Izzy and the Right Answer by R. Cooper

Author:R. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dating, polyamory, queer romance, college age, asexual, adhd anxiety, queer love, gray asexual, throuples, polyam romance
Publisher: R. Cooper

Chapter Seven

Iz skipped his visits to the bookshop for coffee, though habit still took him in that direction. When it did, he made sure to turn away without going in and to never look through the window to see who was working. At least, until the weekend had passed, and after long deliberation, he went to the bookshop again, but not at his usual time.

He stood several yards from the door for about a minute, clutching something in his hands. But perhaps that was too long, because then Rocco, who should not have been working according to Iz’s best approximation of his schedule, opened the door.

They stared at each other. It seemed to be what they did now.

Rocco looked good. The same as ever, really—warm, comfortable sweatshirt and clean, if messy, hair.

Iz wanted to smile, but he hadn’t this close to Rocco since that moment. He froze and couldn’t get unstuck. He had felt that before. But Rocco wasn’t Ronnie, and Iz wasn’t allowed to dart forward to kiss him because he’d forgotten words.

He wasn’t allowed to do that with Ronnie anymore either.

Rocco regarded him steadily, with one hand on the door. “Just come in and get your coffee,” he said at last. “It has to be killing you to go without.”

He went back inside without waiting or holding the door. Not that Iz had expected him to hold the door, but it didn’t seem mannerly, which Rocco tended to be. Iz approached the shop with trepidation and poked his head inside for a cautious look around.

Someone was already getting coffee. Rocco was back behind the counter, eyebrows raised as if he was surprised Iz had followed him.

Iz tumbled the rest of the way inside, his chest and stomach nothing but flutters that he resolutely ignored. Rocco’s eyes were on him. Iz tried not to meet them and glanced down the aisles while slowly making his way to the coffee counter. He pushed up his sleeves so he wouldn’t splash them, then was faced with a conundrum. He looked over his shoulder to the counter.

Rocco was watching him.

Iz flushed with heat and knew it would show on his face before too long. In the end, he went to the counter to get in line.

He waited until the door had closed behind the other coffee drinker before he placed the folded piece of white paper onto the counter and pushed it forward.

Rocco studied it, and then Iz again, from his single braid to his Bridal Suite Pink nail polish, before he reached down to pick it up.

“I was going to leave it with the other letters on the shelves, but I needed to know you would read it. And an apology letter to you wouldn’t work if it was anonymous,” Iz explained, only just stopping himself from picking at his pretty nails.

Rocco didn’t read the letter out loud, but Iz remembered every word.

Rocco,

I’m sorry I was careless with your feelings, or if you thought I was teasing you. Feelings are a delicate matter, particularly romantic ones, and I am still learning the ways of them.

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