The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project by Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey

The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project by Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey

Author:Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey [Henry, Lisa & Honey, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-10T00:00:00+00:00


I grinned and jogged along the perimeter of the field. Charlie was sitting in the shadows in front of the dugout, but he stood when he saw me. Before I could anything he’d stepped forward and draped his long arms around my neck.

He leaned in and kissed me, and yeah, it was just as awesome as last time. He pulled back after a few seconds and gave a breathless laugh. “Sorry.”

“Why? That was awesome.”

I caught the shadow of Charlie’s smile in the moonlight and the ghost of his scrunched-up nose, and I’d guess his face was probably adorably pink right now.

I tugged him down the steps into the dugout.

“Are we allowed to be in here?”

“Probably not,” I said. “But, come on, it’s not like we’re gonna wreck it, even if there was anything here to trash.”

“Hmm.” Charlie squinted in the darkness at the long bench, the empty cubby holes, and the cinderblock wall painted with the Lassiter Lion. Even though the place was empty, it still managed to smell like Bengay and Gatorade.

“Is this your first time in a dugout?” I asked him.

“I played Little League once,” he said. “For three weeks when I was eight. I don’t remember a dugout. I think we just sat at the side of the field.”

“You played for three weeks?”

“The longest three weeks of my entire existence,” he said gravely and then flashed me a smile in the darkness. “They always put me way, way back in right field. And the coach—well, he didn’t yell, because he was probably a really nice guy, but he wasn’t very happy that I spent all my time out there chasing bugs instead of the ball. Oh, and once a butterfly landed on my glove. I was hardly going to shake it off to try to catch the ball, was I?”

“That’s the cutest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.” I grabbed him by the belt and reeled him in. “You’re the cutest fucking guy I’ve ever met.”

Laughing, he kissed me. Well, it was more of a weird smear of his open mouth against mine because I was laughing too, but it was still perfect because this was what I wanted. This. Me, and Charlie, and being with someone when I didn’t feel like I was lying about anything. And I didn’t just mean my sexuality. I meant everything. Charlie knew I was gay, and he knew I was sometimes awkward and said the wrong thing—or the right thing but in the wrong way—and he knew I wasn’t the smartest guy in any of my classes and nothing was ever going to change that, and he liked me anyway. And I knew he was awkward too, and I knew that he was the smartest guy in all his classes and that he was shy and that his family didn’t have much money and that he probably still preferred butterflies to baseball, and I liked him anyway too. We were good together. We felt right. And this was probably the first time in my whole life that I felt like I had everything I wanted.



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