Too Soon For Love by Kimberly Gardner

Author:Kimberly Gardner [Gardner, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: MLR Press; ISBN 978-1-60820-300-0
Published: 2011-03-08T00:16:57.804000+00:00

158 Kimberly Gardner

“Of course not.” She sounded truly offended.

“So it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

“Not to me. But Ross…He’s funny about the kids, especially Justin. Ross has these ideas about what’s appropriate for boys and what’s not.”

“What did he say when you told him? Or didn’t you tell him?”

“I couldn’t,” Jane whispered. “He would have freaked out. I know he would. And I didn’t want him over-reacting. God, he had a cow when Justin didn’t want to sign up for tee-ball. All I’d need is for him to think his son might be … you know.”

He did know. Michael could well imagine Ross, ten years in the future, being a real asshole to his gay teenage son, much as Michael’s own father had been a real asshole to his gay teenage son.

“Don’t go borrowing trouble, Janey. Like you said, it may turn out to be nothing more than kids playing dress up.”

“But what if it’s not?” Her voice broke. Michael heard her sudden intake of breath, a sure sign that she had begun to cry.

He slipped his arms around her and pulled her close. Her arms came around his neck. She was trembling. A sob broke loose and she leaned into him. He rubbed circles on her back and tried to think of something to say that didn’t sound like bullshit.

He couldn’t so he kept quiet and just held her.

She was still sobbing on his shoulder when Michael heard the apartment door open and the footsteps. He knew before he heard the voice that it was Ross. Still, he held onto Jane, both because she seemed to need it and because of what Ross had told him in the car.

“What’s going on up here?” Ross paused in the doorway.

Jane stopped crying, just like that, as if someone had thrown a switch. She tried to pull away but Michael held on.

“Janey was just having a cry,” Michael told his brother-inlaw. “We got to talking about Phillip and we both got kind of melancholy.”

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