Winter Wonderland by Heidi Cullinan

Author:Heidi Cullinan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas;Holiday;Small Town
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Paul couldn’t help worrying about his date with Kyle, but he didn’t try to get out of it. When Frankie offered to give him a haircut and style a few hours before Kyle was due, he didn’t turn that down either.

Frankie had been cutting Paul’s hair in a longer style, using some gunk and a round brush with a hairdryer to make it less curly. Paul couldn’t manage the style on his own, but he liked how it looked when Frankie did it. Of course Frankie could make anybody’s hair better. It felt good to sit in Frankie’s chair and get fussed over.

“What movie are you watching?” Frankie snipped the hair around Paul’s ears and met his gaze in the mirror. “We have Guardians of the Galaxy on Blu-ray if you want to borrow it.”

“He said he was bringing something, though I don’t know what. He’s making the dinner too, at my house.”

Frankie smiled at the length of hair he teased with his comb before snipping along the edges. “Look at you, getting pampered. I have to say, Paul, I like Kyle for you. A lot.”

Paul did too, which worried him. “We’re just trying it out. Probably won’t work, since we have so little in common.”

“You have more in common than Marcus and I. Definitely more than Gabriel and Arthur. Though that works in their favor. They both love sniping at each other.”

Paul hated fighting, which was one of the biggest reasons he and Arthur hadn’t worked well together as a couple.

Frankie combed Paul’s hair to the other side and kept trimming. “Gabriel said something about all of us having Thanksgiving dinner together at our house. Kyle too. What do you think?”

Paul thought it sounded like heaven, but he knew he couldn’t. “My mom would have a fit.”

“Honey, your mother will have a fit no matter what.”

This was true, but it didn’t change Paul’s answer. “Better to get it over with in a day. If I skip, she’ll make me sorry for a month.”

Frankie flattened his lips as he continued to cut. “What if we had our Thanksgiving on Saturday or Sunday? Or on another weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas? Because something tells me Kyle will have an equal amount of trouble escaping his family.” He sighed. “Honestly, all our families will be sore if we don’t put in an appearance. I’ll text Kyle and see what his work schedule looks like, and we’ll go from there. Maybe it could even be our Christmas party, for the six of us. Because we’ll have an equally difficult time getting together on that holiday too.”

Paul thought about the alternate holiday party all through the rest of his haircut. He could see it, and it was beautiful. Though Arthur would lobby for his cabin, it would be at Frankie and Marcus’s house, all done up nice and pretty. Frankie would make everything sparkle and match and yet it would still feel like home. The food would be great, because Frankie was an amazing cook.

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