Unconventional Love by Meyari McFarland

Author:Meyari McFarland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meyari McFarland

AUTHOR'S NOTE: PINK TRUCKS AND BOW TIES

I am not fond of going to bars. I think that shows in this story. They’re loud, they’re crowded, and you can’t hear what anyone is saying. That said, Rahat won’t ever be able to claim that xyr trip to the bar was wasted because for once, something lovely came out of it instead of a hangover.

PINK TRUCKS AND BOW TIES

Dating sucked. Rahat sighed and stirred xyr drink just a bit too forcefully. The ice crashed against the sides of the glass, not that anyone could hear it. Too much music played far too loudly for xem to make out the ice tinkling. Or xyr date's words for that matter. Wherever xyr date had gotten to.

The bar was dark. Dark and loud and crowded with people more concerned with getting sex than establishing relationships. Rahat's little corner, carefully chosen because xe had a clear view of the front door, the back door, the dance floor and a solid wall against xyr back, felt ridiculously empty.

Perhaps not a surprise given that Ash, xyr blind date of the night, had taken one look at Rahat and put on a plastic smile. Painfully fake, that smile. It didn't reach Ash's pale blue eyes or do more than contort Ash's very pale cheeks.

And that, likely, was what had sent Ash off to hide in a different part of the bar until Rahat gave up and left. As xe was going to do if Ash didn't show up within the next five minutes. Ten at most. Xe truly did believe xe'd been dumped because xe wasn't a thin white young queer with washboard abs and a properly rainbow shirt. Potentially rainbow hair.

No, Rahat was short, stout, dressed in tweed and wearing a very smart red plaid bowtie because bowties would always be more stylish than anything else. And xyr boss smiled when he saw Rahat's bowties. Given that xyr boss was the only thing keeping Rahat in the xyr job at the moment, pleasing xyr boss in any way possible was quite important.

If only Lacey hadn't dumped Rahat when xe came out as nonbinary.

They'd been together for a decade and a half, living quietly complementary lives that lacked everything to do with romance and nothing to do with companionship. Rahat had been quite happy. Not excited, perhaps, but happy. They had their cats, all of which Lacey had taken. Their books, over ninety percent of which Rahat had taken. And between their jobs they'd done well enough to have a very nice apartment with three bedrooms and two parking spots.

All gone because Rahat couldn't stand living in xyr skin any longer, not like that. Not with those clothes and that life and well.

Well.

That was done and over. Rahat was single, probably to stay single for the rest of xyr life and Ash was most definitely not coming back. Fine. At least Rahat could leave the bar before the waitress came around offering Jell-O shots from her mouth for the more adventurous.

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