Beinding the Rules by G. A. Hauser

Author:G. A. Hauser [Hauser, G. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477641293
Google: Vr5uLwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477641297
Goodreads: 17687535
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Steve helped him lug the boxes to the living room and then went back out to check the mail. Mark stood in the room looking down at the boxes, feeling too tired to deal with it. When Steve returned with a handful of junk mail and bills, he picked up the cooler as well and carried it to the kitchen to transfer the food to their refrigerator.

Mark sat on the sectional sofa in the living room and zoned out. Hearing Steve take the cooler back to the garage, Mark removed his shoes and propped his feet on the coffee table.

Steve returned and sat the bear on Mark’s lap, dropping beside him with a sigh.

“We can deal with it later. Okay?” Mark tilted his head to the other items.

“Or I can just stick them into the closet in the spare bedroom.”

“All right.” Mark sat Praline on top of the coffee table book, which included nude photographs of him taken in his youth.

Steve picked up one of the photo albums from the box and opened it up on his lap. Mark leaned against him as he flipped pages.

“Looks pretty ordinary on the outset.” Steve inspected the photos of Mark as a toddler.

“Yes. It’s all for show.”

“I wish we had Alex when he was a kid. Sucks, doesn’t it?”

“I thought the same thing. But Iris did all right. Bill Lehman, however…” Mark made a disapproving noise.

“Yeah. He was a real fuckup. But he did marry a woman who was knocked up with another man’s child. You have to give him credit for that.”

“Oh. It was my assumption he thought it was his.”

Steve glanced at Mark but didn’t comment, still scanning the photographs. “Look at you in this one.” He pointed to a photograph of Mark, his hair long and cut like a little girl, brushing his shoulders with arching bangs right at his eyebrows. “You were six.” Steve read the date written under it. “What an angel.”

“I suppose. I can’t recall very much from my early childhood. Most of my memories are from school, particularly college and high school.”

“Yeah?” Steve looked at him. “I can remember a lot. Me and Laura used to hang out together. She was a tomboy and liked to play kickball and tennis with me.”

“I wish I had a sibling.”

“It doesn’t always work out that way. Sonja didn’t get along well with her brother.” Steve kept perusing the photos as he spoke. “What are you going to do with the videos?”

“After I share them with Dr Van Eldon, I intend to destroy them.”

“Good.” Steve nodded. “They would have been nice to keep if…”

“If…” Mark sighed and rested his head on Steve’s shoulder.

Steve reached to take another album, putting the one he had seen back in the box. Mark resettled on his shoulder as he did.

“Here we go. The sex kitten.” Steve paused at a photo of Mark in short-shorts and no top. “Let me guess. Sixteen?”

“About.” Mark tucked his foot under his thigh and cuddled against Steve. “Poor me. I was so confused.

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