Get Lit by Kim Fielding

Author:Kim Fielding [Fielding, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-784-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

URI DID not sleep well in his hotel room. It was too warm no matter how much he adjusted the thermostat. And something somewhere was making a weird buzzing noise, like a tiny out-of-whack motor. The woman at the front desk gave him a pair of earplugs when he asked, which was fine until he started to insert one of them, fumbled, and dropped it onto the bathroom floor, where it rolled under the vanity. Although he tried to poke it out with a pen, he couldn’t retrieve it and was too embarrassed to ask for another pair.

He tossed and turned, sometimes dropping into fitful sleep only to be awakened by dreams of huge flames or sloshing buckets of Cajun dipping sauce.

Sitting bleary-eyed among his rumpled sheets, he decided in the morning that work was a lost cause. It was Friday anyway; might as well take a long weekend. So he showered, sent Oscar a good-morning text, received a nice reply, and headed for the nearest Starbucks. Once he was fully caffeinated, he girded his loins and headed to the mall for a few more wardrobe basics. He rarely enjoyed shopping, even in the best of times, and he avoided malls whenever possible. They gave him headaches. And with throngs of Christmas shoppers, he knew to expect the worst.

It wasn’t as awful as he’d feared, in part because the shops had just opened. Later in the day, the parking lot would resemble one of those reality shows where only the strongest survived, and the stores’ racks and shelves would be postapocalyptic wastelands. This early, though, the atmosphere wasn’t too unbearable, even if every speaker in the building blasted a different carol and every toddler in Stanislaus County was having a meltdown in the aisles.

Moving as efficiently as possible, Uri chose and purchased a couple of polo shirts and a few oxford button-downs, along with some chinos and another pair of jeans. Although his cheap sneakers were fine for casual wear, he bought a nicer pair of shoes for work.

Arms laden with shopping bags, Uri found himself detouring to the men’s underwear section. He didn’t need to go there—he’d bought three packages of gray boxer briefs at Target. Yet there was his hand, reaching as if of its own accord for a pair of crimson micro thongs. He took them to the cash register, where an exhausted-looking clerk rang them up. “Do you want to sign up for our credit card? You’ll get a ten-percent discount.”

Uri wondered how many times a day she had to repeat that. “No, thanks.”

“Okay.” She handed him the bag and receipt. “Merry Christmas.”

“You too.”

Now that his mall errands were complete, maybe he could catch a nap in his hotel room. In which case, perhaps he should stop at a drugstore and buy a multipack of earplugs and, if he could find one in December, a table fan to help move some of the too-warm air in the room. He mulled over whether it might be feasible to fill a hot-water bottle with ice water.

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