Dane and Heath by Rafe Jadison

Author:Rafe Jadison [Jadison, Rafe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781634868372
Published: 2019-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Dane looked at Heath and shrugged his shoulders.

“Maybe,” Dane began. “Maybe I didn’t love anyone.”

“Oh, shit,” Heath said, the realization kicking in. “That sucks. So you’ve never been in love?”

“That doesn’t mean I couldn’t be,” Dane said, reaching over and tousling Heath’s hair again.

Heath smiled when Dane’s hand touched his hair, but then his face suddenly went serious.

“Wait, so you are saying that you have never fallen in love? Never?”

Dane shrugged. “I don’t think I have.”

“That’s fucked up, and you’re like how old?” Heath asked.

“I’m thirty-five, about ten years older than you. It sounds old, but believe me, it’s not. It seems like I was just your age two minutes ago.”

“I don’t think you’re old,” Heath said. “It’s just that thirty-five is a long time to wait to fall in love. Are you sure you haven’t ever been in love?”

“I’m pretty sure,” Dane said with a smile.

“When Amanda left you didn’t go apeshit? Maybe you’re in denial.”

“I’m not in denial. And, no, I didn’t go apeshit when she left. That’s kind of how I know. I thought I would be devastated. I knew that I should have been. I wasn’t. I was disappointed because I wanted a child, but deep down I was happy for her. I was also relieved. I guess I thought when I married her, and then when I got a job in this company, that I was on my way to my dreams, but I never really felt like I was living them. When I got the promotion and moved here, I thought, This is it. It’ll all kick in now, but it didn’t. A few days after she left, I woke up in the morning feeling really happy, really free. It felt like that feeling that I’d been waiting for.”

Heath looked at him, unsure, and then he took a really big chug on his drink.

“Wait here,” Dane said, patting Heath on the leg, and getting up from the couch.

Dane chugged his own beer and then grabbed two more. He opened them, handed one to Heath, and then sat back on the couch.

“So, I have a question for you,” Dane said.

“Okay,” Heath replied, looking up at Dane. “Ask away.”

“It’s kind of a touchy subject,” Dane said, looking down at his feet for a moment.

“Seventeen inches, but don’t tell anyone,” Heath said with a laugh.

Dane smiled at him. “Not that touchy, and if that were the case, I don’t think you’d have to tell anyone. I imagine it would be pretty obvious sometimes. Especially when you had to stand three feet back from a urinal.”

“Technically only a foot and a half,” Heath said. “So now that we’ve gotten the personal stuff out, what is your question?”

Dane looked at him, started to say something, and then closed his mouth.

“C’mon, just spit it out,” Heath said. “We’ve had a few beers. It can’t be that bad.”

“Okay,” Dane said. “I’m just going to ask you. Would you ever want to go out with me?”

“You mean like grab some beers some time?” Heath asked with a smile.

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