What Binds Us by Benjamin Larry

Author:Benjamin, Larry [Benjamin, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-03-18T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

We stayed with my parents for a week. We made love in the mornings after they left for work. He tasted of butterscotch. I called him my butterscotch prince. He snuck across the street and stole peonies from Mrs. Chang’s garden and presented me with a contraband bouquet. He told me I was his world.

We explored the woods that ran behind the houses in our neighborhood. I showed him the tree under which I’d received my first kiss. He kissed me and carved our initials into the tree’s trunk. I took him to the mall and showed him the pizza parlor where the kids, the cool kids, the straight kids, had hung out on Saturday nights, sipping Cokes and scarfing down pizza. Afterwards they would make out in the backseat of their parents’ Pontiacs.

I took him to my old high school.

“What was school like for you?” he asked me.

I remembered high school as an agony, a blur of flushed, angry faces, pursed lips erupting in vile, hateful words: sissy, faggot, queer. I remembered bruises and falling blood, not always mine.

Sensing my mood, he said, “You don’t have to tell me. I don’t really care about your past. I only care about your future. And that I’m a part of it.”

“My future? You’re all of it.”

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