Foxes by Suki Fleet

Author:Suki Fleet [Fleet, Suki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63476-921-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

I KEEP a few coins for emergencies hidden in a jar in my room—I never let it get too low. Taking a handful, I head toward the pay phone at the edge of the park.

The sky is dark and glittering, the snow as hard as ice beneath my feet. I feel disconnected from the world around me, and I never usually feel like this.

My fingers shake as I dial Donna’s number. It rings twice before I put the phone down. I lean forward and rest my head against the cold metal of the payphone. I know Donna would want to help, but she’s not who I want to talk to. She’s not who I need.

I dial my old number.

Micky picks up after three rings. “Hello?” he says cautiously.

“Hi… it’s Danny.”

“Hey.” His breathing changes, becoming light and quick as though he’s happy or excited. “Did you make it home all right? I only woke up, like, five minutes ago, and I saw you’d left your jumper here. I was worried you’d freeze.”

“I made it home,” I say. I close my eyes, imagining him next to me. He’s so real to me—it’s not that hard.

“I was just thinking about you.”

I squeeze my eyes shut. My whole body trembles like my stampeding heart. I want to speak, but I can’t.

“Are you calling from a pay phone?”

“Yeah,” I breathe as I post another coin into the slot.

“Are you okay?”

Maybe he can hear something in my voice. “I don’t know,” I whisper.

“Has something happened?”

“Yeah.” My mouth is dry, and it’s hard to swallow.

“Where are you?”

“The park… near where I live.”

“Are you hurt?” he asks hesitantly.

“No, I’m not hurt.” I don’t think. Could those painkillers have made me feel like this? I frown. No, tablets can’t make you need someone. If they could, the world would be a whole different place. I may be stupid about a lot of stuff, but I can recognize this hollow ache in my chest for what it is.

“I could come see you. I mean, if you just want to talk on the phone that’s okay, but… I’d like to see you, even if it’s just for a little while…. I mean, if you want me to?”

His voice is quiet and his words so tentative I wish I could translate myself into a sound wave and reach through the phone line to touch him.

Still, I almost say no. It’s late and dark, and Micky shouldn’t be wandering about for me. But every selfish cell in my body refuses to let me. I want to see him. God, I really want to see him. It’s only been a few hours, but so much crap has happened and messed with my head, and I just…. He’s offering… I would never have asked him, but he’s offering.

“Where are you?” he repeats.

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