A Dandelion for Tulip by R. Cooper

Author:R. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gay Romance
ISBN: 9781634773140
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-06-24T07:00:00+00:00

IN THE spirit of the May Day revels going on around him, David took a swallow from the half-orange-soda, half-vodka concoction Flor had left with him. The cocktail was disguised in a regular orange soda can, which fooled no one, but one human drinking in public was hardly going to get anyone’s notice amid the bacchanalia today.

John Jay Rutherford Park was normally a somewhat upscale public park, complete with low hills and fields, an open stage for concerts and Shakespeare performances, and a botanical garden at the far east corner. However, during the past decade, it had been taken over more and more by Madera’s growing community of fairies on days they found worthy of celebration.

The police had tried to stop it the first year, then given up when fairies from neighboring towns had started flocking here as well. In a certain sense, the unplanned festivals were good for business. Cotton candy vendors and ice cream carts sold out, independent florists could make a killing selling any kind of flower, and buskers were everywhere, because fairies loved dancing.

The humans who chose to attend these events were catered to as well, something that perhaps rightfully caused a lot of grumbling from being activists who were worried humans were taking over a fairy holiday. Food trucks lined the boulevard along the northern edge of the park, offering an array of food to the mostly young humans who wanted to party with the fairies.

David wasn’t entirely sure he trusted those humans either. He was only here by invitation. Well, because Flor had dragged him from his apartment and demanded David spend the day outside with him. And he wasn’t here to sleep with some fairies or as an excuse to get drunk while calling himself an ally.

Then again, most of the humans out in the crowd did appear to be dancing and laughing, and most of the fairies didn’t seem to mind them. There were a few humans—the ones in rainbow-colored fairy wings—who were pushing it, but had so far behaved themselves.

Flor claimed children in fairy wings were adorable, but adults wearing them tended to irk him, because the adults would then try to “act fairy.” And there was no way to do that without being offensive. And, as Tulip had pointed out once, they wanted to look like a fairy, but they didn’t want to be treated like one.

That statement hadn’t meant a lot at the time, but now when David thought about it, anger filled him, and he had no outlet for it.

He took another sip of the alcohol Flor had insisted he drink, although after a few puffs on a joint one of the partying humans had offered him earlier, he was already slightly faded at the edges. Between that and the sunshine and so many happy fairies swirling around him, he was growing relaxed enough to lean against the trunk of whatever kind of tree he was under and close his eyes.

Two weeks ago Crystal had broken up with

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