Class Distinctions by Rick R. Reed

Author:Rick R. Reed [Reed, Rick R.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Kyle figured he looked like one of those sad sack guys you see at bars in movies, TV shows, plays. You know the one, the guy hunched over his beer, frowning, with a line of downturned shot glasses in front of him. He was that guy, the same slouched shoulders, the same end-of-the-world expression, the same half-drunk glass of beer. The only difference was that he wasn’t doing shots. He wasn’t ready to get that wasted, at least not yet. Country music played softly in the background, competing with ESPN and some basketball game on the TV mounted above the bar.

The place, Hank’s, was not popular with Hamilton University students. It was a townie bar and its predilection for country music, domestic beers, and low tolerance for orders of things like soft drinks and wine coolers kept most of the college kids away. That 22

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atmosphere suited Kyle just fine. He needed this time to ponder, and wonder how he would ever get over Jonathan. Even if he did believe he had done the right thing, the honorable thing, the logical thing, none of that news was any comfort to his wounded heart.

He was about to take a sip of his Budweiser when the cell phone on the bar in front of him chirped and he immediately thought it must be Jonathan, begging him to talk. For a moment, his heart gladdened and his mood lifted at the prospect. Then an inner voice told him he had to be strong, had to stick to his guns and let Jonathan go, so he could find someone more appropriate.

Everyone, Kyle believed, would be happier in the long run, even if that sentiment was hard to swallow at the moment.

He lifted the clamshell phone up off the scarred surface of the bar and flipped it open. He was torn between being disappointed and relieved that it was not Jonathan calling.

It was his mother.

He stuck a finger in his ear to drown out Tim McGraw and said, “Mom.”

“Kyle. Where the hell are you? It sounds like you’re in a bar.”

She laughed.

He scooted off the bar stool, signaled to the bartender that he’d be right back, and stepped outside. “I am. I was. So what?” He turned away from the wind so he could light a cigarette.

“Don’t get snippy with me, son. I was just calling to see about next weekend. You know, what I should bring, what I should wear.

I’m getting very excited!”

Kyle noticed that the snow was coming down heavily and wondered if news reports, which he never paid any attention to, had predicted a blizzard for the weekend. The hope in his mom’s voice made him sad. He knew how much she was looking forward 23

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to Parents’ Weekend. It was her one outing of the whole year, a whole two days away from the tiny Ohio River burg of Summitville where they lived and where she slung hash at the Elite Diner on Fifth Street, in what could grandly be called “downtown.

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