Elephant Shoe by J.S. Edge

Author:J.S. Edge [Edge, J.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: IPN
Published: 2018-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

Attempting to keep up with Tate’s unstable mood fluctuations is zapping way too much of my energy, I’ve decided.

So, when he takes up his usual seat across from me in Study, my reception of him is dosed with a little more exasperation than enthusiasm.

Though, try as I might, there’s no stopping the tingles that jolt out from my chest through the whole of me as his eyes fix on mine.

He offers nothing in the way of an ‘I’m sorry for schitzing out on your innocent friend on Thursday, I think I got the wrong end of the stick’; nor ‘and sorry I fled right after, leaving you bleeding and stunned. How is your nose?’; nor ‘sorry I’ve since ignored you completely and let my dad slam the door in your face’. Not a hint of an ‘I’m sorry I’m behaving so needlessly difficult, leaving you with no clue as to where you stand with me’ either.

Pulling his bag up onto the table and rifling through while his gaze remains locked on me, what he leads with instead is: “You and Lyndsay made up now?”

I hold my frown in place.

“Saw the two of you chatting this morning. She looked happy.”

So he must have been late in today too, then.

One at a time, he pulls out two textbooks and a pad of lined paper without looking down, and then I track his bag’s move to the floor by his feet. He’s left it open and I spy the secret notebook peeking out. “Not that happy,” I shrug. “I’m still gay.”

“Ah,” he says with a light chuckle. “Friends though?”

I return my eyes to his, narrowing them, “possibly. Why?”

“Nothing. No, it’s good. I’m glad you’ve worked things out with her.” Then, with a weird half-smile crooking his lips, he opens up his paper-pad and a psychology textbook, pulling a pen from his jeans pocket, and promptly switches off from me to work.

“Well. Glad you’re glad.” I mutter, frowning at him a few minutes longer to no effect. My attention slides back to his bag – and the notebook calling out to me from it.

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