“We’re running out of commercials, guys. Back in sixty.”

“I’m not sure I can—” Deke got up and bolted from the room.

“He’ll be back,” Mindy said.

“I better call Gramps before we go live again.”

“Try a text,” Mindy advised.

It was one of those things. The moment the word queasy arose, the suggestibility of it, both Dudley and his grandfather suddenly were. Neither of them got sick, not to the extent Deke had, but just in case, Dudley decided he’d throw away all of the cookies in the freezer the moment he got home.

“Maybe that’s best,” Mindy said.

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