Ancient History by A. J. Truman

Author:A. J. Truman [Truman, A. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gay / Lesbian / LGBT
Amazon: B09ZLTS3VF
Goodreads: 61426726
Publisher: Truman Books
Published: 2021-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

18

AMOS

Watching promposals happen on a nearly daily basis hit me harder than I expected. Usually, I laughed them off. Except for the promposals done by queer students. Those rocked! I cheered them on like crazy when they occurred.

But this year, I got a tiny ache whenever I watched a student profess their heartfelt desire via song, dance, or poster to take their fellow classmate to prom. It made me think of the promposal I never got and the prom I never got to attend. Was I setting myself up for another round of disappointment by letting myself fall for Hutch again?

This wasn’t love, I reminded myself. This was car sex.

Even if I wanted it to be more.

Even if the feeling of being cocooned in Hutch’s arms as we (actually) napped brought me a sense of peace I’d never before experienced.

Hutch could get scared again and end this with another text message. That thought refused to leave my mind, despite telling myself that Hutch would never be that cruel again. He had grown. Things were different this time.

But were they?

History repeated itself. That’s what it did with laser focus, like a shark hunting prey.

I became a bit of a grump, admittedly. I told my students that class couldn’t be interrupted with promposals, so warn their dates accordingly. I hated being that teacher, but it was for my own mental health.

A week after that first promposal in the cafeteria, I was grading papers at home. With no roommate, the condo felt extra quiet. Good for concentration, but bad for letting thoughts flit through my mind. I focused on the papers. It was quite incredible the spread of writing capabilities among my students. Some students had truly interesting ideas, and I was impressed by how thoughtful they could be. Others I could tell were doing everything they could just to score an A, no real passion.

I pulled up Tommy’s paper and steeled myself for tossed off garbage. But to my complete surprise, his paper was…incredible? Well thought out. Thought-provoking. Beautifully written with sentences that exploded with passion. He challenged the very notion of what I was teaching.

I was blown away. Had Tommy turned over a new leaf?

And then I came back to stark reality.

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