The Taste of Ink by Francis Gideon

Author:Francis Gideon [Gideon, Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63477-093-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

THEY STARTED small. After getting naked and crawling into bed, and between make-out sessions, Charlie pulled up the gay country singer from before and played the video where he chased down a guy while holding an American flag out the window of a car. He played a few lesbian artists he also remembered, and some Rae Spoon he stumbled on in an adjacent playlist.

“I know her.”

“Them,” Charlie corrected. “I’m pretty sure Rae Spoon goes by they/them pronouns.”

“Well, I’ve heard them before,” Trevor said, still sounding the new pronouns out in his mind and mouth. “They’re pretty good. Though I think they do electronic stuff now.”

“I think so too. I’m glad I don’t need to introduce you to everything, as much as I like it.” Charlie scrolled through his iPad and challenged Trevor with a couple other contemporary artists who weren’t only famous from the 1990s. Trevor, in spite of himself, continued to find certain songs or artists he enjoyed. The twanging of the guitars had a certain quaintness to it after a while. It was beautiful in the same way a field or forest was: simple and seemingly natural, easy to get lost in and forget where you were.

“I didn’t mind that song,” Trevor said after a few minutes. “Who was that?”

“Dierks Bentley. I like Vance Joy a fair bit. But okay, I think you’ve humored me enough. Show me what you like now.”

Trevor rubbed his hands together gleefully as he scrolled through his iPod. He found his favorite album—The Used’s first self-titled album he had discovered while in high school—and put on the track “Greener with the Scenery.”

“So much screaming,” Charlie teased. “Definitely the type of music I was telling you about before. But don’t worry, I like it.”

“Here’s a different track. Less screaming, I promise.” Trevor put on “Blue and Yellow” and caught Charlie’s fingers moving along, as if he was playing guitar or piano.

“Do you play?”

Charlie glanced down at his hand, stilling it. “Oh, no. Nah.”

Trevor raised an eyebrow, challenging him.

“Well, when I was young. There used to be a beat-up guitar and a keyboard some of my sisters kept in the back of the attic. I know a little bit, but not much.”

“What happened to the instruments?”

“Went away,” Charlie said. He didn’t elaborate any more, and though Trevor was struck by his tone, he decided not to press the issue. He scrolled through his iPod and played the Sneaker Pimps’s “Lightning Field” and a few others before moving on to VAST’s “Pretty When You Cry” and one of his favorite one-hit wonders and guilty pleasures.

“This is Wheatus,” Trevor stated. “And I know this song is ridiculous, but I love how it’s a song about listening to music. About a favorite band. Here.”

Charlie listened carefully, nodding along to some of the lyrics. “I know this. It was in a movie, right?”

“Right, it was in Loser. Not a good movie, but it was there. I liked the song before the film.”

“Of course you did.” Charlie nudged him, but drew quiet until the song finished.

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